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Anything in PnP form with a decent GM. No video game can hold a candle to your imagination, good companions, and snacks.

To summarize: tastes vary.

Think I'll just ignore any threads with SPOILER-ish titles.

Go England!

This is a NO-SPOILERS forum. We do have spoiler forums for this sort of thing. Please don't spoil it for those of us who are holding off playing. Thank you.

Please take it to a SPOILER forum. Thank you.

"Deploy SPOILERS; prepare to ruin game for everybody." "Aye, Captain."

PoE sold 500,000 units, including backers, after 5 months. https://www.gamespot.com/articles/pillars-of-eternity-reaches-new-sales-milestone/1100-6431677/ PoE2 has been out 2 months, with 200,000 (+33K backers) units sold on Steam. So... I don't see a reason to be negative at this point.

What's next? A wand of wonder?

I have to suspect that, with the best S. American players being contracted to play for teams in Europe, other nation's players have adapted to their skill set. It isn't that they are less talented than before; just that other players have grown better.

It depends a lot on how difficult it is to break into that arena. The investment bar is high and not every game gets widely accepted, so for a smaller game company it's potentially a huge risk. They may need outside investment to make a go of it.

Valve is supposedly working on a replacement for Steam Spy, so we'll find out at some point. https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/07/valve-working-on-more-accurate-replacement-for-steam-spys-sales-data/

Go England!!!

Thanks for the SPOILER in the NO SPOILERS forum. People can't read.

I love the unpredictability of this crazy World Cup.

So probably cipher/rogue then for added sneaky solutions to role-playing quests?

Personally I'd prefer something in between. Let the player have a limited set of selected spells that they can cast per encounter, then add in a magical focus that provides additional spell themes -- say up to 1 additional spell/level, depending on the power level. (The focus would be an equip-able item like an amulet, diadem, tome, or ring.) If the player doesn't like a focus, they can find a new one and become attuned to that. At least then you'd have some additional tactical variety and advanced planning.

Ignoring any desire to be king of the battlefield, which class would you say has the best role-playing experience in this game?

Up me beam, Scotty.

http://www.businessinsider.com/brain-stimulation-could-zap-out-violent-and-criminal-thoughts-2018-7 Ya know, if you simultaneously zap them in the groin area, you'd get even better results.

Well it's tied into beliefs about fair play and cheating, which at some level is a fairly universal human trait. There's likely some cultural variation in tolerance though. https://www.npr.org/2018/07/01/625079032/the-art-of-flopping-in-soccer

Neymar flops are being turned into a KFC commercial, subtitled "Make a meal of it". Apparently they tracked the amount of time he has spent on the ground at the World Cup: 14 minutes.

^ Well at least they're not vuvuzela's...