The sad reality is that people don't ask for stuff that has not been advertised before. If I look at reactions (or better lack thereof) to Drakensang 2 threads on several boards I visit, I would not invest into a retail release as a company.
You have to have some dedicated followers for "word-of-mouth" advertising to work. Those followers don't exist in NA. My attempts at this failed. Most people are only interested in stuff they know, even if that knowledge only comes from an expensive advertising campaign.
Actually, I don't mind a digital release.
While this is true, I cannot easily remember all that information at once. As each skill depends on three attributes (or two, one of each counting double) and as there are lots of attributes, I cannot remember all of this at once. If I want to know whether it makes more sense for my character to raise attribute A than attribute B, I have a lot of information to memorize, or write everything down.
Oh, I do not know whether it's in the manual or not. And now I still do not know, as I used the link you provided. Many thanks for that!
Well, that handbook at least contains a nice explanation of ETW0 (THAC0) and how to calculate that, with examples. But yes, the table with boni and mali from attributes seems to be missing ("see table B4 on page XXX"
). I remember that the German company that had licensed the tabletop AD&D at that time sent cease & desist letters to any Baldur's Gate forum where someone dared to answer a question like "What does THAC0 mean?", which didn't make things easier.
