Messier-31

Touche!

So he must be doing it via a fake account, because Last Active Nov 30 2016 02:51 AM ​

Minoletta is a she.

And his last post on Obsidian forums was 1 year ago...

You know what is really depressing? There are both male and female people that actually accuse #metoo posters as overreacting whiners.

It's easy, you just point and click

Please: Tell me this is sarcasm. 'She is more than plastic': Married Japanese man 'finds love' with a SEX DOLL - which he takes shopping, on romantic days out and even bathes

Lady Webb I like her, but she was too much, in a deus ex machina way. Convenient NPC is convenient, but knowing what Obsidian is capable of, her writing could've been handled better. Unraveling the mystery is what makes the game more exciting, and the way Lady Webb appears and throws information at you is almost like a spoiler for The Watcher. Maybe less fuss for the character, but less fun for the player. Iovara I'm a sucker for Deionarra-type characters, and in my humble opinion this is a very good moment in the game. I agree that the talk leaves little space for deliberation (e.g. prove to me you are right, woman! oh no, you can't), but all-in-all this meeting was long anticipated by me from the start. It's not perfect, but it's more then I could've hoped for since Planescape. We have a saying in Polish: a sparrow in your grasp is better than a pigeon on the roof.

Not everything, just prebuffing. :-D why do we argue knowing all well, that will change nothing? In my case I am curious why OP wants prebuffing. I still don’t really get it. But I know he wants it badly. Same reason as always... People want prebuffing, because this is how it used to be in BG. People want party of 6 characters, because this is how it used to be in BG. People want experience points for killing mobs, because this is how it used to be in BG. People want vancian casting, because this is how it used to be in BG. People want this game to resemble BG, because this is how it used to be in BG.

https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/94142-update-41-from-the-feed-of-the-director-part-iv/?p=1944893 Konstanten is a chanter. Names may still be subjected to change.

Here's a thought. Wouldn't it be mindblowing to fight THE EFFIGY as one of the boss fights?

OK, so we know there is a way to get the tempered Abydon ending by meddling with a certain gamefile, courtesy of @skywyze. But what about getting it the legit way? Here is the rundown of known info on that issue from various sources (check below for details). The final conversation has three rhetorical points to make to successfully temper Abydon. They are: "Perhaps Abydon was meant to forget his past. Some knowledge is too dangerous for this world." "You speak as if history were a guide. Yet it doesn't always provide a good example." "Memory remains a burden, even when the events and people it recalls are long gone. It's pain with no purpose." To advance each point, you have to successfully point to two pieces of evidence. 1. Perhaps Abydon was meant to forget his past. Some knowledge is too dangerous for this world. For the first main point, there's a default response that you can win no matter what you did previously. It is "Kith shouldn't have anything as powerful as the White Forge"followed up with "That nearly ended with the destruction of Durgan's Battery and the death of thousands."Possible bug! This may be true, but for some reason The Eyeless response for this was holding me responsible for letting the Crucible Knights pursue in making the forge-knights in the quest Winds of Steel. As a matter of fact I never started this quest due to me siding with the Doemenels, but maybe finishing Built to Last is enough for this argument to fail. So that leaves one other piece of evidence needed to advance. You're left with responding with either: "Ondra said Abydon's memory would threaten the peace between the gods." "Animancy has made no progress, yet it's responsible for wichts, the Baelreach Incident, and the swindle of desperate families." "Aloth, you were part of the Leaden Key. Surely you understand why some secrets need to be kept." The Animancy point is ruled out if you advocated for animancy at the duc's hearing. You have to be against it and blame it for all the bad things that happen in the Dyrwood, so the duc would want to ban it, thus animancy never recovers in the ending slides. Possible bug! Not sure about being neutral, but the Eyeless tell me that I allowed the duc to let animancers work unchecked. This is silly, as I clearly stated that animancy should be banned *at least for now* and got the neutral ending. Possible exploit! There is an easy way to overcome this, but you need to finish the whole White March expansion BEFORE the animancy hearings. If so, you can argue that animancy has knowledge best forgotten, the same thing you use if it were to be banned. Later you can proceed to the hearings and convince the duc that animancy is OK (win-win). The point with Aloth only works if he is swayed more toward authority rather than autonomy. The Ondra point is the one where I am still not sure what conditions are necessary for it to "win." If you had perception 12 and intellect 14, you could ask Ondra if she loved Abydon during the conversation at the Abbey. I did that in my playthrough but it still didn't affect the outcome with the Eyeless. They just refute it by saying "Conflict is part of progress. Peace in ignorance is not worth keeping."Perhaps someone can chime in here if they were able to advance this point somehow. 2. You speak as if history were a guide. Yet it doesn't always provide a good example. For the second main point, what worked for me was using Pallegina and the Devil of Caroc. For Pallegina, I believe she had to have gone against her orders in her personal quest. Start with this response "The Dyrwoodans and Glanfathans have fought two wars over their history, and they still haven't moved forward."and follow up with "It doesn't take a war to shatter a nation. Already, Dyrwood's neighbors conspire to strangle it through duplicitous trade agreements. Right, Pallegina?"To use the Devil of Caroc to make your point, I believe she had to have killed Harmke in her personal quest. Mention this to the Eyeless "The Devil's history has only perpetuated a cycle of bloodshed."and follow up with "You talk about history in the abstract, but it is personal. The loss of one's history - home, family, community - is traumatic and transformative." 3. Memory remains a burden, even when the events and people it recalls are long gone. It's pain with no purpose. For the third main point, there is another default response that you can use to make one argument: "I'm Awakened. I'm tormented by questions from a past life."followed up with "Sometimes, moving on is the way to move forward. Remaining stuck in the past is not progress."I used Maneha for the second piece of evidence needed to win this argument. She had to have cleared her conscience by dipping in the pool at the Abbey in her personal quest. "Maneha shouldn't have to suffer guilt over an act she committed in a past life."Possible bug and exploit! Some players report that even after preventing Maneha from swinnin' in the pool, they get her to speak her line to the Eyeless as if she did forget her past life. So it seems that due to this bug Maneha helps you win the argument either way. Zahua may also prove useful here, as you may convince the monk to let go of his memories and move on in his quest. But I haven't been playing much with him in my party, so I'm not able to use any citation here. I'm pretty sure this one's been confirmed. Misc There's been a lot of speculation about other choices made in the game that affect this segment. Just to name a few: binding or releasing the souls of the Pargrunen killing (or not) the Readcerans in the Iron Flail fort choices you make during the Risk Tolerance task Please correct me if I'm wrong, but at this point I'm nearly certain that they don't matter to the Eyeless and all the important reasons are mentioned above. Of course we still are not sure about the Ondra argument, so this topic needs a little bit more investigation. Sources: Obsidian forums post no.1 by @Aramintai Obsidian forums post no.2 by @Aramintai YouTube comments for @CrankyTemplar video Reddit post by @tayns_chaotic_orb Own experience (duh)

