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I see your Ultravox and raise you by an actual Austrian: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnP-b_IVdT0

A small frontier settlement in northern Kislev is just the thing. It's small enough to give every npc a name and personality. The chaos wastes spit out diverse enough creatures to keep things interesting and the diverse, corrupting nature of chaos can cause other things to happen. Or: if it worked for the hero Konrad, it can work for the PCs

I was very unhappy with how they portrayed her in the show. From the daughter of a Lannister bannerman to an exotic, mysterious Valyrian (is everyone in this bloody series some exotic stranger? Shae, Rob's wife... its a wonder they left Ygritte a northerner). When she got pregnant I asked friends how the hell she could now survive, as Tywin would never let an heir to Robb Stark be born. They fixed that by killing her I guess, when in the books she is quite healthy. Seemed all a bit pointless to me. Then again they killed Xaro Xhoan Daxos last season and had Dany betrayed by one of her handmaidens *shrug*

Bronn sings it in Season 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIUyVeDsHfs Though I found the version by The National in the end credits of that episode captured the haunting feeling rather well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey9vSYxuAJk I think if they had wanted to, they could have handled it quite well. They introduced the song quite well back in Season 2. If they had continued using it, or had already used it sneakily before to underline Lannister actions, then it would have worked for this scene. But I got the feeling that they don't have much of a plan for the show, taking it one season at a time. And I got a strong feeling that they had only read the original book when they started the show.

Those look very well made. Far from the cheap movie merchandise one usually sees.

Nearly as fun as the people who blame G.R.R. Martin for the deaths of characters who don't die in the books

Some of that may be nice for a Kislev warhammer campaign...

Well, the ones that are blaming HBO for the Red Wedding are hillarious

They only just broke it ina ll their games in time for Neverwinter. Now you want them to fix it?

Very likely. Though demonstrators seem to have gone beyond "the usual suspects". That is the significance of it having spread past Istanbul. It seems to be more of an urban middle class movement against a government that is most strongly backed by rural (conservative muslim) voters.

A friend of mine lives in Istanbul and she says its really bad.

I loved text based encounters in King of Dragon Pass, loved them in King Arthur: the Roleplaying Wargame and am loving them in Expeditions: Conquistador.

Rename characters AGAIN? *sigh* Why can't MMOs learn and give people a global handle and let them have non-unique names for their characters? If Cryptic can do it with their MMOs and Tabula Rasa could do it, then it can't be all that hard...

Did you ever try the "Creatures" series? Its a bit dated now but it was quite good.

And still some devs managed to fit things on 2 CDs that would have fit on a floppy. I never understood why Silver had 2 CDs...

I didn't know Morgoth posted outside the Random Video Game News thread.

The metro in Torino: For four stations I was waiting for the train to stop and try to take the picture before the doors opened. then I remembered there was a door just across from this one that remained closed...

Funny enough, back in the old days, on the Septerra Core forum there were quite a few people really surprised that the game was so small in file size. Comparing it to other games at the time it really was remarkable. All it took was a dev who knew how to properly compress.

Hmm, there are some slight supernatural elements to the game. Very minor so far, but not sure the game needed them. I think it could have stayed a pure (alternate) historical setting and would have lost nothing of its charm. Then again I really ahd to go out of my way and search for the stuff

You spend XP you gain on promoting your followers. There are a number of NPCs you can recruit in the first campaign. One of them does not carry over to the main campaign. I promoted him, when I could have used those XP to promote someone else who stayed with me.

Even with two scholars, I can't seem to pass diplomacy checks. granted, they are hard checks, but it makes me wonder what my chances at easy and medium checks would have been without that second scholar.

I like to level at my own pace but enjoy having instances I can run with friends. Especially if they don't take too long.

It isn't random. It's based on clan magic, how often you have heroquested, how much help you are getting, the deity of the person undergoing the quest, their respective stats... It just happens that in some quests you can proceed even with a wrong answer if your magic is strong enough but you failed the check for the right one. It just isn't guaranteed that knowing all the right things to say and do will cause a quest to succeed.

Yes, I had to struggle with my hoarding impulse Then I realized that chests on the world map respawn. But the barricades let you create choke points and the oil sets hexes on fire and spreads as long as there are flamable things in adjacent squares. The defence of the palace I think I had around 10 hexes ablaze, causing fire dots on eeryone passing through (5-7 damage per round from what I noticed). That said, even with 89% guarding, thieves just stole 2140 valuables from me... Discovered a new personality trait: Lovesick - gain morale if lover is promoted, lose morale if lover dies. The natives offered my character a husband. And I just saw a guy's morale skyrocket through one sidequest: Montego is Adventurous, Cautious, Peacefull. Send him ahead to scout: yay for adventuring! When he reported back, proceeded cautiously and then let people live. He had been at morale 7, now he is 13. edit: also playng at 1920x1080 without any map bug.

I am quite happy with my 2 of each crew. With the two additional soldiers I got in the first campaign, that makes for a great group. Now if only hadn't wasted 100xp on that shaman who abandons you when you leave for Mexico Two scholars mean that I always have barricades, oil lamps and traps to win my battles for me. Some smart 'cading and tossing of oil lamps made the last fights in Hispaniola rather easy.