Gromnir

am not sure what advice we can give. is our opinion that some folks min-max a paladin into early uselessness. for us, the paladin is a very capable buffer and as such we want high intellect. play as a shieldbearer or darcozzi palladini tank and we is gonna make intellect our prime attribute. unfortunately, as a tank we also want high resolve for the deflection bonus. drop perception and our average accuracy becomes awful... which is bad for a tank. you need to be able to hit stuff for enemy ai to take you serious. you also gotta do at least some damage or, as already noted, enemies will ignore you. so, is it genuine smarty to reduce might and/or dexterity? constitution isn't a priority for us, but am not gonna reduce it below 9 on our main tank neither. is too many min-max builds we see that hurt a paladin tank. sure, at level 13-16, with optimal gear, handicaps from basement-level attributes can be mitigated, but most o' the game is played at levels 1-12. in any event, poe is a flexible game. we don't need any particular class to succeed. we don't like chanters. we pass on chanters. no great loss. folks who love chanters will marvel at our stoopidity and our inability to proper utilize a poe chanter. *shrug* for some inexplicable reason, we never found much love for the ranger in spite o' obsidian having improved them significant from earlier builds. our parties is almost always missing chanters and rangers. oh well. on the other hand, we like priests and paladins and monks, so our party typical has those. kinda funny, but during the beta we saw any number o' Best Class polls. am not kidding that Gromnir were the only guy that chose priests as the MVP class... evar. great. am thinking it is a good thing that folks can have widely different perspectives regarding the efficacy o' the poe classes. most crpgs that have classes also have obvious and clear winner and loser classes. am personal not a fan o' classes in crpgs, but we concede that obsidian did an admirable job o' making many classes that actual play different and are all useful... though we do continue to have rather serious complaints 'bout the mechanics and balancing o' a few poe classes. poe did a good job on the classes... they did a good job on paladins... with room for improvement. HA! Good Fun!

in the typical crpg, quest resolutions is largely insular and discreet. it makes sense to keep quest resolutions insular and discrete as crpgs is attempting to give the player at least the illusion o' choice. wanna save the village o' Burblestack from raiders doesn't prevent you from siding with the slavers who is gonna sell child elves for labor in the salt mines o' Nur. that is where the problem o' game evil starts. the guy who does random acts o' carnage and badness is always gonna seem psychotic. w/o an overarching plan, the player who wants to do evil is necessarily gonna be viewed as a complete nutter. if the ultimate goal is to drive back the Alien Invasion from Commonwealth space, then it seems kinda ridiculous that you is running around perpetrating petty acts o' violence and larceny. other than at the main plot points, your acts o' evil is gonna necessarily be... pointless. can't be part o' a larger plan if is gonna be kept insular. tyranny, we suspect, is gonna offer a genuine rationale for many acts o' despicability. if the goal is to be gaining influence with various factions, then am s'posing you is gonna be offered many bribe, blackmail and boondoggle options. as manifested and others observed, there is reason to believe that there is gonna be more significant strategy elements in tyranny. build your powerbase through manipulation and terror? sure, why not? the ultimate goal is gonna more easily facilitate terrible acts by the player than will the typical crpg. ... the thing is, am suspecting that you is gonna run into the same old crpg problem with many quests. if tyranny has many optional and tangential side-quests, then those is gonna need be insular and discreet. only give choice to do bad is no real choice. each tangential quest is still gonna offer a spectrum o' choices and each such resolution is gonna be largely self-contained. no doubt we will have some kinda reputation tracking, but nevertheless, unrelated acts o' violence and graft is gonna, as the linked page at the start o' this thread amusingly observes, result in behavior that any reasonable person would describe as psychotic. you are gonna be able to do evil in tyranny. it is likely that doing grand-scale acts o' terror and graft will be reasonable given the narrative. unfortuntaely, as the linked page observes (http://humanresources.paradoxplaza.com/) burning down a coffe shop 'cause a regular were rude to you, or spending two weeks stalking the guy and rearranging his furniture to make him think he has gone insane, is ridiculous options. if tyranny is a crpg with insular and discreet quest resolutions, many o' such is not gonna "do evil character well." without reasonable purpose, evil is gonna be relegated to madness for explanation... which is mighty unsatisfactory. HA! Good Fun!

