I never said they act at the same time. My question had to do with whether character 1 performs all his actions before character 2, or do they trade turns with each performing one action at a time.
This page describes how each round is subdivided into 5 ticks.
There’s lots of confusing stuff in the rules about standard actions, full-round actions, move actions, free actions, etc. Here’s what I think is a simpler way to think about it:
You have 5 action points in a round to spend however you like.
Full-round actions cost 5 points.
Standard actions cost 3 points.
Move actions cost 2 points.
Free actions cost 0 points.
If you haven’t otherwise moved, you can always move five feet for 0 points.
So you can take one full-round action, or a standard and a move, or two moves, and all of that is along with as many free actions as you like, plus maybe a move of five feet.[/quote]
This quote suggests different characters’ actions in pnp are interleaved somehow:
Some early editions of DnD did have a much more primitive initiative system than current ones which included, IIRC, the possibility for certain actions to overlap and occur simultaneously. I suspect the whole “player and monster kill each other simultaneously” possibility was heavily houseruled at various tables in the 70s and 80s :)
AD&D 2E had a few different possible systems outlined in the rulebook, which I suspect did little to improve the wild west of houseruling nature of most combat in the late 80s/early 90s:
I am unsure how this played out in BG in the background of the system; apologies.
Pledged as well. I’ve pledged all of three things in the history of Kickstarter, and I’ve been disappointed in all three. Though I probably would have bought at least two of them.
Given how things have gone politically, anyone else concerned it’s a Russian dev?
It sounds like it’s the developer of Heroes V, with the addition of Chris Avellone.
I didn’t really like Heroes V. Though I heard the game got a lot better with the addition of the second expansion. I never gave it a second shot though.
I particularly enjoyed how at release D:OS only let you rotate the map ~30 degrees left or right, when clearly they had the tech to let you rotate it all the way.
I suppose it might be easier to compare ToEE with Icewind Dale II. Regardless, I prefer taking my turns in ToEE, even if all I’m doing is killing bugbears.
ToEE is still amazing in that they really took 3E D&D and accurately made it a video game.
Sadly, no one will ever do that again. Or apparently make a D&D CRPG ever again, because reasons. Glad to see Paizo stepping up to the plate. I’ll take some 3.5/PF games thanks. They’re going BG instead of ToEE, but I’ll still take it. Maybe someday they’ll go full turn based with it.
With a computer doing all the heavy lifting, it wouldn’t be bad. Most of the problem with 3.5+/PF is all the math and working out various situational modifiers. Computer knocks that stuff out instantly for you. ToEE worked quite well on that system, even with the necessarily nightmarish UI to do it all.
So, if they make 800,000, archetypes might be added. About 3 per class.
Archetypes are my favorite part of Pathfinder. It’s like kits from 2nd edition, and replaces most of the needs for prestige classes.
