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thanks to our self-awareness, the nightmare scenario o' a Gromnir moderator o' these boards has been avoided. would that a few other individuals had indulged in similar self-reflection before taking on the responsibility. HA! Good Fun!

Over here in Argentina we've just announced a total lockdown. It sucks, of course, and there's no real upside to any of this, but for a slight bit of positivity, I'm honestly quite happy with the way the government's been handling the situation, it's night and day compared to USA. Contrary to Trump who acts like the war is won every day despite his absolute lethargy in action, here Fernandez seems very candid about the limitations of our capabilities and rather than use them as an excuse, thinks and acts ahead of the issue. We're on lockdown despite no community spread cases being confirmed, because we're acting preventively and not reactively. There's a real effort here to flatten the curve, to make of the crisis *not* a self-serving partisan affair, to act instead of pretend to act; and in all of this it's pretty interesting to see how the political divide seems to have narrowed since. I haven't seen this sort of unity in fifteen years.

Plus, you can keep saying that you'd never join a club that would have you as a member.

I would rather struggle a bit and have fun, then die of boredom. Try making FPS RPG on a budget of your average isometric game, and see how smooth it plays. Give isometric game a budget of a FPS and we will have a grand RPG.

"We are all Dr Fauci"

That's Firefox's aggressive social distancing then. Not even an image of one or more people, especially outdoor, slips through!

So Barr dumped stock before the panic and market dive, but so did a senator from Georgia named Kelly Loeffler. What's more, she is married to the chairman of the New York Stock Exchange and its parent company, and she put her money into a teleconferencing company. Maybe I'm just a loony radical, but something about this nexus of power seems to be a little ****ed to me. Reported for treating DJ Bobo as a joke.

Sixth(?) day of self-quarantine: I build a soap dish from some old takeaway-chopsticks, toothpicks and some o-rings. Turned out rather nice (imho).

I wish the best for your family and your MiL. Over my end there's two people fairly close to me who are currently going through chemo and are thus very susceptible to the disease (or any disease for that matter), so I'm pretty sensitive about being downplaying the pandemic as "mild" or "just a flu" (not saying you implied either thing btw), because it leads to a lot of people worried only about themselves to pretend their life is the only risk to consider, and so long as they're not in any danger they're fine to do as they please even when infected.

DOOM. DOOM DOOM DOOM. DOOMITY DOOM.

It's a fizzy drink in Scotland. Unless you are Scottish, you won't be able to force yourself to drink a whole can. It tastes yuck.

Spending a lot of time with my son due to the virus (kindergartens are closed). Watched My Neighbour Totoro with him, which we both liked. I love that Netflix added so many Miyazaki-films.

Resident Evil 3 demo dropped on Steam for anyone eager to check it out. https://store.steampowered.com/app/952060/RESIDENT_EVIL_3/

Let's face it friends... things kind of suck right now. The world seems to be going to hell in a handbasket. But it's not all terrible. Every day people are doing good things. There are positive and uplifting stories in every news service. The great Hunter S. Thompson wrote " Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped like a priceless diamond" So let's spread some GOOD news stories for a change! Woman Gets 'Wrong Number' Photo Of Dog And Couldn't Be Happier

You should always shoot first. In the end, God will know His own.

Yeah Nynaeve actually gets better along the way, and is even somewhat sympathetic. Two predictions: 1. Rosamund Pike will do well as Moiraine. 2. They'll misunderstand what makes Mat funny, and make him into a generic comic relief character with "funny" oneliners all the time (and people will love it).

"Nynaeve" Never minded her much, she gets better as books progress while all other original girls (minus Min) get worse. Or maybe it's just that so many other horrendous females keep popping up every two pages.

Thank you! And I sincerely wish the same to you and yours. Its scary to consider that they are even more vulnerable, on top of the disease they are fighting. Im sure your support is appreciated. I hate cancer. Took my grandmother and mother.

On the Codex or Reddit, it means you said racism/sexism is bad.

The issue isn't the majority of people, it's the minority that's at serious risk. The elderly, people with their immune system compromised by other conditions or treatments, etc. With a disease this virulent, even a mere 1% mortality rate can mean the death of millions across the globe, nevermind the collapse of the healthcare structure and the effects this could have in other people in need of assistance and so on.

I'm pretty sure there are group-wide athletics checks that work the same. And I agree with xzar_monty; these mechanics make sense. It's not a "choose your champion" scenario, it's "everyone gotta do this".

But you left all the DJ Bobo stuff!

I haven't left the house or seen a human being (except the guy in the bathroom mirror) in a week. But this is nothing. I think my longest stretch without human contact was a month and a half. Robinson Crusoe was happy when Friday showed up. I think I would have freaked the f--k out. Suddenly that island would be too crowded.

Howdy and welcome. That's a rather wide field to pick from. What do you particulary like? "Powerhouse that can carry a party" sounds a lot like a Herald (Troubadour/Kind Wayfarer for example). It's a strong support combo that requires little micromanagement to be good.

