Drakron

Sawyer my point is the magic missile is not that mush powerful, it can be offset by a simple spell of the same level. Also I seen a lot more broken spells in D&D, I remenber a druid spell that was worded in such a way it end up being a "Save and die" spell. We cannot say D&D spells are broken, I can point out "Physical Shield" of Fable (since cRPGs were brought up) is a hell of a broken spell, having it on means no worry over being knocked out and in efect making the mana bar a second health bar.

Sorry Hades but we still go over looks, a ugly duckling might became a swan but we are always going to look at the swan, not the duckling. Also a lot of women act dumb because they percive (rightly) males like women that are not as smart as they are ... kinda a offset of the natural male protective instict.

Wrong, Mannan trial gives no force points either resolution, the only place it does is during a dialogue choice still on the investigation. There is no "right" or "wrong" way to deal with that quest by design, both ending also the same reward in terms of XP.. In fact people get anoyed because of that since it deeps down to the player making a choice and having to live with it and not having the game saying a choice is good or evil.

Well that depends on what my spellcaster knows, if I am a DM and my spellcaster knows the party he knows who are the magical inclined part members and target then first. If they dont know, they "play by ear" ... wizards and sorcerors tend to be unarmored and they cast spells at some point, making it obvious they are spellcasters, its possible to confuse bards with wizards and sorcerors but they tend to use their bardic abilities to buff up the party but we can never be sure with multiclassing.

Its also something that is nullified by Magic Shield, a common lv1 spell usually in the "must have" list of spellcasters and casted before going into battle, at least it was something I keep active to protect my spellcasters from ranged attacks, be it magic missiles, arrows, bolts or bullets (from slings). Also in my experiance the first target of a magic missile happens to be enemy spellcasters that have access to that spell.

Issues are many, you can forget fast paced dungeon crawls with the system for example. Star Wars d20 ties force powers with vitality so the system have been done to a point (since vitality appears to be a fatigue system), the issue is that the Force system was based on the Force and not in magic, in fact the vitality system is a way to keep a check in force users.

Because there are mana potions laying around to be used and mana tends to regenerate as time passes unlike hp. Also to balance things mana tends to be used for melee special attacks and you start to see the ability to jump up and strike the enemy with a spear being tied with the ability to animate bones or call lighting from the sky. It can be done right, after all the vitality system of Star Wars is a "mana pool".

Volourn means the blood point system but its tied to other things and a blood poll cannot be expanded except by lowering generation (at least in VtM) so there are a lot of checks to make sure its not abused. There is a Mage system in World of Darkness but I am not familiar with it, also Werewolves uses a system similar to the blood poll but get a diferent name and its naturaly not tied with drinking blood. The fact is the "Fire and Forget" system works for D&D and alter it would turn it into something else, there is nothing wrong in not like the way D6D deals with magic but to change it is going to mess things up more that turning THAC0 into BAB.

The issue is the power curve,even a lv1 wizard can put a entire room to sleep and leave then vunerable to coup-de-grace. Yes he is weak but as he gains levels his weakness became less and less and the fighter just starts to became a puppet against a wizard unless he have anti-charm gear. Problem with D&D is a lot of people look at it on a MMORPG mentality and wants a lv1 wizard to be equal to a lv1 thief as the game is about cooperation of diferent classes and the wizard role is support.

I am being serious about it, the saying "nice guys finish last" is quite true. The fact is women are as shallow as we guys and guys that are aware they attract women tend to treat then as crap (since they have more waiting in line). Worst is women are very mean to each other, unlike us that pretty much follow some kind of "code of conduct", women appear to be stop at nothing just to be able to win over another so they dont care if some guy is a jerk if he is desired by other women, they only care about beating the other women.

Chicks dig jerks.

I dont like arcade games.

I will buy ... something else.

I wonder how realistic it is ... you know, executing unarmored injured POWs and all ...

No, rouge jedi are (most) female jedi that wear too much makeup. And sorry there is no "grey side", the Star Wars universe is quite clear there is a light side and a dark side and using the dark side means they became evil, any force user that starts to use the dark side is only going down that path futher. Mind you there is a way from the dark side but that means stop using it. As for Jolee ... remenber one thing, he was grey because he never gone out of his way to help others or to harm others, he was not using the dark side.

Classes are hardcored and there will be no extras for the PC version.

Since all classes have the same BAB progression Guardian class is useless with his bad saves and higher HP progress being offset with the "war veteran" feat (automatic given) that just gives free 25 HP to everyone. From what I seen the Sentinel is the best class a lot due to the weaking of the other classes strenghts.

Expect some PC expecific bugs and the absense of some Xbox bugs.

And after he is done with it, he can actually fly the real thing. Mind you I never played it but I did IL-2 demo and those flight sims are more close to Microsoft Flight Simulator that to Wing Commander, I do miss Origin flight sims ...

Yes and no, in some (rare) cases there is clan expecific dialogue ... I remenber when playing a toreador I always end up insulting the nossies. Malkavians dialogue options are completly diferent written but they lead pretty much the same lines that the other clans.

Its a stop sign actually.

They did it because they were tired of KotOR fans flooding then asking for it.

OXM is a piece of crap ... sorry a biased piece of crap, I just get it (from time to time) to laugh over their statements (who tend to be "known PC games will be ported to the Xbox" and "PS2 sucks", I read one anwer to a letter that said that and confirmed that GTA:SA would come to the Xbox) and in case I run out of toilet paper I can use it to wipe my ass.

Problem with that. First, game boxes have stickers with review scores and gotY labels, game ads display the same things including passes of review scores. So its without a question that review scores play part of marketing. Second, on the "dog eat dog" world of game magazines having a exclusive review of a highly anticipated game can mean selling a lot more issues of their magazine and lets not highly anticipated games are created by the hype machine, the publisher own marketing division. Third, the "true state" of a game becames irrelevent since its the first weeks that matter and on the consumer market of these days people tend to rush out and get the game instead of waiting (I did that with Driv3r, that lesson was learned) with means they get a lot of sales (shops no longer acept games because we dont like then) they would not get if the game have a lower score.

I dont own one. I use OXM as reading material in case I run out of toilet paper.