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Gfted1: Heh, you did like the guy so much that you almost was about to donate more, so I reckoned that showing you more of him would make you do so.

Gfted1, this one is just for you (I just felt like one of them radio guys in Fallout: New Vegas):

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8 days left: Maxos speaks,Major rewards update! Update #17 · Apr 17, 2013 · 10 comments Help from an unexpected source With only 8 days left on the clock and some distance to cover still until our next stretch goal, our Kickstarter campaign received endorsement from an unexpected source today! Maxos - The man who can teach you how to become a dragon! Major rewards updateWe added a number of new reward tiers today, and also added some extra goodies to existing reward tiers. Don't worry, nothing was removed. On the contrary, chances are high that you received some free extras. Dragon Commander: If you pledge more than 95$, you by default receive a digital version of Divinity: Dragon Commander. Kickstarter badge/credits: If you pledge more than 25$, you by default receive a Kickstarter badge on the Larian forums. You are also included in the credits as a backer. Dragon badge/credits: If you pledge more than 95$, you by default receive a Dragon badge on the Larian forums. You are also included in the credits at Dragon level. Weresheep badge/credits: If you add 6$ to your pledge at any tier, you will receive a Weresheep badge on the Larian forums. You will also be mentioned in the credits as a Weresheep and might even have a surprise in the game! You'll also receive... a hint. A number of new all digital reward tiers were added today. They are present in the sidebar at the 95$, 135$, 150$ and 200$ level. Because we cannot modify existing tiers in the sidebar anymore, we made a visual overview of what the changes mean for all the other rewards. Larger versions of the digital rewards chart and the physical rewards chart are also available. Remember, you can always modify your pledge by clicking on the "manage pledge" button. Kirill performing live tomorrowHear ye, hear ye! The marvellous and miraculous musical magician Kirill Pokrovsky will dazzle and delight your heart and soul with the soulful music of Divinity in a divine treat for the fans. Sit down, perk up and let Kirill take you to the world of fantastic fantasia known from Divine Divinity and beyond! In the style of a true oriental oracle, the amazing Kirill will answer any questions you may have in an extensive Q&A session. So mark the date: Thursday, April 18th at 19h GMT+1 (19:00 Brussels - 18:00 London - 13:00 New York - 10:00 San Francisco - 21:00 Moscow) Go to www.divinityoriginalsin.com to see the live stream. Kirill is already rehearsing for tomorrow. He tells us he's more nervous for this event than he was for In ClosingDon't forget to like Larian Studios on Facebook for more Bellegar encounters! @Bruce: Belgian Waffles is a given! @Marelooke: Thanks a bunch!

