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Pink Floyd - Coming Back to Life Second best track of TDB and one of my favourites. Great structure, beautiful melody and naturally awsum guitar

David Gilmour - Comfortably Numb (demo)

Same here

oh he's so dreamy

Volo, FR stole a lot from Tolkien - orcs, elves etc. - so get over with it. have you played it then? thought not. i'm willing to predict that DA, whenever it comes out, will have its phat loot just like any game. in fact, i'm struggling to remember any CRPG that didn't. the closest i can get is the Witcher, which professed to be low magic but still doled out the most powerful stuff at the end of each chapter or so. which really just goes to reinforce my point that even games that claim they're low-magic aren't really: they're just less obvious about it. seems to have taken So giving phat loot automatically makes setting not low magic? Ummm, no note also I never claimed DA is low magic setting in sense of magic's powerfulness.

Yeah, Tolkien draw A LOT from Norse and finnish mythology. Finnish language too played huge role in beautiful elven languages. sigh... mythology =/= fantasy literature Have you - heaven forbid - READ any of Tolkien's works instead of just watching the films? FR has nil beliavability, cohesion, depth or originality. All Tolkien's magnificent world has. (though my personal favourite might be the Earthsea there's no denying ME beating every single world out there) to help you with your fixation with dwarves: There are differing kinds of dwarves in Tolkien's world (called Ea as a whole) though apart from The Hobbitt they've never been in centre of Tolkien's body of work. Elves are incredibly indepth and varied people in Middle Earth. That's still only setting in which elves are frickin' awesome. ESPECIALLY in Silmarillion.Then there's human characters and stories such as Turin Turambar (drawing a lot from Kullervo myth from Kalevala) that leaves anything in FR far behind. There's reasons why there are bajillion books written about Tolkien's world, thousands of websites and all for the only purpose of studying the world. You wouldn't believe how much lore you could unearth from cross referring between Tolkien's letters and few lines from Silmarillion for example. What we see in LotR is just barely scratch on the surface. Even for all of his careful planning, design of frickin languages and all that Tolkien STILL managed to shroud things in mystery. Because that is vital for fantasy. You must not explain everything. This is why Tolkien never specified workings of magic or what the heck Tom Bombadill is. Or the reason why all supernatural abilities and events are never explitically nailed down in horror genre. There's always the unknown bit in it. WotC also realized this in Planescape setting as seen from PS:T. Setting which was frankly killed alongside other original ones for favour of something as bland and uninspired as FR In D&D (in general) magic is just plain boring, worlds are inconsistent full with logical gaps and brain farts and level of literature is about as low as can get. There's reason why "roleplaying fantasy books" are in general huge sign just screaming RUBBISH RUBBISH RUBBISH Middle-Earth Roleplaying Game is rather popular you know, or at least it used to be. (though it is despited by Tolkien puristits due to it bringing a lot of characteristics of roleplaying settings such as FR which do only harm for Middle-Earth) The thing is, Tolkien never planned Middle-Earth as roleplaying setting and it shows. Just like happened with other great settings such as King's multiverse, Martin's world or Hyberion edit: took esp. out because I think things that came from finnish and norse mythologies are rather even. though I'd still say biggest single source is celtic and other british mythologies. *shrug* It's been many years since I last "studied" Tolkien's world and its inspirations.

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VOLOURN IS STUPID BUT THAT IS NOTHING NEW CAPS LOCK IS THE CRUISE CONTROL FOR THE COOL VOLOURN IS STUPID Tolkien's stuff largerly came from mythologies - especially celtic ones - not earlier fantasy books. Middle-Earth is still most carefully constructed fictional world that has ever been done. FR is just mismash of stuff people making it thought would give enough variety for DM's to make intriguing campaign. In the process they destroyed anything else.

High magic also strips magic of its inheritent power and meaning, making it is as trivial and boring as boots your character wear. And that is something good fantasy world doesn't let happen. This is what Tolkien for one figured out immeaditly (magic is vague and minimalistic but utterly powerful. Ways it works are obscure as are the rules governing it. Compare that to FR where every commoner could theoretically carry magical trinkets) Magic is rare and dangerous (DA): OH MY GOD THAT GUY SET HIM ON FIRE GAAAAHHHH RUN or: OH ****, that guy is dangerous, rogue, try to sneak at him from behind and put some cold steel between his lungs while we distract him Magic is trivialised (FR for example): crap, that guy shot fireball at us. Cleric, heal us! thnx. K guys lets drink these potions of valour, owl's splendor, cat's grace, bless, heal, barksin etc. and kick that guys butt. It's not like that fire did much damage anyway thanks to our 40 % fire resistance rings

On topic: I LIKED DRAGON AGE MORE WHEN IT WAS CALLED THE TWO TOWERS ummm... even more important in low/high fantasy sense than what's the X after + is how magic and phat loot is spread. Magical equipment should be rare in low magic setting. That's exactly what you described. It doesn't matter if it is +2 or +5 sword from low magic setting pov in that situation. BUT if you're going to give one

They all should be free Best thing: A lot better dialogue (translations)

David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust

lol level scaling

Krez you dirty cutter, you're deaders! >=(

David Bowie - Star

David Bowie - Star

*bows*

Yeah, FR is collection "Let's steal everything from Tolkien, Howard and other big names as well as let's rape superficial aspects of every single culture on earth lol." FR is amalgation of everything. But there is no single thing that is original in it. And how Volo can claim Tolkien is trash yet like Aber Toril is way beyond human understanding.

I tried the demo but combat was horrid and clunky. (Cinematics were good though) I can't understand how some codexians can whine about NWN2 combat and yet like TW's But it still had all potential to be great game, I didn't play it too much and presumably tutorial is weakest part of the game

Dude, ME dethroned frickin' Fallout as Hades's favourite game

EXACTLY

The Beatles - I Want You (She's So Heavy)

One of his greatest achievements was early on Aliens RPG development getting some very interesting tidbits by cross referring between Sawyer's few, short posts at SA and two other really, really obscure sites And that's only one of those mad feats... funcroc sees and knows everything (my suggestion for personal photo, lol ) related to OE that ever gets past your office doors, beware Great thing to hear we're going to get cinematics

Morrowinf had art direction