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I figured Wenduag would be the most likely to still share a bed with me if I went Fullskeletal Alchemist (anime pun)... (I'll skip all the bad boner jokes) And to be honest, I am curious about what she's about as a character because I went with Lann in my first game. All you got to see of her then (when going with Lann) is I wonder if there was more possibilities with actually having her in your party than that.

In the category of missing obvious stuff, it was only at the beginning of my second play through I noticed the tooltips for council decisions shows the game mechanic results of the choice. Sadly only after settling in at Drezen. No idea how I ended up with convicts as my basic foot soldiers, I must have listed too much to one of the Tieflings early on

Did he ever get out of the way of anyone besides Zhukov? Mostly because the latter was so popular, no amount of secret police would be able to handle the repercussions of Zhukov falling out of a window. @Mamoulian War As for the speaking the truth to Stalin... you know you can't really trust truth extracted through torture Edit: Just to clarify, that made it look like it was your statement, it isn't, the quoted bit from FT/Pravda made the statement! Edit2: Reading the Pravda article, the logical conclusion is it's Covid's fault (let's all blame China for the war) for completely isolating Putin from the real world

Thanks for the heads up. I seem to remember from my first game, that spontaneous casters had a narrower choice per spell level than prepared casters (by keeping an eye on what Nenio could choose compared to Ember). I wasn't taking proper notes so to speak, playing low magic, all hack, slash and head butt character at the time. The combined spell book is a first time experience. I'll stick to sorcerer as the "base" class for now. Playing "normal" difficulty, so with a bit of thinking, persevering and luck, most obstacles should be possible to overcome Doesn't mean I won't experiment a bit in say 5 levels time, give or take a few. Did the same thing with my barbarian where I respecced a number of times at points in the game, just to try out alternative barbarian and fighter specializations, ending up returning to my original class again (or something close to) and continue the story (and the ending up with an obscene level 20+20 character)

"If you have a problem with me, you talk to my boss"

SkyNet sends its regards...

Oh my.... /facepalm now that you mention it I suppose my necromancer could've been a bit braver and approach the enemy once the smaller demons were dead and the tree prone on the ground Edit: I think I acquired some kind of flaming cross bow at some point, but of course Ember has that one. Hugging it tightly while being busy being dead on the ground. Dangit Gorth... you're getting old. Potentially holding the answer in your own two hands the whole time

Three of my fireballs came from a staff (can't remember the exact name, most likely the one you mentioned). Sadly it resisted all 3 fireballs cast via the staff. edit: not helped by my sorcerer not having any focus on/in evocation (iirc, that's the school fireball belongs to?) And yes, in my first play through, I felt like I could open a garage sale with excess alchemist fire and the acid equivalent (I rarely found a use for them, except once or twice for exactly that purpose, overcoming regeneration). Of course I did not think at all about the 2 torches I had distributed to party members as secondary/tertiary weapons...

That was the first one I fought (of the ancient ones) and the one that got down to -150hp when I realized I did not have a single alchemist fire bottle in any inventory (that I could access) Its magical resistance is still in full effect when down and regenerating, hence why none of the "secondary" casters could harm it with their paltry fire based spells. Ember most likely could have hurt it, but she was one of the first to go down (I underestimated the reach of that tree when when it decides to hit my back line with its abilities). But as mentioned, after 14 failed coup de graces, the 15th did the trick

The wrong Obsidian I suspect... this is Obsidian the games developer, not the software package.

True. The point of the video was changing the first letter in the English pronunciation doesn't really make it sound any closer to the original (classical Latin) pronunciation. Hence, the recommendation just stick to the conventional English pronunciation (or German or Russian etc.)

Anyone here played Fallout: New Vegas? Always found it grating on the ears hearing people calling him Caesar pronounced with a K (I.e. Kaesar)? Well, turns out it is wrong... sort of. Because that doesn't make it sound any closer to classical Latin anyway, far from it, so you might as well stick with the established English pronunciation of it!

Still 10 days to go (game time, not real time) before I get my pyramid. Pharaoh Gorth Ank Amun I is preparing a... house? warming party Ok, no idea if that actually ends up with a pyramid building anywhere or not. But the idea sounded like fun at the time. Lets see what the actual end result is. My necromancy focused sorcerer (undead bloodline) had a some fun with those blasted trees in WinterSun. I still need to clear out some forest there Those ancient blighters hits like a hammer and their magic resistance is a problem for my level 10 party. Not at least because they have regeneration (vulnerable to fire) and my party has very little in the way of fire. A few wands of fireballs. Ember was down as was Sociel, so no help there. Wojthief (sorry, can't spell his name from top of my head) had burning hands and 3 fireballs from my staff all failed to overcome the downed ancient tree because it's magic resistance beats whatever those spells were cast with. In the end, 15 attempts of coup do grace actually did it in. I'll give the other trees a break a for now and work on better spell penetration for fire based spells before going back for the rest of boss trees (the "normal" angry trees weren't a problem, they didn't have regeneration, but those ancient bark fiends sure had)

Saw some oddball movie that was surprisingly entertaining. Spontaneous (I think from 2020). Part teenage romance, part comedy, lots of exploding teenagers

If they don't act fast, it will be Trump as president in 2024 and the end of peace in Europe... I'm sure he can find a few more fires to fan the flames or however the saying goes. Northern Ireland, Bosnia, Cyprus, The Levant, Kosovo, Belgium, Scotland, Lombardia, Scania, Moldova, whatsitsname the region with all the Hungarians under Romanian rule... so many hot spots, independence movements and armed conflicts lurking just underneath the surface waiting for the next spark.

I thought it was about the 2024 elections

A review of the new Australian governments climate policy...

30 days to build a pyramid? Where is there a Pharaoh when you need one?

Continued from old joke... https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/129222-funny-stuff-which-website-did-chewbacca-get-arrested-for-creating-wookieleaks/

For those who are in for the long joke...

Sooo many naughty boyhood dreams...

Sometimes guys needs to compensate for "shortcomings" in other areas if you get my drift. Sometimes it manifests itself as over the top brutality, aggressiveness or bullying. Heck, you see it on the internet too, when guys feel insecure in their masculinity

Something about Boeing and staying in the air just seems to not mix... (laughing because nobody was killed) https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64645457 "US air safety officials say they will investigate why a Boeing 777 jet unexpectedly lost altitude and nearly plunged into the Pacific Ocean" No, it wasn't a Boeing 777 Max

You need the right technology to match your adversaries...

Old but not out... I remember these old Leopard 1 tanks (I used to live near the coast as a young man, where the army had the target practice and general training area for gunnery and the occasional large scale NATO maneuvers) https://mil.in.ua/en/news/denmark-will-hand-over-leopard-1-tanks-to-ukraine/ I thought Denmark had sold them as scrap. Turned out they were sold to a German company to be converted into some other kind of military vehicle. Now they (the Danish government) are buying them back, to be refurbished according to Ukrainian needs and then to be shipped off to the Ukrainian army instead. Old, but still with decent fire control equipment and a nice 105mm gun. I think they last saw active combat in Bosnia several decades ago by now...