[Hire David Ogden Stiers As The Narrator]

Kevin Michael Richardson anyone?

Definitely. I thought Kevin Michael Richardson's readings of the dreams in Baldur's Gate were top notch. They really drew you in. I always looked forward to one of those sequences.

 

I'm sure Obsidian will find appropriate voice actors for all the necessary roles but there's no harm in discussing the subject.

 

Personally, my favorite video game narration is Campbell Lane's work on the Homeworld series. His voice is chilling.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrW4jkQdmjI

[Live recorded music, Poll 2.0]

Justin, I don't want to be too forward, but I sent you a forum message about some inexpensive local possibilities for ensembles you guys might consider. Perhaps there's a way you wouldn't have to outsource for affordable musicians. As a classical guitarist and lutenist local to orange county I may be a little biased, but I'm going to say hell yes there should be live music. Small ensembles and soloists when appropriate.

 

Just an idea, but I think it would be cool if the larger cities had street musicians sprinkled here and there, near markets or around taverns, playing guitar, vihuela, lute, recorder, crumhorn, or viola da gamba sorts of things. I always loved those little instances of diegetic music/sound you would encounter while running around in the IE games, like the monks chanting prophecies at the beginning of Baldur's Gate. It made the world feel alive.

[Update #18: George Ziets, Paladins, Add-Ons, Rewards, and More!]

The news about Ziets is wonderful. Good move!

[[Merged] George Ziets as as the 2.8 million stretch goal]

Woo! Way to go! Damn, this is awesome.

[Huzzah, barbarians and ciphers are in!]

It'll be interesting to see what they do with the Cipher class. Mind tricks and illusions? Very cool.

[A song for Project Eternity]

Thanks! I didn't intend this to be a theme song or anything, by the way. I've just been listening to a lot of old English folk music recently and was inpsired to write a ballad exploring some part of the mythology of the universe as a folk singer would do in real life. The whole idea of creating a new universe complete with a complex history and mythology is pretty cool and I'm quite jealous.

[A song for Project Eternity]

Hi all! I'm a big fan of Obsidian and I've been following PE closely since I heard about it on Something Awful. Baldur's Gate and Planescape were a big part of my childhood so I'm really excited for it!

 

I wrote a ballad in common metre about Project Infinity things during my commute over the past week. It's a story of a warrior who is turned against his party by a powerful Cipher. The place names are all from the map.

 

I don't sing often but I gave it my best shot. I hope you enjoy it, and best of luck over this last week! Cheers.

 

http://youtu.be/NpUU4_-vouY

 

One morning as I rambled on

The road to Solace Vale

I met a weary traveler

Who told an awful tale

 

"I come from lands beyond White March

Beneath the eastern skies

Where honest men in times of need

Converse in blood and lies

 

We heard vague rumor of a tower

Upon the mountain side

'Twas guarded by a secret power

To danger we would ride

 

We hardly knew what lay ahead

Fell beasts or wizard's fire

We went in search of gold and coin

The path led ever higher

 

The tower rose above the clouds

A black and twisted sight

Companions whom I traveled with

Held back in dreadful fright

 

The leaves had turned a darker shade

and death hung in the air

A silence fell across the land

I stepped into the lair

 

They fell upon me from the dark

Blades flashing all around

Not beasts but men full twenty score

By arcane magic bound

 

The thralls I fought with flint and steel

With fire brought their end

A godlike foe leapt from the gloom

His fortress to defend

 

The creature was a sightless thing

A giant in the deep

It asked me 'have you time to take

A quick eternal sleep?'

 

I floated six feet off the floor

and slipped into a dream

Was swallowed by the cavern whole

Awakened by a scream

 

Enslaved by nightmares not my own

My rescuers I'd slain

Around my feet lay souls I'd known

Whose hearts I'd cleft in twain

 

I spied the psion close at hand

In fear it now withdrew

My sword I raised for one last charge

and cleaved its body through

 

The spell was broken, I was free

My comrades all were lost

To save one life they strove ahead

and paid too high a cost

 

I let my blade drop to the ground

In sorrow and regret

and will not lift another one

Until I've paid my debt"

 

Now with a sigh the traveler

looked off into the west

And then at last returning home

At Road's End came to rest