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Only if he's bigoted against his own kind will I accept this indignity.

Halfling? HALFLING! RABLGRBLARGHLAMBASTEDFLABERDAGNABIT I hate Halflings.

Like what? Did they have you buying new versions of the exact same spell every 7 levels when I wasn't looking? Class trainers? Was raiding implemented? Mana? Health regen between battles? Remove the need for sleep/extended rest altogether? Everytime I see this, the only similarity between 4E and MMOs they can bring up is balanced play and the fact that the Fighter isn't doing only auto-attacks anymore. Which is hardly taking a cue from MMOs and more recognizing a blatant problem of old editions and fixing it, something MMOs just happened to beat them to. Even the trinity system is a classic of D&D back to 1e. It's just more necessary now since the group Wizard isn't going to one-shot the enemy before the Fighter can even engage.

I think it's more likely that the idea it's aimed at MMO players is utter nonse. Similar to how people claimed 3e was aimed at Diablo players.

How can one claim that a game built on D20 is similar to a TPS?

I take offense to all three of those descriptions. I've never been accused of being hip or cool in my life. And I've not touched an MMO in over a year.

Who you calling "younger?" 4e is the only PnP RPG I actually own books for.

o/ Excellent. If we have enough, I might do a succession game. Otherwise I might do a solo let's play to drum up general interest. Been wanting to story out a sky fortress game, anyway.

How many people here are familiar with Dwarf Fortress?

I'm now rethinking and we need something that allows for succession games. Those tend to be hilarious. Been reading a lot of good Dwarf Fortress succession games of late. I know we did a Civ 4 succession before.

ToEE, because I haven't seen much of that at all.

Why did "give fighters something to do other than auto attack and trip" get turned into "computer games." A sad day.

To be fair, those were the first two games I've particularly liked since Throne of Bhaal. KOTOR was good, too.

DLC might be delicious. But it would have to be quite extensive to take advantage of the games strengths.

I just beat Borderlands. I take back everything negative I've ever said about Gearbox. Pretty far into Zombie Island, then onto the other two xpacs and to wait for the upcoming one. Overlord is a shining example of the function of dual analog sticks. It's ported well to the PC, you just need a gamepad.

Read Kotaku's hands on. Didn't really gleam anything new about it, but the narrative continues irks me. The "no, that's not how it happened" part in particular. It's not just one narrator telling the other narrator that their narration is incorrect, it seems like the narrator is telling the player that his play is incorrect. It takes away ownership of the character by telling you that it's wrong. Origins didn't have a strong narrative, so it shouldn't bother me much. But it just seems silly.

Llyr's dead. And he would want it that way.

Touche, little bunny. The tire that ran you over spontaneously went flat.

I think I just ran over a bunny. Not too happy about that.

I just trying to post something useless.

You don't need to worry, it probably won't even see release in Estonia.

If only 1 in 5 Americans are average in a binary situation, HOLY CRAP

I'm not touching it. You think I'm crazy?

I was having problems with my computer shutting off while playing games not long ago. I assumed it was power supply so got it replaced. It's only happened twice since then. But now the Event Log is telling me that my graphics card is overheating and that's what prompted the shut down. I'm certain I checked before and didn't see anything. But I can't help but think I replaced the power supply for nothing. Here's hoping a clean updated graphics driver can fix it. Graphics card isn't showing any signs of damage yet, so that's good.

Do you need a hug?