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I assume it is impossible to increase all skills to level 300; 3-5 maybe. Anyway, for a 30 hrs game, that means 10 levels/hour... We will need tons of XP to increase a few skills to level 250-300.
You can max 2 skills at best.

300 represents legendary mastery, dedication to the chosen art, and ...

All skills go to 300. All skills have passive traits associated with skills. For example, Lore's passive trait is document forging. The higher your Lore skill is, the higher quality documents you can forge:

You spend an hour turning a blank parchment into a document mentioning the Imperial Guards ...

What is the "Action Point-based" combat? I was under impression AoD combat system would be turn-based. Wrong?
It's 100% turn-based. Action points measure what you can do during your turn. Each action - swinging a sword, walking, accessing your inventory, reloading your crossbow, throwing a net ...

But I'm really thinking when I write of avoiding the hero treatment more along the lines of a character who, for some strange reason, is confided in by everybody he/she comes across.
No, we don't have that. I dislike that in games myself. "Help me! No, help me! And me! How 'bout some help over ...

Vince, thanks for showing up. I have no idea what brought you here, but you must know by a casual read of our forums your AoD is generating a great deal of interest.
We are well aware of the interest and we are grateful for your support.

I'll be reviewing the title when it's done for GameBanshee ...

Thanks for the interest, folks.

The diplomatic path sounds interesting, too. I'm curious whether that will be more than simply new dialog options that open up to intelligent characters, a la PS:T.
Some thoughts reflecting AoD's non-combat design

One thing that i found a bit... disappointing ...