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W.L. Weller Special Reserve.

I've always liked the idea of beating the antagonist at their own game, which they think they've mastered, without them ever noticing until the dramatic reveal that they've played right into your hands. There's nothing I'd like to see more than an arrogant, conceited villain getting out-villained.

A Nobel laureate is someone who's received a Nobel Prize, not a Nobel Prize. Or are you asking for your own personal Peter Higgs to put on display?

The invisible hand wins again. CHECK AND MATE, ENVIROTERRORISTS. Now let's cut down some mother****ing trees, America.

Maybe a bit off-topic but you can actually melee with a mage. So maybe... Grimoire bash > cowardly teleportation (how does a straight rogue even teleport?)

I haven't played the game, so of course my many complaints about a game whose systems I know next to nothing about are extremely legitimate. Also I'm offended by certain colors which other people can't see. Addendum: Waaaaaaaaah! Post-script: ABLOOBLOOBLOO!! Does anyone have one of Obsidian's undoubtedly garbage design docs I can wipe my snot-covered face with?

Excellent job researching your project beforehand! So is this the Widmer brewery that you went to? I haven't been to that one yet, I'll have to make a trip there. I've done tours at Gordon Beirsch and Deschutes, as well as a bunch of smaller breweries. Yeah, Widmer Bros. in North Portland. Old vanguard of the local craft beer movement/industry (started in the year of my birth, less than a mile away, an auspicious coincidence.) Gasthaus/pub open daily, tours are on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. I didn't go for the tour, obviously, not being a tourist in my own neighborhood. Even in the developing world, people are willing to make nutritional sacrifices to get TVs and cellphones. Sort of like how certain ethnic minorities in the US buy luxury cars (BMW, Benz, etc.,) instead of, say, saving that money to send their kids to college. Testament to the power of capitalist consumerism in the world today.

Prosper, obviously. He'll teach you everything there is to know about good character design and 3D modeling.

Thank you gifts should go to his parents.

Again, I apologize if I was somehow unclear, but I think people are missing one of the main points of what I've said thus far: I'm looking at crafting that specifically doesn't involve random people becoming master artisans despite spending ultra-extensive amounts of time artisaning, but is still interesting and varied crafting that allows for a lot of useful progress and creation to occur. Not "Hey, I think we should be able to make swords out of melted frogs, magically. That way, there's no need for artisan skill! ^_^" We're obviously in agreement on the "No TES-style laymen becoming master craftsmen through smacking an anvil 5000 times," but my point was that the research you were stressing wouldn't result in a competent level of skill in any given field of craftsmanship, because, like with all skills, it's "practice makes perfect," not "read enough books and your motor skills will reprogram themselves as though they'd had a decade of experience."

Who is "we"? If it resulted in a net financial loss then, yes, it would be a waste... Only the sales numbers/profits from Polish sales of IE games would be a good gauge of the value.

He's not obligated to read anything written in the subhuman grunts from which the psuedo-language of "English" is composed. I still don't understand this obsessive desire to see real-world medieval military equipment replicated with 100% accuracy in a fantasy world in which Charlemagne and the HRE and so on never existed (what with it not being Earth and all that jazz.)

A mumbo jumbo invented language is more believable than using Latin in a context in which Latium never existed, as it's not even Earth. That's even taking into account the practicality of pretending the game is English dubbed in place of the fictional native language of the world in question. Besides, Hellenic/Ancient Greek is superior. Latin is just another gibberish of "BARBARBARBAR" that civilized people can't understand and have no reason to make an effort to do so. It's no surprise that Latin died out after the fall of Rome while Greek endured.

Geography, **** yeah! I want to live in a post-apocalyptic world simply for the sake of making geographer a valid career choice once again. It's not like anyone's going to be mapping any exoplanets any time soon. Might as well wreck the only one we've got for the sake of a niche career opportunity.

An AO rating?

When taking a break from P3P; TH14 or BG:EE. Here's a log of how things are playing out in BG: MISS MISS MISS MISS MISS MISS MISS MISS MISS I don't understand why a magic class starts out without any spells. Addendum: Or why your first companion is an archer. That's a recipe for disaster, there. Who better to act as a meat shield than the squishy mage with soft hands like a baby's bottom from a life of page turning, which did not apparently include turning the pages of spellbooks, given the total lack of spellcasting capabilities.

