The main radial menu, which encircles a picture of the character selected, has up to six sections, the number being based on class abilities. From there, hovering over wedges brings out more options, such as specific spells, actions, or inventory items. After selecting a character, the player right clicks to open a circular menu.

The characters are controlled via radial menus.

Additionally, small portraits of the characters appear on the bottom of the screen, along with a small red bar showing remaining health and icons depicting any status conditions, such as level drain, blessings, or paralysis. This screen also appears when the party is bartering with an NPC or looting a body, but clicking out of the inventory tab will eject the player from the interaction. Five tabs-inventory, skills, feats, spells, and abilities-allow the player to manage equipment, change spell configurations, and compare character attributes. At any time, the party can have up to three NPC followers, and all player characters can have a familiar and/or animal companion as allowed by class.Īll characters have a screen that shows information pertaining to them. Any player-made characters are created in a 13-step process there is, however, an option to let the game deal with most aspects of character creation for the player.

All, however, must be within one step of a party alignment. These characters can be created by the player or can be one of the pre-made characters that come with the game. The game focuses on a party of up to five player-controlled characters. A radial menu is used for choosing a character's actions

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