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Something like the Background questionnaire from The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall would be awesome. Edit: Also, separate Appearance and Charisma attributes, like in Vampire: the Masquerade - Bloodlines (this way, it's possible to be ugly/scary-looking while being charming and debonair at the same time, or beautiful/handsome but socially inept - something that isn't possible in most cRPGs). Gear could still factor in to the equation.

Based on...? Could be kind of cool with a Cipher specialization/prestige class inspired by D&D's Psychic Assassin, though.

Why aspen? I know they used ash in Russia and the Baltics, hawthorn in the Balkans, and oak in parts of Central Europe, but where did they use aspen stakes?

Oh, and Lord Dunsany. How could I forget? And Eiji Yoshikawa. Sorry! Couldn't find the off switch.

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Wouldn't that make the employees the real victims? That's something to keep in mind. You make it sound like the pirates are taking some kind of grand stand against corporate corruption, but in reality they're just hurting some poor working schmucks. The head of the snake remains intact, but its tail hurts like hell. I think you missed my point. A corporation is without feelings, there is no reason therefore that a consumer should feel for one. The whole "Poor corporations!" mindset people have when arguing against piracy is frankly sickening. Despite what some have said, corporations are not people and you conflating the two, as if pirating games somehow directly translates to employees being fired is stupid. They have easily enough money to pay all their employees they just choose to send it all to the top of the ladder, if we accept your absurd scenario and a corporation for some reason fires all their employees as a result of my pirating their game, then perhaps they will realize that a company doesn't last very long without employees and realize their value. One person pirating may not make a difference. But when millions of people do it, it does make a difference. Especially for smaller companies (or game developers that focus on PC-exclusive games). I think there are plenty of good reasons to download something "illegally" (like the ones Valsuelm listed), I do it all the time, but it's not always a victimless crime. If a company loses enough sales, it will have to downsize (not fire all of its employees - I never said that). That's not absurd at all. I don't understand how you can complain about corporations "exploiting slave labor, cheating content developers and poisoning the air and water to save a buck" one minute, and defend pitiless capitalism the next. Good thing I live in "socialist Sweden", then.

*sigh* The war had already turned when the US got involved. Russia did a lot more to defeat the nazis than the US did. With that said, if they hadn't pitched in we would have had a lot more Soviet satellite states in Europe during the Cold War, so I guess we should be thankful for that., I'm sure the Soviets didn't mind eating the US food and stuff like that though. Or flying British aircraft, or being trained by British pilots, or driving British tanks, or wearing British boots. I know Stalin was a shrewd diplomat, but I don't think he was completely blowing smoke up America's butt when he acknowledged that their contributions had been very important at the 1943 Tehran Conference. Of course they helped a lot, but the Allies would have won anyway. It might have taken another year to win, taken longer to rebuild Europe, and probably have made the Cold War worse than it already was, but the Allies would have won. And I don't know what the UK has to do with what I said. I was merely saying that "No, we would not be speaking German now if it wasn't for the North Americans".

Wouldn't that make the employees the real victims? That's something to keep in mind. You make it sound like the pirates are taking some kind of grand stand against corporate corruption, but in reality they're just hurting some poor working schmucks. The head of the snake remains intact, but its tail hurts like hell.

It could also be a very powerful genius loci that the locals worship as a god.

The Mana Tree! :D

Agreed! I only use wheels for their original purpose: making pottery, and I absolutely despise spokes and ball bearings.

And contend with the near-complete religious monopoly of the Mother Goddess? Nah! Sounds like a lot of work. What about the 4th millennium BC? That seems to have been a pretty good period for up-and-coming new gods.

If you could, you probably would. You would download a car, you would download Jamie Farr.

Depends what jurisdiction you're in. Anyhow, it's still theft. But the sexy kind of theft, like in a heist film where a ragtag band of lovable rogues steal millions of dollars from a villainous casino owner, right?

It's not about supporting neo-nazism, it's about supporting free speech. Seriously? Of course Estonians wanted to relocate the statue. To them, it was a symbol of the oppression they suffered under Soviet rule. Funny how your conspiracy theories are almost identical to the ones commonly spouted by neo-nazis, only inverted.

Why would I want to skip it? I don't like anime, but that song... oh, that song... I'm going to listen to it again and again and again.

That theme song... words can't describe how brilliantly awful it was! I... wow! Thank you, Osvir! That made my day.

The answer, as always, is to abolish money and change to a hug-based economy. If that doesn't stop piracy, I don't know what will. I am willing to pay no less than 50 digital hugs for this game! That's a lot, considering I hate digital body contact.

Hah! I thought the Pirate Party was an exclusively Swedish phenomenon. I had no idea it had spread to so many countries. Maybe I shouldn't be surprised, considering how successful the Swedish Pirate Party was in the European Parliament election of 2009. Fascinating. Sorry! OT, I know...

Hopefully, they'll release a toolset so that we can tweak, remove or add features ourselves.

Very nice. A mindflayer lich is called an Alhoon, btw.

*sigh* The war had already turned when the US got involved. Russia did a lot more to defeat the nazis than the US did. With that said, if they hadn't pitched in we would have had a lot more Soviet satellite states in Europe during the Cold War, so I guess we should be thankful for that.,

Bah! When will you hu-mans understand that your "free will", as you call it, will inevitably lead to your own demise?

From the Middle East. Apart from a few explorers who went to East Asia (Marco Polo, for instance), Europe had little to no contact with East Asia during the Middle Ages. The East Asians traded and warred with the Central and Western Asians, who in turn traded and warred with us. I didn't say the middle ages, this game is set in like the late renaissance or something isn't it? Even if trade was monopolized largely by middle eastern nations, Europe and Asia were connected by land and trade routes, travel from one to the other would have been perfectly reasonable, if hard. Besides in this game presumably their is travel assisting magic, so theoretically a Chinese person could just teleport to Europe. The Renaissance was a cultural movement, not a historical period, and it began during the Middle Ages. The game setting is inspired by the Late Middle Ages (15th century, IIRC), and we didn't really develop a trade relationship with the Far East until the 16th century and the beginning of the Early Modern Period (at which point we started going there, but they didn't start coming here until much later). Also, the Silk Road didn't go farther west than the Ottoman Empire, which half of Europe was pretty much perpetually at war with. And we did get gun powder from the Middle East.

From the Middle East. Apart from a few explorers who went to East Asia (Marco Polo, for instance), Europe had little to no contact with East Asia during the Middle Ages. The East Asians traded and warred with the Central and Western Asians, who in turn traded and warred with us.