Agiel

He also tried to have a little girl burned at the stake, but leaving him alive is one of only two ways (the other exclusive to Trickster only) to...

Hey, there's even a name for this effect. The few economies that were inoculated against it such as Norway were able to weather the shock in commodities prices due to pre-existing attitudes towards a storage economy, transparent financial disclosures, as well as diversified industries that were competitive with other developed-world economies where Soviet industries in areas like civil aircraft experienced wholesale collapse once exposed to foreign competition.

Hey thanks! And to you as well @KP on top of ZA WARUDO! Managed to win a key for the DLC season pass, but on and off whenever the inspiration hits me I'll do a quick cartoon and occasionally will get responses that say they managed to brighten someone's day, and given that most of the creative stuff I do for a living is largely soulless those are the greatest rewards. Have an idea for a strip featuring Aivu, so stay tuned. @ChairchuckerSame here. Did a restart for a playthrough that was going wonderfully because I had sold some of the buff books to a vendor I no longer had access to before I learned their significance, and even re-speccing a bad character build feels a bit... dirty, with all the weird bugs with the current implementation and how it effectively functions as a free Scroll of Atonement.

I enjoyed it well enough, enough so that I've decided to re-visit it a little over half a year after my last playthrough. I was looking forward to it less because I see the CDPR label as an assured sign of quality (even once you get past the bugs the game still has some gameplay balancing issues, many of them glaring) and more because I go gaga over anything set in a cyberpunk setting, so my character zipping all over Night City like Priss Asagiri and beating up people with cyborg arms under neon lights made it worth the price of admission.

Bought the hardcover Sky Doll collection. Sadly it was pouring all day on delivery day and the delivery guy in his infinite wisdom left the package out in the rain with no plastic covering (when it should have been apparent that the rain wasn't going to miraculously let up when he put it down). Pages were on matte pages (one of the nice things about European comics is they don't skimp on when actually putting things to print) so it's entirely readable but there's still significant waterlogging damage to the book.

I'm unsure as to whether or not the contributions of a contractor managed to make it into the game or were completely expunged (a cursory scan through Discord and the forums have not yielded an answer for me), but if it was the former and if all the companions were in a police line-up my choices for the one he had a hand in would have been either Regil or Ember. Ember in my mind shares some thematic similarities with Kreia, with dare I say shades of Ossie Davis as Da Mayor in the sense that she's a tramp that has to remind people to abide by really basic stuff, of which some of her pleas still falls on deaf ears ("Always do the right thing." "*Blinks* That's it?" "That's it." "I got it. I'm gone."). Earlier in the thread there was some discussion on some of what I call the really wonky pacing of difficulty in game, specifically the Chorussina/Blightmaw encounter. Lizard brain tells us upon seeing the summoning ritual that you kill the sacrifices as quickly as possible to interrupt the summoning of a TPK baddie. Ritual stopped. But instead the Wizard leading the ritual turns out to have been an even greater threat than the Demon himself with 15 attacks with stratospheric AB per round, and what's more allowing the ritual to be completed and killing Blightmaw yields the exact same material reward _AND_ nets you even more EXP. Wait, what?

Something I've been working on and Owlcat just opened up a WotR Meme contest, so it has become my entry. As one reviewer put it, Ember is the most powerful being in all Golarion after the Commander of the Fifth Crusade. A fact of which her archetype and build are only partly to do with it

New Immolation joint in February. With this, Total War: Warhammer III, and Elden Ring that month is going to be pretty exciting.

You really have a problem with Tim Bentinck's acting?

I do get some real Roy Batty at the end of <<Blade Runner>> vibes from Karan's narration. Bonus points that there is a location in the Homeworld galaxy that is called the "Tenhauser Gate".

And a Homeworld 3 trailer: What a time to be alive.

Five new screenshots of STALKER 2.

As Irabeth and Anevia were present in the original Adventure Path and their background has been imported into the CRPG unchanged it would seem to me that if you were a Pathfinder player who liked the fluff and were still onboard for the computer game Anevia's storyline either elicited a positive response from you or you've long since made your peace with it if not. And if the <<Kingmaker>> and <<Wrath of the Righteous>> CRPGs were your entry-points to the Pathfinder background and you complained about Paizo and Owlcat writers (even if, as some pointed out earlier, the latter somewhat bungled the approach to it) "cramming a wokish SJW agenda down the throats of the audience", well tough break pal, because where were you in 2013 when the Adventure Path was published?

@ComradeYellow You perhaps live in some alternate reality in which two members of the Democratic Caucus in the US Senate refused to toe the line on the initial $3.5 trillion bill and the Biden administration had to forlornly acquiesce to their demands for a severely cut down bill, rather than having them airbrushed from party photos and sending a bill for the bullet to their widows. Or maybe you missed all the Bernie Sanders "Hindsight 2020" shirts out there.

On that note, I will addend this with a quote from Hyman G. Rickover, which is displayed on a plaque in (funnily enough) Rickover Hall at Annapolis:

From the store page for the Season Pass one of the confirmed DLCs takes place after the main campaign featuring your MC so as to have an opportunity to have 7-8 more hours with your OP Mythic Rank 10 character. That does beg the question as to what challenge there is left for an MC that did the Ascension ending. Is your now Demi-god(dess) character going through Thanatotic Titans as if they were kobolds?

