Wrath of the Righteous for only 8 hours yesterday

Playing Wrath of the Righteous yesterday I got to the bit where we see what happens at Heaven's Edge and it is one of those times where inconsistent application of the rules undermines the story.
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I can talk it through so it makes in game sense that Heaven's Edge happened that way, but on screen I don't think they did, which is frustrating.



In other game news, doing things on a higher difficulty setting is harder, and enemies can do so many more things more effectively than I remember. I keep having to take extra rests and still use a bunch of healing magic. Frustrating.

I retrained Lann because I had distributed his skills poorly and we kept falling off things, only I think I wasted a feat this time that Zen Archer gives you for free, so now I'm just... considering building him again, but I think that costs money.

Also I feel I should know how to do this better by now. Too many numbers. Like, optimising the numbers is its own fun thing when you are planning your character, but to optimise like a dozen different characters at once in different disciplines and then get your party balance right? Ugh.

Also also I keep forgetting to bring an arcane caster with me. Or anyone good at Use Magic Device. Do that in the wrong place and your option is run back to Drezen or be toast.

I would have more fun if I dropped the difficulty or retrained my main character to be actually useful.

... retraining the main character is the sense making one. but I wanted them to be good at Knowing Things. Trouble is if you do one character who knoww all the things instead of distributing the knowing around the team then you run out of feats for Stabbing Things. Ugh.

I am still mostly having fun but in a reloads a lot and gets frustrated way.

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Today was achieved successfully.

I had a nice phone call with mum and we went ooh over some nice places on rightmove in an 'if we win the lottery' way.

The xmas food shopping delivery arrived
with only the least interesting non holiday vegetables missing
and it all very nearly fits in the cupboards :-D

And I played Wrath of the Righteous until we fixed Gundrun for this act, and even fried the thing that needed to burn. Which took a few tries but most things do on this difficulty.
I nearly retreated at one point because we very much got our arses kicked in negative levels, but I decided it was a bit wimping out to leave just because we were out of one specific spell, so I stuck with it and won with only a few argh moments.

I keep spending all the money on scrolls and potions though. So many shiny items, so little cash.

Still fun though.

Pretty good day.