A player can still approach combat in a tactical manner, but, so far from what I’ve seen, the places where combat takes place blends nicely in with the rest of the map. I like the vertically of the maps, and the cover system. I didn’t mind the turn base system here because it was turn base and not ‘point base.’ You did your three actions (move, standard and quick) and then moved on. The 2 fights I did were brisk and not drawn out and were easy to follow. The combat is actually well done and easy to follow even for those who aren’t familiar with 5e D&D. The tutorial was presented nicely with each character telling a story of how they made it to the inn with little short missions covering the basics. The player creates their entire party of 4 characters so I went with a halfling paladin, dwarven cleric, elven wizard and half-elf ranger /w the low life background to cover rogue skills.

I liked how they gave options for the skills allotment with rolling, point buy and standard array all available. I liked the character creation and hope they expand on it to include more classes, races and backgrounds but options are there to keep one occupied. Played it slightly not that far into however. Ya I picked it up since it was slightly discounted and half the price of BG3. The Dragonborn lore is too generic and looks like an bad excuse to allow an easy to ballance 'PC Dragon'.Įdit : is Tales from Candlekeep a good adaptation? Should be something more nasty, like a evil vampire warlock/sorcerer/wziard doing experiments with draconic blood during spellplague to try to regain his powers and creating this race as an accident. My unique critique was that the race origin is too boring. Play as an half dragon in 3.5e was unbalaced as hell, but a lot of people liked. Spells that allow you to shapeshift into dragons are amazing.

Pathfinder: Kingmaker did this for instance. And probably won't be unless Solasta will allow slacker backer pledges via paypal to count towards stretchgoals as well.

Still utterly disappointed that half-orcs aren't in. Other than that there's also Tales from Candlekeep: Tomb of Annihilation with a playable Saurial character (which is a far more interesting race than scaly Fus-Roh-Dah's ).īut yeah. Dragonborn were also in Neverwinter as part of their Tyranny of Dragons DLC module.

D&d 5e system shock