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Funny, to me it sounds horrible. BUT YOU'RE FROM SWEDEN.

Warlocks do get Bluff and Intimidate as class skills, as well as Beguiling Influence as a 1st-Level power, which IIRC adds +6 to all Bluff, Intimidate, and Diplomay scores for 24 hours. Otherworldy Whispers (?) grants a similar bonus to, IIRC, Lore and Spellcraft; The Dark One's Own Luck adds your charisma modifier as a luck bonus to all saving throws, Leaps and Bounds gives a +4 bonus to Dexterity (although this doesn't stack with other DEX bonuses, IIRC). All in all, it can be worth getting two levels of Warlock to start with. Arrrg! Two many ****ing choices! In a good way I guess.

So true, you speak with the wisdom of many enlightened men. And you have a Burn Notice avatar. I'd say we're square.

Rand's ideas were not new or unformulated. She just had the... tenacity to drone on about them all in an integrated manner for hundreds of pages.

But not the ideas Rand champions.

Vacuum metastability event? Funnily enough, if that ever happens it won't be because somebody turned on the latest atom smasher, but because of a freak cosmic event - any energy level produced on Earth can be guaranteed to have been produced naturally in the past by stars, black holes, and similar.

Do we visit any English-speaking countries?

I've never heard of that, but I don't know why Blizzard is tying it to LAN, since they could just, y'know, fix b.net instead.

Excellent!

Because I can: I will play DotA with you (OK, so I mean HoN). DotA is kind of related to DoD. Two characters are the same.

Hmm, that's something I'll consider. Might even make sense to grab 4 levels for fighter specialisation for weapon feats. Can't wait to finish work so I can build my char.

I generally don't run CPU's fast enough that they need super cooling so no clue sorry.

Not the best example, considering Deus Ex isn't nearly as advanced in terms of graphics as recent games. Yet I still didn't care, and still don't care in the latest super graphics games where the PC is a guy. I think you place too much emphasis on how much you think the average person cares. It's not like we can choose a girl - THEN it'd be fun.

Hmm, that looks decent. I'm a fan of Bards, Clerics, and dragons.

OK guys, you've turned me off Warlocks and Monk's, and because I dislike straight fighters (or variations on that theme - Fighter/Rogue), I'll pick the Druid after all. Another thing is that Druids get diplomacy but Warlocks don't. Druids can still get the critical hit feats right? I remember having obscene crit chances in NWN1 and IWD2 like rand n00b mentioned - but it was a combination of feats and weapons - is getting at least 15 crit chance doable on a Druid? What about when Shape-sihfted into elemental/animal form?

Excellent! Thanks dude - didn't even know the game had been released yet.

Yes.

Oh fine. If somebody can make an AP version of one (or all!) of these, I'll join the club: http://forums.obsidian.net/uploads/av-534.png http://www.freewebs.com/donadams/don_adams.jpg http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Pn6VAGlMjVg/Sexo.../get+smart1.jpg http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RMklEwgsHiY/SUaD...0/getsmart1.jpg

It'll be another 1.5 billion years before the sun incinerates Earth's atmosphere and oceans. I don't think it'll be the sun that is the doom of humanity.

Well, it's pretty obvious that explosives were used. No it's not. It is pretty obvious two giant ****ing aeroplanes planes crashing into the buildings caused structural instability and FIRES. Do you know what happens when buildings catch fire after they've been hit by jumbo jets? THEY COLLAPSE. You're a conspiracy theorist for making that ridiculous claim. You don't need to jump to any conclusions after that - you've already qualified.

So I've finally gotten round to installing NWN2 now that I have a decent computer, my Mac Mini. I've installed the latest patch and will be buying MotB and SoZ soon, but for now it's just vanilla NWN2. What are your favourite character builds? Svirfneblin Monk seems like a potentially good one - both Wisdom AND Dex bonuses to armour class, and a +4 AC bonus off the bat IIRC. Only downside is the ECL of 3. I really like the look of the Teifling with those red horns and face paint but unfortunately she wouldn't make a good warlock because of the Charisma penalty and ECL of 1 (blast is based on lvl, right?). And both the Warlock and the Monk suffer from a lack of variety in attacks (although the Warlock arguably makes up for it with her blast manipulations). I think maybe a Druid would be a safe bet - a companion, shapeshifting, normal weapons attacks, spontaneous monster summoning, and priest spells to top it off. What's the party size in NWN2? Is there even a party? I hope it's either 1 or 4. 6 is too big.

Arrr, the scurvy dog deserves your betrayal!

Some professional cognitive scientists think an artificial brain is about 10 years away. I don't know whether they're talking about simulating it on a supercomputer, or simulating it with organic tissue, but if it's the first one, IBM tends to agree. http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/07/23...-Away?art_pos=4 Predictably, the Slashdot discussion devolved into talk of a zombie apocalypse within the first few posts.

Saying 'evenings are hot' here would typically mean the temperature is over 30 Celsius. To the topic: maybe you just have a bum fan?

You stole Lord Deraldin's signature! No he didn't, it's Umbrella's newest creation, the S-Virus disguised as a forum signature .GIF. Wesker, you cunning bastard. Does this mean there's going to be a zombie apocalypse?