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That particular irony is SO 2003.

You've got bags of energy, though. You may hate me for suggesting this, but have you thought about something a bit more interesting, like being a journalist or a cop or something?

ALL Toots and the Maytals songs do that.

I've not seen a mass grave, and I'd rather not ever. I ~have~ seen more dead people than I care for, and few of them were particularly pleasant. Most of them just looked horribly ~dead~. I doubt any video-game will ever be able to carry that sensation across. Not do I want it to. However, as Obsidian has stated, it would be interesting to explore more mature themes than usually done in CRPGs. And I believe that along that line of thought, a more ~believable~ approach to killing and death would be an interesting avenue to walk. The usual glorified mass murderers that is a typical RPG player character is a trope I'd like to see dissapear. You make a good point.

Just to quickly chime in, we're trying something very much like this in our tabletop WHFRP game at the moment. Obvioulsy it's one feth of a lot easier to do by description but it's cool, anyway. I take the point that one sword could get boring, but that's only if it doesn't change in unexpected ways or mature with you. The example I'd use would be Gimli's axe. Isn't there a bit at Helm's Deep where it gains a big notch in the blade due to an orc's "iron collar"? From our game we've got one fella with a simple sabre which just never seems to stop scoring one shot stabbing kills. Another fellah picked up a billhook sans shaft which he's been using as an improvised axe, and has just got re-shafted, albeit using oak and bronze. ~ As a complete aside, but it amuses us, our youngest player can't seem to hold on to the same sword for more than half a session.

Wasn't there a discussion about this in a recent video blog that got emailed out?

As other posters have indicated, there's mileage in what you're saying. However, I'm talking about my feeling on whether it's right for Project Eternity. My gut and considered reaction is emphatically no. My considered points boil down to: 1. Doing it as you suggest will have a cost in terms of project team time 2. Justifying this means ensuring that enough players like the impact it has on their gaming experience 3. To do this means dialling up the impact the mechanic has on combat effectiveness. 4. If the effectiveness is dialled up then it means that the relevant in-game factors become correspondingly more important to good level design. 5. There is a risk that existing levels will need lighting redesigns or stealthy players will find them either a breeze or impossible. 6. I just don't feel that the benefit _in Project Eternity_ is worth the risk to invested effort As has been pointed out thsi sort of mechanic would suit a dedicated stealth game.

Zoraptor: Did you catch the radio reimagining of Blake's 7? They had prequels, and I must say they were damned good. If the show is based around the same writers and so forth then I don't think you'll be disappointed. On Dr Who, I know it's for kids. I get that. Just having grown up with Victorian 'cautionary' tales of blood, and torso explosions, and being burned alive I feel kids can take a lot meatier subject matter.

The ones that got me were when I realized I was older than a lot of pro athletes, as well as when I realized I had lived more years without a brother than with one. Alan do you think you've reached the point in your life where you realize you aren't going to be an astronaut, or is this something you still aspire to? LOL. I was just thinking about this yesterday, talking about the one way Mars trips. Good news is I decided that I kind of enjoy here, and some other bloke can do this one.

Good luck with that. I take the trouble to follow up the news at trial and afterwards (eventually) in books. Can't think of many cases where the public got a solid read of the truth, even five/ten years later. I agree that there's a lot of wild speculation. But the same way that dogs howl and bark, we humans gossip. As they used to say in the War "If you know a better 'ole, go to it."

UPDATE: The BBC's Frank Gardner does a quick summary of possible perps.

The Bam (which is an awesome name for a city) quake killed tens of thousands, and ruined a rather nice mud brick castle rather badly. I think only Haiti or Sumatra (indirectly) in the last decade or so were definitely worse in terms of casualties. Incidentally, that links describes Bam as one of the most "popular poo" districts. I bet somewhere someone was really pleased with that alteration. Arsehole.

Those devices are of a type which were used in the mideast to lethal effect. Lethal effect was had here too of course. The 'splosives just went phutt, thank God. This sort of failed tradecraft is the impact of being so aggressive about targetting training camps and safe havens. Not to mention internet surveillance of online guides and whatnot. Just look at news stories concerning the trails of wannabe terrorists. What's interesting to me is the follow up ricin letters to the President and Congress. Now THAT I will bet is a copycat, and maybe white supremacists, stirring the pot. KFQ has gone off ricin as being too widely detectable and frankly rubbish.

I believe the overemphasis on Cristopher Ecclestone's gurning is also lamented - at considerable length - by Armando Ianucci.

I caught the first of this season on iplayer yesterday evening. he's not Dr Who any more. He's simply Hipster Man, superhero. And the script writers seem to have resigned themselves to the sonic wand device.

Not drunk. British. Design common to KFQ in Iraq, but got the pellet size wrong? That has jif copycat all over it in my book.

I know the devastating costs of healthcare, but are you SURE you should have that many eyebrows? May want to get it checked.

Agreed. WTF are we fighting each other for?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-22168202 I know we often talk about Iran as a nuclear tipped fruitbat nightmare. HOWEVER, a disaster like this is pure humanity vs Mother Nature in my book. Dozens may have died, and thousands willl have have had their homes wrecked. A no brainer to say thoughts with them, really. But I figured it'd do no harm to say it.

I'm not sure cruelty is the word, as much as I loath it. the phenomenon of the Lone Fethwit has surely revealed these dogbiscuits are just generically angry rather than cruel. Note to self: I'm really getting the hang of not swearing. Edit: This does not apply when gaming. Without forethought I actually used the following exclamation last week: "Oh, so it's a fight you want, is it, lizard t*ts? Well let's see how you like this, you pathetic c**kbasket!" (edited by witness)

How about partying WITH you after your death, Weekend at Bernie's style? I am, as they say, FULLY down with this. EDIT: In fact, sod it, open invitation to anyone from this forum to attend my wake. That'll surprise the poor ****er who has to organise it.

Erm... having dealt with dead bodies, and seen a mass grave I'd have to say you don't want to be immersed to that extent. I'm just saying, it's fantasy. Be happy there's a divide. ~~ Although being the fabulous hypocrite I am, we had this exact issue in my tabletop group the other week. I made the players take WP rolls to loot a fellow they beheaded (lucky roll with an axe). Naturally the youngest player objected that loting was only sensible. So I treated him to an in depth description of what the body was like. He went a wee bit green at the gills and muttered about failing the WP roll anyway.

Just a thought, not sure why it occurred to me: You mention perking to do assassinations from low light. Wouldn't this inject a whole level of complexity to level design? Suddenly lighting is tactical, not just artistic. It would take over design, OR make shadow assassins uber powerful. Sorry. Unusually smart observation for me. Won't happen again.

A battle with chlamydia? I picture something like the battle of Helm's Deep. </Freudian inference>

“Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.” ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War Actually this is European butthurt. After USSR dissolving Great expansion of ex-soviet people began. Millions of Russians infiltrate in European society and occupy everything. All Europa ruled by Russian Mafia now, your elite is bribed, even Brits serve to us ( http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/9509951/Berezovsky-v-Abramovich-trial-How-Boris-Berezovsky-lost-a-fortune.html ). Only Italy save own independence, but they are our ally. Now Europeans are beginning to understand what really happened to them after "win" in Cold War, but its too late. Location: dreamland