Grimrock

Aaah... ok <hides in shadows>

Lex wrote:Aaah... ok <hides in shadows>

Ah watch out, he's about to BACKSTAB!

Daniel.

This is exactly what I was looking for, thanks for posting this.

Character creation was always probably my favorite part of those old dungeon crawlers...

Here's my thinking so far. I've just restarted a new game and switched over to Steam.

Unlike other RPGs I don't see that you need a thief... you don't need to pick locks etc as far as I can see. However...
A mage seems to be difficult to run more than one because of the amount of clicking in combat, especially later when the speed of spells increases. While a thief can attack with melee from the back row.
Because of that I think 2 front row fighters, a mage and a thief is the right combination.
I think one minotaur is the right amount too, because while I like the idea of humans getting more skillpoints, I also notice that minos get a bonus for having a skull. I assume that means there will be a number of skulls in the game. It makes sense to have a character that can use them, while it doesn't make sense to have two minotaurs because if they really are balanced against humans for a front row fighter then that'll also be balanced with skulls taken into account.

As for skill advances, I'm going for armour for my front row guys rather than damage, because there's damage coming from all 4 characters and my back row guys can't take a beating.

I'm going for generic skills rather than specific weapon/magic type. I suspect there will be one powerful sword and one powerful mace later on, I don't expect the two most powerful weapons will both be the same skill type. I also suspect there will be a goto spell, and I don't know what it relies on..

So I think initially I'll be doing armour/armour/assassination/spellcraft on my skills.

I tend to play to strengths, for example I won't try and balance out a mage having low health, I'll still focus on their damage. However I'm going to make both of my front row characters moderate tanks, and go for 80 starting health.

Is the Skilled trait worth it? The extra skill points seem useful to get a head start but on balance would another trait be a better choice (I think I chose it for 2 of my first party).

I've only started playing with them, but I'm wondering if I made the wrong choice (and for reasons I can't quite fathom I presumed it would be +3 SP each level - a moment of duh)

tarasis wrote:Is the Skilled trait worth it? The extra skill points seem useful to get a head start but on balance would another trait be a better choice (I think I chose it for 2 of my first party).

I've only started playing with them, but I'm wondering if I made the wrong choice (and for reasons I can't quite fathom I presumed it would be +3 SP each level - a moment of duh)

I don't think the skilled trait is that usefull, since it's only 3 points. If you look at how many skillpoints you need to max. a skill, 3 points won't make such a huge difference. But on the other hand i don't know how many points you can get.

Skilled just means you can get to some nice abilities quicker, it's not bad at all, I prefer some of the other choices though, especially those that boost my stats.

Daniel.

Hi

Yesterday I bought the game ^^
I'm sorry to say, my englich is bad, and I always have to ask my friend.
He has the game too and I did not want to annoy him more.
Thanks to this topic I knew before the release of the text at the character creation.
I sat down a couple of hours (there were 2 days) and have it translated into German.
I just wanted to show my result.
Maybe it can still be of help to someone who can not englich so good too, but the game loves <3

Thank you Karina for your work!

I hope you do not mind that I've included your translation in opening post for users who do not read whole topic to not miss it.

I appreciate your work OP.. thanks for this.