But NWN is a much closer approximation to a PnP game (you control one character, whilst the rest of the party do stupid things) than BG is (six players act as a well co-ordinated unit). If the compan… (View Post)

I suspect you are confusing BG Animate Dead (summons 1) with IWD Animate Dead (summons many). The Monster Summoning sequence of spells still summon multiple critters, up to the cap of 5, introduce by… (View Post)

If you fight against the engine you are going to have trouble. It's simply not designed as a pause-and-give-everyone-orders game. It's designed to be played without pausing at all. One of the reasons… (View Post)

I prefered the 1st edition idea of bards being divine casters drawing on the druid spell list. That was closer to the original idea of the welsh bard (although that was largely invented by the Victor… (View Post)

Not on Tolkien - Tolkien never read anything written after 1800, apart from Narnia, which he hated. Tolkien never set out to write fantasy, he was trying to recreate Saxon mythology that he felt had … (View Post)