Jediphile

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.

To what the law permits. And the legal process has deemed that there was no transgression here.

These things happen in newspapers all the time. It invariably draws fire from offended parties now and then, but mostly in the form of an expression that some do find it to be distasteful, not because they want censorship (which is not going to happen anyway). Royalty, other religions and even politicians have been mocked in the newspaper carticatures for decades already. What makes islam so special that it should receive special consideration? Nonsense. Their intent was to speak out against the self-censorship that many artists impose upon themselves purely out of fear of reprisals from islamic fundamentalists and extremists. Whatever any thinks, islam is an important and relevant topic to discuss in the public today, and that applies to carticatures in newspapers as well. I even think that the most offensive picture (the one with a bomb for a turban) has been published before, and probably many other similar drawings of Muhammed have been as well. No, the extremists merely demand that the artists be executed... The caricatures have already been reported to the police and the prosecutor threw out the case.

All but DS in the Korriban tomb, yes. That's the downside.

So what can you do to reach 50 without cheating? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> No, it's not hard reaching higher levels. It's just tedious and mostly pointless, since the enemies will level up to match your own skill, which actually makes the late game more difficult. A few hints for extra xp: If you have good demolitions skill, try planting a few mines in one place (you get xp for that), leaving the map, then returning. You'll find that the mines are still there, only now you'll be given xp for collecting them again. You can repeat that over as often as you like. Same thing with locks. Lock a box, leave the map, come back and unlock it. Easy xp. There are also two points in the game, where monsters are spawned infinitely. One is the first time the Sith assassins attack the Mandalorian base on Dxun - the assassins will keep respawning until someone takes on and kills the six "fixed" assassins in front of Mandalore's quarters. If you can avoid anyone engaging those six, you can kill the respawning sith for as long and for as many times as you like. This is best done by removing all partymembers so that the Exile is alone, since your companions tend to jump for the "fixed" assassins. This is a tedious way to gain xp, but your best bet for LS... The second (and most often used) respawning point is in the jedi grave in the tomb on Korriban. You'll remember that if you search the jedi's body, two Hssiss will spawn and attack. However, if you search the body again, it will now be empty, of course, but the Hssiss will again respawn. This is not so easy for LS, however, since force points regenerate extremely slowly for LS'ers in the tomb, which makes it far easier for DS'ers. If you're DS, this is definitely the best place - just buff up on force powers, quickly touch the body 10+ times, then spam the action bar Force Storm - lots of barbecued Hssiss and xp going "K-ching"

No, there is a line of the law. The cartoons were reported to the police, who decided that there was no legal basis for pursuing the case in the courts. That's it legally - case closed. They had their day in court, so to speak, since a ruling was made. Yes, but that's why we have laws that dictate what can and cannot be said, and those laws have already spoken in this case. No, and I'm one of several people who did not like the caricatures. I thought they were deliberately provocative and therefore very impolite. However, people do have the right to behave like jerks if they choose, and newspapers are not an exception there. So I will support their right to print the caricatures even if I didn't like them myself.

3) He was drained when he tried to suck the force out of the Exile... Still, he should have been a far more difficult opponent

Someone in the group is always using it throughout my games. As someone said, a +1 bonus is a +1 bonus. Besides, the armband is one of the few items in that item slot that gives a stat boost.

Agreed. I'm appalled that it was closed, and I've PM'ed Fionavar on it. To close a topic on the right to free speech has rather unpleasant connotations IMHO. Taste is subjective, which makes the point moot. What you might find to be poor taste may not meet with agreement from others, and even if it did, the focus of the distaste would still have to be published in some manner before a debate on whether it is poor taste can take place.

Yes. It was called Fallout. Star Wars is not a perfect setting. It is a setting for lame munchkin gamers who want uber mad force skillz. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Oh, come on - Fallout was also wide open for munchkinism, even without modding the files or similar. I should know, I managed to get a character with all 10s stats and 16 action points by exploiting a few bugs...

LOL My apologies It was reference to Stephen King's "The Shining" if you're wondering

You're not the first to consider it. Maybe you can find some inspiration here <{POST_SNAPBACK}> HAHAHA!!! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Oh dear... I've created a monster, it seems - "It's alive - it's alive!!" Just be nice to old Stefan. I rather like him. I wish I had the time, but chances of RPGs look pretty dire for me at the moment due to workloads and study and other menaces from real life... Even my own campaign is winding down and only living on what I can produce on the fly after having done all the planning ages ago. Yes, I realise that is just sad. What can I say... All work and no play makes Jediphile a dull boy... All work and no play makes Jediphile a dull boy... All work and no play makes Jediphile a dull boy... All work and no play makes Jediphile a dull boy... All work and no play makes Jediphile a dull boy... All work and no play makes Jediphile a dull boy... All work and no play makes Jediphile a dull boy... All work and no play makes Jediphile a dull boy... All work and no play makes Jediphile a dull boy... All work and no play makes Jediphile a dull boy... All work and no play makes Jediphile a dull boy... All work and no play makes Jediphile a dull boy... All work and no play makes Jediphile a dull boy... All work and no play makes Jediphile a dull boy... All work and no play makes Jediphile a dull boy... All work and no play makes Jediphile a dull boy... All work and no play makes Jediphile a dull boy...

I think this discussion is getting a little too academic. It's also entirely theoretical. Ah, but newbies will ask what Armor Class is in the first place, and so they are unlikely to associate high or low values to mean anything. You seem to forget that "Armor Class" is game concept tied specifically to the terminology of D&D. It's even a pretty bad one, since Armor Classes are horribly oversimplified and illogical and always were. Look to GURPS (4th edition) for armor rules that actually *attempts* to emulate a realistic portrayal of what armors are in the simplest of ways and yet remain playable. On second thought, even the armor system in the Fallout games are infinitely more logical than they are in D&D, so the discussion of AC would also fall into the category of "what we have gotten used to".

So by that analogy, 5th edition Call of Cthulhu also has a "counter-intuitive" system when you have to roll 1d100 equal to or BELOW your percentile score in the relevant skill? Sorry, but I don't agree - whether a bonus should make the value go up or down is completely dependent on the game mechanics. I don't think you can generalize that broadly.

Well, it's Star Wars, isn't it? Look at the movies and then tell me the jedi are balanced with all the non-jedi... If, like me, you think they're not, then it's pointless to ask for game balance, because the jedi are more powerful in the movies, and games based on the movies should therefore reflect that. They could remove the power crystals from the lightsabers, though - there are no such buff-crystals in the PnP RPG, so that's pure munchkin in KotOR. Note: The power of the jedi is one reason why I'd like to Myrkr in K3

You're not the first to consider it. Maybe you can find some inspiration here

They are if you're going to play 3e as it was designed to be played. You can do whatever you want to at your own game table, of course - house rules will and should always be IMHO, I don't care whether Gygax agrees or not. But on the other hand, you can't just ignore that AoO were introduced as a measure to ensure game balance. Crime figures going down are good. Expenses going down are good. Lots of examples are possible...