Questions before a first playthrough
I've owned WOTR for a while and given it a couple of tries, but haven't been able to get in to it. But I've just finished Rogue Trader and want to give it another go. So, I've got some questions I was hoping I might be able to get answered.
- I was looking at maybe going Lich. Is this reasonable for a first play through? I know you can raise some extra companions, is this because you lose out on some of the standard ones, or anything else similar that might make this bad for a first run?
- Is going Evil a viable/roughly equivalent option? Or is it the older cRPG style where you get some bonuses at the cost of significant downsides or less content? Are you forced into specific alignments with the Mythic paths, or do they just tend to play out that way?
- Is there any central compendium for builds? E.g. with RT one of the main youtubers maintains an indepth spreadsheet of character builds. Anything similar here?
- If not, any big pain points or must haves to be aware of with character building? I am only going to play on the standard difficulty, but I've heard it's still possible to have issues later on because of lacking certain abilities etc.
- Is it best to just ignore Through the Ashes/Lords of Nothing at this stage? Looks like they are stand alone with minimal impact on the main campaign. I see Midnight Isles can also be standalone but has integration with the main campaign, how does this work?