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The last I've heard of any sort of release date is 1st quarter of 2018 with Josh Sawyer wanting to aim for March.

Libertarians are fine with trade I believe, they just want to emulate the pre-WWI (and WWII) 'let Europe have their squabbles, we're not getting involved' kind of non-interventionism/isolationism. But even THEN, we still did the imperialistic streak that never left us. Not sure how far L(and l)ibertarians would want to take the diplomatic drawdown that Trump is doing though....

He's not 'L as in Looney' Libertarian though I don't think.

Well, the debate is how much non-intervention should be done. Also, I notice how North America, Central America, and the Carribean are left out on the libertarian one, heh. The thing though is that back in the days (19th century mostly) when you'd mostly be fine with ignoring most things on the other side of the ocean and it'd be no problem, things were a heck of a LOT less globally interconneced as we are now, so, it's literally impossible to not be completely non-interventionist. Not to mention that we're freaking the biggest and strongest military (okay, China has us beat in sheer manpower, but manpower isn't everything) and practically one of the primary engines of the world. I get being less interventionist military wise, which I'd agree with. Also, here's something I read on why Democrats have such problems with foriegn policy ideas and how come Republican policy has dominated for so long. https://www.vox.com/world/2017/9/5/16220054/democrats-foreign-policy-think-tanks

The heck are you microtriggering about gromnir? Or at least that's what algoroth is saying. To be honest, I'm not sure what you two are arguing about atm anyway, Palleginas rating? And some wierd random derail over a smiliey? *is a little confused*

Seems like the second part of your reply was meant for the Ydwin thread? Though it's being discussed in both places.

Exactly this. In fact, personally I felt that the worst acts by animancy were only included so as to make what is obviously the best and most sensible choice be tinged with a bit of grey. Well, it does place them in the middle of a crisis and desperacy in a crisis tends to drive people towards extreme or otherwise unorthodox solutions. Thaos screwing around didn't help either, but he was anti-animancy. The Durgan's Battery dwarves apparently practiced some form of animancy (their forge guardians were like advanced versions of what the Knights of the Crucible were trying to accomplish. Don't know whether the battery guardians were a result of animancy or a type of spirit. Evidently the proccesses of creating constructs like what Galvino was trying to perfect is more advanced or done differently in the Deadfire region. Then again, five years does give time for knowledge to spread. Also, on the animancy front regarding Ydwin, she's the animancy version of a pioneer in forensics science.

Amongst the sidekicks, yes. Do you feel they are trying to over compensate for the rogue shortage in Pillars? *shrug* Maybe? Though the multiclassing opens up more options for the companions. Does seem like a heck of a lot of rogues. Bonteru is the only one whose story background is a rogue though, I believe. I hope they add some background to those sidekick companions. The one who speaks no known language (or anything that is related to existing language families) and belongs to an unknown culture seems like the most interesting to me, mainly because of the mystery I guess.

Because people want to laugh?

She's a scientist, isn't she? Pillars doesn't strike me as the type of world where you'd get teenage scientists. Based on the art, I'd guess the elf equivalent of mid-to-late 20s, so younger than most of the companions in the first game (except Hiravias? (I had him around that age too) and potentially the main character), but certaintly not a teen. E: Actually looking at the art again, it's not impossible she'd be elf-early 30s. Kind of like how Aloth is elf-early or mid 30's? He's 62 (67 in Deadfire), but has the appearance of being in his early or mid 30's.

According to the text, some kind of tablet? I guess it'd be something similar to what Kana was looking for. Sounds like Josh is amused at the writing.

Standing near gunpowder barrels is apparently a bad idea when they explode. Doesn't say what triggered them to explode though: https://twitter.com/jesawyer/status/907399470412734464 and apparently the doge icon is their 'missing status effect' icon: https://twitter.com/jesawyer/status/907408683302129665