I hope banter is ON. https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/91677-the-dwarven-companion-recovery-front/page-4?do=findComment&comment=1888344 The image there is dead, but I got my answer from one of the devs, and it was positive back then...

First. "Sometimes Tekehu needs a good old pommel to the face" <3

Trivia time. As a matter or fact Chris Avellone had a conflict between GM and Durance prepared. It seems that they have met in the past and there was some animosity between them, with The Watcher trying to solve this. Unfortunately it was all cut by Obsidian. The “Grieving Mother” is a cipher who acted as a midwife in a local community. She was blamed for the births of other Hollowborn children in her community and, specifically, she was punished viciously and unjustly by Durance who saw her as part of the Hollowborn crisis. However, she does not blame Durance for the violations that were done to her soul and her body. She does not recognize him when he is in the party, as his soul is different from when they first met. The damage she did to him, arguably in self-defense, was considerable and far outweighed what was done to her. - according to "Pillars of Eternity Strategy Guide" Pillars of Eternity Collector's Edition Guide, p.121: "This led him to torture and ruin the soul of the Grieving Mother (in defense, she was forced to wound his soul to make him stop). Neither one of them recognizes the other when and if they meet. […] The Grieving Mother and Durance may come to odds or reconciliation over the course of the game"

NEW QUESTIONS UPDATE! Due to popular demand and my own realization I decided to add 2 more questions to the survey. Because there are 50+ votes already, this is my proposition to you: I EDITED THE POLL SO ALL QUESTIONS ARE NOT MANDATORY - VISIT THE POLL AGAIN AND FILL IN THE TWO LAST QUESTIONS ONLY, REGARDIN LLENGRATH AND THAOS. If you're new to the poll feel free to answer all of the questions. Now it is also possible to pick the "died" option fo the companions. Thanks! EDIT: When I was editing the name Breith Eaman in the survey someone already cast a vote, so now it seems there are two answers for this in the results (which is bad), but still one possibility to choose from (which is good). Sorry for the mixup.

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Hedwur is not a god but a Glanfathan raider who rapes the Aedyran woman.

Newsflash: there is no multiplayer here.

Well, Obsidian claims that there *will be* some post-release content. Hence the season pass. It is also supposedly cheaper than buying all the expansion/dlc stuff after the release and/or seperately.

Maurader probably died afterwards. https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/79723-just-had-a-question-about-the-logic-behind-the-spirits-in-maerwalds-hold/?p=1694790

Well, Baldur's Gate gets it pretty much spot on, with the slightly-too-large party the only downside. So I call bovine excrement on that. Some pretty poor tabletop you were playing.

So much this. You want a wizard dwarf wearing plate mail, you make one.

Agreed, If I wanted to indulge in Andrzej Sapkowski's masturbatory fantasies, I would read one of his hacky novels. I take it you have read it. It would be a shame if one would lay a claim like this before reading.