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Man this sounds terrible. Dying from couple blows when character's health is very low?

I know that one should always take critical view to design ideas, but it so hard when you agree every sentence in the proposal.

So many pretty pictures and they aren't even finnished yet, so I think that final game will look awesome. Update also tells why it's always risk to take sabbaticals, some always changes tools in work when you take one and they never tell you about it

I remember a revenge quest in the City Elf origin, where a human noble claims jus primae noctis and kidnaps you or your soon-to-be wife. But you rode in and saved the day before anything even happened. And you didn't have time to get to know the would-be-victims before the quest. I don't remember anything about a rape in the Brecilian Forest. Did it happen before you even got there? Didn't happen to your or one of your companions, anyway, so it's not the same thing. Graphical rape doesn't have to pornographic. It could just be a short cutscene that fades to black before anything really happens. Yes, implied rape is pretty common, but it's rarely used to move the plot forward. Usually it's just there to showcase how dark and gritty the setting is, and that's exactly what I don't want. And there are plenty of good examples of rape in literature. I don't see how it's any less imaginative than murder is. In city elf orgin quest your cousin gets raped, or that implication I get when I read those dialogs. Brecillian forest quest if you look through all lore hints, you find out that elf leader has cursed human population which members raiped his daughter to werewolves and he don't want curse removed even hundred years later because I his opinion towns people are not punished enough. In Leliana's Song add-on it is implied that Leliana is raped by castle guards and she goes to revenge mission. My opinion is that there is no need for graphical rape in games or even for graphical sex scenes. I think that implied ones are much better than grapical scenes that usually only rise shared sense of shame in me than anything other. And such scenes make even less sense in PE style game were is camera is fixed far from characters and where text is used usually instead of cut scenes. Revenging murder of loved one or family member is not any better character motivation than revenging rape. Revenge is in my opinion very poor character motivation device and should be used only very rare occasions and even then one should try invent some twists to that. I haven't seen any good examples of rape in literature, best they are decend ones, but usually when rape is used as plot device it just causes storys level to drop (again my opinion).

In my opinion first is only sub group of the second. I haven't seen any revenge rape quests in any media, they are usually just trying to be dark and edgy and rape don't actually add anything else than easy dark start to story, These kind of cheap motivations and quest should be avoided if there isn't very good reason add them. The reason is to make you feel. To make you crave revenge because you care for the victim. Or at least want to help him/her through it (if your character doesn't believe in revenge). In most games, they do that by killing off the character's parents or something like that. People you don't know and have probably never even met. It's nowhere near as poignant, and it's been done to death. Why is it cheap? It's a pretty common plot in literature, both classical and contemporary. And in films. But for some reason, it seems to be taboo in games. Sure, sometimes a character will hint at the fact that s/he was raped in the past, or a character is about to get raped when the hero rides in and saves him/her. But to actually have it happen during the game...? Apart from Phantasmagoria, I can't think of a single game in which a character is raped (that isn't some stupid hentai game). It's common plot device in literature because it is easy way to motivate character and don't need any imagination from writer. And it is common in games too, for example in dragon age there is several rapes and even plot for revenge for rape (dispute between werewolfs and elves). And dragon age is not only one. Graphical rape is not so common, but some games have even that. But graphical rape is just explanation which should be avoided in all serious works (my opinion), because it really don't add anything to game/s.

In my opinion first is only sub group of the second. I haven't seen any revenge rape quests in any media, they are usually just trying to be dark and edgy and rape don't actually add anything else than easy dark start to story, These kind of cheap motivations and quest should be avoided if there isn't very good reason add them.

And by kickstarters rules and agreements pledgers would have right to demand their money back in case which Obsidian (or any other project creator in kickstarter) don't deliver rewards which they have promised. So taking DRM free version in this point of the table would probably be more damaging than what pirates could ever do. As some people would see that orginal offer for drm free version was only marketing ploy to get more backers for the project and they would probably cause bad press for the project and Obsidian itself, which could cause monetary lose even in the far future. Greed company digma is easy to get, but much harder to get rid off.

