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not to be too suspicious, but am suspecting the first post in this thread after aarik were a plant. HA! Good Fun!

out of curiosity, is there an offending image o' aloth from concept art looking too masculine for his own good? as noted 'bove, the in-game stuff is gonna be standardized for all male elves. every male elf is gonna have same body type. as for concept art, am not seeing anything particular noteworthy. am also gonne note that there is a large spectrum o' what folks consider to be looking well-muscled. to some, a shoujo-inspired androgynous elf could be all muscly, while perhaps others is thinking o' bruce timm batman. HA! Good Fun!

https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-02-09/trump-attacks-blumenthal-for-misrepresenting-gorsuch-criticism alternate sources refute trump alternative facts. HA! Good Fun!

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-questions-credibility-of-senator-who-disclosed-comments-by-judge-gorsuch/ar-AAmL7Aj?li=AA5a8k&ocid=spartanntp multiple sources has confirmed gorsuch comments, but trump loves alternative facts. gorsuch were our personal top pick 'mongst trump's finalists. is our opinion gorsuch would be, from day 1, the third best writer on the Court. given time he might even eclipse roberts, though am thinking kagan gots a significant lead. from our perspective, gorsuch is a bit too polite in dissent, and am suspecting he lacks the humor and wit o' a scalia or kagan. for those who is unaware, kagan actual used a dr. seuss cite in a dissent from 2015. regardless, am hopeful trump alternative facts doesn't impact gorsuch confirmation. HA! Good Fun!

aloth's spell book has, at most, ~40 spells. perhaps the big book he carries is actual his diary. if any one o' the joinable npcs from poe were channeling their inner teenage girl, it were aloth. probable doodles unicorns in the margins when iselmyr is deep submerged. HA! Good Fun!

quicken spell talent. will provide a +.3 to speed, which will not stack with the Harry Potter's Horn Rimmed Glasses of Alacrity, but will stack with the .2 speed bonus from Ajax the Lesser's Shield of Speed and possibly with a paladin aura, but maybe not spells. however it will definite stack with with spell-like abilities. mostly. 'bout march o' 2019 we will actual know how the quicken spell talent works in poe2. HA! Good Fun!

so, unless we missed something, still no vancian in poe2. HA! Good Fun!

from the recent twitch stream, josh mentioned how faith would continue to be an addressed theme in poe2, but we would get additions and changes, such as a new important focus: "colonialism." john 11:35 *shrug* colonialism? serious? HA! Good Fun!

we liked toto, but while it may be sacrilege, am gonna suggest the syfy miniseries music already trumped the original movie insofar as music is concerned. http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/66060-update-76-music-in-pillars-of-eternity/?p=1441916 HA! Good Fun!

You may drop my question about the green fireball: It was mostly tongue-in-cheek don't drop our dove question, 'cause while it is likewise tongue-in-cheek, we figure it is more likely to get an answer than our other queries, with the possible exception o' the one 'bout cassowary ranger companions. HA! Good Fun!

so, what does it sound like when doves cry? HA! Good Fun!

am thinking it gots 'bout same creative limits, which is to say, none. sure, will be engine limits and practical resource allocation limits, but am never gonna accept a limit 'pon creativity save one which is self imposed. etc. no limits. HA! Good Fun! Although I do bow to the overall wisdom of your statement, with a system of caves, it seems a little strange having so many war-like races co-existing so close to each other. I mean, they pulled it off pretty well but still. On the other hand, different islands can quite reasonably have completely different culture/races/architecture etc. Also, with islands, you can meet a wider variety of NPCs (travelers, pirates, adventurers, locals, pretty maidens etc.), where as deep in Od Nua, you can only encounter psychos from a past civilization. that old ad&d module we linked, expedition to barrier peaks, had a freaking spaceship, plant people, power armour, blasters and six-legged badgers with fur made o' gold. ... *shrug* HA! Good Fun!

will additional gods be available to priests in deadfire? ondra perhaps? given how the poe story played out, have you considered the possibility of a "priest" w/o a specific deity? various d&d campaigns made it possible to be a priest who derived power not from the divine but rather from more abstract notions of faith. a priest of humanism? whatever. is a non-specific faith (or faithless) priest a possibility for poe? will paladins have access to additional orders in poe2? fellows of st. waidwen martyr perhaps? if the answer is yes, please provide a small amount of detail on one such new order. on the fig campaign page, subclasses have been described with the "kit" nomenclature familiar to 2e d&d players. bg2 kits were a no-brainer choice for a player as they were almost invariably superior to the base classes. conversely, the fan base was not enthusiastic about the iwd2 kits the black isle developers initially presented before that game was upgrade to 3e. paizo's pathfinder ruleset uses the "archetypes" descriptor to identify its subclasses. what is the inspiration for the poe2 subclasses? are they more akin to bg2 kits, iwd2 kits, pathfinder archetypes, or some other source? can you provide an example of an as yet unannounced subclass and how (specifically) it will differ from its base class? cassowary ranger companions? yes? no? with all the possible combinations of classes, talents, spells and abilities, have you considered a more expansive beta than was used for poe1? as the game will cap at 18 (possibly 20?) perhaps the developers would benefit from community feedback regarding more than 8 levels worth of input. there was a recent suggestion on the boards of adding graze and critical damage ranges to the character record sheet. even the hardcore veterans of poe have been stumped when trying to determine something as simple as whether criticals are a multiplier or additive, and there is a trap bug that went unnoticed for years until somebody finally did a spreadsheet analysis. what is being done to make the combat mechanics more transparent? godlike suck. that isn't a question. as much as godlike suck, the name is even worse. seriously, who came up with the name "godlike," and are they embarrassed about it? enough for the time being. HA! Good Fun!

