"A simplified version of Diablo 3" one review said. I am guessing tactics is not needed.

I smelled this rat early on, though. When it was revealed that the spell system (which is iconic in d&d and tied to the lore) was replaced with a cooldown system.

I smelled it when they marketed it as "From the former BioWare developers that gave you Dragon Age Origins"!

Yes, and it was silly.

"More Dungeon Siege than Dragon Age" is what I'd heard.

5th edition isn't too bad, for sure. But I am afraid the damage is done via 4th edition and the tremendous damage it did.


More Dungeon Siege\Diablo than Dragon Age\Baldur's Gate seems to be an apt description. I saw one user saying "The Sword Coast is in it, but d&d isn't".

Am I the only one who actually likes Sword Coast Legends?

Gameplay is the most important. If it's too heretical the new game sux and no one likes it.

NWN 1 was awesome because its gamplay was awesome.

No.

Origins, Skills, Spells, Attributes, Gameplay, Ruleset.

Superman 64 with Lan parties would be no good.

I think the main disappointment is with the DM tools. They need to allow a lot of customisation and have little to no restrictions when it comes to custom content such as creating your own encounters and even story. Because that's what a DM's job is, not making monsters spawn via resource tokens and that was the major point of the whole marketing campaign which really shitted me. I was like "Why can't I as DM do what I think is best for the group? What if I want the group to face hordes of weaker monsters because the story demands it? Why do I have to conform to rules?"

The main disappointment = it is not d&d