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The thing with guns is that they're hard to balance while staying realistic. Guns are pretty common in C:DDA, which is mostly because the setting is explicitly in the U.S. And so, for them to be at all balanced, they have to be less effective then they would realistically. Thus the ridiculous aiming penalties. This is not the best way to balance guns, but it certainly prevents them from being overpowered.

A better solution would be to emphasize the drawbacks that guns already have by making guns and ammo much rarer and making them generally louder. This would also make a cleaner break with bows, which you can craft your own ammo for and which are nearly silent.

Or alternatively just decide that the omnipresent blobs like to eat gunpowder and guns just don't work anymore. But that could just be my prejudice against ranged weaponry talking. I find it more fun to fight zombies with an umbrella or my bare fists instead of worrying about gun mods and ammo conservation.

Barbarians also cannot be lawful, for what that's worth.

Purple.

Disclaimer: I've never actually played Wu Jian.

Probably melee Vine Stalkers. They really like being able to get more antimagic bites per turn, which whirlwind lets them do. I don't know if using some super fast weapon with a quick blade would be a good idea, but its probably a better idea with that build then it would be usually. Especially since Lunge is apparently really great for stabbing things.

The big point of timers is to address one of the fundemental issues with games:

If the most effective way to play the game is tedious, then people will play the game in a tedious way.

There are many many games that do this poorly and reward awful grinding. In Morrowind, for example, you can train your spell skills simply by repeatedly casting a low-mana spell on yourself. This lets you get your skills to a high level very early in the game, at the cost of the tedium of casting it over and over again. A timer of whatever sort reduces or eliminates this problem: If spending in-game weeks alternately resting and repeatedly clicking has some kind of drawback, then it no longer becomes the most effective way to play the game. This isn't that big a problem in Morrowind simply because the skill ceiling is so dang low: You don't need to play effectively in order to succeed.

But for more difficult games, especially permadeath ones, having a clock of some kind is vitally important. It really isn't fun knowing that by playing the game at a decent pace you're essentially handicapping yourself. Granted, a literal timer is probably the worst way to do this, since it still incentivizes the tedium of running the timer nearly to its end and then moving on. But its still an improvement over no timer at all.

FAKEEDIT:

I think that Egan_BW just said exactly what I did in fewer words. I, surprisingly, agree with them.

Tokugawa Shogunate: 13

Hurt & Heal Sucks: 6
Hurt & Heal Is Fun: 10

I like roleplaying as the inevitable forces of entropy that deducts two from numbers.