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I was never a big guns man. I'd either have power armor and an energy weapon (if it was late in the game) or use some psycho and a shotgun. In fact, I'd say the slaughters at the slaves guild, the cathedral and the huboligist's bunker are some of the funner parts of the games, for me. Falllout combat does work for PnP. I got a hex mat yesterday and ran my PCS through some dynamic special encounters. It's a seamless transition.

Heh, yeah, having 14 slavers come at you, one at a time, only made it more fun to systematically destroy them man by man.

Having played both D&D and Fallout extensively, I prefer the first system (SPECIAL, in this case). Making percentile rolls seems simpler and more intuitive to me. Oddly enough, I played Fallout first as a cRPG, but D&D was my first PnP.

Boy - Up in This Town Zero 7 - Destiny Coil - Cold Dream of an Earth Star The Streets - Turn the Page If anyone's interested, NIN (hey, look at my avatar!) has put up a teaser vid for the W_T tour DVD. I saw them 3 times this tour, and I have to say I'm unsure as to whether the awesomeness of NIN live will translate all that well into crisp HD format. It certainly makes Trent look more like a British street thug than a composer of music.

Hey! Don't talk smack about Denver's weather . We have better winter weather than California. Most of the snow goes to the mountains while we enjoy mostly sunny weather in the city. We get about two weeks ( on average ) of 'cold as a son-of-a-bitch' weather each winter. The rest of the time I just wear a light work jacket. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Bah, two weeks my eye. You don't live up north here. We get months of that stuff.

Does Michael Ironside really cost big bucks? Sure he's done big movies but he's also done quite a bit of trash, and I'd much prefer the real thing to a soundalike. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> He's a pretty prolific B-movie actor. He's all over the Sci-Fi channel. I myself much prefer Lance Henriksen. His game work (ie Red Faction 2, which I had the misfortune of playing) has not been good, though.

Well, yes (I still own Thief 3, but I gave away IW) I meant, who has the rights to Deus Ex now, or rather, has it gone the way of BG?

Gemcrafting is for drawves and elves are the wizards. Gnomes still have illusionary aspects with their bardic spells. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> No, stoneworking is for dwarves. Gnomes (especially svirfnebli) share mining and gemcrafting affinities with dwarves. That's why they get along, generally. Both are subterannean races, oftentimes they band together against common threats. I can't understand why we've got so many negative nancies out here. Have a little faith. Obsidian hasn't let us down yet. Does a name like "Sand" really connotate a bad character? I don't see how it does.

Not Luxembourg!

It's more when the drives are nearly full that they slow down. You can buy it again. I'm just at the end of Hell's Kitchen. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> But but but did Deus Ex go out with Ion Storm, is what I'm asking.

Heh, a Wikipedia reformation has happened before. A bunch of Wikipedia trolls went off to form their own group, Encyclopedia Dramatica, which is a wiki concerning itself with internet drama and fads. Sometimes it's funny, most of the time it's just crass.

Comparing car companies to cigarrete makers is erroneous. Global Warming was viewed with general skepticism up until the 90s, whereas cigarretes have been definitively known to be harmful for the last 5 decades. Car companies could reasonably argue that they were ignorant to the risk they posed to the environment. The comparison to gun makers is also flawed. The purpose of a gun is to shoot, which directly and deliberately harms. The purpose of a car is to drive, and the harm it does to the environment is secondary. I highly doubt that anybody is going to make a case with this. They could make a case that automakers have derailed efforts to provide alternatives to their products and thus contributed to the problem of Global Warming, but not that they are intentionally destroying the Earth for destruction's sake. There's a big difference.

I've used IP masks before. There are sites that you can go to that launch a "mini-browser" that have a proxy IP. They're useful for getting past being banned on a forum. Not that I've ever used it for such nefarious purposes.

It's not impossible to play a dandy dwarf, or a dirty, cursing elf who wants to slash and burn every forest he sees (elves make good sailors, I've found) It's just that people don't do those things, because roleplaying more often than not follows archetypes. Part of this comes from Tolkien, and part of it has to do with D&D's alignment system and the way races are set up to (mostly) adhere to certain alignments. Dwarves are lawful good, elves are chaotic good, orcs are chaotic evil, and humans falling all across the spectrum. This helps convey a good/evil duality and general uniform nature to the game world. Gnomes are well established as being chaotic neutral. Fantasy is awash in archetypes. Hence so many noble rogues and honor-bound dwarves. Gnomes are chaotic and short on wisdom, so more often than not you get Jerry Lewis absent-minded professors when you get gnomes.

Whatever happened to that guy? Autechre - Windwind Future Sound of London - Expender (12") Iggy Pop - Dum Dum Boys

Now people, isn't it a little premature to dismiss this gnome character? In D&D, gnomes are to nutty as dwarves are to surly. It's a racial archetype. It's a D&D staple. Lighten the **** up, I say. Chaotic neutral characters are often annoying, that's how they're played, but that doesn't mean they can't be compelling in their own right. Personally, I think it's cool that you can have a construct in your party. Is it a developed character, or a pure-fighting henchman? I wonder how you'd be able to communicate with a golem. The D&D PnP usually had the ones with personalities go berserk (confined spirits and all that)

How are you trying to execute the game? did you change the directory? Have you had luck in the past installing it on this computer? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I haven't installed it on this computer before, but I haven't had any backwards-compatibility issues with any of my games before, besides the obligatory DOS problems here and there. The issue is that the game won't recognize the disc, not that the computer doesn't recognize the game.

My computer will not recognize my copy of System Shock 2. I installed it from the disc and everything, but... it says it's not there Damn it all to hell!

New 'un.

It sure would have, and they did a bit of work on it on F2 (not enough, by many people's measure), but from what I can gather from the Bible and such the original game was never meant to have any part members at all They started implementing it pretty late in development. If the party system feels like an afterthought, that's because it was

I'm tracking down my old Deus Ex game. This franchise is dead, right? God, if only they hadn't made IW so goddamn stupid

old skool

Same here. And I was much less patient when I was 10.

I see somebody's brushing up on their Encyclopedia Dramatica. Hail all spammers.

It had its flaws, yes (if you missed the eyes, did you hit the head instead) but I don't see how it butchered the game mechanics in the extreme way that, say, Arcanum did.