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^ Yes, you should. ToEE is one of those games I just weep about when I think of installing it and setting it up, but I guess Nightshape might be able to help. Did you use the circle of 8 patch? Am pretty sure that fixes it. I am thinking of doing a BG2 ironman. Edit: I don't have BG1 / TotSC installed, but if anybody is thinking of doing another IE game one a Durlag's Tower only mini-ironman would be awesome, would love to see it.

Shadowkeeper, every time. I edit her to ++ in scimitars and +++ in two-weapon style, give her the scimitar that gives 2x attacks / rd and a girdle of giant strength. Then she turns into a half-decent fighter.

It's a bug, one of many. Patch it.

^ Ha ha ha check out what the language filter did to that URL! Moderators, can you get a grip please this is ludicrous.

Am reading the Jerry Cornelius books by Michael Moorc0c..k damn that language filter! Louche, acid-trip hipster science-fantasy straight outta the 1970's you need to read this wearing a velvet smoking jacket and silver loon pants whilst taking a sip of absinthe. It's like, crazy, man. I urge you all to check it out and to get into the author, for my money one of the best sci-fi and fantasy authors of the 20th century: wiki entry for MM.

I speak as an atheist of the "I-don't-give-a-damn-about-anyone's-imaginary-friend" wing. But you are very, very wrong here. You need, with respect, to go back and take a look at some medieval and renaissance history. Christianity was a core part of what became the separation of powers, it provided early cohesive glue in a pre-nationalist age, it looked after the poor and extolled virtues essential to the development of pre-industrial society and it was the cornerstone of educational provision and attainment. It was also in parts venal and corrupt. All organised religions have a capacity for this in abundance. But Christianity before and after Luther was an important and in many ways positive feature of the ascent of Western civilization.

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B team need a thief, am happy to multi-class as Ftr / Thf, archer / dex fighter.

:: sigh :: Now I've got to find my discs, install it, fiddle around with loads of voices and mods and portraits and patches to see if the community tidied it up properly...

Maria, have you tried Titan Quest?

Yeah, Virumor is on the money with Sacred 2, a very solid hour of hack'n'slash before bedtime. Plus it's dirt cheap now.

About Gromnir, I think he'll turn up eventually to confirm or deny but I was about on the forums when BG2 came out... and I think the original GiK character was a high-WIS, low-INT barbarian. IIRC he stole the Cernd portrait for it.

Make a plan. Prosecute it violently. Do it today. General Douglas MacArthur.

Jean Cretien, PM of Canada who helped pull them out of their own financial tsunami in the 90's: The worst enemies of Capitalism are capitalists: they can never be rich enough. Note: Monte is a centre-right free-marketeer with libertarian instincts, yet I find this statement strangely compelling.

I want to be Lawful Evil and armed with a scythe whilst wearing one of those groovy ToEE coolie hats.

A shame that the movie ruins any subsequent read of the book, which is v good.

Can you eat them? They probably need slow-cooking, but I reckon with some onions, garlic and wine they'd be groovy.

You realise that grognard is a badge I wear with considerable pride, whelp?

I note with interest that people are voting for ToEE 'because they haven't played it.' Which is groovy for 'game club' but not the type of thing Tigs is doing, where familiarity is all part of the fun. Secondly, ToEE is utterly faithful to the module --- a massive push of the FAIL BUTTON because the module is a shell designed for the DM to flesh out. Something Troika in it's death throes was clearly unwilling to do. It's turn-based Diablo. It's American football without the ball. It's Doom without the shotgun. Don't get me wrong, ToEE's engine and graphics are the best and most faithful adaptation of pen and paper D&D ever adapted for the PC. But the game itself sucks. VO, portraits, music... awful. I voted IWD2 and implore others to do so. Vote IWD2. Vote returning frost dart.

IWD2, honestly, just to keep the theme going and for the returning frost dart lulz.

For now. Add India in the mid-21st century for good measure, although I suspect the USA is canny enough to make them a special ally. Full spectrum dominance isn't a game whereby you accept that your power has parity with 'X' 'Y' or 'Z'. You either have full spectrum dominance or you don't. US global power is entirely predicated on your Carrier Groups, you are precisely where the Royal Navy was circa 1900. Being a global superpower is tough. You have to explain to an unemployed single mom in Somewhere, Ohio, that her tax dollar is crucial in ensuring the free world prospers. It sucks. The alternative is worse. You need to make Europe pay for her defence, to make her create her own version of full spectrum dominance that augments, not challenges, your own. Problem is Europe remains an aspiration in defence terms and your nearest ally with any significant military capability (Britain) is broke and Mr. Obama clearly doesn't like us very much. So your bulk buying of tinned goods, Night Vision Goggles and .338 FMJ rounds is probably not as moonbat crazy as it was twenty years ago My tip? Buy three more of those carrier groups and park two off of the Gulf of Mexico.

A good point, and although I'm not that familiar with the technology can you tell? Because that would be lame.

In a bizarre inversion of 'video killed the radio star' 4E D&D was the first pen and paper RPG to actually copy computer game (specifically MMORPG) style mechanics to attract da kidz to tabletop gaming. Killing the game in a collapsing, blazing black hole of contradictory nothingness as a result.

Company of Heroes Online Beta, still. Wow, it's amazing playing different gamers. One minute you're on top of the world, an unstoppable leviathan of fiery destruction. The next you are getting pwned by a guy who knows how to use a sniper and a MG and holds up your entire advance because you can't capture one freaking fuel point. This is a very polished product. And it's free when it's released next month. And, no, I don't work for them.

Bioware's pedigree is impressive, even I will admit that. But it is Starbucks. It will have it's Starbucks moment, and if it is clever enough it will ride it out.