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#1 Hit points have always been an abstraction that represent physical durability, skill, luck, and grace extended to the level-up capable PCs and NPCs by the Powers of the multiverse. It's silly to take them as merely representing physical durability and I'm perfectly alright with the concept. #2 Mobs are dangerous in RPGs if the DM knows his business, but they're not terribly dangerous in cRPGs as the former allow for overbearing/wrestling and the latter do not. One could theoretically implement a cumulative "to hit" bonus for every attacker going after a single target (e.g. 1 on 1, no bonus; 2 on 1, +2 to hit for each of the attackers going after the same target). Alternately, some chance of knockdown or prone status could be applied to the single defending character being mobbed if a certain ratio of attacking levels versus defending levels is achieved by the mob. #3 I agree, but forcing the PC party to track fleeing bandits that fail their morale check in order to eliminate the "engaged in combat" status seems to be something of a sticking point, especially if the bandits can go to a different map. If you can't disengage from combat, you often can't have a conversation or do other "non-combat" things until the status lapses.

Eh, I can see the advantage of the large, HD screen for reading. But I wouldn't go out of my way to purchase one. If I won one in a raffle I'm sure I'd use it on a semi-regular basis.

Rush to Home Depot and buy one of the older hot water heaters as the new ones have an overly complicated "energy saving system" that's virtually guaranteed to be more problematic and pricey than the traditional tanks.

Do they own BB guns? If so, expect a volley or two.

I'm not at all upset about the delay as there ought to be plenty of patches available by the time Memorial Day weekend rolls around. I despise bugs and all the major ones and a substantial portion of the lesser ones should be remedied by then.

^ I simply had to tip my hat to that fecal fest, zombie ridden analogy. Bravo!

Disagree? Go live in Shia Iran or Wahabi Saudi Arabia for a decade and report back to us on your experiences.

Probably because this is just more of the same. It's simply expected that in this era that Muslims who hold tightly and strictly to their faith conduct themselves as did The Prophet himself.

Yeah, I think I drove under that several weeks ago...

The vindictive [rhymes-with-punt] deserves jail time, period. I'd hit her with no less than 6 months, no parole or reductions for "good behavior". And, no, rubber bullets are only employed to break up riots. They're special issue and aren't generally available. Here in the States we all have access to live ammo, so having the chamber and magazine of your service sidearm loaded with non-lethal ammo is a great way to end up dead. Our felons have no qualms about pulling the trigger, so it's jacketed hollow points or you're asking for a long, long nap.

I hope so. No, it's a freak show on parade and a glaring example of why the West is in decline.

You do some fine, fine work, Woldan. Bravo!

Oh, honey, do we ever have some cream for you...

No, it's not. Rather, it's a about screaming meemie LibProgs, self-described archons of tolerance, being intolerant...again.

Did you mean that you're not missing much by avoiding them? How do they fall short?

One hopes that this has been duly noted by Obsidian and is slated for an update in the first or second patch. What's the point in a primary ability/talent/feat/skill/whatever that, if selected, renders the character less capable?

After getting used to prime rib, ground chuck is more than a little disappointing to many.

Bulivyf makes a valid point as "moving on" appears to be synonymous with degeneration. I truly do miss the BioWare of the Neverwinter Nights era.

If you're looking to make an AAA title with a large budget, they're quite correct as the publishers display the aggravating herd mentality of shying away from anything not chasing after the CoD, WoW, or HALO crowd. Win a mega-lottery and slap down $5 million to fund development on your own and I'll bet dollars to doughnuts that quite of few of the EA-Ware employees would jump at the opportunity to make a retro-style cRPG that's heavy on the RPG and lighter on the hack 'n' slash.

Ravenshrike summed up the limitations of the law reasonably well. If we're to have actual rights as guaranteed by the First Amendment, then tolerance of those whose behaviors run contrary to the traditional Judeo-Christian (light on the Judeo, heavy on the Christian) foundations of this nation--not endorsement--must be the limit of what the government may mandate. You might--say again, might--have a right to engage in a particular act, but you have no right to demand that others who disagree with said act endorse such behavior.

The--ahem!--controversy is nothing more than the Orwellian "two minutes hate" routine. Nineteen other states have similar laws. This is simply another example of the foaming-at-the-mouth LibProgs thumping their collective chest to gin up fund raising dollars in the alphabet soup demographic. "The religious-freedom laws once were associated with minorities that progressives could embrace or tolerate — Native Americans who smoke peyote as part of religious ceremonies, Amish who drive their buggies on the roads, and the like. That was fine. It is the specter of Christian small-business people — say, a baker or a florist — using the laws to protect themselves from punishment for opting out of gay-wedding ceremonies that drives progressives mad." Read on. Edit: And I couldn't agree more. "Frankly, RFRA’s balancing test is, if anything, only a mild protection. From the First Amendment alone, we should understand (in my opinion) that the nation’s traditions of religious freedom should protect the right of a traditional Christian baker not to make a cake for a same-sex marriage. It should protect the right of a Muslim baker not to provide unleavened bread for a Jewish seder. It should protect the right of a homosexual photographer to decline to take photos of a married couple standing under a Biblical inscription about marriage being between man and woman. It should protect the right of a Jewish deli owner to deny services to a Muslim hungry from a demonstration march where the Muslim held aloft a sign saying “Death to Israel and Jews.”

Fine, fine music for the druids in PoE.

Magazines falling out at random suggests a profound design issue...

^ What a great stocking stuffer!