planning for the futur.

[Xyteno Sane]

i started playing the game. 1 why can i only cast a spell once per rest? maybe it is just me who is used to bg3 but a wisard even level 1 who can only cast a cantrip once before needing a nap is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. also i found in the first part with the goblins a wand of fireball. sounds cool right, i read the description it says i can use it 5 times a day, fine, i use it twice and it disapears from the face of the earth. also i start the game as a wizard so with 3 hp so if anything reaches me, i am dead, i get a warrior that follows me around, cool, he dies the first time we encounter anything that isin't a goblin or a squeleton and i can't bring him back and he leaves me serounded by the damn wizard with too much hp to be a wizard and 5 goblins. well guess who died 3 times in a row. anyway, what i want to know is what happened to the want and if i can really not bring the guy back. i asked for a refund but i played 3 hours so i'm probably not gonna get it so i might as well ask now.

[DrLoboto]

NWN is based on D&D 3.0, in which wizards are notorious for being weak at lower levels, then very, very powerful, maybe even overpowered at higher ones. It pays off to be patient. Despite both being D&D games, the underlying rule system in NWN is a completely different one than what BG3 is using (not to mention that Larian probably made some changes to it so that it's more suited for a videogame). Keep in mind, this is a very old game, about 20 years older than BG3, so you can't compare directly.

You can memorize a spell more often than once per rest, but your spell slots are limited, and need to be refilled by resting.

As a wizard you don't have to rely on the henchman fighter alone. You also have your familiar (direwolf and panther are decent tanks, faerie is a good rogue that can disarm traps and pick locks). And you can make use of Summon Creature spells. If you do, you'd have a party of four: your character, the henchman, your familiar and the summoned animal.

You could also consider lowering the game's difficulty, as long as you're still learning. There's no shame in it, as this is not so much a game about player skills - instead, knowledge of the D&D 3.0 rules is essential for mastering it.

The wand thing does sound like a badly designed item though, if you read it correctly. My guess is, it also said something like e.g. "5 charges per use" and "charges: 10", in which case something like "(5 uses per day)" was superfluos and misleading. Those are two different systems that magical items can use, one that makes it depletable and one that makes it rechargeable. They are not compatible with each other, so they shouldn't have been applied to the same item.

So keep an eye out for anything listing "charges" in the description of magical items, and also pay attention to how much charges the item uses (10 charges doesn't aitomatically mean 10 uses, if more than 1 charge are spent per use). Anything with charges will most probably vanish once the charges are depleted.

Last but not least, the main campaign is not the most well designed campaign and not the most interesting story. It certainly can't hold a candle to BG3. If you are not having fun with it, you might still enjoy other campaigns included in the game or player-made content (the main attraction of NWN for many). But if you find you don't like the game in general, don't fall victim to the sunk cost fallacy and waste your time with it, just because you paid for it and can't ask for a refund. Not every game is for everyone, and there's no sense in playing something you don't enjoy.

[allenayen96]

The wand only has 2 fireballs in it. I use it to kill the Strange Wizard. For Wizard I go with Sgt 10, Dex 10, Con 14, Wiz 10, Int 18, Chr 10. Constitution of 14 will give you 6 hit points. You should have a wand of frost that you can use as often as you need to. It will kill the Goblins.

[Xyteno Sane]

Publicado originalmente por allenayen96:

The wand only has 2 fireballs in it. I use it to kill the Strange Wizard. For Wizard I go with Sgt 10, Dex 10, Con 14, Wiz 10, Int 18, Chr 10. Constitution of 14 will give you 6 hit points. You should have a wand of frost that you can use as often as you need to. It will kill the Goblins.

I do have the wand of frost but goblins are faster than me clicking on the wand and aiming at the goblins so by the time I finish casting Ray of frost on one of the Goblins I've been killed by three others

[allenayen96]

I use the space bar to pause the game and target a goblin. I also keep as far away as possible. I use the spell Mage Armor on myself.

[Xyteno Sane]

Publicado originalmente por allenayen96:

I use the space bar to pause the game and target a goblin. I also keep as far away as possible. I use the spell Mage Armor on myself.

I had no idea I could pause the game but regardless I got my refund so thanks for all your advice but I don't think the game is for me I'm more of a turn-by-turn RPG guy been a whole running around getting covered in goblins

[Wizard of Woz]

One more piece of proof that 5e and BG3 are popular because they have been dumbed down for the masses.

[Xyteno Sane]

Publicado originalmente por Wizard of Woz:

One more piece of proof that 5e and BG3 are popular because they have been dumbed down for the masses.

I played Dungeons & Dragons in real life all the time and I've never played in 5e only in 3.5

[Wizard of Woz]

Publicado originalmente por xavier2005:

Publicado originalmente por Wizard of Woz:

One more piece of proof that 5e and BG3 are popular because they have been dumbed down for the masses.

I played Dungeons & Dragons in real life all the time and I've never played in 5e only in 3.5

And yet you don't know how a wizard works?

[Xyteno Sane]

Publicado originalmente por Wizard of Woz:

Publicado originalmente por xavier2005:

I played Dungeons & Dragons in real life all the time and I've never played in 5e only in 3.5

And yet you don't know how a wizard works?

when i play wizard in dnd i have a whole groupe protecting me, i went through an entire campain not getting hit once.

[Wizard of Woz]

Publicado originalmente por xavier2005:

Publicado originalmente por Wizard of Woz:

And yet you don't know how a wizard works?

when i play wizard in dnd i have a whole groupe protecting me, i went through an entire campain not getting hit once.

So you had a soft dm. Gotcha

[Mordaedil]

Publicado originalmente por xavier2005:

Publicado originalmente por Wizard of Woz:

One more piece of proof that 5e and BG3 are popular because they have been dumbed down for the masses.

I played Dungeons & Dragons in real life all the time and I've never played in 5e only in 3.5

I don't believe you.

[cnroddball]

It hasn't been stated bluntly here yet, so I'm just gonna say it: you need to add the spell to your spell slots more than once. The more you add to your spell slots, the more often you can use that specific spell.

Add flare to your spell slots three times and you can use flare three times. Add it once, and you can only use it once.

[allenayen96]

I did a Wizard and had no trouble getting to lv 4