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Man....I had heard it was rough but I found a cheap copy and thought what the hell. The controls are pretty clunky but I'm gonna stick through and see it through.

The aesthetic choices are what really got me laughing though --

The crystal shard is blue?!?!
The tower it erects is essentially Icecrown from WoW/Sauron's tower from LotR?!?!
Gwen is prismatic/translucent?!?!?!
Wulfgar has the biker viking undercut?!?!?!
Catti-Brie has some kind of weird goggle headband thing?!?!?!

STILL, THOUGH -- it's cool to see some locations in Icewind Dale in video game form. If I can figure out how to make the camera not feel unresponsive and slow I still feel like it will be a decent time!

Edit: Oh yeah! Drizzt's green cloak is also called a piwafwi haha

Confusing subject intentional to reflect the mixed opinions I'm getting on which to read first!

Greetings! I posted in here a few months back about how I randomly remembered these joints from back in the day and decided to jump back in. The last one I read was The Two Swords when it first came out. At the advice of the peeps here I started from Homeland again and I am super glad I did. It's been a wild ride.

I am almost done with Spine of the World....man....I won't even go into that.....I'm just...glad to be almost done.

When I was reading these the first time, The Sellswords Trilogy didn't exist and Servant of the Shard was the only one. I read it prior to Sea of Swords. I see some people say go to Sea of Swords before and just knock out the Sellswords as a trilogy before coming back to Hunter's Blades.

So far I feel like that's where I'm leaning - but I was just curious how others felt.

Edit: I have checked out the reading order -- I just was curious about peoples' actual experience doing it both ways. Er, reading them in both orders.

Greetings! Picked up Ivalice Chronicles on a whim after remembering loving Tactics on PSX like....20 years ago now. Loving it big time.

I'm an hour or so into chapter 4 - just recruited Beowulf and Reis. It seems like I'm picking up a sudden burst of unique characters that have some solid story stuff happening. Do you all feel there is an optimal squad for RP/Dialogue purposes? I'm not asking who is the most OP or meta damage squad, but I really like the cool dialogue that happens in battles between NPCs and I don't wanna miss any of that because I likely won't be replaying for a while.

I would imagine Ramza, Agrias, and Orlandeau because they've given me a ton so far. I was running them alongside my two trusty mages I've grown from the ground up but it feels like Beowulf, Reis, and Meliadoul may offer some RP stuff and I need that sweet sweet RP stuff!