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It's intresting how simultaneousness was bad thing when we Obsidian presented durability system and demanded more "gamist" system. And now people demand more "simulationist" system, even though they use gamist terms like "tanking". To me attribute system that encourage to build more "roleplaying" roles for the characters (like charismatic leader barbarian, intelligent stealthy fighter, dumb headbashing rogue, strong warrior wizard, etc.) than "gamist" roles for the characters (like tank, damage dealer, healer, etc.) is better sounding system.

Damage + heal bonus from same attribute sounds like they plan to use wisdom or similar attribute in that. So attribute rises you characters knowledge to where to hit so that it does maximum damage. And because you know how to hurt people you have also gained knowledge where you should fix things and etc. And accuracy attribute also sound logical, as if your character has natural good aim s/he don't lose it if s/he decides to hit things instead of shooting or vise versa. Because attributes tell your characters natural ability to do things and not his or her skill to do things. This attribute style is in my opinion better than d&d system where you hit better and do more damage with large weapons if you have high strength and dextertity does same thing for finesse and missle weapons. Because it makes all attributes important to every character, which makes min-maxing harder thing to accomplish and therefore has potential ability give more room for roleplaying.

Hispanic or Latino are in offical vocabulary marked meaning ethinical groups that have their roots in Spain or ancient Hispania. Which means that hispanic people can be from any race. United States Census Bureau has five categories for race: White Black or African American Native American or Alaska Native Asian Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander And as you can see darker white skin that is typical in Mediterranean and Latin America is not marked as it own race.

RK 62 and 95 TP are my favorite assault rifles, but my opinion is absolutely biased because they are only assault rifles that I have used outside of shooting range and which I am most familiar with.

I don't think this is really true actually. I believe Aristotle showed that the world was round in the Classical era. It wasn't so much that people felt the Earth was flat and that's why Columbus was crazy. It was more that they didn't believe a trip to India would really be feasible. Didn't the church supposedly disagree with Columbus on his calculations of the earths size? I recall someone telling me they told him that he'd made it too small or something like that. If true then it means they were correct incredibly enough. Eratosthenes had caluculated almost correctly Earth size in 300 BC and that estimate was widely know among scholars in Columbu's day, but they used old fashioned messurement which caused some debate about exact size of the Earth and was reason why Columbus get his way through in the end.

In Finland we have three tier court system, first tier is local courts which verdicts both parties can appeal to court of appeals, which decions are usually final, but in some cases those verdicts, for example precedence cases, can be appealed to supreme court. This systems problem is that sometimes cases can last years before final verdict.

I think that there is something wrong if someone can stalk person and kill that person by shooting after quarrel which was caused by stalking and get out without any punishment by law because shooting can be some legal reason be seen as self defense. So I think that there are at least some problems how Florida law determine self defense especially if deathly force was used, because it seems to give people, in some circumstances, ability to harass and kill people and get out without any consequences from legal system.

RAAAAAARGH! He said CLIP! CLIIIIIP! Get the inquisition, burn him, burn him ALAAIIIIVE! For those who don't know what the hell just happened, a magazine and a clip are two very different things and its sadly a common mistake to call a mag a clip. A CLIP, also called a stripper clip is used to LOAD a magazine. Therefore a magazine cannot be a clip. It is too bad that dictionary offers clip as translation for Finnish word lipas, which in Finnish means magazine like in ditto picture (not this kind magazines, which comes to my mind when I hear/read that word, which is was reason why I choose clip from two offered choices ), when we are speaking about guns. But now I know that right translation for clip in Finnish is patruunakampa or patruunaside.

I think that my first PnP rpg was Ankh, which was Finnish clone of D&D, but soon I moved to play Rune Quest, Twilight 2000, Cyberpunk 2020 and Rolemaster (second edition and later third, and mainly MERP campaigns), I tried AD&D also but my gaming circle didn't like it as much as they liked Rune Quest and Rolemaster.

for someone who knows nothing about guns, what am I looking at? This is how clip should look when bullets are in and as you can see in upper picture bullets are somewhat differently put in the clip, which is quite feat as clips usually have quite strong spring in them. EDIT: Seems that I was too slow

What's the big drawing tablet and where can I buy one? I would say, it's a Wacom Cintiq 24 or so. And thanks for the Q&A EDIT: Wacom Cintiq 21UX or bigger display with same build

These interviews are always nice reads. It is also good to hear that there is dragon like creatures in PE's world.

I am bit disappointed that there will not be skill pool only for the combat skills, although good ability system can compensate missing skills, but I would have preferred more skill based system. As some reason I have pictured PE system so that soul based things are abilities and non-soul based things are skill based.