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Hi! Seeing Obsidian's great update today, I couldn't help getting inspired. So, here's the same info, but for Divinity:Original Sin instead: What is Divinity: Original Sin? Divinity: Original Sin is a fantasy roleplaying game in which the player takes control of a human hero set in Rivellon, the original world in the Divinity games (Divine Divinity, Beyond Divinity, Divinity 2) created by Larian Studios. It can be played in single player mode or in tandem multiplayer mode (drop-in/drop-out coop). The camera has an isometric perspective. The environments are 3D backgrounds combined with 3D characters and visual effects. Larian Studios' team is focusing on three core ideas that will capture the Divinity experiences players loved so much: Unique, beautiful, dynamic environments that encourage and reward exploration. A non-linear epic game with plenty of choices and consequences. Fun and challenging tactical turn-based combat with a reactive environment. What do "player character" and “party” mean in Divinity: Original Sin? At the start of the game, the player can create and customize his or her human character. Thereafter, the story is about two characters who can be a male and a female, or just males or females. The character development system is deep, and the character(s) can fit any playstyle using the game’s classless skill and stats system. In addition, you can enlist various henchmen. Henchmen start out as a certain "build" and with equipment, but once you hire them, you can totally change their equipment, and manage their inventories. And if they level, you choose their statpoint distribution and their skill upgrades. Personality customization and potential character conflicts in dialogues Divinity: Original Sin offer something unique to the CRPG scene: Other than customizing the looks and stats of your party members, you can also customize their personality. That means that if you're playing alone, and you don't want to roleplay both characters, the party member you're not controlling at the time of initiating a dialogue might actually disagree with the choices you make. Key to this is a unique Party Dialogue System that has both players participating in an ongoing interaction, given that they're close enough to each other to hear the dialog and intervene. So rather than taking the party leader's final word, every member of the group gets to weigh in on the outcome. Disagreement is always a possibility, which makes for great roleplaying. If you don't agree with each other, the game looks at your persuasive abilities. The decision that wins is based on stats, the particular situation and the the approach taken to persuade the party. The game remembers the nature of your decisions as personal traits, and this in turn affects the relation between the party members. The main characters’ relationship is defined by two different axes: Affection and Affinity. Affection is how much they like each other, Affinity is how well they agree with each other on moral dilemmas. So they might hate each other, but work well. One of many ways that relationship can evolve is it turning into a love story, but that takes many conscious actions on your behalf. How about the stats of the characters? As the hero, you start the game with 5 points in every stat, and you get 5 statpoints for customizing your character. Per level-up, you currently get 1 statpoint. But 1 statpoint makes a difference. Items that have an impact on stats, have their positive and negative effects, so there are trade-offs that help making a character. There are items that support different types of character “builds”. Stats are also used for saving throws against different effects. For instance, a high dexterity lowers your chance of falling down when walking over ice, and strength gives you a saving throw against being caught in a wall of ice (you can break through). Level is a multiplier for your hitpoint bonus from constitution is a multiplier for your mana bonus from intelligence Primary stats Strength gives damage bonuses to attacks with melee weapons defines how much weight you can carry defines what items you can lift defines how far you can throw items, depending on their weight gives you a bonus to intimidation Dexterity gives damage bonuses to attacks with ranged weapons gives you a higher chance of successfully picking locks and picking pockets affects the "ideal range" of ranged weapons lower chance of triggering traps, higher chance of disarming traps better at repairing Intelligence determines your amount of mana gives bonuses to magic (depending on the spell: damage, range, width of a cone, duration, how easy or hard the saving throw is...) gives you a bonus to reasoning helps you figure out NPC stats and resistances helps you to identify unknown items gives bonuses to mind resistance Constitution determines your amount of hitpoints gives you higher resistance against poison gives you a bonus to charming Speed determines the distance you can walk with one action point defines how good you are at dodging or evading attacks (defense rating) gives bonuses to initiative spend less action points when changing equipment or using items in combat Perception determines how much chance you have of successfully hitting an enemy (offense rating) defines your sight and hearing which helps your enemy awareness (e.g. on the mini map) helps with discovering traps and finding treasures and secrets And how about secondary stats? What is the combat like? Divinity: Original Sin's combat is turn-based, featuring classic gameplay rules such as action points, initiative, alertness, flanking, backstabbing, attacks of opportunity and bonuses for efficiently working together as a party. Moreover, one character can be engaged in combat while the other is roaming about somehwere else. The breaches of time is however “automagically” resolved. You can do these encounters one after the other, or you can jump from combat to combat by just clicking on their avatar icons (or using shortcut keys). And should you ever manage to get the enemies from both encounters close enough to one another, then the two combats would merge into one big combat. Secondary stats Offense and defense These are determined by your primary stat perception and speed. They can be boosted by magical equipment. When you attack someone, your offense rating is compared to your enemy’s defense rating. This determines how much chance you have of actually hitting him. Damage This stat is determined by your weapon or your spell, and gets a bonus from one of your primary stats. This can be boosted by well-made or magical equipment. Critical chance and critical damage These stats are determined by your weapon. They can be boosted by well-made or magical equipment. Armor When a hit is successful, armor absorbs part of the damage that was dealt. For instance, if you’re hit with 8 damage and you have armor 3, you only take 5 damage. If your armor rating is very high, it is possible to completely absorb all the damage that is dealt by a weak enemy. This stat is determined by your equipment and can be boosted with well-made or magical items. Blocking chance This is determined by the shield you are wearing, if you are wearing a shield. When a hit is successful, the shield gives you a chance of actually fully blocking the attack. Different shields obviously have different blocking chances. Hitpoints This stat is determined by your constitution stat, and can be boosted with magical items. Hitpoints do not regenerate automatically, and can only be regained by healing, eating or resting. Mana This stat is determined by your intelligence stat, and can be boosted with magical items. Magic spells cost mana. Mana does not automatically regenerate and can only be regained by drinking potions, eating certain types of food, or resting. Sight and hearing These secondary stats are determined by your perception stat. They can be boosted by special or magical equipment. They define how far you can see (we have a shroud, and fog of war system), and how well your hearing is (so you can hear and even identify an NPC without being able to see him). Initiative This stat is determined by your speed stat, and can be boosted with special or magical items. It gives you bonuses when combat starts and initiative is rolled. Persuasion This is determined by equipment bonuses only. Persuasion gives you bonuses when trying to intimidate, charm or reason with your party members or NPCs. Walk speed This stat is determined by your speed stat, and can be boosted with special or magical items. It determines how far you can walk with one action point in turn-based combat. Luck This stat can only be boosted with magical items. It’s the X factor of the game... Poison resistance Determined by your constitution stat. Poison resistance will absorb the damage poison would do every turn. Fire, Water, Earth and Air resistances Determined by magical items you are wearing. These absorb elemental damage. Mind resistance Determined by your intelligence stat, and magical items you are wearing. This helps against mind attacks (for instance fear). Piercing, Slashing, Crushing resistances Determined by the equipment you are wearing. These resistances absorb damage from physical attacks. What will the art style be like? The art style is a careful mix of fantasy realism and a slightly cartoonish vibe, the latter is especially true for characters and monsters. The maps range from more natural, but still vibrant environments to fantastic environments, with unearthly architecture, unusual materials, brilliant colors, and beautiful embellishments. Atmospheric lighting and swirling fog in the maps make for exciting settings - sometimes haunting, but often very intriguing and inviting. How about the setting and story? In the game, you control a party of heroes and guide them on a quest to learn a forbidden magic called The Source. This powerful magic was outlawed many centuries ago by the Council of Seven, the rulers of Rivellon, for it is written that from Source the lord of Chaos will spawn. Today, Source magic has been used to overthrow the Council. It's up to our heroes to save the Council and to do this, they'll need to uncover the mysteries of the Source and of those responsible for cursing the Council. The Source (elemental) magic is not just for mages casting spells. It also gives you Source-based warrior and Survivor skills. What other cool stuff will be in the game? Thanks to Larian’s backers, players will have access to The Shelter Plane at the End of Time. The Shelter Plane was created by imp historian Zixzax the Almost Wise; located on the Precipice of Ages - where time itself ends in endless black - you will find your homestead. It is a barren place; arid and forlorn, but beggars can't be choosers, and neither can a couple of Source Hunters down on their luck. In time, though, perhaps your Shelter Plane might turn into quite a cosy abode really: a place to put up your feet and relax by the fire, staring out unto the very edge of oblivion. What engine does Divinity: Original Sin use? Divinity: Original Sin uses their own in-house engine, it’s the same one that will be available as a mod editor for those who’d like to make their own adventures for friends to enjoy. What platforms will Divinity: Original Sin be available on? Divinity: Original Sin will be released for Windows, Mac, and Linux PCs. It will be available through Steam and GOG.com. Will Divinity: Original Sin use any form of DRM (digital rights management)? The GOG version is DRM-free. The Steam version works like any other Steam game and does not have any added DRM. There is no online requirement to play the game nor any additional DRM imposed. What languages will you be supporting? At the moment, we are planning to release in English, French, German, Polish and Russian. Depending on several factors, more languages may be added later on. If more languages are added, people that already own Divinity Original Sin will receive them as optional updates.

