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Ok, thanks Spider. It's a shame though. Fanatism has a lot of untapped potential. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Champions of Torm and Blackguards? Paladins can't stealth kill! They have to stand up and say "Halt, in the name of the law!"

The barrier (it seems you are suggesting, and I would agree) is the user-friendliness of Linux alternatives. If that issue were hurdled, then a Wine-enabled PC would certainly be a possibility ... especially when you consider that Vista could cost

I can easily foresee the insurgents attacking (the same targets!) the Iraqi government for being secular, too.

It can't be too hard to build a *nix PC that runs the latest games ... after all, the new PS3 will run Linux ...

The largest reason for my not purchasing / building a new rig is the dearth of good mobos.

Thanks for that ... considered response. (How old are you again?) Violence is not going to solve the problem, and in fact will create more violence (and against the weaker / more disenfranchized members of society: women).

It sounds like Ahmadinejad is just trying to incentivize the students into employment ... " Ok, maybe the censorship isn't alaughing matter, like banning the BBC Persian-language site.

That is not necessarily why women wear a veil ... just observe the behaviour of the far-too-populous yobs in the streets when a woman of average-or-better-

The blame culture of the US is heading for a crisis. Actually, we had the same thing being debated here in the UK yesterday. I think the problem is that there is no concept of 'natural peril' inherent in law. There needs to be. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> That's an interesting take, and I haven't heard about it: care to expand?

A thought struck me (ow!) last night as I watched NewsNight (there was a good piece on the status of troops in Iraq; there was a Minister from the new Iraqi government fielding questions, too, and reiterating that the Iraq constitution, that was voted into existence by 10 million Iraqis, was both a beacon of democracy and a basis for the most progressive society in the Middle East); namely that the emotional damage of the people who have lived under the brutish reign of Saddam Hussein for decades, are probably acting out some habitual and therapeutic anti-establishment violence (in some misguided attempt to deal with their mental damage).

Noooooooooooooooooooooooobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! Amongst our weaponry are ... a fierce devotion to the Pope ...

... Because Drow are commonplace in Neverwinter, being able to survive outside the Underdark and quite welcomed by the ordinary townsfolk.

Nice to see in picture two that there is an outhouse for the peeps to use ... not too sure how Neverwinter residents accomplished their ablutions in the previous games ... " That sounds very familiar.

Wouldn't that be lawful, though? (Are we in danger of duplicating the Alignment thread from PnP?)

Hmmm .... my interest-o-meter just kicked over into positive territory ...

Someone must die !

I just ordered a brand new copy for 50 cents. I'll blame you if I don't get my money's worth. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You're welcome. )

A timely cautionary tale:

This is a very interesting assessment; not that I profess to be an expert on Ayn Rand (in fact I haven't read any of her work), but what makes you think Kreia was a subscriber to her Objectivism? I agree she is spouting some rational egoism, though: What is Objectivism? Rand, Ayn. The Virtue of Selfishness, New American Library, 1964 Rand, Ayn. Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, New American Library, 1967 Bearing this in mind, I can see how a Lawful Evil alignment might fit. Hmmm, it sounds like your analogy is an over-simplification fallacy. Still, I am grateful for your comments as I have read up a bit on Rand and her Objectivism (that she wanted to call Existentialism, but for those French that took the title before her). There are some worthy points: doesn't sound like a Sith to me ... although it is perfectly possible to pervert any sentiment into something far worse; hell, good intentions and paving stones, after all. Further, Ms Rand has some reasonable conclusions from reasonable assumptions:

For the record, I am not a casual gamer, and am a roleplayer, and I find myself enjoying the Paladin, and don't feel stifled at all. Especially seeing that, as a roleplayer, what class I start off with is irrelevant because I'm going to play the role of my character, whatever class I may be. If "we" don't want to be forced into playing a hero all the time, there's nothing stopping you from that...even if you start the game off as a Paladin. I have played through games as a Paladin that falls before, and I enjoyed them. If on my first playthrough of NWN2 I feel like that is the situation, I'll do it. It only becomes restrained if you're specifically trying to keep the Paladin class and progress fully, which isn't really roleplaying as far as I'm concerned. And the expansions had the Blackguard PrC, which pretty much seemed like an evil Paladin IIRC. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I never liked the Paladin because I thought Lawful Good was a thoroughly unrealistic alignment. However, as alignment roleplay is limited and even almost-impossible in cRPGs, considering that a significant portion of the armour, weapons and equipment are all geared to fighter classes (not too many greatsword-weilding mages out there), and I predominantly play a good-aligned character, then I found myself drawn towards the tank-self-healer character. (I used to play a lot of monks, mainly because of the kewl immunities, like poison and magic at higher levels.) Mages are still the more powerful of the higher level characters, though. I'd really like to investigate a rogue character properly, too, if the full range of abilities were available (climbing walls) and thieving was integrated better into the game mechanics ... possibly even incorporating some spell-like beguiling powers for the very well gab-gifted, too.