PoE Mechanics Video
 

There's a lot of video out there for Pillars of Eternity but I found this video, which happens to be by one of my favorite youtubers, to be very insightful.

It is a pretty in depth look at stats and mechanics. I'm not sure it's 100% accurate but it does show the depth of their "ruleset" and I'm pretty impressed with how the stuff works. I'd read somewhere else them mentioning making up some stuff that would be complicated to sort out in tabletop that works great with computing and I'd have to agree, looks like a really cool system.

It also looks a bit more interesting than some of the wonkiness that comes with D&D while still retaining kind of a D&D vibe thru the game as a whole.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u96bzh-3Eyk

He also has s similar video on races and classes and a couple of new let's plays on PoE but there's no lack of let's plays. I'm less inclined to view the let's plays since I'd rather not spoil anything and they all start out the same (describe game, character creation, intro stuff) and that kinda gets old.

Cheers,
Voqar

Very nice, it really helped explain most of the mechanics.

nice vid, thanks Voqar

My excitement has been +2

The mechanics sound really solid to me. The presentation of the mechanics is really good. Thanks for posting. I'm really going to min-max my experience. I don't know how I feel about monsters/people not giving you experience after killing them. I'll have to see. It might make for some interesting choices in what you decide to do in combative situations.

EDIT: There's also a pair video to this one, from the same guy, one about races/classes/character creation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PNH0Ummj_Q