Duck and Cover

Should I play it?

It has a lot of DnD rules and things in which you can develop your character, so if you don't know the rules that well prepare to read a lot of manual and information in the character screen. The combat is good but everything else is pretty lackluster, don't expect to have a lot of fun quests or dialogs. It's a lot of dungeon crawling. It wasn't that great for me because I don't really like the DnD ruleset and I thought the game was hard


Make sure to get the official patches and probably those unofficial fan made patches to go with it.

With the proper fine tunage, oh hell yessssssss

I know DnD pretty well, and I've even played the "Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil" module, which was awesome & why I want to play the original on PC now.

What fine tunage do I need? Some sorta Co8 mod?

Yar, get the whole Co8 shebang thing. That comes with all the good stuff.

I bought it last month and played nonstop until I beat it a week later. Go to the CO8 forum, download the shit and follow their instructions.

My major gripe with the game is how short it is. It's about the length of a single chapter in Baldur's Gate. ToEE is designed for people who played pen and paper D&D as a kid. Bare bones story, cliched setting, and all about combat. That said, I enjoyed it through the final battle. Combat is perfect, magic is the best I've seen, crafting items is cool, there's lots of different monsters, and the temple design is awesome. $9 for a week of good fun is more than worth it.

Darksun: Shattered Lands is still the reigning champ.

DnD is the kind of rules they have in Icewind Dale, Baldur's Gate and Planescape, right?

Yeah, except they flushed D&D gameplay down the toilet with realtime combat. Ignore the people who say ToEE has a steep learning curve or whatever. It's easy as hell to jump into.

Yep. And if you have any trouble, you have the excellent manual and the in-game tutorial to help you out.

Actually, the combat is quite orthodox to tabletop DnD in PS:T, provided that you're doing it turn-based. It's just that DnD combat sucks (though I guess the 3rd edition rules used in TOEE/NWN/whatever would make it more tolerable).

Mad Max RW wrote:Yeah, except they flushed D&D gameplay down the toilet with realtime combat. Ignore the people who say ToEE has a steep learning curve or whatever. It's easy as hell to jump into.

It wasn't for me but I just might be stupid. I think I may have just made really bad characters because there was a ton of options and lots of places to make stupid choices.

i couldnt be bothered getting into it, or past the guard house. if you lived in jolly england id mail you my copy.

Dear god!

http://www.co8.org/forum/showthread.php?t=2050&page=3

Just scrool down and look at the pretty face of one of DaC's famous people.

The DnD system is why I didn't get into Baldur's Gate and such games. I never understood the damage modifiers on the weapons, then shit like "Bastard swords" etc, they had too many of those. I never knew which ones to specialize in, or what it really meant for me.

Too much information in one go, and I lost my interest for the games. I'm still playing Planescape because of the awesome storyline, though.

Megatron wrote:i couldnt be bothered getting into it, or past the guard house. if you lived in jolly england id mail you my copy.

Mail it to me, I live in London now

vendetta wrote:Dear god!

http://www.co8.org/forum/showthread.php?t=2050&page=3

Just scrool down and look at the pretty face of one of DaC's famous people.

xD

no you arent part of mammas gang xD

Megatron wrote:no you arent part of mammas gang xD

:tear:

Mail it to me, eh. I'm right across the pond.

Mail it to me anyway. I'll give you... eprops.

It's impossible to warez it, eh.

Can't you lazy bastards go to walmart? They sell em in jewel cases for like 5 dollars.

I don't have five dollars.
And the nearest WalMart is like a subway ride and then two bus rides away. I don't live in the suburbs, mang. Inner city 4 lyfe.