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I'm going to steal some from PoE1's thread:

They follow each other. Port Maje -> Neketaka -> Hasango -> Ashen Maw -> ??? -> Game Over.

He's a cipher so he gets a class option for resisting mind intrusions.

This is why you don't let the internet decide anything.

Eh...When comparing mods, it's very unfair to Infinty Engine games to Bethesda games. I mean, I see what you're trying to do but if we're being honest, Bethesda's modding community is worlds ahead and better than any Infinity Engine game's modding community, so much though that it wouldn't even be worth mentioning BG2's mods. Now... About Infinity Engine mods, there's another reason why they're not worth mentioning. None of them drastically change gameplay or experience of the games BUT we do have the Enhanced Editions which strangely I don't see people mentioning here. I never see the point in using mods to justify saying a game is good. The game should always be judged on it's own, without mods. If a game comes with unfinished features, any model made to fix those features should never override how ****ty those original features were.

Yep, it's worse when you roleplay an aggressive option because your character is angry, or when your Rational character logically decides that the Shady option is better than being Honest for the current situation.

Dark Sun could work, but I think Eberron is a better fit for an ARPG setting. It was even designed to have more action with the poor introduction of Action Points. The setting already has airship and a magical train for fast travel. Both settings are currently unsupported under 5e.

No problem with Serafen, too. I'm not a native speaker, but I have a much more harder time understanding that Australian guy in Doctor House. Udyne is awesome. I don't get what that's about, but she uses some german words, or at least words that are understandable for a german. It's because Udyne is Aedyran, and Aedyr is Germanic Britain. Aedyr's Hylspeak is clearly modelled after the real life German-influenced Old English. I always felt it was related to the Celtish languages, but that may be because the accent seemed to be Irish. To my untrained eye, that seemed to be what Udyne's text would indicate, provided I'm right that it models how she says the words.

They bought the game, presumably, knowing that it wasn't a full on theme park "do whatever" type game; that should be reason enough to start the story. Finishing it is entirely up to the player, which is tangentially related to how well written the story is. Most narratives in cRPGs are railroaded by the content available for the player, if they don't advance the story, they don't get content. It's different in the ever popular ThemePark "RPG's" of certain developers because the story isn't the main feature, it's just tacked on for the people that care, and it shows. The narrative changes are related to disposition, which while great, is not an entirely perfect system since people are rarely always One/a couple of Cruel, Aggresive, Benevolent, Diplomatic, Clever, Passionate, Rational, or Stoic; but a mix of any of them depending on the situation. It is entirely possible for a player to end up with a smattering of dispositions which end up creating reactivity that the player does not agree with for the character. Paladins are exempt since they essentially have to be their approved dispositions. But what do I know, I'm just some rambling recluse on the internet. As for the questions: Will we ever receive new portraits for our created characters? If not, will more customization options be added that matches the portraits we do have? Obsessive Compulsive minds would like to know.

I seem to recall a time when Curry and the rest of the Warriors were crap; now everyone's losing their minds that a team from California is just dominating the NBA, with players begging to be on the team.

Yes, your enjoyment of the game is now lessened because you found out that NPCs say the word "Ekera". How woeful.

Somewhere where you can teach Rauatai the dangers of stockpiling a resource that has a bad habit of blowing up.

It's not impossible if you hire adventurers to supplement Eder, Xoti, Aloth, and the PC.

Wasn't there a portrait datamined from the DLC's that looked very much like a Rymrgand godlike? I think the current idea is he's either a companion, ally, or enemy. If only it was indication of a new player Godlike.

What I love is when I manually activate a barbarian's frenzy only for the AI to use it again while already under its effect. I don't know how many times I've manually activated the athletics heal only to have the AI override it leading to the characters death.

Until someone blows up their excessively vast gunpowder stores destroying the effectiveness and manpower of their army.

I vote wait.

I'm disappointed you didn't start this with "Hi, Phil Swift here...".

Well can you blame the parents?

Yeah, let's ignore direct statements from Todd Howard, the head of BGS, that Fallout 76 is a spin-off and their main titles were, are, and will be focused on singleplayer. Indeed, let's instead blindly trust that the company that decides to come out with a multiplayer half a year after their "save player one" campaign isn't going to change it's mind on that. Especially if Fallout 76 turns out to make them a stupid amount of money, for what seems to be comparatively rather less work than they'd have needed for a single player game. They would hardly be the first traditionally single player gaming developer to make that switch. Besides, there is still also a difference between focused on single player and single player only; they might still end up throwing multiplayer elements into it as well, which would require compromises in the game design (eg. VATS and jet can't work as in Fallout 4 if there's potentially more than one player). I'm hardly claiming that they definitely will shift their focus towards multiplayer, but I also wouldn't be too quick to believe they won't just because Todd Howard is saying so now. Perhaps we should remember that Todd Howard is a fan of removing features for every new feature added, and has been the death of innovation in all of the games he has produced, so chances are most of those features were removed anyways. https://youtu.be/46gaz6veVNQ?t=3372 That video is worth an hour of your time.

I'd be surprised if that was actually available to the player, but we may be able to recruit this dude here. It probably won't be, at the very least we'll end up with that guy. I'll continue hoping for more official portraits and better customization.

Hopefully we get the option to be a Ice godlike or whatever they call Rmyrgand's godlikes as well.

I expect to see you post in all of the Gotecci street thread on this board complaining of this issue. Go ahead, I'll wait.

And they will likely have cameos from Elminster, Drizzt Do'MarySue, Artemis IShouldBeDead, or some other inane character from the setting.

If my character is going to be a Lord, Captain, etc it would be nice to actually feel like one. So far, besides some annoying events, bandits have decided to attack your stronghold, and you've lost four buildings, or you didn't feed your crew so now they're in mutiny; those don't really capture the spirit of either role.