Avernum 6 character creation6/19/2023 Using any discipline renders the character fatigued for a few turns, during which time they can't use disciplines. Though, I've beaten this game with a party of 2, so if you can come up with a compelling reason to saddle me with a character who can't pull their weight, have at it.īattle disciplines are a variety of "spells" that combat characters can use. And throwing is pretty worthless, sadly - it's ammo-based unlike all the other weapon types, and basically the best you can get is steel javelins, while all the other weapon types have cool enchanted gear with nifty bonuses. Bows are handy, though a bit redundant with spellcasting. Spears have decent single-hit damage but pale in comparison to swords (and all the really cool weapons are swords, natch). Swords are your best DPS option as they're the only weapon type that can be dual-wielded they're also your best option for tanks since spear users can't use shields and your ranged characters generally want to avoid melee. Functionally this serves to prevent you from getting to the better combat skills until you've put in your basic training.Ĭombat skills, left to right, bottom to top (these illustrations are by Phil Foglio, incidentally, artist for the comic-cum-webcomic Girl Genius):īasic training with weapon types. For example, if you have only 5 points in Melee Weapons (the bottom-left combat skill), then you can invest at most 5 points into Hardiness (the skill immediately above it). The way this works is that you can't invest in a skill unless a linked skill from lower on the tree has more points in it than the skill you want to invest in. There's two skill trees: combat and magic. In fact, builds in general are somewhat limited, unfortunately. Or you can do a custom build - though customization is rather limited as you only have 5 skillpoints to assign. You can choose builds from the list of presets: Each should have a name, a graphic, a build, and a backstory. The game will happily give us a prefabricated party, but what fun is that? We need four new party members. Right, now that that messy business is behind us, we need some characters!
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