Instruments and Gadgets sound great on paper, being able to basically cast certain Spells for no Mana Cost... but in practice it's not as good as just having a Caster because Bards and Gadgeteers cannot increase or decrease the Power Level of the Spells they cast that way. Communication is a skill you don't want to put points into via Level Up, and the Bard starts with no Combat Skill points in anything... at least the Gadgeteer starts with some points in Ranged Combat and Modern Weapon, but they never get...

Some weeks ago I started a new series of games. The specialty of this series is that the parties are not run one after the other to the peak, but each party moves to a certain point, then the next. Once all 12 have reached the endpoint, the next cycle starts. Sequence is not always the same, so order can vary. Why am I doing this? basically for 3 reasons: I want to see how parties evolve and handle the different legs of the journey relatively to the other? Like: "Is party 7 doing better than party 11? Wh...

I put together a party taken from the new and returning player example party guide I wrote, to test a few things. 1) One is to test a game wherein Alchemy is only allowed with piles of five. To test it with the Ranger as the only character capable of Alchemy eventually is appropriate, since it almost certainly, as verified by CC's experiment, does not make much difference for a party that has an actual Alchemist character and not just a hybrid like the Ranger in this one. 2) This time I am testing the us...

I thought before on a previous playthrough, I had bought a Bullwhip from him, but I don't see it in his shop... I could just be misremembering... just asking if you know off hand, please??

I'm debating on whether to take Madras as my Gadgeter or to make my own Gadgeteer... when I take a Gadgeteer, I usually make a Mook Gadgeteer, but I kinda want my Mook to be a Fighter so he can use that Giant's Sword... also, I've never really tried a Fighter before, lol. The farthest I've gotten in the game before was actually getting to Madras, and talking to him, but he wouldn't join me... and I wasn't sure what to do next... If anyone has information about all of that, it would be helpful... it's not l...