LadyCrimson

Only your player character stats are counted in dialogue option checks - you're always the "leader" in that regard. Far as I can tell, Lore is only for being able to cast high level Scrolls (so casters might want it to be more useful between rests).

^ The chanter companion falls into this category as well, imo, but at least he's a little amusing. My fave is Eder and Aloth, probably because they make me laugh. I think they were voiced by the same VA? If so, that's always amazing since they sound nothing alike.

People/NPC dialogue's? No you don't. You just click the next option in the list that you want or Continue and it cuts them off in favor of the next. Click lots of times, and it's over in a flash. But I think the Act ones or a few others aren't skippable until you've listened to them at least once, maybe. My main issue is still reading speed vs. vocal speed. So I click Continue etc. a lot. I don't mind the voices/accents however - there's the occasional personal preference or dislike for certain chr. voices, sure, but that happens any any game, even the old BG games. Imoen's VO always made my ears hurt, for example. I much prefer laid-back, mellow voices.

I've had Durance in my party for a while now and I've noticed every time I "talk" to him, there's a dialogue option that says "I need you to leave" or something like that. None of the other companions have this option. So my curiosity is wondering why he has that option. I haven't clicked on it yet because I was afraid he'd disappear forever or something, so anyone care to tell me what the deal is? Does it just open another convo or is it something else? ...although truth be told I'm kind of tired of his attitude. I may drop him in favor of a player-made priest instead.

I thought the t-shirts are nicely decorated but the material is thin. I was expecting a thicker material, like a Hanes T. Was there Female/Male sizing differentiation? I can't remember, if so maybe the guy shirts are thicker cloth? But I don't care, it's still the t-shirt I wanted. Hubby and I went to a lake in the Valley for a couple days, place which used to be our favorite but we haven't been in years. Because of the current drought, it's more like a puddle in the Valley, but that's exactly how we like it - we went once when water level was highish and didn't like it nearly as much. Times like these tho, you can drive down on what is usually the lakebed in some spots and camp out down there, feeling isolated/on the moon and by yourself while doing some shore-fishing and wading. Came back this morning to the march of PoE patch madness. Broke that online record again - 10000+, holy cow. They'd whipped the hamsters last week so 6000ish was speedy, but now my browser is all laggy, again.

Now I have a big urge/want some cookies. Thanks a lot.

They said it would be possible to solo the game. They didn't say the game would be fairly balanced for it.

At the moment, if you haven't already, turning off the tutorial tips option seems to solve this for some people.

Just to remind people, the physical reward goods are being shipped without the game disc. Due to a poll and the results of that poll, the game disc is being shipped later, last I knew. But the current batch of physical reward shipping seems to very staggered. Some other people in Calif. got theirs before I did, for example. Why I have no idea...shipping routes/companies maybe. And no clue on Europe etc.

Me: "It's vet day, Mr. Black! Checkup and shots. If you're good I'll give you some..." MrBlack: *sees pet carrier, hides under the couch* Me: *sigh*

Grosse Pointe Blank. Still one of my favorite comedy+action movies ever.

Well whaddya know - take the map out into the sun and it does look more distinct, colorwise. The ocean is sort of a muddy blue. Love our dim indoor lighting. So the pic I posted is a little more accurate than I thought. I'd post another pic but I figure no one cares. Make no mistake tho...the cloth itself isn't quality. Like a thin cheap handkerchief or bandana. I don't actually care about them myself, but they are more permanent and not subject to wear and tear in the way paper is (and folding creases, as mentioned). Although of course a good frame helps in either case. Cloth also doesn't have that "shiny" paper look/reflective aspect. Myself, I like parchment type paper.

I don't know if it's exactly the same, but there's been a lot of discussion on crashes in this area. Might want to look at this thread: http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/72016-raedrics-hold-game-crash/ A developer recently made a post in there that said they'd found the issue and a fix will be in the 1st post-launch patch. http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/72016-raedrics-hold-game-crash/?p=1613809

Certainly not when one is using a flash and/or typical home lighting that colorshades the image. You need some studio lights (or a homemade lightbox), and of course most of the time when ppl are doing that, they're aiming to make something look as good, vibrant and colorful as possible, which also isn't always "naked eye." Anyway, using a better camera, but a crap flash unit with poor indoor lighting (I'm too lazy to pull out my makeshift lightboxes...), I tried fiddling with the resulting terrible photos to see if I could at least get the map part of a photo to be closer to what I see with my eyeballs. Got kinda close on the land masses, but the flash (and editor fiddling) makes the water and PoE logo look a lot bluer/green than it really is - it's actually all largely shades of light brown (the van bench-seat the map is resting on is light blue IRL, heh). The mossy stuff under the logo is barely visible/has little contrast to the eye, because the browns are so closely matched. But if you picture the water as brownish, it's close-ish. Haha. The other pic is just a full-size crop for detail. eg, you can see the cloth grain. Maybe if you took the map into sunlight at noon, it'd look different/less all-brown. I dunno - it's 2am here, can't check.

Don't know why it's not in the OST but you can look in the game directory for it. Steam\steamapps\common\Pillars of Eternity\PillarsOfEternity_Data\data\audio\mus\mus_final

There is time limit to editing posts. I think it might be only a couple hours but it was implemented long enough ago that I can't remember if that's entirely correct.

Oh man...actually, if one of the rewards had been a roll of toilet paper with sections of map printed on it, I so would have wanted that. Would've been hilarious. I'd put it on top of my PC and giggle every time I looked at it. I'm weird I know. I do wonder who printed the maps, and if that's their "normal."

Glad you figured it out so you can keep going and it wasn't actually a bug!

I prefer "thingies."

Interesting, I don't have that directory folder at all, never created (tho I do have the others mentioned). I wonder if that's because I don't install Steam in Program Files directory? Ever since Win7 I very rarely install anything in Program Files because ... reasons. Sometimes I think that's why I tend to avoid experiencing a lot of issues some others have, too. Then again, could be my imagination.

Nope, you're not. ---> http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/73030-collectors-editon-map-horrible/

More like something you'd stitch or iron onto your shirt pocket or jacket front, or back jeans pocket if you've a mind, perhaps. It's in the shape of the game logo (the crystal thingies).

Definitely that, but I also mean I haven't had time/energy to put as many hours in as I want to, after my initial starting burst. An hour or two here and there, no marathon-like sessions yet. ...it was interesting, however, how super-fast the tutorial section + getting to G. Vale went doing it a 2nd time. I mean, the sort of major difference where you're left wondering what the heck you were doing all that time, the first time.

Oh...I remember what it was now. I was testing the stealing so I clicked on one of their "things" and they attacked. So rep hit was probably for that, not the killing.

I killed a couple in G. Vale that were in a house all by their lonesome. It still dropped my Vale rep a tiny tiny bit, according to the log. This isn't the case everywhere?