Furytear: Realistically a wizard would not by default be using solely melee or ranged weapon attacks with a full spell book at their disposal.

Furytear: mildly annoying having to pause and stop the flow of battle because a character gets critical hit or melee attackers are getting decimated by enemies that an intelligent wizard could be damaging with spells.

InEffect: One can easily make a melee wizard. If he would default to magic it'd be a nightmare to fix. Octavia has that built into engine and you wouldn't believe how many people whined about it. Just right-click a cantrip and they would use it instead of basic attack like Octavia does.

InEffect: It's literally in the name. RTwP, where P stands for pause. It's just players didn't see an RPG that would kick their behind somewhat in years, so they kinda glanced over the pause part of the system. If you find it too cumbersome maybe turn based mod if for you.

Furytear: In DND games that I have played such as the Neverwinter Nights series and Baldur's Gate spell casters can have the AI set to go all out casting all spells, conserve magic by only casting lower level spells or they can be set to exclusively attack using weapons and not cast spells(which is a good option if playing through an area with many enemies weak against weapon attacks with a tough boss in the area). Being able to pause the battle is a good option to have when implementing a strategy sure but it's kind of negated if the player is forced to manually select everything other than melee attacking then it might as well not have the RTB aspect and just be turn based.

I'm gonna try out the right clicking spells here in a bit maybe it will change my mind but for now I think there's no intelligence in having spell casters default to weapon attacks that'd be like a ranged attacker running in for melee attacks with their bow. if the enemy casters can cast spells by default then the PCs should be able to be set to also.

left1000: Yeah, baldur's gate is kind of a terrible example, unlimited rest is horrible design, and only really worked because players didn't know any better. The player either wasn't that good at the game, OR the player was roleplaying ON PURPOSE and as such wouldn't abuse over resting because they were used to a DM telling them something akin to, you've been awake for 1 hour, you can't go back to sleep now.

Pillars of eternity introduced some interesting camping supply systems that helped limit that, and pathfinder kingmaker sort of runs with that theme to even more extremes. (Although the first mechanic I saw to limit it was in the nwn2 dlc that added a curse that effected resting slightly).

Baldur's gate casters were so vastly overpowered that the strongest 6 man party of the epic level expansion pack throne of baal (for baldur's gate 2), was literally, 1 sorcerer. There literally wasn't any party of 6 characters that was stronger than 1 sorcerer alone.

He could cast like 50 fireballs (delayed and/or fire trap) per rest (simulcrum), he couldn't be targeted by enemies ever (simulcrum+invis+immunitytospellsthatdispelslashpenetrate), and he could stop time. If he had party members that would just ruin his stealthy strategy, and lead to there being pockets of terrain he couldn't blast because party members were in that spot.

Not to mention added party members would be a waste of exp.

InEffect: Unlimited rest was the bane of all RPG's ever. Why even bother with melee? have your wizards turn everything into fiery hell instead. Yay. The light touch of pressure to the player is the best design decision they've made.

InEffect: Unlimited rest was the bane of all RPG's ever. Why even bother with melee? have your wizards turn everything into fiery hell instead. Yay. The light touch of pressure to the player is the best design decision they've made.

MortalKombat33: There could be other solutions, for example, repawning enemies on rest (like Dark Souls).
BTW, from my perspective, most offensive spells are useless, only selected few are strong. Sometimes higher-level offensive spell is actually weaker that low-level one (for example, Blade Barrier is better than any 7-9 lvl spells). Most offensive spells require significant buffs,

Sure, i can uderstand, why this game has so poor AI for party members - if developers couldnt find enough means to make different icons for different spells, how they could afford complex AI? We should be really grateful they made so good game with so poor funding.