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Say that when you begin swelling, and go bald.

Prepared for what???? Do you have a habit of getting mugged or something :ph34r: <{POST_SNAPBACK}> When travelling abroad I usually carry a range of items to meet most eventualities. The half bricks are for turning a nylon bag into a morning star. I also carry pliers everywhere. There are no end of uses for pliers. EDIT: I assume the towel goes without saying.

How does a voted representative necessarily make him or her partisan? Given that there is one representative for the US, we wouldn't have two representatives bickering over Democratic vs Republican platforms. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I'm not saying they have to be partisan. I'm merely observing that my experience f non-partisan behaviour comes from an unelected chamber. What's more, while we are not on the subject of the House of Lords, they were the ones who tried to stop this govt implementing detention without trial. Anyway, er... Pakistan is indeed a large contributor to the UN. However, you may find that this was an assessment by proportion of total rather than gross.

I had precisely this same question qeued later this week.

I was attacked by three wild dogs at four a.m. in Bangkok. Luckily I carried bricks in my holdall for just such an eventuality. An Englishman abroad is always prepared. Nevertheless I agree it would have been dangerous to attempt to stop any animal that is chewing a person. On the subject of people being abandoned in the street I have seen this in the US and UK, so don't get sniffy about the Russkies. The guy in the photo is dead. He was shot by the hawk-eyed yakuza bridesmaids.

Cheers, Shrykey. I assumed that endurance would lower their resistance to future attacks, as well as sucking life. So a particularly tough bastard, I can land one lucky blow and the next few are easier. Speaking of which I should have chosen a longer time frame and less effect. Ah well. I have found another hammer of the same base material and am working towards building a new swinging deathticle. The main thing about the hammer, was the roleplaying aspect. Pax Imperialis was just a powerful shiny hammer. Fides (Faith/Loyalty/Obedience) is a darker thing. i wanted something that struck at an essential quality in the enemy, and it was _supposed_ to boost my own endurance into the bargain. The electricity effect was mainly for the sound effects, and because I figured the oppositionw ould be just comfy with hellfire, living in a . As an aside, I have tos ay that the ash storms in the game are my favourite visual effect ever, when combined with the flapping banners, and the way people facing the wind raise one arm to protect their faces, and the sound effects. Very immersive. Traversing the slopes of the Red Mountain in such weather is extremely oppressive.

Indeed. It was a very good game. But it was also extremely constrained in your being dragged along a given plot. Best Game Ever? Who cares? I prefer to ask what was it that made it good, and bad. So we can take those characteristics elsewhere.

Yes. One wonders why they kept trying, to be honest. Every copper I know would let the army handle someone who was capable of battering Dragons to death. Indeed, in the exapnsion there is a guard who attempts to hassle you, and you can point this out to him, whereupon he quietly walks away.

Gruvuh. then i shall continue to investigate all these wird sites and carvings and punish the heretics (read people with expensive stuff). Nice to know I can still kill people relevant to the quest, though. On of the most aggravating things in the whole of BG2 was . I tried so hard to kill him it wasn't funny. But oh no, their precious poster child had to get his things back. *grumble grumble* Anyway, the new double-handed hammer - Fides - is the business. a two second drain of endurance 48, coupled with up to 38 electrical damage. On top of a 1-50 crushing blow most fights are over on the first swing. Which I like for its emphasis on stealth and speed. If I can creep up on someone (very rare) then ...I'll shut up now. My only beef is that I never seem to get any endurance transferred to me. Clearly this could be due to me choosing the wrong stat or something, but... On a related topic, and again not wanting to ask for spoilers, but just to report on progress, Rather like most women.

