Dungeonfrog: About your second point: I agree having a manual would surely be a good thing, sadly there a fewer games with manual then in the olden days.

With the existence of OGL and SRD (System Reference Document) you can learn D20 (3.0 , 3.5 and Pathfinder amongst others) using online sources.

Pathfinder WotR is mostly using the pathfinder 1.0 as is so you can read up on the rules on the Pathfinder wiki:

https://www.d20pfsrd.com/

Dungeonfrog: For casting spells you need a minimum ability score (the ability score depends on the type of caster; Int for arcane, Wis for divine) of 10 plus spell level.

grassBlade: I still yearn for old games where you had to roll a minimum number for the required attributes.

dtgreene: Not always:
* Some classes, mostly spontaneous casters, use Cha as the casting stat. Note that I said "mostly"; there exist Cha based prepared casters (Paladin) and Int and Wis based spontaneous casters (Hunter uses Wis, for example).
* There actually exists one archetype, the Empyreal Sorcerer, that uses Wis, yet is an arcane caster (albeit a spontaneous one).

I believe that, when choosing a class, there's an option to see more info, which will tell you what casting stat a class uses, as well as the maximum spell level and whether the class is a prepared (called "memorizing" by the game, but I dislike this use of that term) or spontaneous caster.

dtgreene: Problem was that the die rolls at the start of the game determined what your character was allowed to do over the course of their career, and D&D-based games (unlike other CRPGs) didn't provide much in the way of stat increases, so you had no way to fix this issue.

(This problem still exists when it comes to feat prerequisites and spell casting, but at least you aren't dependent on die rolls for this, and there's the option to retrain characters (though turned off if you use a non-custom difficulty harder than Normal).)

grassBlade: BG had "tomes"; nwn had dragon disciple. And, more importantly, re-rolling was a simple click (granted, there were times when you had to reroll for an hour or so, but with judicious use of a hex editor you could have a character with all 18s.)

BTW: I finally noticed the "Details" tab in the character creation. It tells you which attribute is predominate and whether the casting is memorized or spontaneous....information which should be available at the beginning of creation ... not 3 or 4 screens into the process.

dtgreene: Tomes are only in BG1, not BG2. (Or, rather, BG2 has none that can be obtained without the console or hacking/mods.) Furthermore, you can't gain more than 1 of a non-Wisdom stat per playthrough. It's not like Wizardry or Bard's Tale where your stats keep increasing when you level until they're all 18. (Note: In Wizardry stats can decrease, but as long as the character isn't excessively old, stats will increase more often than they decrease (65 is the break-even point).)

Dragon Disciple, I believe, doesn't of any class that can be used to enter it. (In 3.5e; in Pathfinder (at least WotR's implimentaion of it, you can enter via Arcanist, and I suspect Ley Line Guardian (Which archetype, which happens to be the character I've been playing lately) might be able to as well. (There's also Trickster shenanigans, allowing a character of an arbitrary class to gain access to a Wizard's spellcasting, albeit with the drawback of only being able to learn spells via scrolls and no other Wizard class abilities. This is Int based casting, which can work with the Int boosts from Dragon Disciple and Enlightened Philosopher.)

The game gives you another clue about casting stats; when it comes time to allocate your stats, the casting stat will have a thumbs up icon by it.

Dungeonfrog: Abilities can be boosted in several other ways but the amount is limited to +5 (vanilla) per enhancement type (luck, divine, etc). This means you can boost your abilities (temporarily) using spells and items (amongst other less common ways).

Dungeonfrog: I shouldn't have mentioned Bonus types, especially Enhancement Bonus in the same sentence as effects that increase ability scores.

Anyway, that's just another point for having a manual added to the game or at least a link to the Pathfinder SRD.

https://www.d20pfsrd.com/basics-ability-scores/glossary#TOC-Enhancement-Bonus

grassBlade: I have been playing (and reviewing) CRPGs since I worked with Electronic Games (if you don't recognize the title, you probably never heard of Pong and stickball -- one of them is not electronic).
This game's plot is without a doubt, at the least, one of the top two of all time. The game itself, however, has caused me to use more four letter words in more languages that I speak flawlessly,
i'm more than willing to agree that some of the problems I've encountered may have had to do with my current mouse (though I've yet to encounter any of the problems with Kingmaker or any other of the 200+ games I have). I mean how often does your cursor stop showing a 'sword' when attacking? I have seen 'cure light wounds" icons (something I mayone before attempting to attack) and simple circles (don't know how else to describe them), I'm more than willing to ascribe these occurances to my hardware (HP or personal physical age), but considering how often there are patches...I think not.
I remember at one point in the game, I received some 600+ points for failing a skill test, and then, upon rebooting, receiving some 500+ for suceeding.
I can live with all of that. I used to code for a living and know that bugs exist, both in the app and the subsequent coding. But, the two problems with this game I really, really have a problem with are:
1) When targetting an enemy, the cursor doesn't always reflect the end result. In other words, the 'sword' icon does not always guarantee an attempt at an attack (sometimes the character never moves from his/her/its original position). And conversely, sometimes the "walk" icon doesn't reflect that the character WILL attack. I understand what 'd20's are, but not what bad cursors are.
2) What made D&D great, among other things, was that the player knew ... beforehand ... what was required.,.Why isn't there any mention of ability requirements before character creation? Is everyone supposed to know Pathfinder rules? Everyone? My kids? Their kids? My great grandkids?

I'm sorry for the rant, but I just closed the game because I encountered another puzzle (in the citadel) with no clues and ran across a bunch of demons who my characters said they would attack, but then didn't. In fact, the last one (an archer or deskari whatever) refused to be highlighted...it's almost at the point where I can't be bothered with this...

Forgot to mention: While Kingmaker had no problem, Wrath doesn't recognize my HK Invoke...but that's probably ok since I don't always wear my hearing aids when playing games...(What??? program subtitles??? Are you f*** insane??? that mean,at the least some extra 50 minutes of typing....and we're not talking about how to figure out what to do with the music.....remember Desna's altar? I had to use a 'walkthrough' to learn the sequence of 'hands' to click on...BS)

lRebooted the game... the last problem (with enemy being un-targetable occurred after sword of valor hanging), didn't appear on reboot But, non-attacking 'good guys' did occur.