Kage Tempest

Yep, what this guy said, Just make sure you still have access to the kickstarter account and email you used for the kickstarter.

Sounds like a great Idea. But like others that were concerned has voice, something like this shouldn't be a very common occurrence we should also think of the logistics of implementing a system like this. R&D is really costly >.< and I doubt obsidian has the funds to put towards something like this. Maybe in an expansion?

What if.... all those places with insides that are a lot bigger than the outsides are all actually... get this... TARDIS's!!!!!1111111 ohohhohohohohoho Ok ok, I kid I kid but for the forgotten realms universe you can easily explain that some of those places are actually dimensional pockets funded by very wealthy people.... that is until you summon an extraplanar creature and NOT be sucked into another dimension or are unable to summon said creature in the first place, or you realize that the place that is a lot bigger on the inside looks like and functions as a hovel in normal society.

Everyone appears to know you as a troll, well I am relatively new to these boards. Therefore, I will Humor you. I have no self image, my self esteem is so low in fact, that I would rather create characters and live in a fantastical world than contemplate my day to day life since it is so depressingly boring, mundane, and loveless outside of my own family. I have no prospects for marriage as my finances are purely dependent on hand outs from family for the moment, I really have no room to grow but sideways Until I gain the credentials needed for a better job. So to answer your question, No, it does not bother me in the least. It is fun to dwell in the realms of fantasy, but reality is always there, like the horror at the end of "Apocalypse Now," waiting in the shadows to devour your own immortal soul. Are you satisfied mr. Troll?

I feel PE has a great opportunity to use tracks from lesser known artists to give them greater exposure for their good talent

Excellent Update :D

>.=.> <.=.< Well given my avatar is also an anthropomorphic feline of a sort, I have no choice but to support this thread and advocate a playable feline race. If the Amaumau were a feline race it would still make sense because everyone knows cats love fish :3.

Congratulations upon your success :D

Congratulations Obsidian!

Sounds interesting, but if something like this is ever implemented... it has to be optional. Sounds like something WE can do for fun once we get more information about the world.

Heh, I think most people do. In my case as is the case of many others, I like to escape from my reality and subject my mind to endless possibilities.

Oh. Mah. Loarrrrrrrrrd! How could I Forget Okku!!!!!! But seriously, a flying CRT Monitor with limbs? Sweet. What did they do?

You speak the truth about the latter section of your response. But being someone that has never played Planescape Torment I am ignorant of what bounties it may offer in terms of interesting companions, would you care to enlighten this scatterbrained fool?

Hello Forumites and Members of the Obsidian Order. Given what has been revealed about the world thus far and the overall theme of the playable races revealed, it is to my understanding that we will be given a pallete of tolkien-esque playable races that may or may not be flavored in ways to make them interesting and not generic. Obviously if all the playable races were something odd like bug men, alien like slugs with psedopods for vocal speech with multiple eyes, ghosts and ghouls, or anthropomorphic/magical Animals like Gnolls, Dires Tigers, and Werebears [oh my!], then the more hard core RPG players from the 70s to early 90s will most likely drop the project altogether. Not to mention it would make it exceedingly difficult to make a compelling story centered around your actions as said creature in a different type of game world. So with these little tidbits of exposition in mind after that huge run on sentence that would make most editors consider the euthanization of such a person as I, consider the companions. Several Companions have been revealed to us already, all of them human or human looking, though the guy that looks like a mage may not be human [he kinda reminds me of the scholarly Illum from D&D]. Other than the basic and predictable backstories following human mercenaries looking for work with a troubled love life, or perhaps the scholar with his own agenda after professing interest of some sort of otherworldly quality of yourself, what sort of stories and interesting perspectives may be expressed by these companions? The Baldur's Gate Series, the Neverwinter Nights Series, Even Dragon Age have all, very successfully I might add, made me care deeply for the campions I chose to travel around with. But even then, I began to grow bored of the fact that they come from the expected and tried and true backgrounds [other than Minsc]. This Brings me to my actual point of this poorly worded Dissertation, Companions. Dragon Age Origins: Pebble[That Pessimistic Golem Statue thing with the lisp and odd sense of Humor] NeverWinter Nights 2: Neeshka[Had to Mod her to give her the Tiefling Tail] Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer: That Ghost Wraith Thing of Evil Doomy Doomyness Neverwinter Nights 2: Storms of Zehir: The Lizard Man that Guides you to his Chief Neverwinter Nights: Hordes of the Underdark: Mother Fracking[the kind where you use high presure of water to break of rock for oil] DEEKIN [The Kobold Bard of awesomesauce that may or may not multiclass into Dragon Disciple and become a winged Kobold of fire breathing goodness] Neverwinter Nights: Kingmaker: The Solar outsider, The WereRat What do all of these companions have in common? They are all Non Human and Come from very different baackgrounds. Why do they matter? They bring very interesting, if sometimes humorous, perspective on things in general. They allow you to view their race or their circumstance with a perspective that is otherwise unavailable when fighting their patron races be they lizard men, golems, undead, kobolds, were creatures, and planar outsiders. I feel Project Eternity can greatly benefit, story telling wise, with a companion that is not any of the playable races and is out of the Tolkien "norm." I am currently not quite sure how it would fit with Project Eternity Lore, or how awesome the team behind making the companions actually are in creating interesting and memorable characters. Creating Companions based off of class or racial stereotypes can indeed railroad the character of that Companion into a specific path, but I for one believe that creating exotic and very different companions can add more to the game than it would detract. I am not sure how my thoughts will be viewed/praised/flamed, but please talk away, I am happy to discuss things as long as things stay civil. P.S. I am not crazy nor on the verge of a nervous breakdown, Just trying to express myself after being subjected to days of boredom and instant insanity puzzles [Look up Instant insanity puzzles and realize my dilemma] P.P.S. Thank you for reading, I hope you had fun.