Only Golden Saint and Ascended Sleeper (not Dagoths taking the form of Sleepers) souls can be used to make permanent enchantments in the base game. I highly recommend you stop asking for spoilers, because you seem to be in a very good envelope of perception at the moment and talking about the game will only shorten the amount of time in which you can live in the gameworld without the seeing the seams break verisimilitude. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Very wise, although I fear you may underestimate my powers of reality dissociation. My willing suspension of disbelief even allowed me to get scared watching Blair Witch (but not The Ring). Looking at too many help pages does indeed spoil the 'Holy feth what is THAT' effect, as you crest a rise to discover some new animal wandering around beneath. The only trouble with not using help pages is that one never knows if an object is obvious to everyone but you, or is underneath a book somewhere that everyone else would take ...and so on. I dislike having to traipse around looking for things I should already have. Especially when it turns out it was never meant to be there in the first place. On the subject of which, with great effort I managed to search a smuggling suspect's entire house without any success at all in discovering his illicit goods. I don't want to know what is going on. i just like the idea that you could be sent after someone who is in fact innocent. It would be funny to have to go back, apologise, and maybe pay compensation. On the subject of free form gaming, I have almost completely ignored the main plot lines, in favour of just hiking around, taking in the air, and practicing my sword skills on the ever-present cliff-racers. I am now beginning to get seriously worried that I may have inadvertently murdered people vital to the quests. Oh well, will have to see.

Am I the only person who feels that metal bands should be tough enough to take having eggs thrown at them? My local chamber orchestra could handle it.

Even better would be to put the junk into some random creature you killed. Kill a random Cliffracer, load the junk into him and after a few days the Racer and everything on him is gone...forever! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> ... Eaten by another monster. ^_^ <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Mmmmm... glass armour. Ender: Dammit, man. Tell me the mod name, or something! EDIT: I found this slightly spoilered link to various traders telling you tehir gold reserves. Handy. http://www.uesp.net/morrow/hints/mwstores.shtml Edit 2: Actually, nuts to it. I shall stick as it is. Although it is a pain in the rear, it does add some interest to finding new areas, and reduces the incentive to pointlessly hoard stuff. Besides, I don't really need the money for anything. I don;t use the trainers, and I only need an enchanted hammer. My one question, which I forgot earlier, is how do I make things permanently in effect? I have tried clicking the button changing used to strike, and it never shows permanent no matter what I put in. My own advice: instead of lugging about stacks of potions, get a few simple items of clothing enchanted to restore attributes. It costs very little, and even small soul gems hold enough charge for how often you will need them. Ditto for divine intervention scrolls. Just buy or kill for an amulet which does it.

I'm still deciding. Good poll idea though.

I'd like to help, but i only played IWD through once. I loathed the fact I had to design every single one of my characters. I like to find them as I go along.

Being English, I should like to point out that an old copy of Deus ex will set you back maybe five or ten quid, which is about a third the cost of the others. It also happens to have a fantastic storyline.

AAAAAAGH! I've been ritually debagging all the heretics I have slain so far! That is, taking off their trousers and leaving them lying around. I figure if I'm supposed to strike fear into the Forces of Darkness then this should doubly scare them. Picture some Morag Tong investigators creeping through the smashed ruins of a guildhouse, their magic lightbeams picking out the pulped corpses left and right... Tong 1: A force split their heads from behind with a single stroke. Some electrical burns... Tong 2: It looks like each and every one has had their trousers removed and left folded neatly by their bodies. Tong 1: My God! What _happened_ here? Thanks, by the way for the advice on the weapon. I now carry a short stick of judgement. Pax Imperialis batters them to the ground, and while they are all woozy I prod them with the stick. "Give your soul for the Emperor!" "Alright! Just quit poking me!" Thinks: what I really need is something that will stove in their skulls and knock their pants off, AT THE SAME TIME. My new Hammer is well on the way. I have managed to accrue 13k (what is with the lack of gold in this damn game? I'm going to open a bloody mine) and I have a 54K grand soul gem with 280 power. I might hold off on creating it, to see if I can get anything stronger for the power cell. Suggestions? I have been wondering whether to power Faith (new hammer) with endurance sucking powers. I figure this is probably the most useful trait. Comments? And if I do this, will the endurance suck count against the blow which has jsut been landed, or the next one?

Thanks steve, I just read about that plan. I reckon I'll put the enchantment into something relatively innocuous, like a holy hand-grenade or something, and go from there.

