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Hmmm, perhaps. Which should I opt for, if I have to choose? I mean, I've played through BG2 many times without either. At this point I'm starting a new game, and then using the console to teleport to the Windspear dungeon, and testing to see whether it crashes. I tried taking off the Saerilith mod (pretty good mod, btw, impressive that they added in the PST areas without ****ing up the game), and that didn't help.

Blargh. I'm playing through with probably too many mods. Saerilith, Kelsey, Unfinished Bizness, Ascension, BG2Fixpack, and D-B-G, and now it seems as if whenever I enter the Windspear Hill dungeon there's some kind of massive memory leak or somesuch that allows me to play for around 30 seconds before locking up and killing the game. The thing is, I remember reading about a particular mod that did something like this, but I can't remember what it was. Any ideas?

Ethnicity.

That's what she said. She in this case being me.

No Tutu? And you need to yousendit your custom portraits or something. Mine suuuuuuck.

This is the only good idea for it I've heard. The age of the character alters how fast XP is gained. However, I see this idea ultimately screwing over casual players, because they may not use their time as efficiently. Which would be at odds with one of Hurlshots originally supposed benefits of helping casuals. I don't see real benefit to it or how it would improve anything. They actually do this in sports games, sometimes. Fight Night Round 3 come to mind. If you create a boxer, his stats are low but when he trains he makes leaps in his skills because he's young and limber. As you fight toward the championship (there's usually about 15-20 weeks between fights) your stats get higher but the gains from training diminish, to the point where at the end of the game your stats are pretty much set in stone, as they gradually diminish and all you have to train constantly to keep them static. As for D&D, age comes into play with more than just epic level spells, it's just that everybody ignores them. Haste, for example, ages characters affected 1 year every time it's cast. I can't remember if it's 2nd or 3.5 or both, but if BG2 played by those rules, the party would be octogenarians by the time they made it to the city gates.

Law's a bitch to get into. It's worrisome, I certainly want to be successful but the only course I've shown anything close to aptitude in is philosophy, which career-wise is worse than a Bachelors of Arts (or a Bachelors of Attendance, as we call it around here) and that's rare.

The doctors who put forward the idea have now retracted, saying another 4 years of research is needed to make a definite conclusion. Are there people addicted to video games? Hard to say. I'd say I was when I was younger, but it was more a symptom of an unrelated developmental condition.

Of the bowels.

Riddle me this: I've got a green kid, new to IE games and Baldur's Gate II, who wants to play modded first time around. I won't let him go crazy, but besides Fixpacks and Unfinished Business what would you all say are mods that add to the experience of BG2 as opposed to providing mildly interesting excuses for old hands to play the game again? Links would be nice.

WOOOO RUSH YAY CAPITALISM

WHERE HAVE ALL THE LINKS GONE THE LINKS ARE NOT SHOWN ANYMORE Also, I giggle at gaming conservatism / liberalism. It's either too different, or too samey. Where's the progressive control scheme? Where's the isometric perspective? Silly.

Most excellent. Really, most excellent. I wonder where the project is at, at the moment. Is Fargo just actively shopping it around? Have they found a publisher? Is Fargo making it in his own house or is he subcontracting it? I'm actually hoping they go independent with this, or at least watch their budget. No newfangled new pixel-shaded engines, no ambitions beyond making a quality RPG. That's what I'd hope for, at least. No way they could make a spiritual successor to Fallout and hope to make money unless they're watching their spending.

This is popular over on my other board as well. Somebody there is at 2.5 million on their third try.

Didn't they say they were no longer going to work on non-in-house IPs? It's a peculiar exception to make.

Which is fortunate. hundreds of thousands of people see sequels to movies nobody liked (see: Fantastic 4) and it's sort of comforting that a similar phenomenon doesn't occur in the gaming world.

Terrible idea. I highly doubt that Bioware can stop Sonic's downward spiral. Last time they tried to have Sonic with a plot it was ****. Terrible, terrible idea. Just... Jesus. They dropped Star Wars and D&D for this?

That's what I was saying.

My aim handle contains "Teh", just because "The" was taken and it's uber-l337.

You can't really expect to openly say that you're rewarding a man for weathering death threats and not have it cross the people making the death threats. If they want Salman Rushdie dead, any official action in regard to him short of handing him over to Tehran would be construed as some kind of affront, because the Ayatollah decreed that he must die, no? Their beef is with Rushdie, and the friend of an enemy is an enemy. And considering the level of education in Iran it seems peculiar to assert that this kind of thing can't be dealt with on account of simplistic Iranian reactionism.

*edit - you know what? Blah, be industrious, take a guess I actually came around to ETS just as the whole Mikeyliz thing was wrapping up and the thread was closed, but it was fun to feel the afterglow.

Unfortunately, she ran off before she could be helped, but she lives on in our hearts.

Rar, I'm gonna maul you. I do not approve of the concept art of the "grey red wizard". Add color, consarnit. I'm going to be so bored if the adversaries in MotB are Red Wizards who are... wait for it... not actually Red. Blah.

Au contraire, I take pleasure in the spread of any meme. Except pedobear.