Volourn

BL is buggy. Plain, and simple. It's one of the buggiets games ever. It's also a pretty good agme without the bugs. From crashes to slowdowns to other silly bugs it has it all. And, every single bug is 100% Troika's fault. WOO HOO! As for WOTC, they're cool. :cool:

I've been Liberal all my live; but it's most definitely Conservative time. No way am I supporting the Official Party of Crooks tm. Those who think the Conservatives are some extremists who will make a police state are just using lazy scare tatics in order to try to keep the pathetic Liberals from holding on to power. The NDP are a bunch of wussies so no vote for them.

Every rule needed to have a non combat oriented D&D campaign is already included.

It simply easn't fun. It wans't challenging for the most part, the story was boring, and the two main villains didn't feel beleiveable to me. Their sob story made me laugh not feel for them. I did like the use of 3E rules as it was done rather well. Choice of subraces was cool too. Other than that, meh. It's the only IE game that I couldn't be bothered to finish.

I haven't played an actual mod in awhile. Most of my NWN time now is spent on my module or a PW. It's a pretty good Action PW known as Underdark Adventures: 66.108.230.68:5121 Good stuff.

Can't we all get all just get along? Of course, I wans't Mr. Nice to Rhomal earlier in the thread; but still.... geez.. this should be a dead issue. Rhomal is in love with Obsidian and NWN2. Any game that is even semi competition with them is the enemy that must be crushed. "I think you have an incomplete sentence in there. What about no matter how good NWN2 is..." Sloppy grammar and phrasing asdide, I meant to say that no matter how good NWN2 is it's 'just' a sequel to a BIO game. And, since Rhomal hates BIO with a passion that irks him to no end. "have yet to write a half decent story since BG2" False. Even the OC is more than a 'half decent' story. SOU is borderline though. "certainly dont wish them ill will, but I frankly dont think they have the skill or backgroud to deliver anything more then a midrange game." As Arkan points out, all companies gotta start somewhere? BIO wasn't always a jauggernaut. Heck, their first game sold about 300k copies and at that time it was considered a good success for them. Heck, JE had sold 600k+ copies in about 6 months and a few silly goofs try to claim it a s failure. Obsidian is only known because of some loose ties they have with a dead company (yes, folks, outside of Obsidian's founders the number of ex BISers working for Obsidian isn';t that big of a percentage and it'll get smaller the bigger they grow). "Not to shift gears here too much, Volo and a few others mentioned the Witcher as a competitor to NWN2" I don't think they're competitors in the traditional sense; but since they both use upgraded Aurora engines; they'll be comapred in that way. P.S. I don't hate Rhomal; but there's no doubt he has a huge bias towards Obsidian. Nothing really wrong with that except he simply won't admit it.

Some people should actually play D&D first before making silly stuff up. It is VERY easy to play a campaign in D&D includiong the FR setting without combat. Not hard at all, in fact.

I like Rhomal very much cause in many ways remind sme of me - he has no problem stating his opinion. However, there is no doubt that he has an agenda. Thata genda is to push NWN2 even that means putting down any of its competition espicially those games that use the same engine hence why he likes to bash the Witcher and he strives to insult BIO at all times mostly because he knows no matter how good NWN2 is (and I think it'll be better than NWN1 despite some misgivings); but in the end it will just be a sequel to a BIO game. It's cool! :cool: btw, Good finds.

"There are some games I just get fixated on like Bioware's jade Empire. Played that through lmore than a hundred times." WOWSERS! Seriously, I ahve never played any game outside the silly little games when I wa skid more than times. Even my all time favorites like BG2, FO2, or FF8 I only played 3 times each. Started playing a 4th, and simply got bored. In fact, I have only payed two game frequently after 3 months of buying it. One is NWN (which I ahve completeled the OC 3 times now - 1ce in MP), and the other is MVP Baseball 2005. Other than that, no. The games simply get stale. I could only play and complete either KOTOR once each. WOWSERS!!!

Oh come on. Lolts of people post negative things about Bioware, and their games. And, 99% of them are untocuhed. It's those who who are very agreesie who get introuble in manyc ase. Though, like any other message baord including this one, the mods aren't perfect. As for The Witchers, it looks to be a fun game; but NWN2 will completelyc rush it s it's more my type of game.

