Gorth

*Cough* Google tells me the word I was looking for was "Guava", which is apparently something slightly different.

Arghh... waiting for potions of Pepsi and Coca Cola and all their imagined benefits. Or what's their name, all the guano based energy drinks. Fatigue? Have a Red Taurus.

Do they really need to have a "title" of their own? What if you can pick skills and feats/traits/whatever that can make your fighter do what a paladin does in traditional D&D? I'm probably hoping for more character build customization options than a larger number of traditional classes. I don't think this is mutually exclusive. I think you can have a flexible system and still include traditional subclasses without it being a huge drain on resources. Where the titles have importance is that when people choose these I guess iconic roles to play they want to have who they are reflected in the game. So for someone playing as a Paladin it would be frustrating for them if in-game they were reacted to as a standard healer cleric. The same would go for a bard, you want to be treated as a wandering minstrel rather than as a catburgler - does that make sense? Also in a text based game I can't see why this would be a problematic feature for them to include. After all it's largely a matter of typing 'Hello Lord-Knight' instead of 'Hello Holy Father' I imagine. Makes sense. I guess are preferences are just different Not sure if I can explain mine eloquently, but I prefer to be acknowledged for my actions (i.e. the faction reputation) rather than a preset class. If I show my ugly face and the villagers flee screaming away from me, I want to be because I've killed a larger number of "villager class" and so they have come to fear me, not because I picked "Barbarian" as my starting preset. I know it's not going to happen to that level of detail, but one could always hope.

Do they really need to have a "title" of their own? What if you can pick skills and feats/traits/whatever that can make your fighter do what a paladin does in traditional D&D? I'm probably hoping for more character build customization options than a larger number of traditional classes.

Paypal is only at $13,893.71 at the moment. https://twitter.com/obsidian Completely off topic, but I did laugh at this one on the twitter: "We might put in a code wheel or make you look up a word on page 20, paragraph 2. (Just kidding.)" Personally, I don't care about crafting and the cipher class doesn't appeal to me (I like barbarians). But damn, I want that adventurers guild hall very badly!

Lots? On a serious note, I believe Obsidian is going to hand out templates and guidelines to help people at least starting down the right path. You are right though, fanfic is scary stuff. Fanfic writers may not necessarily be the ones putting up the big bucks (aren't poets and their like the ones always talking about starving artists?).

Poof!... posts begone. Let's try and keep it less personal?

Yeah. I did chuckle when I found a "Hammer of Lucerne" in one of my games (was it IWD2?).

I once got on one of our clients budgets. I didn't know until somebody told me years later, that I drank as much coffee as their international sales and export office. Special purchase requisitions for more coffee had to be issued and authorised when I was staying there for longer periods of time

Games don't always "bomb" because they are "bad". Sometimes the market potential is just overestimated. Stuff in quotes meant to be arbitrary, undefinable values.

Carmageddon (GOG version). Gorth Pedestrianbane is roaming the city and has become the terror of the footpaths again. Quiver in fear all ye jelly-kneed footsloggers!

I would imagine that most (if not all) people who are willing to fork out $1000+ has an interest in a good game, not an interest in trying to sabotage it.

Thread pruned a bit. Don't like the idea? Fine. Don't like the poster? Keep it to yourself. Saves other people from getting 'Aggro'

Old history (probably more than a week now)... Not sure if that was thread 21 or 22 Basically, it seems to attract the same immature individuals, each with their own agenda making intelligent, mature discussion very hard.

Only the red one if I remember correctly?

If they hadn't killed off the Reapers already... Reaper vs. Galaxy the RTS (instead of whatsitsname C&C game that one of the studios is supposedly working on now). They got the franchise, might as well use it. It worked for Dawn of War the WH40K RTS.

Please tell me that you don't believe for a second that this has anything to do with Syria and everything to do with Turkey going after Kurdish separatists?

Please say there are evil deer with human hands who will break our legs and lick us for the vital sugar in our bodies. I'm seeing herds of feral unicorns... stalking their prey through the dark and dense forests... corralling their prey into a dead end and then impaling them with their horns in a glorious bloodbath of frenzied butchery, so they can feast on the bodies of their prey afterwards, crunching bones, sucking out marrow, tearing at muscle and sinew with their fangs... Maybe I just got too much imagination

Just trying to whack them over the head? You can never knock too much sense into an orc.

Anybody here speak Gaelic? They would probably be able to make a good guess. My own guess is like the 'ir' in dirge.

I seem to remember having spear and shield wielding characters in NWN2. It required the feat Monkey Grip (at least I think that was its name), which enabled you to wield two handed weapons single handed. I can't remember if you could actually dual wield spears though. I might have to reinstall that game again. I miss Storm of Zehir.

Gorth you are just bitter because the Op doesn't consider Australia worthy of contributing towards this project. Don't worry one day Australia will be "enlightened and experience the glory of the American cRPG " I consider myself "multinational". Australia is my third country

Where did you see that? Not that I mind, mind you. Just didn't see that mentioned anywhere on the pledge tiers.

They could make it an all or nothing quest. If you succeed, you become a lich. If you fail, you become a wailing banshee, crying out your misery until the end of time (or some adventuring party ends your existence). Of course, you wont know until far down the path, so you can't just reload a recent save

I haven't really tried the demo much. Ended up getting the first one though (bought Humble Bundle 6). Might give it a shot and see if it's anything for me (never was a Diablo fan though)