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[Bien]

Gah! I read a scroll and now I'm stuck in a room with a bone delver in one corner and a nymph near the door, there's a nymph though, ahh crap! Hostile! Let's see, which spell is better against foes in a closed, cramped room, fireball or magic missisle?

[Earthquake Damage]

So my diplomat/summoner mage quelled and enlisted a goon squad of experienced mongrelmen.  While they were in melee with a shocklizard, I fired a magic missile to aid them.  Apparently Incursion magic missiles don't get 100% accuracy as in PnP.  I hit my goons.  It seems you can't quell the same creature twice, period.  Go go Gadget phase door!

[Kagus]

Ah yes, the party leader's curse.  That's why when I take a summoner, I just cast loads of monster summoning spells.  In a way, they're 100% accurate, and they can attack multiple targets during the spell's duration.

And for a weavecraft specialist, monster summoning I costs the same amount as magic missile.  Sure, it doesn't level up with you, but you'll have enough mana to cast nastier summoning spells at higher levels.

EDIT:  I think orcish evokers actually have some stuff going for them.  Orcs get to add their wisdom bonus to direct damage spells, so get a high-wisdom orc, and you can play around with enhanced damage while enjoying all the benefits that a high wisdom rating can apply to skills and feats.  Although you'll be slightly limited as far as backup is concerned, force bolt and burning hands can keep you alive in the early levels, and you get a very nice summons with the fire orb spell (or whatever it's called).  Add to that the fact that the almost essential floating disc spell is evocation, so you don't get as much of a drain on your magic reserves in the early game when you really don't have that much of it to spare.

[ May 06, 2008: Message edited by: Kagus ]

[McDoomhammer]

I think you can use the bluff skill to talk down friendlies you inadvertently (or with malice aforthought) harm.

 

quote: EDIT3: I bravely ran away after more folks joined the party, but found that the corridor I was walking down ended in a magma river. But as it turns out, I am apparently immune to magma. Nice.

Cue the human bard.  When danger rears its ugly head, he bravely turned his tail and fled!  Bravely taking true defeat, he beat a very brave retreat, bravest of the braaaave...

Ahem.

That whip sword is ridiculously cool.  Another awesome weapon from india.  I've done some reading up on the aforesaid katars- while punching daggers in Incursion match the description broadly, there's no mention of, say, scissor katars-  which had a trigger in the handle such that when squeezed, the blade split in two.  Sometimes a third smaller blade was hidden inside.  This allowed for, say, punching the dagger into an opponent and then opening it to eviscerate them from the inside.  Cool stuff.

Speaking of, anyone encountered springblade bracers in the game?  Seem like a cool idea but currently broken.  I activated one and found I couldn't retract it.  In fact, I was stuck with the blades even when I dropped the bracers.

EDIT:  Interesting.  Apparently, Kyrie can fly.  In place.  Over a chasm.  While asleep.

Also, anyone else notice how porpoises are fully mobile on land?  I have three following me now...

[ May 06, 2008: Message edited by: McDoomhammer ]

[ May 06, 2008: Message edited by: McDoomhammer ]

[Dasleah]

Rolled a Priest that got Summon Holy Creature IV (or something like that) as an innate spell.

The summoned Archon had an obvious vendetta against Horses, of all things, and spent all its time blasting them into insignificance whilst I was surrounded by Goblins and promptly died (although my +3 Blessed Trident did hold off the inevitable)

[Torak]

quote:Originally posted by McDoomhammer:
<STRONG>Cue the human bard.  When danger rears its ugly head, he bravely turned his tail and fled!  Bravely taking true defeat, he beat a very brave retreat, bravest of the braaaave...</STRONG>

The best console RPG I've ever played.

[lumin]

So has anybody noticed if this version is easier or not?

[Torak]

Note: If you think the game is AMAZINGLY hard, go to options and turn off Out-Of-Depth monsters, it's in the Character Generation section.

It makes the game feel alot less absurd though, and therefore less fun.

[McDoomhammer]

quote:Originally posted by Torak:
<STRONG>

The best console RPG I've ever played.</STRONG>

Eh?  I was quoting MPatHG...

[Dasleah]

Bah! My boomeranging Paladin was useless. Managed to take down a Cave Cricket before a Goblin Chieftain threw enough poison darts at him to take him down before he got within three squares.

Although, the imagery of a boomeranging Paladin was pretty entertaining  

[McDoomhammer]

Did his heraldry include a helmet with corks hanging from it on strings?

[Kagus]

Somehow the term "boomerang paladin" brings to mind a paladin who repeatedly falls from grace and then comes back into favor.

[Dasleah]

Of course the great irony is, as an Australian, I've never actually managed to lob a throwing stick that has successfully boomeranged on me.

Closest I ever came was beaning a kid in the back of the head from across the schoolyard.

Signs and portents!

[McDoomhammer]

"Myyyyy boomerang won't come back, my boomerang won't come back, I've waved the thing all over the place, practiced till I was black in the face... I'm a big disgrace to th'Aborigine race, my boomerang won't come back..."

[Dasleah]

My knife-fighting, boomerang-chuckin', rough-n-tumble Warrior had much better luck than my Paladin. Managed to pluck Eagles from the sky, crush the skulls of Goblin Chieftains from across the room, and deal death to the dead before being killed by a Skeleton. Reincarnated him and froze to death by chilled metal   :roll: