Clarification: Sorry, didn't say that, and didn't mean to imply that. My apologize if that was your interpretation of what I wrote.
Clarification: Never made the suggestion arelith ought change. What I wrote was that should something like that happen, the decision to do it wouldn't be made from the standpoint of being a jerk, but from good intent. But the road to hell is paved with good intentions, I guess.Nitro wrote: ↑Sat Nov 10, 2018 10:32 pm...the amount of work required to rebalance the whole server, every single dungeon, class and equipment, just for an experience closer to P&P rules is ludicrous. Literally thousands of hours to make a change from a currently semi-balanced system to a less balanced system that is more 'authentic'.
Didn't suggest we should do it. My apologies you misinterpreted what I wrote.
We are in agreement. As I wrote above, that the skill dump isn't the reason to play. Sorry, you thought it was conceited.Nitro wrote: ↑Sat Nov 10, 2018 10:32 pmThis is pretty conceited, wanting to have a non-awful build does not equate to wanting RP any less than someone who makes the deliberate choice to have an awful build for their RP. No one is here just to get UMD, but building a powerful and mechanically sound character is just as much part of D&D as roleplaying is. Different people have different tastes, and none of them are the 'wrong' way to play the game.Besides, Isn't this supposed to be an RP server? It's it the RP that people come to Arelith for?
Ultimately, is it the ability to get 15-30 UMD skill on your melee character THE reason you play NWN? or do you play NWN because it is a great RP outlet?
I didn't say I wasn't okay with a different kind of fun. I just said I personally never have made peace with the skill dump. As I would personally prefer it another way. But that doesn't altogether deter me from playing at all. I like pizza. and I prefer pepperoni. But if mushroom is all that is available, I'm not going to NOT eat the pizza just because it's mushroom and I can't have pepperoni.Nitro wrote: ↑Sat Nov 10, 2018 10:32 pmI'll turn that right around to you. If you're here to RP and RP is fun, why aren't you OK with the current different kind of fun?Don't say it wouldn't be fun. It would be fun. Because RP'ing is fun. And we would be RP'ing. It would just be a different kind of fun.
(yes it all comes down to pizza.)
as stated above... my opinion is unpopular. as is apparently the case with posting unpopular opinions, I should have expected reactions and misinterpretations. I didn't mean to make ripples in the discussion. Sorry. Please ignore my comments and return to the topic at hand.
Sorry for the derail, yall.