NerdBoner

this kind of whining makes me think you have obviously never played infinity engine games, either that or you just don't know how to play mages...because if you did you'd know that mages and sorcerer's were so damn overpowered they were near game breaking. soloing a mage through Baldur's gate is easy peezy, soloing a fighter a cleric or a bard? not so much...

this is a rather unexpected topic from what i thought was a veteran crpg community... i would hope, and assume, that player skills come into play only when solving puzzles (perhaps aided by character intellect) and when using tactics in battle...the rest of the time it should be character skill. lets be real, how many of us know sh1t about tracking? i assume that will be a character skill, not a player one. (example)

yeah, i like the idea of magic being taxing on the body and mind through fatigue much more than spell cool-down and/or sleep memorization magic (vancian)... i'd say go even further with it: for example, once a mage reaches a fatigue breaking point he can continue casting spells but suffers an increasingly higher % rate of outright death (or perhaps even insanity aka going berserk) by doing so. It will make you really have to pick your battles and whether or not the encounter is worth your life (especially if resurrection is difficult to come by - as it should be) edit: fatigue beyond a certain point of course can only be removed through rest or perhaps a special ritual etc. (not cocaine stamina potions)

really? i felt it had a touch of IWD to it...natury but more mystical.

Breasts and their depiction, apparently, are now indicative of the quality of a game... oh no, how will I live without basking in the attention of a single lonely mangina? please, tell me... WHAT WILL I DO?!

ugh, people make such a big deal about this...there are a million and one more relevant issues to be concerned with than whether or not an NPC's **** can fit into her breast plate or not.

unequipable item...the backstory goes that Eadir's father was an animal tamer and his dying wish (after he was brutally mauled by a dire charmed lion) was that Eadir always go into battle with it and never let anyone else use it for any reason whatsoever.

I'd so prefer it if they were actually 2-3 months from launch and this Kickstarter stuff was just so the dev team can treat themselves to a truckload of cocaine and call girls.

what, they have sewers in the wilderness now? no? then yeah, we'll be seeing a city.

i really like the idea of long bladed chains...sounds like a very difficult weapon to use and master.

played them all, anyone who hasn't is an *expletive deleted*

NWN was all prefab 3D models and tileable terrain, which made it easy to design an accessible toolset. From what I understand (and I could be way off here, but whatever this is the place for speculation), PE backgrounds will be a mix of large pre-rendered scenes done in some combination of 3D and art softwares and "true" 3D models (with animations, lighting normals and whatever else the renderer will need to draw the scene). The pre-rendered backgrounds themselves probably will not be just straight images - likely they will need to contain proprietary data for lighting and pathfinding, among other stuff. It doesn't sound like PE can support a similar type of toolset as NWN, and unless you are 3D artist with the right software it probably won't be easy to modify maps at all. That said, they could offer a measure of mod-ability by exposing their data, art assets and formats - I just wouldn't expect anything near to the NWN toolkit. In fact, I'd be pretty suprised if there was an announcement of any sort of toolkit, even a rudimentary one (as much as I would like it). not even an Infinity Engine Editor Pro or a WeidU?

oh, i'm filling my piggy bank and saving it for the very last minute...hopefully I can swoop down right at the very end and push us over that last stretch goal... then I"LL BE THE HERO AND GET ALL THE WOMEN YEAH! i'll have done a good thing.

the only reason I even brought this topic up is because it will be using 3D/2D backgrounds...now i'm not exactly sure what that means yet but if there's even the slight possibility of a toolset then i'll be there on the front lines begging and groveling for it.

I can't tell you how many awesome, purely awesome, mods of ALL types came from what was frankly a less than stellar single player game (when compared to its IE predecessors). IMO it spawned a short golden age in the cRP community that allowed Joe (or Josephina) Average to tell some great stories and implement some truly fun gameplay mechanics. I played long multi-module campaigns comparable to the IE greats in terms of storytelling and gameplay as well as smaller, more impact-full mods that i remember to this day. if it's not possible with the current funding I'd really like to see that as a stretch goal. A healthy modding community, well equipped with the proper tools can make a game last far beyond it's years...truly a project "Eternity"...

One step closer to unique and beautiful snowflake status baby!!!!!

to fund my upcoming donation to Eternity... but fear not, I have the power of Modes on my side! see you bltches on the path of the damned! oh god dammit, i'm gonna be living under a bridge by the time Obsidian is done with me.

i want fallout 1 style crazy random encounters...

being able to bend reality even in a limited sense lends itself to eccentricities...truth be told i bet most of them are free balling it too.

you must use that name and avatar on every board! I recognize it from NF hahaha

Dating Sim: the Revenge

say, have these wooden shacks been...fire proofed?

I'll probably only play a Human fighter and get bored of the game 15 minutes in because it makes me read too much.

hahaha you guys remember in NWN how you could craft some crazy **** like +10 weapons? oh god, those were the days!

I want it EXACTLY like it was in EVERY SINGLE IE GAME !!!! /madface