Apeman42

This is an excellent love letter to classic CRPGs, and quite possibly the best game for people who like intricate TTRPG character building. This has, I believe, all the DLC including the one that includes a standalone roguelike mode, and the one that has a Mass Effect 3 Citadel-type party in the last chapter.

There's a decent modding scene for it too. Here's what you're gonna want to start with:

ToyBox - https://www.nexusmods.com/pathfinderwrathoftherighteous/mods/8

This one lets you activate tons of QOL features, fix bugs on the fly, and straight up cheat if that's your bag.

Bubble Buffs - https://www.nexusmods.com/pathfinderwrathoftherighteous/mods/195

This one lets you define a set of buffs to apply to your characters in 1 click. You're going to want this, buffing before fights is essentially mandatory, and gets pretty tedious to do by manually casting each spell after about level 3.

I'm thinking Halfling is a given, 1 level of Nature Cleric to get all armor proficiencies, guidance, and most importantly Shillelagh for the vibe of whacking things with a magic stick.

Then 6 Swords Bard for Extra Attack and several on-theme spells. If I make sure Bard is always my most recent new class, Shillelagh should run off Charisma.

Round it out with 5 levels of some sort of Rogue for 3d6 sneak attack that should play nicely with Durge's invisibility cloak. Swashbuckler plays off Charisma further, but Arcane Trickster gives more spell slots? Thief would give two bonus actions so I still have one after I Shillelagh up.

Thoughts?

I just got done installing OpenMW and setting up the I Heart Vanilla mod list. I also added Daisy's Lua Multimark to help with getting around a little better.

My only real requirement is that I want my first character to use spears as a primary weapon, because I miss them so much when I play other Elder Scrolls. Medium armor synergises well with spears and Bonemold looks sweet, so I'm leaning towards that, or maybe a medium/heavy mix later when carry weight's less of a problem.

Other than that, I'm open to suggestion on race, the rest of the build, and factions to seek out. What do y'all think is the most fun for someone coming back to Vvardenfell after so long?

EDIT: A few people liked my writeup of character creation, and it's helpful to have a record of what I've been doing in a game like Morrowind, so this is now a Let's Play-type journal that I'm calling Morrow(Re)wind.

I'll be posting updates on !morrowind@lemmy.world so as to not spam this community.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moo_Deng

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punch_(monkey)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimothy_(raccoon)

I am NOT afraid of H.O.W.A.R.D.

I used to play quite a few of them in the ps1/ps2 era, but sort of dropped out after Resident Evil 4.

Now I've picked up Resident Evil 7 and it's clear I'm about at endgame, and I've been enjoying it pretty well.

So aside from other RE games (I have Village ready to install when I finish 7), what are some more good ones from say the last 10 years-ish?

I find the superscience bullshit of RE is usually easier to follow than supernatural survival horror games, I prefer to have some combat and not be purely hiding like I think it's Amnesia? And I enjoy RE7's shift to first person. Tank controls are hard for me to go back to.

Not games with a convoluted mysterious story, per se, but if it's something that re-contextualizes the story somehow, that's the kind of thing I'm interested in.

Inspired by my digging into the FF:06:5B mystery in my current playthrough of Cyberpunk. There are all sorts of weird codes and ciphers, bizarre rituals you have to do at certain places and times, and vague clues in weird places. One clue was even in an update to The Witcher 3, apparently. Based on my reading, the community found a sort of conclusion to this one, but it really doesn't clearly explain things (though it fairly strongly hints at Night City 2077 being a simulation, and us not really playing V, but rather whoever is breaching the system at the title screen).

I got the urge to play again, but the last update broke some of my mods. I'm just about done reinstalling all the visual and QOL mods I think I want on a fresh install, but can anyone recommend any that add quests, random events, or minor romances like the Rita and Bugbear ones?

I'm talking about the fast, bouncy singing that the main vocalist does underneath all the electronic stuff.

I'm fairly certain I've heard it in other jazz or swing songs before, but there's gotta be a more specific search term I can use, cause those are some pretty broad genres.