Again: Thread pruned.

I too dream of the day when humanity's combined scientific efforts may be turned to exploring and colonising the stars... and that our combined military might would be turned against the Romulans.

My daughter is livestreaming a tap class in our living room and my son is attending a 4th grade Zoom meeting in his room. My wife is sendng video workouts to her PE students, and I just set up a google drive so students can digitally submit biographies on Renaissance figures. This is the future.

Well if you like casters I think it is fun. Basically, you should aim to be able to limit weapons use only to powerful area ability (e.g. kitchen stove thunderous report ) or in rare cases while your focus is not auto-recharging If you manage to put up your summons before being surrounded usually you are able to keep the summons up forever with at least 15 Intelligence /brisk recitation while having your focus auto recharging, IIRC you can reach 4 focus/sec recharging max so e.g. in theory assuming 3 phrases to spam a trobadour her revenge in 9 sec you can perma cast also up to level 3 psion spells, and so on e.g. ancient weapons 32 sec - 8 sec cast up for 24 sec you can use to spam > 90 focus worth cypher spells Usually summons can make a meat wall to avoid being surrounded in melee, and wand modal can help making ranged fire less dangerous the first seconds until you can use e.g. Secret Horrors/Blind, but anyway with enemy groups you may need to lure enemy with traps to get enough time to put the summons up (about Hylea challenge, note that you could gain a few seconds with telekinetic burst on Vela but still too random without a bunch of priest scrolls) It worked well for me so far as pre-ultimate level solo / no rest build (without Hylea challenge/iron man because first one is frustrating without a priest and second one is always frustrating. Also no Eothas, that can be also frustrating but probably it is possible) and I managed to kill a few dragons with it Race: probably not necessary, but I like pale elf also for fire/ice resistance, perception, high perception is always needed with POTD/upscaled Might: 13 base+gift of the machine for a nice damage/healing boost Constitution: 9 base as less is hard especially at the beginning if you want to kill something. Lately you get e.g. + 2 Ngati Blessings, +2 Konstanten boon, +1 Upright Captain Belt (we can aim for no-rest boon as we have infinite resources) Dexterity: 12 base + 1 elf + 1 e.g. boots of the stone for a nice little action speed boost Perception: 18 base + 1 elf + 1 white that wends + 1 far effigy Sagani, lately + 1 Konstanten boon, + 1 e.g. horns of the bleak mother Intellect: 15 base, this is needed to keep summons always up, lately + 1 konstanten boon and other items eventually Resolve: 8 base (less makes it hard to survive), lately + 1 boots of the stone Brisk recitation always on. At start: modals: medium shield (best survivability) and arquebus (best alpha strike damage/accuracy) Trobadour: Come Come soft winds of death + try thrice was she wronged... (so you can avoid keeping the skeletons that are not really useful), if it's too hard in the first fights having if their bones... may be easier but you get stuck with them so not ideal Psion: whispers of treason (survival help at the beginning, always great lately if you have not enough focus for ringleader) level up: Trobadour: thrice was she wronged upgrade is one of the best low level damage spell (area spell + nothing wasted for single target) thick grew their tongues makes interrumpting enemy easier automatically, ancient memory can save your life when soft winds of death is not enough/in between active combat Green level 3 phrases wurms are all in all your best ally for most of the game (fast enough to summon to be easily always up, good damage/health), for enemies resistant to fire you may want also the ogres but 3 summons is better than 2 and i usually end high level with only the green wurms and the ancient weapons summons the long night is nice but not really needed as you can spam secret horrors the bride caught (quick+ insightful) is great for a spell spammer the brideman slew + update can be powerful (+5 might +5 constitution + 5 resolve auto renovating on kill) and I had it a couple times absurdly powerful, maybe a glitch managing to kill tons of cannon fodder skeletons with screaming souls, that made it almost infinite time Eld nary is always great, but especially when your enemy is both resistant to fire and electricity finally, our aces: called to his bidding, and many lives pass: the sinergy with screaming souls is amazing Psion: soul shock is a great area spell you can use forever if you keep your summons up. Ideally you should try to spam it after secret horrors -> (lower fortitude) -> blind (lower perception) and get penetrating visions. Ectopsychic Echo can also be great damage with 3 permasummons it should be easy to place one behind enemy lines if you want pain link may be necessary to survive/slowly kill a tough boss damaging your eternal summons, at least until you can spam disintegrate and/or screaming soul psychovampiric shield can help until you have borrowed instinct, and it is always nice Silent Scream is great to save your hide (stun) and raw damage/gain time with a tough melee enemy Borrowed Instinct is your best step for easier survivability and bypassing tough defenses and ringleader can make impossible battles against too many enemies at once a possible win disintegrate is probably the best single boss killer available, before of it you can use soul ignition get the empty soul ASAP, hammering thoughts is not really necessary for this build as we do not aim to use weapons much ideally but always nice to have screaming souls: now this is where the real fun is: spam this on your perma ancient weapons or on your Many lives pass skeletons cannon fodder e.g. something like this gear: differently from priests ultimate builds, we can not be unkillable so an armor helps, but with Abydon challenge is a resource sink so better to keep and use all the decent armors you find and drop them when they are ruined in this case. Same with medium shields, even low level medium shields help as the modal is great so e.g. exceptional scale armor (keep the special armors for very hard encounters but be prepared to pay a lot to repair them). if not using Abydon Challenge, there are many good armors (e.g. deltro's cage + 2 electricity, Nomad brigandine, Devil of caroc, miscreant leathers...) neck: dual necklace of fireballs, dual stone of power, strand of favor, cog of coh... hands: dual missile gloves (we like dual things for a no rest run) rings: ring of greater regeneration, ring of focused flame with the necklace, ring of solitary wanderer, chameleon's touch... [EDIT] weapons: kitchen stove ability is great, as any weapon property lowering enemy defense/offense, rising player defense/offense, not using weapons direct damage you also can avoid a money sink with Abydon challenge. Sasha's Singing scimitar is great, using grave calling to kill the skeletons is not as easy as it seems in practice and probably not worth as you have lots of spells to choose boots: boots of the stone belt. upright captain pet: otto startcat, epsilon, peter, the animancer cat