"Anyhoo, I can here (D)ick Pound gloating right now. It turns out a player who was invited to try out for the American Olympic team failed his drug test." Yeah. 1 out of 100. That is 1%. Far off from the 33% he suggested. If anything this disproves his little theory.

"Though I was tempted to make some unique loot for my character then export it into the main game" I like the OC... but, I think there is more than enough ph@t lewt to satisfy your powergaming hunger... I would think... Or is there?

You most certainly can do that. In fact, you can make ones that put the BG companions to shame. Many mods do thisincluding the (ones) I'm slowlyyyyyy making....

"And just like the Palestinians, his country is being taken over by intruders who want more ressources." Oh really? Last I checked, Bin Lauden is Saudi NOT Iraqi or Afghanistan. On top of this, he sure murders alot of Iraqis and Afghanistanis. His war is all about power, and domination.

It looks to be a good Action RPG-Adventure. Definitely not a full fledge RPG that's for sure.

"The human rights group based its conclusions mostly on statements by senior administration officials in the past year," Yeah, and my god, they bring hard evidence to the table!

"Yes, this truce would be an excellent chance for Al-Qaida to restore itself, and repair any damage done in Afghanistan and Iraq." Yup. That's exactly it. It's the same tataic the Palestine terrorist group like Hamas use against Isreal. They get their butts wupped, call a truce, then come back with a vengeance. The cycle repeats itself. Afterall, even these organizations have to replace dead members from time to time. Takes a while to brainwash people.

But, it's not vague. In the familiar section, it talks about Class, and Character levels. I hope you know the difference. When it discusses familiar hit points, it specifically states half the Master's hit points. That's as clear as it's gonna get. You may disagree with the rule, and change it; but then that's no longer a base rule and is a house rule. That's cool; but it's kinda hard to discuss house rules in the way we are.

"It's an unbalanced class, nothing a DM could do without cheating." Nonsense. There are many ways to deal with clerics (or any class) without cheating or nerfing the rules.

"I'm playing a cleric in a game using 3.5 rules right now and he's near invulnerable. It's amazing." DM sucks.

Thac0 = To Hit Armour Class Zero

"clerics are too powerful in 3.5, they shouldn't be able to fight and cast 9th level spells." That's nonsense. "And the old AC system and thac0 was near indecipherable." WOW! I musta been a genius (yeah, right!) to figure it out when I was 10 within minutes. Same with all my friends, or all those other freaks I played 2E with. WOWSERS!

FR is awesome. Best setting in DnD. Dark Sun and its fakeness is the worse. Ooo.. Look at us! We're so bad with our fakness. Oo.. When a setting relies on being different for the sake of different it becomes lame. Still, as always, a setting is only as good as the Dm or players who use it. Period.

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"I was at a press showing for Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach yesterday, and at first I thought it would be a game that Hades would like. It's a MMORPG with a level 10 level cap! It takes a looong time to level in that game. Also, the world is consistant for every player, meaning that if you blow up a bridge with a fireball (which is entirely possible), the bridge will stay blown up forever (not sure how that works, but it has to do with instancing)! That's very uncommon for a MMORPG. Also, the game heavily favours groups. There's no soloing in DDO: Stormreach. Another thing that's bound to suit old PnP players is that there's an automated gamemaster talking whenever there's something special to be told. For instance, if you're a thief and your Spot skill is high enough and you happen to find some tracks, the gamemaster will say something like "Heavy footprints in the moist sludge on the floor leads off in the direction of a moldy brick wall, where they come to an abrupt halt", but he says that only to the thief and not to the rest of the group. Then it's up to the thief to inform the rest of the group about what his skills have told him, if he chooses to. I liked the gamemaster system, it really gave the game some unique atmosphere." This makes it sound very good. That said, everything else I've ehard about the game makes it sound sucky. Plus, I avoid paying for online play. "By the way, what the hell is a construct? I made a Construct fighter and boy did I kick ass. I felt totally overpowered as I could kill most anything in one hit" A new Eberron race.