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Here's a couple more additions. First is a walkthrough of the "Classic Dungeon" port from NWN showing all the different tile variations, along with the marvelous Otyugh in action: Meanwhile, Kallister68 has been working on a new creature model: the Crocadile. Here is the walk cycle: and an idle animation:

There could be orphanages for god-like children where the abandoned infants are raised by understanding and supportive godlike adults. They may even grow up to live in an island commune of godlikes, dedicated to mutual protection.

Perhaps a little-known fact: godlike actually can reproduce, but only with certain divine spirits drawn from the native plane of their originating god. The result of their procreation is a multi-planar creature possessing unique abilities and motivations. Few god-like beings ever achieve this, or even know of it. But of those that do, their child is likely to be an exceptional creation.

My sympathies to the unfortunate victims. All terrorism does is spread hate.

Question is whether that is the in-game model, or the one they use to generate the normal map for the lower poly in-game model? Right now that looks good enough to serve as the character portrait.

Or at least tintable portraits, with multiple color channels.

I think he'll first have to demonstrate that collecting rocks for research purposes is a religious practice, which would then be protected under the First Amendment. That amendment doesn't protect everything to do with religion.

Will squishy Wizards gain a short-ranged teleportation spell, I wonder? Seems like they'll need it just to survive combat.

^^^ Choosing an outside publisher allows Obsidian to stay focused on their core business -- developing games.

Presumably the prices will come down at some point, and there are always sales to consider. It may just be a matter of being willing to wait long enough.

Very sad news about Chris Cornell. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/05/18/soundgarden-frontman-chris-cornell-dead-at-52/ Fame is overrated -- sounds like he was pretty lonely, even with a wife and kids.

At this point, any updates are going to have release date marketing implications so I'd expect they will be providing notifications from that perspective. If they start showing all the neat new features too far in advance, potential customers may lose interest. I'm expecting then that we'll only get infrequent updates, with more shown closer to the release date. Just a guess.

Never heard of him.

Here's a fight scene in the sewers with a third combat animation added:

Never heard of them. Guess I'll wait with cautious optimism...

Could be horrible. Or it could be decent.