Originally Posted By: Thuryl
Jeff's said that all of his future games will be fairly linear because they're much easier to balance that way. Some of your suggestions seem like they'd just create a lot of needless backtracking. I sure wouldn't mind having group haste back, though.
That's a shame.
I liked not being able to just mow through everything in front of me.
I think it was more interesting when you could run into something big and evil and had to come back when you were stronger to defeat it.
It made encounters more meaningful.
As opposed to "here is named character number 5 who takes 3 more hits than a normal monster to kill because hes the next thing to do in the linear plot"
and bring back outdoors!
