Turn-based combat HUD: outdoor circle, queued spell in Next Round
Pillars of Eternity · Battle / Tactics
Art style Painterly illustration
About this game
Developer: Obsidian Entertainment · Publisher: Xbox Game Studios · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Painterly illustration · Screen type: Battle / Tactics
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What to study
The initiative list's second half is the interesting part here: the Next Round preview already shows a queued Storm of Holy Fire action at initiative 1, so the player plans two rounds ahead from one panel instead of reacting turn by turn. The outdoor stone-circle setting also shows the HUD working in daylight open terrain, not just dungeons and arenas. Frame at about 2:22 in the Turn Based Mode trailer (Steam).
Patterns
How the screen is arranged.
hud-overlay turn-order-panel party-bar combat-log
Components
Parts on screen.
Banner Timeline Log Portrait Action bar
Screen inventory
- Your Turn banner: MountainDwarfWizard, 3 Initiative
- Current Round initiative list, right edge (MountainDwarfWizard, Ovate, Pallegina, High Ovate, Ovates' Guard)
- Next Round preview with a queued Storm of Holy Fire action icon at initiative 1
- party portraits bottom left (239/239, 341/341, 270/270)
- selected-character ability bar with Roman-numeral tiers and End Turn button, 6.2m range readout
- combat log bottom right (MountainDwarfWizard casts Flame Shield and Llengrath's Safeguard)
- outdoor stone-circle battlefield with autumn foliage
- red enemy rings, blue ally rings, white movement markers
Top 3 colors
#5b5432 22%#15150d 20%#6e653e 18%
Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.
Source and credit
© Obsidian Entertainment / Xbox Game Studios, Pillars of Eternity screenshot: Turn Based Mode trailer (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Xbox Game Studios.
Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page
Source details
Fetched 2026-11-01. verified 2026-11-01: frame extracted from the official Turn Based Mode trailer (Steam) and inspected visually at full resolution; turn banner, initiative list with queued Storm of Holy Fire in Next Round, party bar, End Turn button and combat log all confirmed legible
Obsidian Community Guidelines for IP Usage (obsidian.net/legal/ip-use, September 2, 2022) expressly covers Pillars of Eternity for fan projects; fair-use study use, takedown honored within 48h
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