D&D: The Temple of Elemental Evil Review at GameBanshee

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(Originally posted by Veldrin)

GameBanshee has posted a review for The Temple of Elemental Evil. They gave a final score of 6.0 out of 10. Here's a clip:

TOEE belongs to that family of RPGs that lets you create an entire party, rather than focusing on one character and acquiring others as you travel. The creation screens let you design and maintain a raft of individual characters, rather than a single party with fixed members. You can use the point buy system for ability stats (the usual Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, Intelligence, Wisdom and Charisma), or roll up a character. The latter offers an excellent chance of getting more stat points and higher scores, which you can distribute at will among your different abilities. Eleven classes (including monks) are available, and seven races (including half-orcs): no surprises, there. Feats, skills, spells, portraits: again, these are all basically familiar, if you’ve played recent RPGs such as Icewind Dale 2. If you haven’t, however, you’ll want to consider carefully what feats you give your party members, since they can only reach 10th level in TOEE. It’s an understandable limitation in the game, designed to properly scale combat and keep godlike parties from developing, but it does put those few feats some of your characters get at premium value.

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