Lionheart Interview

Gamer’s Hell has conducted an interview with Reflexive’s Ion Hardie, asking him several questions about the soon-to-be-released Lionheart. A snippet:

Can you change class mid-game, say you are a Wizard and you want to become an Evil Warrior, is that possible?

One of the wonderful things about the SPECIAL system is that developing a single player character in multiple (class) paths is easy to do. In fact, as an avid player of an archer/mage in Lionheart, I would say that it is very easy to do. But you can do it wrong if you ignore your skills. In this particular example, let’s say that you got your wizard up to level 10, and you concentrated your spells in the Tribal Necromantic branch and the Thought Electrical branch. If you were to try to develop your one-handed (or two-handed) fighting skills and just cut cold-turkey using your summoning abilities or your kick-arse lightning abilities that you still have, you would be screwed. When you are spending skill points in a new skill that is undeveloped, that skill is fairly weak in the beginning, as you would expect. As long as you still used your magical spells in conjunction with your fighting abilities during the transition period where you are developing your fighting skills, you’re fine. Eventually, if you really didn’t want to use them, you could stop using your magical spells and just hack stuff to death.but why would you do that? It’s much more fun to hack stuff up AND summon skeletons to help out.