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Basically what happens is, Aldanon gets kidnapped and brought to this Keep, which you liberate from the clutches of evil and save the day, and then they give you it to fix up and man. Nasher's actions still run contrary to the LN alignment, though. A LN character wouldn't break the law, even in order to save the law, because the law is valuable in and of itself.

I don't know about that, Not very LN if you ask me.

Then your answer is no. The implication was that an archconservative would **** up civil liberties. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Thanks. Just making sure! Just don't forget that a Dem controlled senate could always have the possibility of electing an archliberal. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> They have the possibility to elect one if one is put before them, but that's not going to happen. What we're likely going to see more of are moderate conservative judges in the mold of Roberts, less staunch conservatives in the Alito / Thomas / Scalia mold. But there's no way Bush is ever going to farther left than O'Connor.

Really? Do tell more. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> All the more I will tell is that you should experiment more... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Bollocks. Tell us more :ph34r: *Edit - The "edit" button is your friend, Joseph Bulock ^_^

Then your answer is no. The implication was that an archconservative would **** up civil liberties.

Are you implying that it's impossible for an archliberal to **** up our civil liberties? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> The Senate confirms or rejects, they don't nominate, and Bush wouldn't nominate an archliberal. So it really doesn't matter in this case.

There's no way in a cold hell that Congress is going to investigate the executive branch thoroughly. They might go after Cheney's energy deals, but even that's risky. Much as it would energize their base, investigative actions into things that happened over 4 years ago would alienate a lot of voters, and politicians are in the businesses of politics first and governance second, and going after the White House wouldn't do anything for either.

Happens to me all the time. You just have to make a character you really like before you can pull it through. Take some time and create the character in your head before you play the game. Have a character concept, take it a bit beyond the RPing of the game. For example, if you want to have, say, a tiefling priest, you could create him such that he purpose in life is to fight and banish demons of his bloodline, so you make him a lawful neutral-aligned priest with the Protection and War domains, and give him fire resistance and will save bonuses, and shoot him towards warpriesting. Given the nature of the things he fights, he's never willing to compromise, and is always impatient, and acts as such. I find fleshing a character out like that that, instead of playing the character on the fly, helps to make one get "attached" to a character more easily It doesn't always work, since your planning doesn't really come out in the game very often, but it helps sometimes.

Now it's official Dem control of the Senate is worth it if only because now an archconservative won't be elected to the Supreme Court, and thus our civil liberties will not be ****ed with in some backwards attempt at "constructionist" jurisprudence.

When I played the game as a drow, the spell-like abilities were secondary to the spell resistance. With the second safeguard of improved evasion that monks have, I never took more than 5% of my HP in damage from any spell, if the spell even touched me.

I found it odd that Nasher is portrayed as LG in this game, whereas in NWN1 he was more portrayed as an **** LN, especially in light of the executions he performed. I was really hoping to see that guy again

I suddenly got the urge to start replaying Bloodlines, switching out some of the more subpar ambient tracks with some (ignore the video). It's so, so perfect. I didn't much like this game when it came out. The visuals were sloppy, the engine was totally underused, and there were some heinous bugs. But it ages better than any other game I've ever played. I really hope Obsidian would entertain the notion of a Vampire game.

Finesse your flames, people. I'm anxious to see the NWN2 mods that are likely to emerge soon.

Fundamental attribution error.

I'll have to give Lost credit for raising awareness of sad ninjas.

I ran out of potions because I didn't want to micromanage party potion consumption, the turn-based system being what it is. So I turned on the "use potions" AI, and watched the 5000 gp of cure serious wounds and heal potions I bought get burned in no more than 3 fights time. So I just decided to invest in some serious heal & mass heal (man, is that spell useful) spells and use them. I got through the game just fine having only bought healing potions in bulk 2 or 3 times in the entire game.

uh, hate to tell you but it's not "official." the AP is not the body that decides VA's outcome. it does seem likely, however. taks <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Sure, but according to the Allen camp, assuming they're going to do what they said they'd do beforehand, Allen's going to have to concede. Barring any revelation or interference from the courts, it's in the bag.

I'm pretty sure there's no xp penalty incurred for parties, as when you gain 30 xp for killing a bugbear, all characters gain 30 xp, whether they're in combat or not. Fight balance might certainly take a hit, though.

You're no fun.

I'm gonna give the guy a medal. He doesn't even have a chin, for christ's sake. Gotta give him something

It's official, Dems have the Senate. That's the game, folks.

Maybe. Rumsfeld leaves, Republicans get to ship off their pariah, Democrats get to "work things out" with a new secretary of defense and preferrably, a new approach to policy. Everybody wins. But the ousting of Rumsfeld was bound to happen. The wheels were turning before the election. The Rovian approach to partisan politics took a big hit this election. Archconservatives as candidates by and large didn't do very well (although Marilyn Musgrave did win out up here) conservative bills took some important defeats, but I wouldn't say they got trounced like the conservative politicians did. Even the far-left wing of the Dems lost out with Lamont. So it looks like playing to the middle is now back in vogue.

I'm sorry, is something funny? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I'm entitled to a little bit of schadenfreude. We've got an understanding: He compares homosexuality to bestiality and still gets some measure of power in Washington for a time, and I laugh at his children, weeping as their City of God flies away. Besides, it's not like he's going far or losing much. From what I hear, K Street has already picked him up. Not that he's got the behind-the-scenes power of, say, your James Dobsons and Tom Delays, nor would he have the punditry skills of Newt Gingrich, but he'll be around in some capacity. He's certainly not going to the poorhouse. His daughter certainly isn't losing a damned thing.

u! I don't think that would go down too well with most people. Pigeonholing people into a PC-NPC relationship like that. Usually players like to have control over that thing, at least starting characters off as good friends and moving into intimate relationships. Or, as in the case of Viconia, having an antagonistic relationship that moves into intimacy. But if you start off with a romance, it's bad. Being with that character might be something completely against what the player is trying to RP, and that creates dissonance. It delegitimizes the entire Roleplaying experience. If you have to break off that romance right at the beginning, the obvious next question is, why was it like that in the first place? That having been said, there are some interesting concepts that can come out of this. For example, you could have that old RPG warhorse, amnesia! The PC starts off the game, and there's this other character that he loved before, who he doesn't remember or feels for now, who still loves him, or maybe she hates him because of something he did in his effective "past life". The PC is then put in an interesting dilemma, PS:T style. Then again, you also have romance as drama sponge. For example, Obsidian could very well have dragged out the prologue to NWN2, and made Amie the character's love interest, fleshed out the character more, and then BAM dead. Instant drama, instant forward force into the bulk of the game as the character sets out for revenge and answers, FF7 style. However, you're rolling the dice with that, as it could be the case that the significant other is an unliked character, in which case a player might not be willing to go through the game when the genesis of the story is the death of a character he didn't really care about all that much. In that case, you could institute a BG2 kind of dichotomy, where you can either go after Irenicus to save Imoen, or to unlock your own power, but the results would be the same. If you're looking at RPGs from a narrative standpoint, romance is completely acceptable and in some cases, completely necessary.

CRY LITTLE GIRL CRY YOU CAN'T BRING THE **** BACK BWAHAHHAHAHAHA No more rubber stamp legislature! We'll hear it soon enough, but all the same, Bush is going to try and rush him through confirmation before the new dems can consider him.