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I have to say, I really like the look of the death godlike shown in the videos. I prefer the more striking "mutations" of PoE's godlikes to the more banal bright eyes vs. red eyes mutations of D&D's "godlikes." Wasn't there supposed to be a "bird" godlike? IIRC one of the companions was supposed to be this variant. I didn't see it in the godlike list in the video. Was it cut?

That is hilarious. I can't wait for PE fanfic to start coming out.

I actually always assumed that this was going to be the case.

Agreed. That update was phoned in. At the start it read as if we were going to get some info about the monster but instead we got half a pipeline, vague information and told about a lot of cool concet art not show. I sense a growing feel of entitlement among certain readers... and it's not a healthy trend. But then again we get a certain proportion of ungracious grumblers in every update, so perhaps it's just the law of averages at work. I think most of us (I included) sometimes take for granted how amazing it is that JES and Obsidian are giving us this much insight into the development process on a weekly bases (Let's all go grumble on the Bioware forums about how "phoned in" this week's update from the Dragon Age 3 development team was...oh wait). I understand that the P:E funding model places a higher onus on the developer to be open with backers, but, even then, I know of no other Kickstarter game where the developer has provided as much information at as frequent a rate as P:E. We should keep that in mind and not get too greedy.

This actually sounds basically like the core mechanic of the P:E Druid class as described by JES.

I've been wondering about this myself. The advantage of using the D&D system would be familiarity and ease of use/understanding. The advantage of going with a new system would be the ability to create attributes designed specifically to take advantage of P:E's unique mechanics (especially the soul mechanic).

I hope the cultures of the other races are as varied, interesting, and well-thought-out as the human cultures appear to be.

Ha ! I misread the term, I guess I should have seen the '':'' and not an ''i''. However, I still think that every cultural ''styles'' looks like to be coming from a different era. It would be fitting to have one more ''advanced'' culture, but now it's somewhat feels like there is no current era in the game which will make the world a bit less immersive.Let us not forget that we live in a current world where Prada suits, biker gang leather chic, African kente cloth, and Amazonian loincloth are all everyday attire in different parts of the world, even with all of the globalization we have undergone. It would actually be more unrealistic if the cultural styles in a pre-globalization world was less diverse than it is now. It depends mostly on where you are located in the world. Usually, the era style (not clothing preferences) within a particular region is pretty much uniform. Of course there will always be hybrid and out of contexts styles (that's where adventurers come in right ? ). I suggest you take a look at different era styles across the world, while there will always be backward cultures that still wear only loin clothes (even if we believe that mostly because of discovery channel) you would be surprise to see how similar the fabric and ''cut'' looks like. Technology does that, not culture. I can say from personal experience that, at least outside of the first world, culture plays a very large role in the styles of attire. I grew up in a small African country where, despite a relatively even level of technology, economics, and climate, different parts of the nation have very different styles of clothing. In the north, men wear "batakari", which is basically a foot length embroided silk robe. In the center men wear colorful light-textile or kente "jumpers" or thick woven blouses with regular western trousers. In the south, most men walk around in jeans and soccer jerseys (seriously). This is not even accounting for the insane diversity in female clothing styles. I am not saying that technology plays no role, but rather, that culture plays as large a role.

Ha ! I misread the term, I guess I should have seen the '':'' and not an ''i''. However, I still think that every cultural ''styles'' looks like to be coming from a different era. It would be fitting to have one more ''advanced'' culture, but now it's somewhat feels like there is no current era in the game which will make the world a bit less immersive. Let us not forget that we live in a current world where Prada suits, biker gang leather chic, African kente cloth, and Amazonian loincloth are all everyday attire in different parts of the world, even with all of the globalization we have undergone. It would actually be more unrealistic if the cultural styles in a pre-globalization world was less diverse than it is now.

I really don't understand the antipathy towards the decision to include a monk class. I personally dislike the fighter class because it tends to be too "generic" and "unimaginative" but I don't begrudge a game for including them. As has been said before, if you don't like the monk class, don't create a monk character or pick up a monk companion. Furthermore, PE is a purely single player game, so we don't even have to worry about other players' preference for a class we don't like. Chill pills all around.

Any chance of us seeing a video of prototype 1 in the next update?

I have to second this. I have pretty much already created my aumaua godlike cipher PC in my imagination

My sentiments exactly. That looked absolutely beautiful. I can't wait to up my pledge and support the development of this game even further.