Jediphile

1. Nobody is forcing you to read this topic. 2. Yes, people should get over it and move on. Unfortunately the muslims don't want to - they just torched the danish embassy in Damascus... Make up your own mind.

One of the earlier threads had one I really liked. My apologies to the original author. [female Exile enters a new area in the Peragus mining facility] Female Exile: "A protocol droid? Who are you?" HK-50: "Query: Are you Sarah Connor?"

Well, as I've said before, the problem with the characters you mention is that they are all likely to be dead. Yuthura was most likely either killed by DS Revan or else redeemed by LS Revan only to then die when Malak bombed Dantooine. Yuthura is a good character, but she is denifitely dead in one ending of K1, which makes a new character more convenient. Vandar is killed in the DS ending of K1, and even if Revan is set to LS in K2, we learn that he was killed on Katarr when Nihilus attacked... Again, while I like Vandar, it's best to let the dead remain dead. And naturally the jedi masters of K2 were killed either by Kreia (LS) or the Exile (DS), except possible for Atris, but then she survives only in the extreme happy LS ending of K2...

I know, it doesn't make sense. He either goes to Dantooine to join the Jedi Academy or he is killed by Revan so he couldn't possibly be stuck on Korriban in a Sith Tomb. I hope this is one of those things that they decided to cut and not something that they were going to have in the final version but had to cut it. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> No, not exactly. In the DS outcome of the meeting with Dustil, he is angry at Carth and Revan fuels these feelings so that Dustil attacks, and you have no choice but to kill him. So DS Revan = Dustil dead. However, in the LS outcome, Carth wants Dustil to come with him, but Dustil refuses and says that he must convince his friends to abandon the Sith ways and leave with him. So Dustil stays, which could explain why he is still there in K2 - upon the chaos Revan's confrontation the Sith master (can't remember his name - Uthar?), there was so much havoc, that Dustil was stuck on the planet. Could make sense, I think. Anyone know the entire story?

My sentinments exactly. Well put. Go Gizka! :D

US and UK voice criticism of the caricatures, whereas Kofi Annan urges the muslims to accept the apology and move on. EDIT: Hmm, another enlightening article here

Fine... This is the one I would pick. I'd give Revan and Exile major roles - greater than the main character plotwise, actually - and you wouldn't meet them until fairly late in the game, especially Revan, but you would get them in the group again.

I have no problem with this as an idea and has even voiced support for a non-jedi Star Wars RPG in KotOR style on these boards before, but I wouldn't want it as a chapter of the KotOR saga. The KotOR games are about the jedi - it's called KNIGHTS of the Old Republic for a reason.

An overview of the conflict at the BBC

And at the same time, sympathy for the Palestinian cause has been bombed back 10-15 years according to one of the leaders of a Palestinian-Danish community org. (a Palestinian himself) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yeah, that's one thing that really bombs me out. I've long had sympathy for the palestian cause (not that I support them suicide-bombing the israeli, though), but now I catch myself thinking, "well, if you're going to act like that, you can go..." - you get the point. Which is just sad. I was finally beginning to see some hope for the peace process in the middle east again, but then Sharon (whom I don't particularly like, but who is important to the peace-process) was hospitalized... then Hamas came to power... and then this :'(

Yeah, we should have a game where the main character wields a double-lightsaber in each hand and has lightsaber-enhancements to his boots, so that he can all his limbs to fight the bad guys while he uses force powers at the same time. Throw in lightsabers in the form of thrown shruiken/boomerang-like blades and you have a real winner! Oh, and you should get to built your own death star around level 10...

No need - they already acknowledged that it wasn't good for them. They also apologized that the caricatures had offended so many people (though they didn't apologize for printing them in the first place). Besides, I dare say all the rioting and angry muslims have done a pretty good job of telling them that this was not something the muslims were happy with. The paper also admitted that had they known the consequences, they probably wouldn't have published the caricatures.

It's perfectly possible and reasonable to run games where all mechanics are done by the GM, it's just an awful lot of work for the GM. There have even been games, where the players had no stats at all - they didn't know their AC, hit points, to-hit values, saves, or anything else. They were just told, "you wear heavy armor" and "you have taken some damage but still feel healthy". In such a game the GM rolls all the dice and handles all mechanics and the players only say what they want to do.