I still have horror pictures about starforce (3 and 3.5 i think) as it caused that I could not play several games that I had bought as it's virtual drive worked badly in windows xp and it didn't and still not work in windows vista or newer windows. Additionally newer version of starforce virtual drive didn't support games using older version. And so I would say that copy protection that needs you to crack it that you can play games that you have bought legally is not way to go even if it is difficult to crack.

Not all steam games are DRM. DRM isn't necessarily the answer. All games in your steam account have some sort drm as you can't install them without steam and you can't sell your licence forward if steam don't allow it and even then you must follow steam's rules not laws of your country.

DRM solutions that really can stop or significantly slow piracy cost nearly as much as PE's whole budget is. DRM's like steamworks are more to invented to stop selling of used licences than to stop piracy. But if game in kickstarter would say that it will have more complex drm than what steam offers, I would not give money for it and this is because I don't want fund some unknow drm making company, but game makers themselves and kickstarter projects are mostly risk free for gamemaker's as they get funding for their games before they are done, and so piracy isn't similar economic risk for kickstarted games as it is for publisher funded games, usually.

well... the weakness of that armor should be clear to anyone with an intelligence score above 3. everything is covered i steel but your genitels get red velvet? Reason for no genital protection is that it is cavalry armour and men on horse back is very hard to hit on their genital area. But of course if horse dies under its wearer, then it becomes as weakness.

Nice metal lamellar armour

This has strangely fancy look in it Another fancy plate And then a red head in plate armour

That is most certainly not made of metal chain. It's sequined fabric. Besides, you might as well propose a chainmail hobble-skirt. It is acctually made from real metal if I am understanding correctly fashion blogs that speak about it. But your are correct it has very bad design to work as an armour.

There should be Cheetaurs, if there is any bestial races .

You're not related to ancient Rome, its people, or its culture. You're not Latin. Most Americans might describe you as "Latino", but we all know how ignorant they are in foreign culture/history. Some people from Spain may call themselves as Latins, because most cities from the Community of Catalonia and Valencia (Plus several others from the Kingdom of Castile and Lion), were founded by the Roman Empire. Should we not call the Finns Uralic, just because Finland is nowhere near the Ural mountains and the Finnish culture has more in common with other (Indo-)European cultures than it does with... the Samoyedic culture, for instance? That's not how it works. Yeah, we should use Finno-Ugric term as it emphases more Finnish than Uralic, there is so few speakers of Samoyedic languages, that we should change descriptive term to more appropriate one .

This topic brings to my mind SPANC and but sad thing is that I don't if it is good or bad thing

Speaking of chain mail dresses here is full length one, with design that would offer some protection if made of some magical metal like mithril, but probably one should not wear it in fight even then as it limits so much leg movement.

That sound very much like Fable series.

Nice interview but one thing still bothers me, what is your favorite whiskey irish or scotch or woo woo (everything that aren't irish or scotch)

Amount of gore should be fit with game's aesthetic style. Lots of gore don't probably fit fairytale styled game, but overtoped game like Fallout it fits like good glove.

Tolkien's elves are best that I know in fantasy literacy, but I like also elves in Halfblood Chronicles.

Agree about manuals today. I used to like the thick paper manuals for RTS/builder games, where they'd give you all kinds of info on unit stats, requirements, and the like. Number crunching kinds of stuff that I could refer to. They don't do that much anymore. I miss those manuals very much

I don't see equipment matter so much as every class have different way to access to power that his or her soul offer. So monk in full plate and sword will work differently from fighter with same equipment as they boost themselves differently. As it is somewhat confirmed that every character can use any equipment and PE's rule system tries to it best to make all equipment builds as viable choice, so I think the question with monks (and other classes) is that will their soul power and game mechanics support viable unarmed build. Concepts about Forton somewhat hint that there will be viable unarmed build, but one can't be sure if drug using masochist is good example about subject.