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Article #697658Re: Torment: Tides of Numenera
From: JAB
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 09:59
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 09:59
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> Maybe I was just too close to it. I'm not sure how other long time D&D > players feel about the game, as I rarely hear it mentioned. Baldur's > Gate gets a lot more mention, but it's another one I don't like (other > than the party NPCs "Go for the eyes Boo!" & "Stop touching me!") due to > too many changes from my old favorite gold box games, interminable > walking around through near featureless terrain, and poorly done > 'real-time with pause' combat. > I liked both BG's but much preferred the first as it was obviously something quite different for when it was released and you were much lower level to start with. One of the reasons I went off AD&D was that it quickly became more like a strategy game as you progressed the levels and less, to me at least, a role-playing game. Obviously what modules/setting you played has a role in this which is why I found Warhammer RPG for more interesting. What also helped was that we had a policy of don't look at the rules that's for the GM to sort out so that let players get on with playing their character and not 'optimising' what they did for the best outcome.
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