And by that I think you have proven my point about the game terms. If I tell people "Call of Cthulhu has skills ranging from 1 to 100 that you roll 1d100 against", then people will understand the principle right off. The same is not true for AC in D&D. In 2e you can say it ranges from 10 to -10 and that low numbers are better than high ones, while in 3e you would say that it ranges from 10 and upwards, the higher the better. But that still doesn't tell people what an Armor Class is or what it's used for. It is a game term, and it is not intuitive because it is not logical - you shouldn't be more difficult to hit just because you wear heavier armor, because that not how armor works. On the contrary, heavy armor makes you easier to hit, so that's not why you wear it. No, you wear it because it protects your body from being pierced by sharp objects and weapons. D&D, however, simplifies all this (oversimplifies IMHO) into one mechanic, which is illogical by its very nature and does not serve well to suspend disbelief. That doesn't seem particularly intuitive to me.

How so?

That's what we get for sticking our finger in the US' eye at each chance we get. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Could be a good way for the US to improve its troubled image in the islamic world. Still, I'd have preferred if the US didn't do so at the expense of the right to free speech. That seems to be a rather high price to pay for better relations...

Few are. There were rumors of rightwingers organizing a meeting to burn Qurans in Copenhagen thursday, so both the police and protesting muslims turned up to prevent it, only nobody ever showed to carry out the burning...

Hmm, seems the US support the muslims and thus disagree with Europe to stand firmly behind the right to free speech in the press according to CNN (scroll down to the heading "State Department spokesman: publishing cartoons that incite racial or ethic hatreds is 'unacceptable'" about halfway down the page).

For some further enlightment on depicting Muhammed in islam, take a look at what BBC says.

Others may feel differently, but I prefer to play a jedi in KNIGHTS of the Old Republic III...

Yeah, big difference between *expressing* disgust and outrage and *demanding* the execution of the responsible parties and apologies from the national leaders of the countries they happen to come from...

While we cannot rule out that this could happen, I sincerely doubt it will for several reasons: 1. LA has already taken major flak for the "premature" release of the "unfinished" KotOR2 (I think both are true, but it's an opinion, so I put it in quotations). Imagine the flak if they do this? It would be very, very bad publicity for LA, and since many gaming mags are involved and have already voiced their own criticism in many cases, the reaction would be vocal in both press and among the customers. 2. Obsidian is still a young company building it's reputation. With the "unfiinished" KotOR2 as its first game, it's not exactly off to a rosy start. I'm not saying that this is Obsidian's fault, just that people will remember and try before buying next time. So I really think Obsidian is unlikely to do anything to upset the customers any further, both because they seem like nice people, but also because they would be digging their own grave. What I find more troubling with the whole restoration project is the precedence it might create. What if it becomes acceptable for companies to release unfinished and bug-ridden games and not correct it, because hard-core fans will likely do it for them? I'd hate for that to be the industry standard...

Well, I still have little trouble beating him playing a sentinel/jedi master on the highest difficulty... Beating Nihilus should have been a challenge to the point where doing it becomes all but possible on the hardest difficulty. Otherwise the point that he must be drained by his attempt to drain the Exile is lost.

Yeah, you can jump ten levels in 30 minutes if done right. Just be careful - those Hssiss pack quite a punch, so if the Exile decides to ignore your commands (like having your targeted Hssiss die and the Exile then decide to attack the next one with his weapons), you can die pretty quick. Oh, and take note of what your system can put up with. I find that more than 15 or so Hssiss begins to tax my machine pretty severely (but then it is a few years old).

He'd need to find something to criticize her for first, which would be difficult, since she doesn't have fundamentalist views. Even if he succeeded, it would scarcely make angry danes gather in mobs in the streets - the danes are far too mellow and complacent for that. As a danish poet once said, "there was to be a revolution in Denmark... but then it rained..." Some people might express disgust, but most really wouldn't care. Denmark is really small, both in size and population. I think the figures on Wikipedia are fairly accurate.