I usually start with default as they should be settings that are optimal for the getting familiar with the game, but if game feels too easy I usually increase difficulty or start new game on higher difficulty level.

As they already separated skills to two different pools (combat and non-combat), so that you don't need to sacrifice character combat prowess to make character good in non-combat things, thus I would say including crafting skill would not had caused character be any less capable in combat than what they are now.

I think it means that characters will use other skills to craft things. So crafting is still skill based, but there isn't specific skill just for the crafting. I am not hundred percent sure that I am right, there is always possibility that crafting will not need any skills but only recipes and ingredients.

As we have seen from past updates that obsidian often puts mechanics in updates only when they are divined about them and want to hear what backers think. So newest update told us four major things about game Item durability Crafting Crafting skill have impact on item durability And that crafting skill has impact on item durability because they want all skills to be valid choices to every member of your party. After feed back they changed things, which raised at least some valid concerns. Item durability was dropped, which is not big deal to me, even that I think that it had potential to add strategic depth in the game. Crafting skill was dropped, which is only good thing if it didn't have valid role in the game, after deciding to drop item durability. But game will still have crafting and they still plan to make every skill valid choice for every character. Which were in my opinion most important features in the update. So I didn't see Obsidian bent under complaints, but deciding to go other route that they had already thought but didn't present us, because didn't include those mechanics that some people were concerned about (mainly people feared that durability would become a chore and not be fun mechanic to play with).

Speaking about systemic money sinks, I think that tax and toll system could be fine addition there could be feudal tax for owning stronghold, that will drain your wallet, but you could make it smaller or even change it money source if you make enough effort to make your lands prosper (Which probably would mean that you need to tax your farmers and merchants heavily). Need to pay income taxes for legitimate work could be nice way to drive people to do jobs for dark side of the society. Meaning that you could become richer, but losing your reputation with some factions factions. Road and gate tolls could be also good way to sink players money stock, and it also gives some choices to run around those payments, like building ways to go around toll post, like climbing over city wall (and risk getting caught and losing reputation and need to pay fine), killing bridge guards in lone post, creating temporary bridge over the river.

Considering that backer site is side and separate project to PE, thus I would say that it don't tell us anything about PE. And it probably should be mentioned that backer site project (in my knowledge) is one mans side project what he does simultaneously with his other tasks and it isn't most urgent project, so it quite understandable that it has been delayed.

That is absolutely true, but with frequent or/and periodic updates people who aren't involved with production can get better picture how product progress, which is much harder usually do when updates are rare and random. But of course it is possible that project without any updates has managed perfectly, but outsiders don't have anyway judge if that is the case. One thing what people probably learn from Kickstarter projects is that there is reason why companies often want to get periodic and detailed reports from projects that they have funded, even if they don't do anything with them .

Steamworks offers some services that some customers and developers like, for example achievements, auto updates, connection services for multiplayer games and mod distribution and support tools. Otherwise I don't know any reason why customer would want suffer from any restrictions. Semantic or not, but if some body promises me DRM free game, then I want have its installation files and ability to install it anywhere and any computer (with right os) I want, without need to resort in installation directory copying and register hacks, as I don't want DRM free games to become more hassle to use than cracked version of the game, which is reason why I sometimes debate about semantics of meaning of DRM free.

That's not true, and I think it's been covered multiple times over in the thread already. Check the post directly above yours. Although GOG's system don't give you right to sell games forward that you have bought, as they restrict license owning to your GOG account, but you can give copy of the game anybody you want, in limits of your country's laws. You can do the same thing with DRM-free titles on Steam. In so called DRM free tittles from steam you can move and copy game to other places after you have installed it, which is not same as that there is no drm in the game or it's installation file, it only means that there is no copy protection and game don't use fixed location. This is not same as drm free, but it is quite similar, but is still some draw backs like it also means that game can't use windows register for it's features or it needs additional program to create those register files if you want to move that game to other computer.

You can't make game DRM (digital rights management) free if you put it in the steam, as steam itself is digital rights management system, meaning that it controls where you can install your games and restricts your ability make copies of that game, it don't allow you to sell or borrow game to anyone. But you can make games so that they don't have any additional restrictions to those, but that don't make them DRM-free. In GOG you get game installation file for yourself and you can install game with it to any compute you want without ever again need to log in to any GOG's service. Although GOG's system don't give you right to sell games forward that you have bought, as they restrict license owning to your GOG account, but you can give copy of the game anybody you want, in limits of your country's laws.

In my opinion cooking is fine add because it makes resting (places) good for something else than getting back your per rest abilities/spells. And it sound more interesting than resting benefits in Skyrim for example.