Monte Carlo

I want the Codpiece of Vecna.

The third pic is my favourite, always use it for a mage in IWD. Although she probably gets a bit chilly.

My payday rolls in towards the end of the KS... thanks for the megadungeon will be increasing my pledge to up the last-minute total!

I am most... pleased. They really are listening to us, aren't they? I take my hat off to them. The megadungeon sounds more old-skool than a bearded man eating pizza in a basement whilst rolling a set of polyhedral dice. Plus, they used the word oubliette for ten thousand bonus points. I hope we reach at least ten levels.

A poll about how you like to interact with NPCs as they level up. I like complete control, but I suspect others might like influence systems and whatnot.

^ Yeah, what he said. In the BG games i loved having high level stuff to give to my NPCs.

I like this idea.

Sawyer's political views are for him and I think it's out of order bringing them up here. I judge the man on his work, which I have usually enjoyed. Please go away, OP.

what problems? Anita is entitled to her opinions and we're entitled to disagree, as much as Obz people are entitled to pledge to any project she might be making.

Anita is actually quite cute. Am I allowed to say that?

* sigh *

I am replying so this thread has a permanent link to KS, click on my sig for updates on pledge numbers etc.

If you mess it up though and place a bad call, do you load game or do you play with the consequences? Take it on the chin. I don't want to spoil the replay where I might make a different decision.

America is so vast there must be lots of gamers who would love this project. Admittedly they might be living in heavily-armed mountaintop compounds without internet access, but still...

I've had enough of saving the day. Sometimes I want to blow the day up, like in Fallout 3 with the bomb in the village. And maybe my decision to do something like that isn't just a mwuahahhahaha I'm evil sort of decision, but a really tough call. So interesting moral choices that lead to some bad **** occurring please. I know Obz can do that.

A fair point, but some of them might be tempted to take a faltering first step on the path of righteousness.

As I am already able to do all of these things in real life, I'll settle for the innate ability to cast magic missile twice a day instead.

Sorry for the poor phrase since English is not my main language. No problem. The options seemed loaded to me.

I think MMOs like WoW are popular in Japan and China. Which is to say that Western fantasy tropes are OK with those countries.

As of now that's only 220 backers to go.

Hmmm. I don't like the party camp system but I don't hate it either. What was the problem with the BG2 system? Drop off your NPCs at a tavern. Want to swap them out? Go and pick them up. It would be cool if some NPCs wandered off and left you a message (Oh, you're looking for Bob the Wizard? He said he was looking for spell components at the Tower of Mystery, he'll meet you there if you swing by"). Others might just be where you left them. The idea that the party follows you around waiting for a slot on the team is just more Bio ego-massage of the PC.

Do they need to do more to target the European audience?

This is my first experience of Kickstarter. It must be quite tough for Obsidian to keep up interest *and* develop a game in tandem, as if development is being driven by the 'shiny baubles' dynamic of stretch goals. Plus, we are all expecting something awesome for the end of the project to bump up last minute pledges. I'm one of those people who has pledged $100+ and would potentially pledge a little more (although the next tier, for me, isn't different enough for me to pledge right now, it would be prompted by a stretch goal). Plus there must be lots of people waiting to pledge. Personally, I'm just happy that this game is being made at all. I will support the game by buying any more content released for it and spreading the word online... and yes giving more money as and when I get the right trigger from Obz.

Bikini armour might be ceremonial. Any excuse to get a suit of it in somewhere. What about 'glamered' armour, i.e. armour enchanted to look like something else. Hell, a head-to-foot suit of plate might be enchanted to look like a chainmail bikini to distract male opponents. Old-skool chauvinism --- using magic to justify chainmail bikinis since 1979!

(a) it would require work (b) Turn-Based is as dead as disco (it really is) and (c ) they said they wanted to recapture the spirit of the IE games which were RTwP. I hope to partially accomodate TB fans they can put in enough autopause options as possible, but creating two parallel systems doesn't make much sense to me.