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  1. rjshae
    I'm fervently hoping they will show a sky shot in a date/time panel so we can do a little weather forecasting.
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    If I might make a note: the party members look perhaps a little too large. They need to be able to individually fit into that tent and not swamp the canoe. Or maybe it's just the perspective and my old eyes are deceiving me.
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    They could give a significant +XP% bonus to characters that are at lower levels than the party leader; perhaps +25-50% per level difference. Basically, the noobs are learning more from their peers than they would on their own. (Kind of like a rookie does on a sports team.) The greater the level disparity, the higher the bonus. This would allow for rapid catchup over the course of a few levels.
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    Yes, that's an interesting question. I don't think they used moving shadows in the old BG/IWD games; night just make the scene go darker and perhaps more monochromatic.
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    Perhaps there is an in-bred community of Necromancers living deep in the dungeon? They've discovered the secret of living (somewhat) safely among the undead, but in the process have become living dead themselves. The community established themselves early in the history of the dungeon and have become cut off from the outside, forming their own culture. They employ the undead as their slaves while working to solve the great eternal mystery of how to become immortal. As they very slowly age and die over the course of centuries, the experiments in necromancy are used to transform their corpses into various sentient abominations; often different from each other and with varying special abilities. These wander the rest of the dungeon, engaging in incomprehensible tasks and using the other undead as their minions. The abominations battle among themselves for power, forming factions and engaging in long-running feuds. The more powerful dwell deeper in the dungeon, while the weaker are forced nearer to the surface, where they scheme to work their way deeper down the pecking order.
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    Shrug. We're all descended from kings and slaves. Perhaps the best solution is just to have a mix of cultures and biases; let the players decide for themselves what they don't like.
  7. rjshae
    Please, no caps. Point-based with increasing cost at higher levels will take care of the maxima. I don't see a need for (or want) caps; the 3-18 range in D&D just represents the range for the large majority of the population. If a player wants to pour all of their points into a single stat, they should be allowed to do so. People should be able to play whatever type of character they want, even if it is a freakishly strong, clumsy, sickly, blockhead.
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    Since it is based upon a stretch goal, it is almost certain to have a good deal of customization options. I'd just prefer that the options were significant to the game in some manner. Otherwise, the players options will boil down to decorating your stronghold or buying better equipment.
  9. rjshae
    Very nice, yes, but perhaps a much higher cost in terms of 2D artwork?
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    Okay, I'll take the low road and wonder how expensive it would be in time and resources to provide DA2-like detailed 3D models of the characters and all possible equipment? I mean, wouldn't a Diablo III-style inventory interface be sufficient for this purpose? Perhaps they can use a basic interface for the release, then go more fancy with a sequel?
  11. rjshae
    Historically, soldiers carried 25-35 kg of weight for long marches. A suit of plate armor was around 20 kg. Plus most knights with plate could also afford a decent warhorse to carry most of the load. Modern U.S. infantry soldiers carry loads of up to 45 kg, but drop most of it for combat.
  12. rjshae
    Had a closer look. Besides the overall beauty, I love the level of surface clutter detail you get in this illustration. It looks much more plausibly realistic than many 3D rendered surfaces in games like Oblivion or Fallout 3.
  13. rjshae
    Hopefully the humans are a forest green, the elves are azure, and the dwarves are a pale shade of mauve with magenta pupils. Then we can get back to playing the game instead of reliving modern concerns. Alternatively, you can look at skin tone of northerners from the perspective of an evolutionary adaptation to lower levels of ultraviolet radiation and its consequences in terms of vitamin D deficiency.
  14. rjshae
    It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...
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    Gnoblins? Their reputation doesn't match that of hobbits or gnomes; more goblinish.
  16. rjshae
    I'm hoping that if they make it to 3.4 million, they'll make that one big city extra splendiforous.
  17. rjshae
    Very true. As in Oblivion where you spend 15 minutes just trying to make your character look half way decent. I'm sure the uncanny valley has something to do with it.
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    I don't think so, but people can always contribute afterward via PayPal. They'll have to set the budget at some point.
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    IIRC, back in BG they did a kind of fade if you walked behind an overlaid graphic. Fallout had something comparable; I think it faded an area surrounding the character. Other games have done similar, so I'd expect it (or maybe something better) for PE.
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    It's nice graphically, but hopefully that would just be part of a larger area map. Otherwise it might be a bit cramped for a combat encounter. Like the almanac idea as well. Kudos!
  21. rjshae
    In think they talked about using a flip-book approach, so the water, trees, grass and smoke from the fireplace would be a looping set of overlaid images. Still, that can be very effective graphically and it doesn't require a fast graphics card.
  22. rjshae
    If you kill an undead, then resurrect it, what does it become? A living undead?
  23. rjshae
    Mmm... another pile of steaming troll bait. Have a good one dude.
  24. rjshae
    I was thinking along the lines of shared enhancement trees that you can earn with certain combinations of class levels. This would be used to balance out the spell-casting progression and to provide additional character tuning options. Perhaps make external training a requirement for access, as per DA:O.
  25. rjshae
    I really, really want to see the water in motion. That scene will be wicked! I can almost feel the cool misty air on my cheeks.
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