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I'm for additional VO especially if it adds to the ambience and colors the personality of more NPCs that we encounter in the game world. Doesn't have to be and shouldn't be full VO, but if more interactable NPCs have their first sentence recorded, that's cool. Background cacophony in busy markets and taverns is always a plus as well.

Orchestral music would be cool. ...accompanied by bawdy pirate lyrics, of course.

This is where I'm particularly glad we have Sawyer's sensibilities as Project Director.

Black Isle Bastards

Bastards of Black Isle gets my vote.

What's the fantasy equivalent of swiping right?

Keep in mind that it'll have to be representable in a badge. What do we want on it?

I was hoping for beautiful.

Bleeding Bloody Brackish Beautiful

Works better than Illegitimates.

Ondra's Oyster

Yep. There's something to be said about irony.

Well it's not an R rated forum but we can get a little PG-13 here. Just never mention the author of Man in the High Castle. It is forbidden.

Yeah, not married to any particular name. But I think there should be a consistency with the game world. And the generic Pirates, Corsairs, Mauraders, Buccaneers, etc., sound too sports teamish. It's an M rated game. Can we get a little more vulgar, maybe?

Can't we all just be Sissies?

​Is the Obsidian Order of Eternity an actual community in Eora? (as far as we know~) Yes. Technically it is canon. Didn't you get your Obsidian Order cloak?

What's the Obsidian Ocean? If referencing a geographical entity, there should be an actual consistency to the game world. A Black Isle reference - as was previously suggested, could also work.

I believe Feargus said this week. Maybe Thursday for Josh's update?

The Vailians and Rauatai have the largest naval presence in the archipelago. I suggest going Vailian which has more Latin roots. I posted earlier my suggestion for Ordo Obsidianus - in keeping with the original Obsidian Order. Why explicitly advertise the group's criminality with pirate names?

I am positively in favor of these watercolors. It makes the base game much nicer according to their own artistic aesthetics. Not Obsidian's problem If folks want to use their own custom portraits and aren't happy with the clash in styles.

Obsidian (Feargus) purposely didn't send out an email through Kickstarter because presumably he thought previous backers would have gotten the notification email from Obsidian already. He may have been mistaken.

Nah, the pledging curve is about normal. This was the original distribution from 2012. Actually, Kickstarter drew 73K. Thanks for the graph! Let's hope the closure will have a great spike!. Can't wait. Edit Actually what i'm stressing here is not the amount. Is the amount of backers. Average per backer is very high for the amount. What's actually important for a crowd funding campaign is the amount of backers IMO. So right now it's just 17K (not even 17K yet at this point of the post) vs 73K backers. The amount of interest for a game should > the amount of money pledged per backer. Yes, Deadfire is way off the pace on the number of backers compared to PE. I haven't seen nearly as much media coverage this time around.

From L to R: Adair the Rogue aka Eder the Fighter Aloth the Wizard Forton aka Zahua the Monk Cadegund, Priestess of Magran Sagani the Ranger

You'll get the opportunity to pick your size and enter your shipping address after the campaign when we are transitioned over to Obsidian's backer portal here on this site.

The player character and companions will have their own watercolor style portraits that will be utilized in this UI. We all agree it looked very odd to have the fully painted portraits alongside the NPC portraits. I seriously dislike this. It's like BG1 -> BG2 all over again. I prefer portraits from BG1 more than BG2. Mike Sass made the portraits for The BG series. He went away from the BG1 style because they were actually modeled by Bioware employees. The internet was mean and made fun of their looks. So he changed them up for BG2. Improvements in my opinion. But the IWD/IWD2 portraits by Jason Manley and Justin Sweet are the gold standard.