Tale

I can't agree that combat is their strength. Not sure what they're aiming for, so I can't excuse or qualify their designs. But it's not exciting. Jade Empire was definitely not exciting in the combat department, though all the clicking implies it wanted to be. At the very least, they should hopefully be learning and getting better at it.

The Black Hound is too far off from D&D rules to be approved by WotC. It'd be interesting if he got some extra help, though. Community, coworkers, whoever. If he had time to organize such a thing.

They kill her to justify changes to magic in the setting.

1) If she stays dead. 2) If the designers/Ao decrees it. There will be magic. Period.

I'm always of the opinions that romances in games are juvenile. Lesbian romances, on the other hand, are perfectly mature.

They can easily get around that. Mystra has died before. Mystra's like a Marvel superhero.

Trying to enjoy the NWN2 PW Thesk. But, it's just not working. I've never PnP roleplayed, but I like to think I'm a fan of roleplaying in general. However, my idea of roleplaying is going on adventures and just being a generally badass Tiefling Rogue/Warlock, telling the Bard to stop singing that crap, and insulting the Cleric's god. However, PW roleplay seems to consist of standing in a town square talking about the weather for 3 hours.

*checks e-mail* Your DS Lite Stylus Set is on its way! (1 hour ago) *looks at shelf* I received that this afternoon... *looks at message below that one* Your Feather Stylus is on its way! (1 hour ago) *looks at shelf again* I received that one last week... OOOH! Maybe they'll send me another!

Yep, on the PC.

Looking forward to... uh... what haven't I purchased already that's not on a system I don't own. Hmm. Well, bugger all! The only games I'm looking forward to are games I own but haven't played yet. I guess it's time to save some money!

http://forums.galciv2.com/?forumid=274&aid=167298 Like that? A number of people seem to have it. I haven't updated yet, myself. Sounds like there should be a fix to it, though. *shrug*

I have it rather frequently in Bioshock.

Ja. New expansion coming out in the next couple of months.

The good seems to outweigh the bad from what I'm seeing. I'm hearing only good things about the game proper (bar the AI's supposed stupidity at times). And the bad things seem to be related to technical issues (textures issues, load times).

I find the animations to be drastically better than NWN1. Spell effects are lacking in some regards. NWN1 Weird was fantastic. Magic Missle looks much nicer now, though.

Yeah, if I'd written Mask, the 100 influence ending for Safiya would have featured you coming home one day to find her in bed with Khelgar. That's just how I role.

Do you think designing a module around pissing those players off is a good idea? Y / N

Reading the official forums, I find myself reinvigorated to make my module. I see a few posts from people who are just so desperately saddened by Bishop's plight and their inability to save and redeem the worthless idiot. This was a theme I wanted to touch on in my module. Here's the plan. You'd eventually come across an evil sadistic ****. He'd be forced on the group for either a token small time or he'd never be forced on the group. You could "redeem" him, make him turn away from his evil deeds. After a short period if you choose this path, he starts to be punished by his old vengeful and very angry evil god. A plan is presented to the player! What if you get him to accept a new good god to protect him from the old evil one? So, you enact the help of the local Paladin who reluctantly plays along. The Paladin puts in a good word with his church who takes the former evil guy in. A short time passes and the former evil guy is kicked out of the church on his butt for trying to defile some nuns, the Paladin is kicked out of his order for his association with the evil guy, and the evil guy is still tortured by his old god until either he goes on a killing spree and returns to his old god or dies from the torture.. The Paladin ends up becoming Chaotic Good and bitter for the rest of the game. The moral of that sidequest? He's evil, you moron. What did you think would happen? That he'd change his ways and gain newfound respect for life and people with a good pep talk?

It has more than one. Only one on the screen at a time, I'll give you. But, Star Wars Galaxies taught me how to switch between different hotbars like that quickly and effectively. It's more than "fine," it's simply better.

Speculation and "why do you think" questions don't qualify as an explanation for behavior. It could be that they believe everyone is out to get them (possibly psychotic), they may hear voices (psychotic), or maybe they just want attention or revenge (NOT psychotic).

Yeah, like reorganize my hotbars: 1) Everytime I level. 2) Everytime I want to fight something different than I just fought. Because I'm not using that radial menu, gawdangit.

Psychosis is a condition marked by false perceptions, what does that have to do with anything? Did the article say they had a history of hallucinations? What I meant was that you can't reform someone who throws themselves under a tram.

It very well may! That sounds familiar.

What I find really disturbing is that one through themself under a tram. Them being stopped, if they were even serious about it, means they might have turned around for a good life. But not that one.