Do us a favor and click on "hartverwarmend" (heartwarming) on this article: http://www.hln.be/hln/nl/4126/Games/article/detail/1612894/2013/04/11/Gentse-gamestudio-haalt-bij-internetters-340-000-euro-op-voor-nieuw-videospel.dhtml Also at the bottom of this article there is a "aanraden" (recommend) button. http://www.standaard.be/artikel/detail.aspx… It will help D:OS get more news coverage in Belgium, and thus hopefully more backers.

Well, I've started from the very beginning with Divine Divinity, the Steam HD version, and what a wonderful game that is, despite all those years that have passed since it was released. I have never played any of the Divinity games, but now that I do, I just wonder how I could've missed them. I just wanted to remind people who are interested in huge isometric CRPGs that it's just something like 4K left on KS till it reaches a stretch goal where Larian will throw in an entire pocket plane for us players to enjoy - the Sheltered Plane at the End of Time. Hopefully, Torment will reach it's "stronghold" goal too by the 30th of April.

Yay, D:OS is funded, and the pledging has picked up speed considerably! :D @Blackfalcon: Welcome to the forums, you are the true weresheep chronicler! And yes, thank you, Obsidian for the nice and very welcome shout-out! It certainly helped that counter tick a bit faster!

Mind-blowing? Yes. Did I get the chills? Yup. Was this precisely the right balance of a believable environment and a fantasy setting? Definitely. Was the dynamism, the lighting and the day/night cycle just right for a moody mature isometric CRPG? Absolutely. Does this kick butt even with Chaos Chronicles in the arena? You bet! Will I put myself to cryosleep till PE gets released? I'm seriously considering it. Obsidian, you're the best!!! :D

They're Belgian, yup! And that sheep, well, blame it on LordCrash and the rest of us, soon we had made up this weird Weresheep trope kind of fan society for Divinity: Original Sin, and we began showing ridiculous youtube clips and made weird avatars. SO, basically, it's D:OS' version of Obsidian Order of Eternity.