I laughed, and enjoyed the article, then I remembered my new sig.

Agreed. in fantasy games it sems just a little daft to stick to closely to reality. nevertheless it makes logical and economic sense to allow players to be evil. Otheriwse they can't really choose to be good!

I shall check both of those out. However, I seem to be having trouble getting things to go into soul gems. Soultrap fires (I got a mage to put soultrap into a bracer to save money on scrolls), and the swily clouds go round the target. then I kill them, and nothing happens. What gives? i have a range of soul gems ready to go...

I considered paralysis, but to be be honest the simple weight of the hammer itself puts most targets on their knees with the first tap. Absorb health could be really handy, and I already know the cantrip for it. But I like the notion of the thing weighing less. 75 lbs is a lot of luggage space I need for looting the bodies of dead heretics. I suppose I could always give up Pax Imperialis, my other two handed hammer, but it doesn't seem right, abandoning such a nostalgic weapon. I should also add that Pax Imperialis contains some mucho powerful soul gem, with 300 power i managed to filch completely by chance while practicing my nonexistent sneak skill (6). For some reason it suddenly kicked in, and I thought 'Why not?' and the soul gem was in my pocket. :ph34r: So as a consequence I never need fear running out of juice. On the subject of soul gems, what kinds of animal can I capture, and what are the guidelines on how powerful they are and what I have to put them in? Do you have any recommendations and rough (no spoilers, please) guides to regions to look in. this because I only have a diseased alit for this new hammer, and that's rather weedy.

You really need some kind fo special hat that says 'Giant King of Pacifism' in sparkles. Why NOT kill the fething Molochean hand? I shan't spoil their backstory, but they ain't the damn cubscouts of America. Just kill 'em, man. * Arcanum was certainly good, but I have been having real trouble being evil. Much more so than BG. In fact, while I originally found BG hard to be evil in, if you persevere you find you can be thoroughly bastardular. As for the difficulty, I think you'll find it is HUGELY complicating to have large scale changes wrought by you being a git. *This made me think. If we ever do get proper AI for NPCs, will killing them be actually cruel?

Thanks for all the comeback. In the end I discovered that yes he would clear you, on my own. I think this is superb, since it was a logical thing to do. What was perhaps not quite so logical, but rather fun, was that in my confused travels through the wilds (on the long way round back to the Fort) I managed to kill a very great number of non-Legion guards and sundry others. He cleared me of ALL outstanding warrants, not just ones that were directly relevant. Events having now moved on, I wonder if I could beg your indulgence in a second question. Making your own spells, and enchanting items with them strikes me as just fantastic. My first enchanted silver warhammer 'Pax Imperialis' knocks out 10-15 lightning charge every swing, and makes the heretics fall down typicallly on the first swing, leading to some severe beatings 'au dirt'. Life is good. However, at a 'certain' location I managed to find a non-enchanted warhammer which packs up to _50_ points of regular damage into every crushing blow. Moreover it can take up to ten points of enchantment, rather than 5. I wondered if you would make your suggestions as to how I could best enhance it. EDIT: What's wrong with darque's method, BTW? If witnesses only see a shot come whistling out of the darkness how are they going to pin it on you?

I am enjoying working for the legion at present. In Ballmora a 'certain' captain has asked me to arrange a bloodbath. I'd like to do this discretely, but me being me i killed every single person suspected of being a tong. Will getting back to the captain allow me to 'clear' my name? How else could I have done it. taunting the people concerned did not seem to work. Or rather I was succesful and they just sat there taking it, without attacking. Haylp, oh haylp.

I don't agree that unrepresentative automatically makes rubbish. We were decrying partisan shenanigans just now, and the best examples I know of non-partisan government come from the House of Lords in the UK. It isonly very recently that I've seen any partisan behaviour and that was only from life peers put in by this govt. UN good? Good at managing stable projects in stable situations. Terrible at taking effective action on anything more contentious than ordering paperclips. Communist? No. A recognition of the simple fact that there are such things as global problems that must be debated and dealt with globally? Yes. A common policy on disease control, for example, is not communist; it's common sense.