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The Red Mage

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  • Birthday 09/16/1989

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  1. Hey everyone, long time player first time poster. When I heard Spiderweb was launching an all new series, I got rather excited. I spent most of yesterday playing the Avadon demo though, and what I've seen has discouraged me from buying it. It seems like a solid game with an interesting plot, but there's one thing that kills it for me; the utter lack of class customization. There is character customization, sure; you choose which stats and skills to upgrade as is par for the course with any RPG, but there's no customization of the classes. Every character you have in one class is going to look exactly the same, with the same color scheme. Exile and Avernum let you assign any graphic to any character, which was great. Geneforge at least allowed you to re-color the pre-set character graphics, which was something. That's not the worst part though, that's just a graphical gripe that could be overlooked. I began Avadon as a sorceress because I tend to like playing the sword wielding spellcaster in most any RPG only to quickly find out that weapons and armor are class-restricted. Games like Geneforge and Diablo II get a free pass on making every character of a specific class look the same because in either you can start the game as the most magic-centric class and still wield a blade. Avadon's class system is rigid in both appearances and practice; every blademaster will look like a blademaster and will only use blademaster weapons and blademaster skills, every sorceress will look like a sorceress and will use only sorceress weapons and sorceress skills, etc. etc. I'm just going to wait for the next reboot of the Exile/Avernum series.
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