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Hmm, Wderanged and Wals both getting attention from women? Aliens must be attempting to invade England by taking over bodies of random people. I suggest you make sure that all of your orifices remain impenetrable.

"For example, if you fight a dragon in a rocky clearing, you may be able to take cover from its breath weapon behind boulders. However, the dragon can flush you out by concentrating its fire to melt the stone." “You can individually target their limbs, and they react to the damage to a leg versus another one,” says Laidlaw. “I think that helps ground the encounter a lot more. If you need to get in close to the legs, we open up a whole new realm of counter-moves. He can take a swipe at where you likely are, which feels more like what a real beast would do. It grounds the encounter, and keeps it very physical.” Meh, sounds like Twitcher or some other action game to me.

I disagree. Sure, you don't know exactly what your PC will be fighting, but if foes are essentially a dozen types that use the same abilities, the same tactics, and are level-scaled to have the same attributes, battles will be incredibly similar and generally not very complex. Take DA2 vs BG2. In DA2, every enemy mage used the same spell list, and unless you were playing on Nightmare and they had some random immunity slapped on, tactics against them would be the same. Ditto for Warrior and Rogue foes as well. In BG2, Mages were much more complex and fighting them you needed to cast certain spells to remove their protections and dispell any effects they caused your party, but Thieves backstabbed and Warriors(Barbarians, Fighters, Paladins, Rangers) hit **** with their weapons. In a Pathfinder game, battles would be much more complex because with the large amount of feats, spells, and special abilities, characters that are of the same class could be vastly different than in BG2.

I don't know if this would work very well in a isometric game like PE. I do like the idea of loot that is more than "pretty diamond" or whatever though. Perhaps there could be options on what to do with such things? For example, if the PC finds a painting of a famous person, they can sell it on the Black Market, sell it to the family or organization the person belonged to, or give it to a rival family or faction to desecrate. Tie it into to faction reputation and I think that it would be a nice break.

So alanshu, now that PAX has started, are you going to reveal anything good? On complexity: I've always thought that complexity in a game was derived from the variety of enemies, in which case DA2 is definitely not as complex as BG2, which isn't as complex as a game made using the Pathfinder system would be.

I'd go for Ultima 7 first, I couldn't ever get into M&M myself.

Tonight I cooked proper mac and cheese with a roux thickened cream sauce and some thick cut bacon folded in.

I always attributed it to drinking myself.

Looks like you can now light up in peace Shady.

When I think of "sexy and fit woman" I think of this Not oby was posting.

I'd say that she has definitely used some sort of performance enhancer to attain arms like that. It doesn't look natural at all, it looks like a woman replaced her arms with a man's.

I googled her and saw an... interesting video. Not exactly my type, but would bang if sufficiently intoxicated.

Well the reaction here ought to be interesting at least. http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2013/08/28/romance-in-dragon-age.aspx Ignore is for the weak!

There actually is. Sure, it's an abstraction, so it's not literally that a Warrior is physically incapable of shield bashing again for 15 seconds. But, try shield-bashing 20 times in a row, and see how well that works. And, as for magic, all non-fictitious effort-requiring tasks require time and take a toll on a person. Why should magic be any different? Can you fire an arrow AND throw an axe AND swing a sword AND shield bash a man AND issue orders AND dodge an attack all at once? No... then why should a Mage be able to do so?If he could, then Mages would rule the world, because their limitations would be SO far beyond anyone else's. That guy can fireball you AND teleport AND shield himself AND heal himself AND summon demons AND fire magic missiles at everyone in a 3 mile radius, all at once.The idea of cooldowns is very unsilly. However, their exact durations and applications might be a little silly at times. Because those abilities in question are already consuming a resource and are finite. I don't see a problem with a Mage being able to teleport, throw fireballs, haste the party, and identify something within the timespan of a few minutes, as long as a resource(spells per day, mana, etc) is consumed by those actions. Cooldowns are worse than resource consumption because they often feel tacky and generate less strategic concerns and more spamming.

Did he bang Claudia Black, sacrifice Alistair, sacrifice grumpy pants, and die himself as well?

Just cooled down from a great run. Going to drink large amounts of water and rest for a bit.

This is good news. No I won't have to reinstall DA2 and slog through it and can make the hero isn't a hermaphrodite dwarf mage or something.

I always thought that the BG2 portraits had an excess of scars. To be honest, I just used some portrait mod anyway, so meh. I do think that for the PC and AH characters, the ability to import a portrait should be implemented.

Immediately or hours? I'm not planning on drinking till at least 4 PM.

I've got the day off, so I'm going to work out and have something to drink.

EDIT: For Ros

Me too. Hmm, I haven't posted anything in a while, I should do that later tonight.

I'd say the worst thing I've ever read is Paradise Lost, which made me want to strangle a kitten.

Going to enjoy the company of friends and large amounts of stout tonight.

Hearts of Atlantis wasn't that bad. Although I'd say King's short stories and novellas are generally better than his novels. Will propeller hats be in DAI?