Gorth

At lower levels, I found snowball to be the most effective offensive spell. Forget fire spells and the wimpy missile. Snowball ignores the recipients magic resistance MR something I learned to prioritize my spell selections after. At least until Ember got elemental affinity fire, focus on evocation (and conjuration eventually) and greater spell penetration (plus its mythic variant). Nenio focusing on illusion and enchantment spells. But snowball will always have a special place in my spellbooks

I went through the process of respeccing my barbarian at Hilor's sickbed, so I removed both the 1 level of vivisectionist and the 15 levels of bard I had ended up with. Now 20 levels barbarian (mad dog... it just seemed so apt) and 17 levels of warrior (of course, writing this now, I can't remember of it was bloodrager or instinctual warrior). Also replaced my triceratops with a wolf. Dropping str and armour, focusing on fast movement and some dex (I put in a point of int to get 3, to make some feats available because that's what the tooltip told me)

Sad that I even think such a mod necessary, but I'm fairly sure it will be part of my next run! (that or drop Nenio in a lava pit somewhere)

One of the few places I hadn't visited yet was the jail... not the one in Drezen, but the one Baphomet calls "home". Generally easy going (fight wise). Hated the puzzles, but once you could see the number sequences, it wasn't too bad. Just incredibly obnoxious. I don't know if I did the following in the right order or if it could have been done differently:

There are some people (I'll not mention names) you wouldn't even need to pay to jump to the conclusion that the protests in Portland were organized by some world spanning antifa plot

I believe Finland is very much a Nordic country, not only in a geographical sense, but a cultural and societal way. I.e. "The Nordic Model". Which is privately owned and run companies with government run services (financed through taxes). Personal tax tends to be a lot higher than corporate tax btw, to encourage the growth of businesses. That being said, labour laws and regulations tends to be handled between unions and employers (the latter also have an organisation to bolster their combined bargaining power as employers). Only if voluntary agreements fail, does the government step in and enforce work place regulations (at least that was my experience 20+ years ago).

In hindsight I should probably have kept my trickster (that means a full trickster run some day). But legend was the plan from the outset. I have no idea how far I still have to go in the current game, but I imagine in my next game I'll try something squishier than my barbarian (even if adding 15 levels of bard was not the best option to "bulk" up my barbarian ). Maybe a necromancer turned lich or a druid turned angel or something crazy like that. Interesting ideas and concepts being more important than beating the game on high difficulty settings for me... Yes, wimp I am Edit: A similar phenomenon to when I play Kill Team or Horus Heresy. Winning isn't the sole objective as much as an interesting fight with lots of narrative in it.

Putting on the moderator cap: I'm not going to bother pruning this thread, but it's time to lay off the personal attacks. That goes for everybody involved. Yes, 'everybody' implies more than two people... edit: Yes, censorship can be alive an well if required. Doesn't take an autocrat to do...

Same thing here. They have become investment objects instead of bonds or gold bars. People with either spare cash or good bank connections buy up homes in numbers, driving up rent and prices, making owning your own home unachievable for more and more "normal" working families with normal day jobs.

How about some 70's German techno-pop (so long ago, I wonder if they weren't a bit ahead of their time)? Although as a matter of preference, this is more my kind of 80's German pop music

I expect to see her in a gulag within a fortnight... officially there is no "war", just a "special military operation"

We'll have to disagree on that one Queen's "Tribute" to their first manager (Norman Sheffield, owner of Trident Records back then). Less swear words, but all the hatred felt for him condensed into lyrics...

Hey, that sounds like me!

Not really suspicious before Michelle proposes to Lula, asking if he wants to marry her

I had it happen way back in act i iirc (could've been act ii, was a while ago)... where you have to defend the camp/inn/haven (I can't remember the name), when the demons all leave a garrison and march towards your current hideout. That's where I realized real time could make the stalling game unstall and bring the arsonists to the fore again, so I could kill them (and progress the fight, spawning the boss) I suspect my next game is going to be on "normal" too. Curios to see if I won't find a number of those troublesome encounters somewhat easier with at least a little bit of game and mechanics knowledge under the belt (belt of wisdom +2 !!!)

Sounds like Eyes Wide Shut

Uh oh... Poor Gorth. Ended up in a bit of a bind. How to wing it in this situation? Ahah! Space bar!... Ok, fully scripted. At the end, Gorth is a legend! Which suddenly gave me a metric tonne of levels to level up. I just picked something, because I knew I had to go visit Hilor (was that his name?) in Drezen and respec. Two handfuls of Bard - Thundercaller for giggles It also gave me an insane amount of hitpoints... Edit: The preceding fight was moderately obnoxious, as it kept hanging and I had to redo it four times. Fourth time was when I realised I could fix the hanging game by switching to realtime and back to turn based again. The hanging seems to be caused by

First generation Intel Pentium processors would probably have arrived at: 2 + 2 = 3.99999999999999999 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug

There is case modding and there is case modding... I wonder if this PS5 isn't going to overheat inside all that polystyrene or whatever it is she made it out of

Australia... the aircraft carrier that doesn't sink

'Plot Armor'

For a computer: 00000010 + 00000010 = 00000100 When the end result is right but the way to the result not what was intended: 2 * 2 = 4... When integers are too simple (2 + 0i) + (2 + 0i) = (4 + 0i) Add more...

Trump, Bolsonaro Modi, Orban... the four horsemen of the apocalypse bringing about the death of civilization

I know the feeling. For me it's more a trip down the transcontinental highway with all the memories that has piled up over more than half a century. Sometimes wondering if that little 4 year old Gorth from my memories was real or just a figment of my imagination (of course similar when thinking back to teenage Gorth etc.)

What's wrong with the swamp? I love swamps in crpgs