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you know, all the "muh immersion" stuff everyone suggests in the long run detract from the game making it tedious. it looks realistic if the maimed character is limping behind the rest, but after a while you will be tired of it since he will be slowing down the entire pace of the game. you have a maimed character and want to go to the inn? if he is limping it will take twice as long to get there for no real reason and after a few times it will get to be a boring chore and you will wish they had not included it Mmm, I only suggested an interval of discomfort and groaning while recovering in the aftermath of a battle. How did you translate that into an endless trial of slow, limping characters? Apparently you're reading additional meaning into my suggestion.

It would help with the immersion if downed party members looked like they were in pain while recovering, and perhaps groaning and grumbling.

Mechanic sounds much too modern; perhaps adramancer? Or you could just use tinker or artificer.

^^^ I think you'd need to have a theory of contagion to understand that is even a suitable tactic. I've read that siege warfare tactics included tossing diseased cattle into a fort in the hope of killing people, but I'm not sure that would translate into knowing that coating arrow heads in the mouths of Kimodo Dragons could infect people. In the middle ages, the miasma theory held sway instead, and it was used as recently as the 19th century to explain epidemics.

But there's something to be said for vintage cars... even if they don't have a/c, heaters in the seats, or airbags.

Aww... A group hug thread. Aww... Well, apart from everybody on my ignore list.

I can understand companies wanting to milk that particular cow; it's a good way to fund indie gaming and to engage with the player fans. Just as long as they don't start trying to milk the bull...

The drawback of limiting pickpocketing to scripted behavior is that it does not encourage creative approaches. There's no emergent game play, just a choose your path adventure book.

It'd be interesting to have a game system designed around the use of cheat codes. For example, earn karma points and use those to enable specific minor cheats, or one-time major cheats. Kind of like the old Luck Points from WFRP.

Once you've run out of you tube to watch, it's time to turn to your inner tube... and do some rafting.

That's where proper level design comes in. Is it? I'm not so sure. Do you balance those specific battles with the powerful elemental in mind? In which case you either have that capability or you probably don't win the battle. It seems too asymmetrical for proper design. I suppose you could create two paths to the solution; one that requires the powerful elemental for a brief battle, or the alternative that takes longer and involves more battles.

I usually wait for the third update and ignore any spoiler postings and negativity.

Could be they're waiting until after PoE is released. There was some whining over the possibility of them launching a KS before the previous one was complete.

The magic goal says a character is able to summoning a powerful elemental, but only from a limited number of locations and only from a short time. Please could somebody explain to me what good this power does if I most likely can't use it when I really need it? I.e. unless a Boss battle occurs at a summoning location, I seem to be out of luck.

Narcisisstick -- somebody who makes obsessive use of a selfie stick...

There was an experimental mod for NWN2 that allows for rideable horses, so that is do-able. NWN has even more riding mod options, I believe.

I can understand if there isn't enough portraits in the pack to satisfy every need. Portraits take time and budget to create. Hopefully though, the number of portraits will increase with the expansion pack.

because physical goods can take quite an amount of money when you need to produce them, and then deliver on their own cost. Not to mention all the other logistic hurdles. Right, but if they do it correctly it will result in a net positive income. But I suppose developers aren't good at that sort of thing; it should really be outsourced.

Wow! There was no way the Hawks should have won that game. Yet they did. Unbelievable. Good game Packers; well played.

I though the parts of the episode where they flashed forward to the future were actually a little better done than in the movie.

Just admit it...

It had elements of the film, but they changed the time travel rules a bit (probably to allow it to be an ongoing series).