Hi, folks! GOG is having a huge D&D sale, and NWN2 Complete is included for just like 8 bucks. Thing is, I didn't have Mysteries of Westgate, so I bought the entire pack like a backup and finally got my hands on MoW for a reasonable price. Exciting!

I had never played Divine Divinity, and just stumbled upon Larian Studios and this game, and I was sold on it pretty darn quick. Why? Mod Editor like NWN/NWN2's, and a great turn-based reactive isometric game. Until PE comes out, this will be my bread and butter. Keyrock: Yep, that update is hilarious and very revealing of what kind of game DoS is. I recommend it to all CRPG-lovers out there. EDIT: I also picked up the HD-enhanced Divine Divinity on Steam recently, and it's really great.

You could name your barbarian "Norwegian Blue". He'd have beautiful plumage. One problem though, that's a more or less an extinct species, and when they go belly-up, they are often mistaken for being alive and have to suffer excruciating treatments on a Pet Shop counter down the street.

Lovely update! I love where this is going! The static shots are great, the font and the colours are really fitting. Like everyone else, I adore the plume hat! Now, here's the big question: Were my pc do don that hat, will the plumes rustle slightly graphically? *Fingers crossed*

And for the 15,000,000 stretch goal will tear down the walls of Edgar Allan Poe's last home, rummage through droves of walled-up cats to get to his body and recuscitate it. Then, they'll remove the hairballs in his throat, and he'll crow: "Must make Torment creepy!"

Chris Avellone is a frigging stretch goal at 3,5M! Jabbadabbadoo! :D

I'm maybe the only person on the planet that didn't like Legend of Grimrock. With that said, I'm still excited for the direction this game is taking. I doubt you are the only one. I'm actually a bit torn on the game itself, the setting itself lost my interest quickly. I mean, you are in a dungeon, and you are solving puzzles. That's it. Pretty shallow, and eventually I got bored. I've never been a huge fan of long dungeons. But the style of gameplay was a huge kick for me. I loved the party of four, the mix of abilities, the formations, the simple movement and combat. If you take all that and put it in a full world with actual skies, NPC's, stores, etc. I will be happy. This is exactly how i feel about Grimrock!

It's the same developer as Heroes VI. That's why I'm skeptical. From what I've heard about them, I can see why, but the nostalgia deep inside me make me twitch and reach out for my wallet and by the darn thing anyway. Turn-based, a party of four (almost Grimrock-old school-style) and hopefully a lot of exploration and over the top encounters (critter fodder).

BruceVC and Keyrock, I'm with you on this one, and fervently so! Consoles will not be on my shopping list ever, nor in any mental desiderata. We could start a club, the Anti-Console Club, ACC...

Alright, alright, I admit it! I caved in and bought the darn thing after everybody was talking about it, and the gameplay looked like fun. What am I talking about? Well, Shadow Returns, of course!

Ugh... i remember killing that dragon with bows and that wand from shaddy guy. Which took +15 min and many save&loads ^_^ Also having a teacher/scholar as NPCs gave very good bonus XP for start. MM6,7,8 are the kings/queens of cheese :D LadyCrimson and CyberArmy, these games were definitely pinnacles of cheesiness and munchkinness (weird nouns), hehe! But in retrospect and in all honesty I actually enjoyed those games more than say Diable 3 (which I actually played a lot). I wonder what that says about me and about Diablo 3 for that matter.

I just got a tip from LordCrash about a turn-based 4x strategy game over at KS: Battle Worlds: Kronos. I read the info and watched video and immediately backed. I'm a sucker for this kind of Panzer General games. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kingartgames/battle-worlds-kronos-turn-based-strategy-revisited "The classic turn-based strategy – exciting, involved gaming that calls for long-term planning, clever tactics, transparent rules and tough decisions – is making a comeback. Many gamers may have seen and enjoyed recent examples of great turn-based gaming, but might not be aware of classics like Battle Isle or Advance Wars." Well, this is the grandchild of those games. I'm looking forward to it. I much prefer this than the stressful Starcraft scene.

Niko, I really hope you're wrong. It would be quite a fun nostalgia trip to do a first-person party run in a true spiritual successor to the M&M-series.

Sorry about the typo on "bizarre", but yes, it's something I have fond memories of. I don't know if it would look better with today's graphics. It worked because of the "empty" 1st-person-perspective. Otherwise, it would involve animation headaches of huge proportions, heh!