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But BG fans are getting so old we're in danger of being Minsc. Why not take the shiny new and make it cool.

Can you imagine anything cooler than a geriatric Minsc, and Boo ... with a tiny mustache.

I've been thinking for a long time about writing a high level mod for NWN. NWN2 being as cool as it is I tought it would rock to use it. My plan is to have the PCs drop into campaign as the grandchildren of bhaalspawn, called to the Planes in the new home of the Lady of Murder. We have a small world with stuff to do, and a modular series of extension campaigns/missions based around serving the needs of the Lady, or her many Deified/mundane enemies. I'd like to have both dark and humour in the missions, and also some serious BG2 NPCs available for missions, especially Minsc (and Boo) Xzar Jan Jansen I'd be interested in hearing from anyone who could tell me hwo many man hours this is likely to require, and anyone who can use the toolset.

It is the first time I'd noticed a spellslinger being better than just marching my PC up to the target and smacking them upside the head with a section of fence post.

I wasn't drunk. I was very tired, but that's not an excuse. I'm simply asking, what was it that made PST special? Travel in the planes? Meeting dead gods? Philosophy? Serious decisions? Your companions? All those things came out for me.

...Or they don't attend the high school and they won't talk to you. Actually I think this may be just a London thing.

I always like to do salmon on the grill or oven. Better if you enclose it so steam cook faster but I kind of like to leave it open so the butter caramelizes then I add lemon. But anyways. a little olive oil, salt and pepper, tons of garlic, tons of onions, then a nice squeeze of lemon to make an awesome tangy sauce. Make some rice or asparagus and your set. Very easy, very quick, very nice. It gets a too dark too early tho to grill so it's like :'( I reckon we'd get along just fine in the kitchen. Plenty of good flavours there. How'd you like curries?

Oh, Sand, and your adorable psychotic frenzies.

I don't really know what it's like to be adopted. I do know what it's like to have a ratfink for a father. I am pretty certain having no good role models is why I can't see myself as a family man.

Well, at least you still got it. It's always worth knowing. I just cured writer's block by doing the Harlem shuffle around my office. It's things like that which made me a bad 9-5er.

Hit the bargain bins. Nothing quite like a bit of bargain bin action. I think I need to get out more.

Absolutely what I was about to say. I suck at being original.

I think I must have beaten the odds to come up with teh least efficient means of testing the different souls. AND I got truned into a chicken twice.

I hat eto say it, but did anyone else think Mask of the Betrayer was stupendously cool, and had many elements of PST type coolness? I certainly thought the companions were awesome, particularly the way you actually ahd to think about who wthey were and what they were going through to get the right answers.

Actually, I think you've come up with something even smarter than my suggestion. I was trying to say that the things that make you strong/smart/independent can prevent you from availing yourself of some augmentations. Because you're unwilling/unable to surrender enough of that quality to let it be augmented. *snaps his fingers* I guess the family thread set me thinking. I have friends who are almost completely independent. You know, travel around Yemen etc etc. But they can't surrender that enough to make close contact with family. they can't draw on it because... because they're too used to finding their strength and resources internally. Maybe.

Simple. Those fancy bath salts are actually just balls of gravy granules. Which also explains your delightful sour meat aroma. EDIT: I've been going through some old stuff. I found a valentine's card from way back which the girl in question returned amongst albums and so on (ouch). My inscription reads "I wanted to send you poetry, but the only poetry I could think of was the poetry of the line of your lips, and the rhythm of your kiss." I used to be smooth, man. Now look at me. *sigh*

Rather like Cant I agree more strongly with point one than point two. I don't think the surge in troop numbers was key per se. As has been widely reported an influx of boots doesn't equal increased effect when effectiveness comes from the local knowledge and understanding in the boots. The whole concept of a surge was bizarre in counter-insurgency terms. I wouldn't like to dismiss point tow until you've had a chance to elaborate, but I must say I don't like it one bit. If Coalition troops had left two years ago then these chaps wouldn't have had the opportunity to wise up. The only other option I can think you might be suggesting is 1) An immediate postwar pullout 2) A non-Coalition nations UN mission, I can't see how the former would work. I can see the latter working only too well, given the stand up jobs France, Russia, and China have made of Chechnya, Rwanda, Chad, Sudan, and the DRC. Sorry if this sounds aggressive, but right now I just don't understand your option.

NO. I said armed.

Another report charting progress in country. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7116717.stm Abul Abed, former insurgent: "At the beginning, people saw it as an occupation which had to be resisted. But then they saw that the Americans were working in the interests of the people. "They saw al-Qaeda doing terrible things. They were killing Sunnis, Shias, and Christians. There were bodies everywhere, being eaten by dogs. So we had to fight them," Abul Abed said.

I heard the radio adaptation of this. Really very good. Made me think of Sando.

I decided cold sandwiches were out, so I got some smoked salmon, horseradish, and fresh spinach in the wok. It was... fresh, original and tasty, but at the same time totally not what I wanted.

Maybe it's the avatar, but I kind of picture you cursing in a constant stream anyway. The way badgers do.

What, no takers?

I've been thinking about stuff in RL, and it occurred to me that some thing sin life are neat, but to get the best of them you have to be weak in certain areas. For example, some people gain tremendous strength from being in a cult, but to get that strength they have to be sufficiently weak to connect to it. It just occurred to me that some super-powerful items in games ought to be predicated not on minimum stats, but maximum stats. Thoughts?

1) By 1918 it was virtually impossible for germany to win any snese of occupying the whole of France. They had neither manpower nor logisitics to support such an offensive victory. However, in the face of large offensive gains by Germany then a peace might have been negotiable. It is true that the French leaders were bellicose in the extreme, but the British weere becoming increasingly tired of this attitude of being willing to "Fight to the last Englishman". Such a negotiated peace could go many ways. On the one hand it could be seen as a mark of sense in high places overriding the military establishments. IN this case it could have lead to an era of monarchism predicated on peace. On the other hand if such negotiations came after offensive gains then the troops might still feel stabbed in the back, as they did in real history. Germany would still have been an economic mess either way, and unrest would have been certain. In the face of such unrest we might have seen an influx of Bolshevik agents. We might have traded Nazi Germany for a superpowered Eastern Bloc. 2) The impact of US troops was significant in many ways, although not as significant as they would have liked to think. They were fresh, and enthusiastic, and well armed. But they were also tactically very inexperienced. However, while their value is debateable, what is not is that they had the mnpower reserves to grind Germany up using the attritional operations of the day. This knowledge drive the Germans to make peace without fighting to the death. Undoubtedly it saved tens if not hundreds of thousands of lives. 3) Had the United states declared in the favour of the Western Allies at the outset, the Central Powers could not possibly have hoped to win, given teh combined power of France, Britain, Russia, and the United States. When the line solidified in 1915 I suggest that peace would have been inevitable.