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Which book are you reading?

My wallet really hates kickstarter.

Hope you've been enjoying it so far. IMO, it would be best to avoid the megaevents.

With the access to most of the knowledge in the world, we decide to spend our time arguing over a poll on the Internet.

Internet polls are serious business.

Romance and joy are not mutually inclusive. If you want a joyless game, stick to The Witcher(which has a bit of romance subplot in it).

Science can't be all bad, if it allows me to skip commercials and binge on TV when I feel like it.

D&D really needs to break up their mental stats into separate categories...having Wisdom being a combination of Perception and Willpower was not very good design IMO.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Nb_mH4Q4mw I just can't think of anything else when I see this thread. Damn you Oby!

To make people kill themselves.

Or a stick up the ass and a burning desire to smite opposition, which we Paladins have in spades.

No idea why this makes me laugh.

Buy over 9,000 nega-copies of PE just to spite them!

Judging all TV shows like "Here comes Honey Boo Boo" or (Insert Jersey reality show) is just plain stupid. I do have to chastise you for not including Dexter on your list however, that show is excellent. Most of my time is spent studying, working out, or other things, so I have a hard time catching most good television programs. The only thing I loyally watch is Doctor Who.

Buy over 9,000 nega-copies of PE just to spite them!

Either way, I couldn't give a ****. In fact, I think I'm at the point of giving negative 10 ****s. Whatever happens, the fallout is sure to be spectacular.

On the fence about Da Vinci's Demons. I can't decide if it is more dramatized historical fiction, or creepy historical fan-fiction. It was definitely one of the better episodes of this season. Hopefully they have finished feeding the emotional junkies their "friendship is magic and solves everything" fix and can continue delivering episodes with solid plot.

I don't always post on forums, but when I do, I prefer Obsidian Forum Community.

End of the world... Project deadlines... roughly the same thing, sometimes. Well, looks like it is time to start a war with Best Korea, then set out with a female companion to see of I can stop Kim Jung Um from destroying the world and not become sexually attracted to and fall in love with said female companion while doing so. Maybe I could provoke Oby into getting Best Korea to fire some rockets or something...

Ahh, but when was the last time you were pulled into an adventure that resulted in saving the world, with a female companion at your side the entire time? o_O Well I have had to work on projects alongside females, close enough?

Choosing how to play the PC does not involve controlling how NPCs react to the PC. As a man, I am perfectly able to be friends with a woman without wanting to have sex with her or loving her.

Or we could use a 2d100 and get even more exact. Which would be quite tedious. D&D stats are an abstraction and should remain so, IMO.

This thread just won't die will it? Just let Obsidian do what they want. You don't need romance to make a game good or realistic, and the inclusion of romance will not cause the game to implode and turn into a Bioware crap heap. Also, can we actually talk about other kinds of relationships besides romances?

Well the biggest problem with D&D stats is that they don't take into account differences between individuals with similar stats. For example, I highly doubt that two people who would score 16 would be able to lift the exact amount of weight in every single muscle group, even though they are ranked the same by D&D standards.

I address the validity of the poll's results further down. Also, thank you, confidence is more important than skill. I disagree. Finding someone who is essentially average in every conceivable quality is going to be less common than finding people who excel in certain areas and are weak in others, or someone who is better/worse in all categories. After all, every D&D stat can arguably be improved with work or deteriorate with a lack of effort. IRL, yes of course. However, this poll is not representative of real life any more than Oby's ramblings are in touch with reality. Take into account that the questions in this poll that determined ability scores had four answers each, which essentially were a negative, a neutral, a positive, and a super-positive. If one were to chose the positive response for the questions concerning one attribute, they would end up with 15 or 16(as I did with STR, CON, and WIS). If one were to chose an even mixture of positive and super-positive for questions concerning a particular attribute, they would end up with a score of 17 or 18(as I did with INT and CHA).