rjshae
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For the slacker backers, there will be the Silver Codpiece of the Camp Follower. They will also gain a unique goat pet named Thumper that is located, for reasons "beyond the comprehension of a mere mortal", in the depths of the Endless Paths. Attached to the pet, you will find an old scroll inside detailing what you may have won if you'd only selected a different door....
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I believe you get the Master of the Boot achievement, which supplies you with a mule-towed charcoal grill for your camp site along with a burly cook named Jordan.... ...nah, not really. We don't know.
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Distinctive female armor forms is more of a nod toward the visual gameplay elements, but for me they don't break the immersion so it remains a non issue. It (female-shaped armor) can be successfully explained away through alternate universe cultural aspects (as mentioned earlier), and shouldn't break the verisimilitude as long as the shapes aren't completely ludicrous in form. The issue might matter more if this was a real-world historical simulation. It's not. Agreed.
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A group of rats is called a 'mischief'. Heh...
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Posting unique information at different sites would be connecting with a larger audience. I suspect that is not intentional though. Individually they would have different sets of contacts, and perhaps topics just percolate up from discussions elsewhere. They certainly don't owe us a single-source continual news feed for points of discussions--that's a perception of contributor entitlement.
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If you bothered to read your own link, I've never once complained about boob plate. In fact, you will not find a post by me in any boob plate thread. So I'm at a loss why you would say I am one of the last diehards from the boob plate armour threads continuing with the boob scale armour. But you do have a habit of posting and jumping to conclusions. Also, I'm unsure why you need me to post links to boob armour threads? Are you suggesting there wasn't threads and pages and pages of people not wanting boob plate? Did I miscount? There is Ffordesoon and Gromnir at least. Well I was just responding to this, where you found the situation odd so I wanted to look back and see more of the details. Your statements were so broad and sweeping, that I had to see more. It was a while ago. and then: Right, so it's clearly in another thread and not the one I linked at and did bother to read but not all the way through. You've behaved rather unfortunately in the past, so normally I have you on my block list. Ergo I may have missed whether you commented or not. No matter. Pointless discussion anyway. Bye.
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To give RPGCodex their due, they do put out some pretty decent game reviews from time to time. But yeah, pretty much agree with the sentiment.
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Congratulations to Mr. Kirsch. I look forward to reading his contribution.
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...and so is arsenic...Sorry, it sounds like I responded without following enough of the thread.Meh, whatever. I just want armor that looks somewhat plausible and has plenty of character variety and distinctiveness. Ludicrous chain mail bikinis? No. Form fitting flexible scale armor for male and female with some exaggeration for pixel displays? I'm totally fine with that. You have your preferences, I have mine. I'm not really seeing why you have an issue (other than politics), and I probably don't care.It's not clear? Well it's a historical example of a type of armor designed to exaggerate masculine features. There's no particular defensive benefit to the shape; it requires additional work to build and it is less than optimal from an engineering perspective. But I have to wonder: if there had been no such armor, would the same individuals be clamoring to have it removed from the game as completely ridiculous? I'm just making a point from a cultural perspective here that it is a political bias that is shaping opinions on the matter. Not a sense of anthropological or engineering realism.Yeah, but the article isn't really convincing me of the engineering it's trying to defend, and the comments seem very adamant that boob plates are awful even from an engineering perspective. Well the same concerns can be raised with many helm designs. There is also the point that many such non-optimal features were shaped by cultural preferences, rather than best engineering practices. Some amount of armor shaping for reasons of pure vanity is likely to occur.I'm not sure it needs to be unwinnable; just tedious to the point of futility as you endlessly reload and try again with each major battle. :banghead: :banghead:I'm fairly certain it's been stated that this is in, though it's not going to highlight that tiny hidden lever/trap/secret door that your party comprised entirely of blind mole people isn't capable of spotting. Basically, anything your party is already capable of detecting but just isn't already being highlighted for you, the player, on the screen, can be highlighted with a button. Methinks. It's a nice idea, but can lead to endless, repetitive mouse clicking if not handled correctly. How about if you click on a spot nearby and see an outflowing ripple of light showing the area of exploration?In the absolute worse case, the "boob plate" may deflect a penetrating weapon into a direct-on impact. But this can happen with normal armor as well. Part of the energy is already absorbed by the deflection, and the impact area can be reinforced. It's like the main belt armor on a battleship--you apply extra armor to the vulnerable region. It works and is a time-tested method. (The reason battleships became vulnerable to aircraft was because they were attacked from above, and the deck armor was generally thinner.) If there had been "boob plate" armor in reality, it would have evolved over time to be optimized for the battlefield. Weaknesses would have been remedied and strengths adopted. But we don't really know how it would have evolved because there are no examples available. All we have is engineering-based speculation, and the likelihood of strong cultural influences.
