Project Eternity Kickstarter Campaign Update #22, $2.91 Million and Counting

The twenty-second update for Project Eternity brings a Q&A with veteran developer Tim Cain, who’s also going to write an RPG-themed recipe book that will be given as a reward to every backer, and a new reward tier for $750, limited to only 30 backers. The reward for it? Chris Avellone will draw a custom “troll portrait” (in the vein of the RPG Codex troll) for you!

Here’s a snippet:

rjshae asks…

Back in the BG series, experience growth was relatively slow and it felt like an accomplishment to reach a new level. Since then, D&D v3.5 rules came out and level up began to feel almost like a cheesy accomplishment that didn’t require much effort. That has become the trend in modern games: leveling up after every few battles. I have to wonder how this will be handled in PE? It sounds like Obsidian wants to return to the style of the BG series, which would seems to entail a return to slower level progress. If they do allow a more rapid level up, I hope they tone down the power growth rate so that lower level monsters remain a challenge for longer periods.

We are working hard to make Project Eternity revive the spirit of the older IE games, and this includes making leveling up an important accomplishment, one that makes your character feel substantially more powerful afterward. I agree that frequent level-ups make the event feel less special, so we plan to space out these events over the course of our storyline. The first few level-ups will occur relatively early in the game, but the pacing of the subsequent level-ups will be much slower.

For people who enjoy level-ups, they are free to use our Adventurer’s Hall to swap out new companions frequently, so they are always leveling up new characters to use in later parts of the story. For people who aren’t sure what character classes they will want to have available in the end game, it’s always nice to have the choice of having all of them.