#anyways.... im loving icewind dale
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man im loving icewind dale
it's far simpler than baldur's gate text-wise, but that's perfect for me right now when i can barely think
what writing there is is top notch, a perfect traditional tale of legend without all the paragraphs of political technicalities. and the story doesnt feel any shallower for its simplicity, it has its own kind of layers and feels perfectly rooted in a tale of tribal mysticism
interestingly there seems to be more environmental flavor text in the maps than baldur's gate, despite the fewer character conversations
the 2E combat in Infinity Engine is as snappy as ever (with a properly built party), and so far I've been finding the maps generally far more streamlined than baldur's gate's; they get the point across instead of just sprawling into labyrinths of cliffs and corridors that dont actually contain anything to discover other than more of the same enemies
all in all icewind dale has so far been a very streamlined pick-up-and-play experience, very modern and engaging. though im sure there'd be more of a learning curve if i wasnt already familiar with infinity engine and dnd strategy from learning baldur's gate earlier this year. and initial party building still took me a whole day, though if my brain wasnt so fried it'd probably only take like an hour to look up and read everything necessary to understand good character and party composition
but with a solid party set from the beginning, the game itself becomes very smooth and engaging
#the first ogre cave dragged on a bit but it was no nakshel mines#i was gonna dual class my thief into archer after maxing trap detection but i got dual and multi mixed up and made her elf instead of human#but my party's shredding so hard with its barbarian berserker fighter-cleric spearhead i dont even need the longbow#elf thief's layin down the hurt just fine with a shortbow#idk if icewind dale just starts off easier or if ive gotten better at party composition or what#but ive gone from resting basically every battle in baldur's gate to almost never resting in iwd#anyways.... im loving icewind dale#until i get too sick to play again and completely forget it in a dew days#baldur's gate 3 could definitely stand to learn a bit more from its infinity engine predecessors#despite its successes and 5E's differences
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we finished our rime of the frostmaiden campaign recently :]
#will miss it but wow that was a fun time#the second campaign ive ever finished#our party is much different than how we started haha. we gained and lost many companions#digital#ocs#doodles#dnd#eva#julian#we played an extra session last night after a 6 month timeskip#i love post campaign sessions and one-offs so much. i eat them all#anyways i havent drawn for myself in a hot minute so i doodled my boy im gonna eat my own hands.#icewind dale
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its been a while since ive done any casual reading and so its been nice to start reading the drizzt books. they don't feel overly YA which is mostly what i grew up reading, and what ive outgrown. at the same time all the "adult" books like stephen king dont interest me, i love silly high fantasy. i need to catch back up and read more discworld too. anyways point is im enjoying mr. do'urden's journey and have the icewind dale trilogy on hold at the library to jump into next
thhhhhe last books i read would have been a few of the discworld books, good omens, american gods, and the kingkiller chronicles. i know what im looking for in a book
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