It's from a long line of TV series based on the Wuxia novel <<Return of Condor Heroes>> but the one consistent thing from all of them is copious amounts of wire-fu (in fact the 1995 series and the movie <<Iron Monkey>> was my introduction to flying people in kung-fu movies before <<Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon>> came out).

Seems like the kind of game where folks aren't content with violating the laws of physics, but pouring lighter fluid and dropping a match on the text books, in the best possible way:

There are fairly predictable entry points for the Arsonists so it pays to fill Nenio/Woljif's level 1 slots with Grease to drop them there. This works well with bringing Lann/Wenduag or a ranged-focus MC. I have heard that Selective Spell Grease trivialises the fight, but in my experience it perfectly suffices simply dropping a normal Grease on the entry points and keeping your melee frontline on Guard mode to mop up anyone who makes their Reflex save and survived the withering hail of arrows.

That's my first playthrough done. Thoughts are still percolating but can contribute a few points. I rather like the narrative directions Owlcat takes with its main villains (Nyrissa for Kingmaker, Areelu Vorlesh for WotR) and I admire them for expanding them well beyond the one-dimensional baddies they were in the original Adventure Paths (a friend of mine will be participating in a Kingmaker campaign once its 2nd Edition iteration finally comes, and as he was already aware of the secret ending for the Owlcat cRPG I asked him if there was a certain Seduction check he will attempt). I'm enticed by an Azata playthrough as it seems to be the most well received narratively speaking, and it helps that my Pathfinder PC and the characters I played in Kingmaker and WotR are followers of Desna, though I've decided for a few more patches before I come back to WoTR (or probably when the first major story DLC comes out) as from what forum members here have said many mechanics for the Azata path remain borked. Hot tips for those wanting to do a Trickster playthrough in the future. Max out your Persuasion on every level-up and take Persuasion Trick 2, which Paralyzes creatures that fail a Will check DC your ranks of Persuasion +10 and Shakens those that succeed. Next, pick up the Ring of Boreal Might and slap it on your go-to spontaneous caster. As the Paralyze status reduces a creature's Dexterity to 1 (one) the stat drain from Polar Ray will guarantee one-shot a Paralyzed enemy (incredibly the Vavakia Vanguard rolled a 1 for the Will check, and Ember was able to one-shot his first stage with this method, and even Balors failing this check aren't wholly uncommon). Be advised that this ability is slightly bugged in that in some saves the Paralyze status can be inflicted on some of your own party members at the start of combat. Mobility Tricks for a melee-based Rogue are also hilarious, as you can simply micro your MC around crowds of dudes to blender them with AoOs (get Mythic Vital Strike to finish off your turn). Postcript: I got a chuckle out of this image floating around:

Played a little bit more with the new patch and have encountered a bug in which mounted party members travel far quicker than the rest of the party members while exploring the map, which can be quite annoying when traversing long distances in areas that you've already cleared and can potentially be deadly as on my save mounted Seelah isn't the highest AC member of the party. I vaguely recall there being a tick box that forces all party members to move in formation regardless of movement speed but for the life of me I cannot find it now. There is also a survey by Owlcat floating around gathering feedback and there seems to be a particular focus on the Enigma and Nenio's quest puzzles in the questions. Normally whenever I take part in these when asked to write in my own words what works and what doesn't I leave the box blank due to me being lazy and it not being a requirement for submission, but this time I made sure that Owlcat gets an earful about how tedious, repetitive, and unnecessary the puzzles were on top of the probable damage to my eyesight trying to discern the symbols on the slabs.

The impression I got from community feedback was that while WotR was very strong until the end of Act 3 (unremarkable HoMM-style minigame notwithstanding) it had its own <<House at the End of Time>> segment, except that it was expanded to roughly the final 3rd of the game. Slowly making my way through Act 4 solely because I need more and more breaks away from WotR due to how soul-sucking the world navigation mechanics of the Midnight Isles are (a similar mechanic for the House at the End of Time was my most loathed aspect of that segment in Kingmaker) and it drives home my attitude that either Owlcat should have stuck with the fixed perspective of Kingmaker and all the artistic limitations that entails or commit to a NWN/Dragon Age-like camera and movement system. While I could attribute what many perceive to be over-tuned encounters to early-access players consisting almost entirely of folks who knew the Pathfinder system inside and out, the Midnight Isles must have had several passes among developers and internal QA testers before it was pushed out into the backer beta. A big shame because there are quite a few interesting and challenging encounters to be found thus far and plenty of interesting story beats. With the above I'd like to emphasize that my criticisms thus far of WotR (wonky pacing of difficulty, tedious puzzles, and Act 4's world traversal gimmick) come from a place of wanting the game to be all it could be. <<Kingmaker>> in its final form was in my eyes 90% of the way to joining the ranks of BG2, IWD2, NWN2: MotB, and DA: O for my top 5 cRPGs and I backed WotR on the assumption that with experience, taking critical feedback to heart, and a bigger budget Owlcat could make a game that was truly sublime. I started <<Kingmaker>> close to launch and as WotR stands now I consider righting that ship a taller order for Owlcat. Postscript: Realised that with how it ended for me Sosiel's questline was an almost one-to-one retelling of <<the Deer Hunter>>: