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We're using different definitions for "natural". The curse allows one to destroy spirits, and spirits are more or less not meant to be destroyed outside of special circumstances (a tree spirit dying with his tree, etc.). Devouring souls is both chaotic and evil, since annihilating souls disrupts the natural order in a greater way (prevents them from reaching rest in the planes, etc.) and is inherently malicious. Further (and better) proof of MotB's thomistic bent is shown by

Difference of opinion =/= lack of objective fact phi 101, kids. MotB shows a pretty strong thomistic undercurrent in the D&D universe. The curse is unnatural, using it disrupts the natural order, thus it is evil.

I turn on Debug Mode, and change my alignment (is there a way to reduce craving via the console?) and then turn debug mode off, but the green expanses of ground where the triggers are remain, and I can't have my characters move onto them. I just reloaded the game, and it seems to be working now.

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Tell me about it. Try playing a chaotic good ranger or chaotic good warlock. You do the right thing (suppress) and eventually can't level up anymore. [Enable console: DebugMode 1] Lawful shift: rs ga_alignment(x,1) Chaotic shift: rs ga_alignment(-x,1) Good shift: rs ga_alignment(x,0) Evil shift: rs ga_alignment(-x,0) Where |x| = {1, 2, 3, 4} Nb: |x| for {2, 3, 4} correlates to a 3 pt, 10 pt, & 70 pt alignment shift, respectively. Tried the DebugMode thing (playing as a Warlock, craving's going up and alignment's shifting to Lawful) and all it did was make all the triggers on the map visible, such that I couldn't actually move anywhere. I r confuzzled.

It only really jumped out at me because the last time I played PNP, I was playing as a neutral cleric with spontaneous healing, and another player was puzzled by the fact that, mostly out of habit from BG day, I made it a point to memorize healing spells. Especially at early levels, freeing up those slots and relying on spontaneous casting can make characters a lot more versatile than they would otherwise be.

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Word to wise warlock players (I couldn't think of a W word for "player" ) invest heavily in spellcraft. I was wondering if my warlock would've been able to stand in the later game, since tougher enemies have better saves, but the "epic eldritch blast" or whatever takes you from a decent damage-dealer (I was forced to use eldritch chain) to an actual force to be reckoned with, instantly.

You're supposed to apologize for barging in, lore your way into letting them know that you know that they're vremyonni, and then pass a series of diplomacy checks to get them to return to their families (they're working for an evil durthan witch) and you get good points and some xp.

As you lose spirit energy, you take penalties to your physical stats, and I think that's what Gorgon was referring to. Spellcasters shouldn't concievably be hit as hard by that.

When I first went into The Death God's Vault, went into that hallway with just my PC and the rest of my party got instantly killed due to quivering palms delivered by a large number of vampire monks all designated as "impossible", I guessed that maybe I would have the chance to come back and clean house after I gained a level or four, and I was right. There's no imperative to go in at lower levels (although it was generally smart to steal the gold / summon the void spirits in the main chamber and collect essences)

We get crazy ass snowstorms sometimes, though.

Vampiric Feast was hideously overpowered. I don't remember anything standing up to it in the slightest.

In the FR core book. Thinking back on it (and my mind's getting fuzzier by the second, but I'm fairly certain of this) the crown was broken into three pieces and they were spread across Faerun. In fact, I believe they were reconstituted at some point by a lich. He's in one of the FR supplemental books pertaining to evil groups and villains. He was the "bloated" lich with a phylactery for every bone in his body? An epic villain if there was one.

Funny that you'd say that, because from where I'm standing, most anime seems to take after Akira, NGE, any of the cutesy series (Steel Angel Kurumi?), Ninja Scrolls, or an amalgamation of the 4, pretty closely. Elfin Lied, for example, which was all the rage not too long ago, contained huge bleeding chunks of the first 3. The series that I do like, Cowboy Bebop or Trigun, for example, aren't short on overwrought melodrama themselves but make up for it by not being totally stone-faced serious about the stupid bull**** they contain, ala Lied. But anyway, that's off-topic.

He did. If you're familiar with some of the minutae of FR lore (as I am, o yah) you'd know that the Crown of Horns was a powerful artifact (like, awesomely powerful even for an artifact) that eventually possessed those who wore it, as artifacts tend to do. One of the seven sisters got ahold of it and was possessed by Myrkul for a few years, and then the rest of the sisters and Khelben "Blackstaff" Arunsun destroyed it, thus "killing" Myrkul (I think). Mask had a similar trick with the Godsbane shortsword and Cyric ended up breaking that, but for whatever reason Mask ended up just severely weakened instead of dead.

It's worth playing through with the clans that affect the gameplay significantly, that is, the Nossies and the Malks. The rest are more or less indistinguishable. I play it mainly these days because it's the only CRPG I have that lets me substitute my own, better music into the game.

He's a homersexual. I'm tempted to up scans of the relevant Westgate pages of the FR core book.

Steam doesn't register games to a computer, it registers them to an account. So, just log on to the account on the other computer. O I C When play?

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And for any of you that are too lazy / don't want to sign up for the e-mail bulletin thing, here are those free Liars demos.

obviously you've never been in an smelly, incestuous IRC room. He is poisoning us with dense phrasing that doesn't amount to much.

IN LIKE THE INN Except, oh look, the games were registered to my other (now dead) computer. At least I got through Episode 2 and half of Portal. This is why you don't buy games that rely on Steam.

I may have posted the AWS album before, I can't remember, but if you don't have it yet, it's as good as the "string tribute" industry's going to produce, in my opinion. I've been meaning to put up some

Maztica's one of my less favorite FR settings, and on top of that it wasn't terribly popular (I got the 2nd ed box set new for $10, and not soon after WotC released the whole shebang for free online) but aside from that, it's an intriguing idea. However, I like the personal stories better. Your Xpac sounds more like an Icewind Dale than a BG or a NWN2.