When I heard that part of the update regarding barbaric elves, I immediately thought of this web series along with an Elven Barbarian named Edda In some of the later episodes she faints from exhaustion :D that -2 to con.

I think the real question we should be asking ourselves in relation to this topic is this: What exactly is a "monk"? Westerinized media / tropes puts a lot of emphasis on the fighting, the physical perfection combined with the mental focus. Inevitably, since this is a game from which half of its bread and butter is indeed combat, we may think they are very adept martial artists that uses their inner strength/chi/spiritual energy/whatever else you want to call discipline but what about the aspects of what monks are about mental training, knowledge, and self reflection? Given the emphasis on souls in this game, I think Monks may end up being some sort of Gish like class with a greater focus on the spiritual aspects and soul manipulation through themselves as the conduit and beneficiary of their power over their soul.

I don't see what the big hubub is about that supposed boob armor. It doesn't look very cumbersome and it does look like it serves a purpose if the warrior woman in question is very endowed in the area. I mean seriously folks, If that is boob armor then I'd argue scale or plate mail in the crotch armor are provocative cod pieces. My imagination of "Boob" armor is the armor on the fake magazine that was shown in "The Gamers: Dorkness Rising" when they tried to get the girl gamer to use a character that had "breast Plate" which pretty much amounted to two circles over her chest while her midriff was exposed and a "Broad Sword"...

Anaeme's idea sounds very good and I definitely agree with him on the Dragon Age character creator example. It made a large difference for me when I decided to get the game. I was intrigued by the abilities that were available to choose from and the choices I had to make.

Yes, Yes, oh Gawd Yes. Do Want, Nao. Combat logs made neverwinter nights and baldurs gate very interesting. I was able to pretty much map out which of my characters in my party were pulling their weight so to speak.

I like the new dungeon idea and as a means of growing it I hope each level is quite large, because if I am understanding this correctly, we are currently at 3 levels right? Realistically speaking I think we might get another 20k backers by the time this is over so we are looking at maybe another 8 floors for a grand total of 11?

People would be disappointed (as it was announced for the 50k backers) and I don't really see the benefit. Or what do you mean? The news would have greater impact if both of the goals coincide. Given current trends though there is a large chance that it won't happen until tomorrow. I don't know, there really isn't any real logic behind my particular opinion.

we've got a fair bit to 2.2 million though . I think they shoudl wait until the two goals coincide before releasing their awesome news. Even if it ends up being in the wee hours of tomorrow morning for Americans.

I don't know guys, I think they are being conservative about their stretch goals because they don't want to take a bite they can't chew or rather promise more than they can offer. A lot can happen in a year and a half and from a company stand point they still have to make money in terms of the work put into it.

Thank you.

I've pledged 118 for the digital collectors under my kick starter account. I am not sharing the same e-mail though so.... how would I verify? message the global mod watching this thread my e-mail for my kickstarter for e-mail notification?