I suppose I could deconstruct this.... "More than one starts, so when we start again we don t have to suffer ever the exact same tale. It would be refreshing and maybe unique in the tale of RPG. those would all converge to the main tale some way, the same way you made multiple endings is refreshing. (don t need long introdutory tales)" You're familiar with the conquest prologue part of Tyranny, right? Obsidian is doing something similar to that. "A bit more randomness in setting so if we play a second time, or more, we can have some surprises. Maybe pool of quests and a tool to fill it so users can create quests, and some variety of quest could be taken in a aleatory way to fill the world. Maybe diverse spawn points so some ennemies aren t everytime at the exact same place, or with the same companions so we know exactly what will come and prepare for it, during second of more playtrought of the same dungeon." That'd be a neat idea, don't know if they actually have the ability to do so though. "EX: The weapon separation by lifestyle for specialization didn t make much sense, it would have been preferable by family then sub family" They did away with that and have a different system with specialization of subfamilies, as you say. I think, I know they did away with the specialization system in PoE1. "EX: pole weapon could reach beyond your pals to strike the ennemy but long sword couldn t...same size. (even if you put penalties.) But those are minor stuffs." No they aren't the same size. "That we are not restricted to some small backgrounds, and in someway we can feel a world and not a nice collection of drawings. The background size was quite disapointing compared to the wide space general map depicted. It needed more maps or bigger ones to maintain a sense of coesive world." To echo other people, what are you talking about? "I saw you made a map i hope we can travel to it and not just by sea to land and then have to clickpoint it and magically be at a dungeon place." I take it that you've never read the fig updates or seen the various videos.

I wouldn't knock it until you try it. Also, Obsidian said that they're trying to make sure that every multiclass combo is at least playable and actually work, they don't mean in a minmax way, but that if you want to play a combination for roleplay reasons, it'll work. Also, a 1 cipher/19 mage is still exactly the same as a 19 mage/1 cipher. Well, not quite exactly the same, the level that you choose the 1 cipher level makes a difference in what skills/abilities are available.

His account did get closed by accident due to a glitch once.

I'm on the fence whether this is supposed to be constructive criticism or a ranting manifesto.

Sounds more like him acknowledging that Ydwin is pretty popular (atm anyway) and that all of the sidekicks have the same first class choice restrictions.

Why do you think wizards would be really bad for multiclassing? Sure, it'd depend somewhat on what spells you intend to use, but if you just want to multiclass as wizard just to throw around fireballs, that's equally viable.

Yeah, I suppose she could throw a Cat5 hurricane on steroids at something she wanted to take her wrath out on. Perhaps in Eora, storms and weather aren't covered by any specific god. Weather phenomenons are generally in whatever the god/desses domain is, winter storms would be Rymrgand, sea storms and storms coming off the sea would be Ondra, people could pray to Gaun (Eotha's harvest god persona) for rains to have a bountiful harvest, and maybe Hylea gets whatever is left over. Or perhaps Ondra defaults to being the rain goddess. Either way, Tekehu's background and stuff will be interesting.

When you break your promise to her (for the decision you make at endgame), her wrath is straight out of Alfred Hitch****'s The Birds though, not storms. Injurai does have a point though in that Tekehu's godlikeness doesn't neccesarily correlate to his subclass. More likely it's connected to his culture and background, similar to Pallegina. edit: lol, the forum blocked out part of Alfreds last name.

Watershaper druid and Stormspeaker chanter for Tekehu.... This seems to reinforce Tekehu being an Ondra godlike different from the Moon godlike, but storms aren't in Ondra's, or anybodys, portfolio and the closest would be Rymrgand because generic 'natural disasters'. Hylea is a sky goddess, but her portfolio doesn't indicate any sort of weather association.

Not sure where you're trying to link to Agiel, but that just links to this forum page. re Paris Agreement and yadda yadda: Nicaragua declined to join because they thought that it didn't do enough for enforcement, they wanted it to be binding. Plus, they were also complaining that the balance of pulling weight with larger countries vs small isn't fair because Nicaragua is already pulling their weight as far as Paris Accord goals. Or something like that.

Not sure what Mike means by shooting for Wenesday for extra specialness. Maybe more time to work on it.

Messing around with ship duels, Ryan tried to ram an enemy ship and got cannoned to death. https://twitter.com/jesawyer/status/906250318966431744 From this response, I guess we can ram ships? https://twitter.com/jesawyer/status/906254204628459520

Josh Sawyer mentioned in a tweet (along with a teaser to tide us over) that they were delayed a little by the Pax conference (which was last weekend). So, supposedly this week? *shrug* They don't have a set schedule for the updates.