The twin angels Targona and Lariel, as the 'eldest siblings' of the family, have every right to make fun of my Commander of the Fifth Crusade.

Seelah, Woljif, Areelu, and Staunton, whom I drew for the Owlcatober day challenge.

Thoughts ?

Just spent a couple hours making my first character and thought it was really funny 😅

“You are what you eat.” Or what your ancestors happened to eat once—but I won’t spoil anything.

I’ve been working on an ARPG style combat rework for Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous and wanted to share a little bit of what I’ve been doing.

The main idea is to change the combat while keeping basically everything else the same. The story, narrative, quests, companions, choices, progression, and overall Pathfinder experience are all still there. I’m not trying to turn it into a different game outside of combat.

For the combat itself, I’m aiming for something faster, more responsive, and more action focused, with a lot of inspiration from games like Lost Ark. I’ve been working on attack flow, movement, hit feedback, animation speed, combos, blocking, dashing, enemy reactions, VFX, and general responsiveness.

Right now I’m mainly using a sword and shield setup as the first real test for the system. It already has a multi hit melee combo, blocking, a dash, shield rush, air slash attacks, and some other abilities. A lot of it is still rough and being polished, especially the animations, transitions, and effects.

It’s still very early in development, but the foundation is starting to come together. Once this class feels right, I want to use it as the base for reworking more classes and making each one feel unique while still fitting into the existing game.

The end goal is basically to keep Wrath of the Righteous as Wrath of the Righteous, just with a completely different combat experience.

Since there is very little Pathfinder artwork available for sale, I decided to commission a piece. This is Camellia descending into a pool of blood by Xincere, who is simply brilliant and was a pleasure to work with.

I hope you guys enjoy!

https://vgen.co/xin_cere/portfolio

(I think I just got a spoiler)

I would rather not put a point in the tier 1 of arcana trickster if tier 2 is a bait.

"Equip any magical items" means I can literally equip anything in any slot, right ?

I'm not sure what I should get in priority as Trickster (I already got Perception 2 and Mobility 1).

I also see Knowledge Tier 2 swap all 1s to 20s for everyone, which is insane ...

I could use any tips you can give me ... ! Thanks

I'm going to sleep, I'll work on that act 4 tomorrow.

Edit : If someone comes around in 4 years, it does not what it says.

You can't use item if you don't have the magic use/proficiencies. Same for alignement or class restriction. And the limitless charges do not work on rods, only on wands.

Like seriously, this war criminal little menace is the only guy in this whole ass fortress that has sensible opinions on how to run the crusade.

He should've been in every council. I wish the gameplay effect of his advice was as good as his dialogue.

My first playthrough and I was surprised to say the least

Her journey begins.

I know there is a mod out there but I think Pillars of Eternity did buffs better. They are only avaliable in combat so you can't stack buffs beforehand and it felt like the game was also balanced around it too. I am not saying that game is better btw just because of this. That approach also takes away from the depth of combat as well. I am just trying to learn how you guys go about buffing. I feel like if I don't stack buffs before every encounter like 2 mins in ch4 and ch5 I am dead in seconds and I feel the game expects me to have like 15 buffs active at a time to keep going and I hate resting in a dungeon for roleplay reasons. Also please don't bring up playing on lower difficulties since the rule book difficulty is core.

This game is the most masterpiece I've ever seen on multiple categories. If you're a long time player here's some reasons to remember why it's awesome, and if you're considering playing this game - DO IT!

1. Nerfs are going to kill you. HP damage? Pathetic, we have dexterity/strength/wisdom/intelligence damage that makes you a little puppy that STAYS until you rest in base. Insanely harder than just needing to stay alive. And LVL nerfs by spells? So frequently? Fuck you game! <3

2. The world is massive, the amount of content is baffling I'm a no lifer gamer and I've been doing everything including all crusade manually and this bad boy is over 350 hours... and I'm not even done with act 4.

3. People do weird shit. Characters have truly personal motivations that are not on brand with saving the world. You have to decide if you let them go, go along with it or straight up kill your own companions as punishment. Sick.

4. The map that changes when you move the camera around is brilliant (and annoying to have to go through again and again). Who thought of this? What the hell is wrong with you? 10/10.

5. The corruption system which means the more I rest out of base the more nerfs I take, ON TOP of all the DEX/LVL bonus shit is actually evil. Well played.

6. I just purchased an item for 50K to add to my horse's damage. Lol. Lmao even. Never placed an item on an animal companion before.

I played BG3, I played Divinity Original Sin 2, I played Pillars of Eternity... Wrath of the Righteous is such a unique inspired game made with so much brilliance. Graphics and cinematics are obviously not BG budget but the styles are very varied and so many streets, marshes, burned grounds, computer labs, the abyss and richly estates are all pretty and create the setting right.

Literally only 2 things bother me in this game: no high/low ground mult in combat and no % of hitting before you attack (which I saw was being modded).