am thinking it gots 'bout same creative limits, which is to say, none. sure, will be engine limits and practical resource allocation limits, but am never gonna accept a limit 'pon creativity save one which is self imposed. heck, perhaps cave could lead to a buried alien spacecraft? https://dnd.rem.uz/Advanced%20D%26D%20(unsorted)/S3%20-%20Expedition%20to%20the%20Barrier%20Peaks.pdf etc. no limits. HA! Good Fun!

beta begins march 15 HA! Good Fun!

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/factcheck/trump-falsely-claims-us-murder-rate-is-at-%e2%80%9845-to-47%e2%80%99-year-high/ar-AAmHCMA?ocid=spartandhp http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/07/513952870/in-meeting-with-sheriffs-trump-repeats-false-murder-rate-statistic trump's alternative facts regarding national murder rate. HA! Good Fun!

possible. am knowing ohio state has more than a few student-athletes who likely scored worse on their sat/act than would the typical somali refugee, but as flagrant as is urban meyer's abusing o' ncaa regulations when he were at florida and now at ohio st. is hardly rising to the level o' terrorism. close, perhaps. am thinking you aren't quite getting into the spirit o' the this the way vol did. a simple slip o' tongue, momentarily confusing new hampshire for vermont, or similar such stuff is not gonna get the alternative facts treatment. HA! Good Fun!

That would of been my favorite ten extra chapters in the three four book series. the problem for most o' us is we suspect josh sawyer would agree with you. *shudder* HA! Good Fun!

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/cnn-rejects-white-house-claim-we-never-retracted-statement-on-conway/ar-AAmI1j0?ocid=spartandhp so, the trump white house released alternative facts regarding cnn's refusal to invite the motha' o' alternative facts on air 'cause o' her credibility issues. is actual getting confusing with all the layers o' alternative facts. HA! Good Fun!

How are you not mentioning Tim Cain and Leonard Boyarsky (you know people who actually made Arcanum) in your pitch Also, typos. Ye... Tim Cain and Leonard Boyarsky are not mentioned at all in the petition and was Troika Games mentioned either? It's their baby, not Black Isle's or Obsidian's indeed. troika's baby. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IG2bicNOfo HA! Good Fun!

edit doh! HA! Good Fun! ps update says increases is based on +1,500 backers from today, but is a 2.6 mil stretch goal. if is 1,500 in fact from today and not from 2.6, then am thinking it should be 1,500 from yesterday as that is when obsidian first posted.

Exactly this. They didn't have the luxury of having hours of movies or endless amounts of books that have explained most of the lore to the players over two decades. In such case you need to do some lore dumping, to get the player at least some sense of what happens in the world and what has happened. do less with companions. am knowing the developers went through effort to create lore and they think it is necessary for the player to be exposed to such stuff, but if such lore dumps is deemed essential, do through npcs other than companions. easily skippable. don't load down joinable with the heavy burden o' communicating often tedious exposition o' lore. and am disagreeing such stuff is essential regardless. lore is important for the writer-- not so much for audience. building worlds and characters who fit in such worlds arguable requires in-depth understanding o' those historical details which resulted in factions and faction motivations, but such stuff is not essential for the reader. the game developers does bass ackwards. try to get the player to care 'bout the world by informing is bad. players will wanna know 'bout the world precisely 'cause they care 'bout characters. crpg developers got it all backwards. preference: show faction and player motivations through encounters rather than lore dumps from joinable npcs. HA! Good Fun!

am knowing this thread is focused 'pon an island, but am gonna take one last stab at a pirate ship option. repost: "it sounded as if input for the pirate ship & crew were a bit limited. something more involved, such as the possibility o' designing a multi-event adversary woulda' been nifty, but such a thing were increasing dubious. honest, design something like the giantslayer's from admeth's den would be kinda fun, but would needs be more than a one-off to be worth the investment... 'least from our pov. first have an initial encounter early in the game to establish raison d'être and personalities. midway we get a battle, possible broken up by a storm preventing a final resolution. add a final confrontation with multiple possible resolutions (but likely ending in battle) near late portion o' game. such a multi-event encounter with a serious tough and unique adventuring group/pirate crew would be unique and memorable. " the game will have a couple contributor islands and inns. would be nice if we could be unique. if the developers would allow us to do something involved with the pirate crew, such as our admitted unlikely suggestion... *shrug* HA! Good Fun!

(image) My point is this doesn't need to be creepy. and yet more than fifteen years o' bad crpg sex minigames at least suggest otherwise. HA! Good Fun!

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/factcheck/ap-fact-check-trump-says-terrorism-acts-ignored-evidence/ar-AAmG2n2?ocid=spartanntp so, kinda looks as if the terrorist acts were covered, with the exception o' the alternative factual bowling green massacre. HA! Good Fun!