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\nFrom left to right, my cat Leon and Miele, having a discussion about RPG balancing<\/em><\/p>\n

Balancing a RPG is… one of the hardest things in game design ever. Even in MMORPG made by teams of 100+ people with multi-million budgets you see patches for months after the game is out to “tweak \/ balance the game”.<\/p>\n

So I am sure that even my new RPG Seasons Of The Wolf very likely won’t be “perfectly balanced”, but to me the first goal is to make it fun. But I know that there are some very hardcore people who will dissect the game in details and find all possible weaknesses.<\/p>\n

Let’s have a NIGHTMARE<\/strong><\/p>\n

Let’s start with saying that this time I’ve listened to the pleas about the difficulty:<\/p>\n

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Note the new difficulty level with that friendly name “NIGHTMARE”. Already the hard level will be… hard, but I expect the nightmare to be a real pain in the ass, requiring people to grind, fine-tune their equipment, and maybe even reload old savegames to try a different tactic\/leveling up path.<\/p>\n

You know, all those things that for normal human beings are annoying, but for those guys are the most fun thing ever! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

I’m joking in case it wasn’t clear. No offense to anyone! Those hardcore RPG players are indeed the most useful testers since they usually find more bugs than anyone else, so an applause to them!<\/p>\n

Attributes, attributes…<\/strong><\/p>\n

Loren’s attribute system was pretty simple: 3 attributes, Strength, Skill, Will. One of them particularly good for each of the 3 classes: Warrior, Thief and Mage. But even the other two would provide benefits.<\/p>\n

This time in SOTW I wanted to have more attributes: six in total.<\/p>\n

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Let’s see each one in detail:<\/p>\n