Walked to Widmer, drank Hefe, staggered back home, somehow. Started biology research project. Unironically related to yeast.

Last I heard, it was UK muslims who held signs saying "BEHEAD THOSE WHO INSULT ISLAM," so it's not really a surprise. I already heard this on the BBCWS, what was funny was the Imam speaking out managed to make Islam look bad (in the Western view,) at the same time, comparing people who get piercings and/or tattoos to criminals who've made "the wrong choice" in life.

10/10, would get trolled again.

Most of Sun Tzu's advice was basically common sense to keep hotheaded/brash/arrogant commanders from biting off more than they could chew.

Only if categories of randomized loot are restricted to certain types/classes of enemies. i.e. No rats should ever have a stomach full of coins. The only loot you should ever be able to obtain from animals should be meat, hides, etc. Poor people shouldn't have gilded ornamental swords unless they happen to be a thief who stole it from a noble who hired you to retrieve it.

Knight is a noble title, semantics. Priests aren't "employed," they're devoted to their religion. They don't get a salary from the Pope. Protestant preachers aren't part of any bureaucratic heirarchy, they're independent and the only qualification they have is their reputation and their charisma/ability to rile people up. Priests, bishops, cardinals and the like were never chained to a pulpit. These are people who were just as subject to exile, defamation and assassination as any other member of the elite in medieval times. As for gladiators (who, along with knights, aren't a class in P:E,) they were, for the most part, slaves who fought to entertain the masses in the Roman era. They were trained and utilized methods of combat which had no value to actual warfare (nobody ever went into a real battle with a trident and fishing net.) tl;dr It's not an issue because none of your concerns are present in the game so far as anyone is aware. Dreadnought is a specific term with specific origins that does not fit what you are describing. If you're so desperate for barbarians to not be called barbarians you should propose an original term and not a term which comes from the real world and blatantly doesn't fit the qualities of a "barbarian" in RPG parlance. Keeping in mind that "barbarian" is from ancient Greek and refers simply to "anyone who does not speak Greek." Which is a euphemism for "lesser peoples who are not civilized, as the Hellenes are the only civilized people on Earth." Barbarians in most RPGs exist in worlds where Hellas and Hellenes don't exist, so it's not even an appropriate term to begin with. Like Dreadnought.

Nobody is expecting this game to be like TES where some goon who escaped from prison can became the most bestest blacksmith ever to live in Tamriel in a matter of days. Obviously the player should not be able to become a master smith unless they choose to start as a smith's apprentice and spend 30+ years smithing to become a master smith. Obviously neither of those scenarios is going to occur in P:E. Anyway, research/knowledge only goes so far. You can follow the cookbook recipe, but that doesn't mean you can perfectly pull it off the first time, especially if it's a process that takes precise actions and timing that only an experienced practitioner would have down. Which isn't even taking into consideration the fact that smiths in reality didn't write down recipe books or conduct scientific activities. Smiths passed down their techniques and skills from master to apprentice, not through fancy pants book learnin'.

Cowardice is a personality trait, not a contextual state of emotion. Practicing the old idiom "discretion is the better part of valor" and rationally recognizing a situation where you know you can't win and thus you should extract yourself from said situation isn't the same as being a coward. "Forcing players to be cowards" takes away player agency and ruins any semblance of RPing by forcing words or emotions or qualities onto the player character, when said character is supposed to be a product of the player, not a product of the developers/writers.

From MW: "Definition of DREADNOUGHT 1: a warm garment of thick cloth; also : the cloth 2 [Dreadnought, British battleship] a : battleship b : one that is among the largest or most powerful of its kind First Known Use of DREADNOUGHT 1806" So... in terms of definition and in terms of historical perspective, no. First known use is during the Industrial Revolution, not exactly P:E's setting, first known use had to do with textiles/clothing, not exactly what you're describing. That's not even counting the actual military history of the short-lived ship designation. What you're looking for is something like "berserker." Or "moron."