I have come to this thread bearing the image of peace. When in doubt, remember: this is why we need to get along. (I'm only half-joking, by the way.)

I now know Mamoulian's voice!

BG1's was worse as they took absolutely no account of the awful pathfinding when designing their dungeons. BG2's was still pretty bad, but a massive practical improvement since they (mostly) took the bad pathing into account during area design. BG1 on the other hand had narrow corridors that any two wide+ party formation- ie all but one of them- couldn't fit into, replete with traps, and was a recipe for one character to wander off randomly triggering every one of those trap and attracting every annoying monster in the entire level. That made the Firewine (? been years since I played) dungeon and Nashkel mines even worse than their already poor base design. Even in more open areas it still wasn't uncommon to have one character charge off in the opposite direction when their path was temporarily blocked by someone else. PoE's pathfinding wasn't perfect by any means, but was still near infinitely better than most IE games.

Was there a cure discovered?

Yeah so, it turns out being cooped up and watching corona virus coverage all day leaves you a bit on edge.

Well, IIRC, BG 2 had worse. I get sometimes pissed off, because of stupid pathfinding, but it is not every day, like it was with older infinities... Anyway, played more of PoE today as well, and hopefully I'll find few more hours in the evening. Main course of today's gameplay was Zahua's personal quest in Whitestone Hollow. If anyone is interested in seeing the whole Concelhaut affair, feel free to watch the video, which I had a time to finally publish it today

I will repeat myself: there is none.

I have seen people walking out the supermarket with like 10 20-kg bags and 40 1-liter-cans of dogfood, 20 whole chicken, a cart completey full of toilet paper, 20 kg of rice and pasta, litres of sanitizer (would be enough to supply a whole block for months) and more... Buying a little more to mimize the trips - that's what I do every time I drive there, Corvid-19 or not: I'll have one big cart full of stuff for my family (of 5) and it will last two weeks or so. Fresh stuff I will buy elsewhere. But those people are just idiots. Where do they put all the chicken? Did they buy an extra freezer? Where do they store the toilet paper? Did they extend the house? It's wild...

Maybe you read about that mod : https://www.nexusmods.com/pillarsofeternity2/mods/209 It adds keywords to some abilities, and modifies the Eye of Wael and the Whitewitch Mask to grants PL to both Illusion AND Deception abilities.

There is none. As you have guessed, items that mention a PL buff for Illusion only buff the spells that are explicitly tagged with "Illusion" - so basically the properly tagged Wizard spells (no matter if a Wizard has them, a Trickster or a Priest of Wael). But items with universal Power Level can help you, like Stone of Power for example. If you have two of them you can stack them in the stash. That way they will refresh their charge after each encounter. Also Wellspring of Life (Nature Godlike) will work as a universal PL boost. What also works are items with elemental PL buffs - like Otto Starcat (pet, +1 fire PL) or Magran's Favor (+2 fire PL) which boost Soul Ignition or Deltro's Cage (+2 shock PL) which will boost Soul Shock. I guess Ciphers didn't get special PL boosters because they have several passives that help them with casting and Ascendant already gets a PL boost while ascended. Wizards, Priests and Druids have only rather generic passives (for casting).

Not sure if you can change attribute limits like that, but the filename should be a .gamedatabundle and in the design/gamedata folder.

And Concelhaut is no more in my world of Eora (Pillars of Eternity optional boss). My ass was AoEd to dust two times, before I finally kicked his A reward, two new spells for Aloth and new pet

Wow, thanks for covering up my disaster of a run as the Freeburg Police Chief. I had good intentions, people!