Playing Dark Urge as a Githyanki Vengeance Paladin. It's honestly a bit of a bizarre and incongruous combination considering I usually try to just Be Nice in these games. I'm constantly worried I'm not being vengeful enough.
Please give me a button to highlight all interactables. My CRPG muscle memory is holding tab 90% of the time and if it ain't broke don't fix it. Similarly, I wish I just had a party stash.
I have run multiple 5e campaigns and have a pretty solid idea of how the system works, so the plethora of minor changes to make things run as a computer game are all throwing me way off. Mage Hand has hit points and charges on Short Rest, what the fuck? I can swap out prepared spells at any time?? Jumping??? Huh????
I knew in my head that the fundamental math of bounded accuracy means you're usually siting at about a 60-70% hit rate, but actually seeing the percentage value like it's XCOM or some shit perpetually hovering between 40 and 70 is weirdly disheartening. Same for constantly seeing CHECK FAILED popping up over everyone's head any time we walk past shit. Don't tell me if it failed, just show it if I succeed alright?
Party member stack rank so far:
- Karlach. Seems cool. I've got a soft spot for the Blood War since Planescape Torment and Hordes of the Underdark.
- Shadowheart. I guess the joke is that she's the token good/nice teammate despite being a cleric of an evil god?
- Lae'zel. I'm an amnesiac Githyanki so she treats me like I'm an annoying newbie at work and it's kind of funny.
- Withers. Doesn't actually count as a party member but the fact that he just shambles out of the dungeon where you find him and then shows up later totally unprompted is hilarious actually.
- Gale. Seems like a self-important prick. Also a wizard; fuck him.
- Wyll. Dude feels like the paladin from the Honor Among Thieves movie but played completely straight instead of for laughs. Unbearable.
- Asterion. Vampire dandy is one of my least favorite character archetypes.