nobody said that you had to like the poe paladin. many folks in this thread is pointing out that they find the paladin to be efficacious. you disagree. fine. example-- Gromnir doesn't get much use from the chanter. the chanter can be made into a worthy tank and its invocations can be brutally powerful, but it just don't work for us. if we want multiple chants from our chanter to be active, we actual need two or more chanters in our party. we don't even want one chanter, so why would we take two? also, while the chanter invocations is useful, we do not like being a hostage to the chant count. for the majority o' poe battles, we want powers we can use at will... or at least at the start of a battle. we don't much like chanters, but would be ridiculous for us to claim that they is poorly designed or ineffective. particular for longer boss fights, a chanter can be a powerful addition... to somebody else's party. dunno what to tell you. is not as if the folks who see use from the poe paladin is all deluded and you is the sole voice o' reason. has been more than a couple o' paladin solo potd videos and builds shared on these boards. even so, nobody is forcing you to play the paladin. don't play it if you do not wish to. 'course given the vastly different experience o' many other potd players, you is gonna need accept that your experience is hardly a dispositive or conclusive judgement o' the poe paladin for any save yourself. HA! Good Fun!

the paladin is designed as a support class. given obsidian espoused goals for the class, paladins is 'posed to be a resilient support class that requires relative less micromanagement to be effective. while offering less flexibility than a priest, the paladin buffs is situationally powerful, and the paladin can be made durable enough to be a party's primary tank w/o resorting to min-maxing. we got no difficulty in proclaiming that paladins successful fulfill the stated goals o' the developers for the class. that being said, folks has come up with some highly effective strikerish builds for the poe paladin. am less o' a fan o' paladins than priests if one or the other is the only dedicated support class in a party, but paladins and priests make an extreme effective combo. heck, our most recent paladin potd run (currently on hold due to continuing faith and convictions bugs) is highly efficacious as we typical utilize both pallegina and our main with pallegina utilizing a bow and exploiting the effect-on-kill abilities while our main paladin tanks. given the goals o' obsidian for the paladin, we find little room for complaint. HA! Good Fun! ps shortly after release there were considerable criticism o' the paladin... which we didn't get. claims that fighters were better tanks than paladins seemed wholly misguided. after all, the paladin were a support class. the observation that the paladin, while effective enough in the tank role, 'could support far better than any fighter build, were seeming ignored. another frequent complaint o' the paladin were that it were not as effective in support as a priest. 'course such folks ignored the fact that paladins were far more resilient than priests and that they typically required less micromanagement than a priest. claim that priests were better than paladins in support mighta' even have been true, but such claims ignored that priests and paladins played very different and that both were effective at supporting a party. not as good as a fighter at tanking and not as good at support than a priest were s'posed a meaningful critique. misguided.

better than Fort Where Shady Will Be Sleeping Alone For The Foreseeable Future, eh? given the alternatives if mrs. shady weren't so understanding, Fort Not Quite As Awesome But Much Easier To Clean Up sounds positively delightful. also, aren't you on the ulcer diet? is pretty much 0 dairy, 0 alcohol, 0 spicy and 0 fatty meats... and avoid tomatoes too, yes? ... shady is a vampire fan and as such you will understand when we admit that we would rather go on the r.m. renfield diet than be on the ulcer diet... though we do not drink alcohol. HA! Good Fun!

elliot could slide... or not. after the combine, more than a few teams leaked that elliot were a terrible interview. sometimes such rumors is little more than a cheap attempt to drop the value o' a player in the hopes that he will linger a couple spots. if you pick at 9 or 10 and you think a player may be gone at 8, you got some motivation to drive down a player's stock. is cheap, but it happens. 'course sometimes you see a player have their draft selection go into free-fall mode and as often as not is 'cause o' genuine concerns 'bout a player's mental hardware. also, ramsey's stock has been rising o' late... am not particular sure why. regardless, ramsey may not be available at 4. bosa, however, might be. is another ohio state player who is likely to lose some money (nobody is gonna weep for bosa if he slips from original 1-2 guestimates to 4-5) over concerns largely unrelated to performance on the field. HA! Good Fun!

Same I kept dropping the Y in tyrannygame.com Let's just say that's not what I wanted to see and I'm glad I'm not on a work computer we take some solace in knowing we ain't alone in our... difficulty. HA! Good Fun!

But what about Lost Boys? I mean, I get disliking the other stuff, but there are exceptions! in all seriousness, the only vampire story we has genuine enjoyed in the last 30 years is i am legend. am speaking o' the novel, 'cause the movie kinda broke our heart. oh, and lifeforce were funny... though it weren't s'posed to be a comedy. am betting that whenever patrick stewart gets a bit full o' himself, his friends break out a lifeforce vhs tape. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efd9zcjn5JM honorable mentions: jessica biel, blade trinity salma hayek, dusk til dawn anne parillaud, innocent blood all terrible movies, but jessica and salma were hot, and anne were inexplicable adorable. HA! Good Fun!

am suspecting that poe were a particular difficult game to balance various gameplay demands. example: after every ie game, the pendulum swung. based on weight o' feedback at the time, bg had far too much pointless mowing o' wilderness maps, but folks loved duralg's tower. 'course iwd were too "linear" and even bg2 didn't have enough exploration for folks. so poe developers mistaken (perhaps) attempt to find a happy medium? is no such thing. make a game that largely eschews smallish encounters and quests that enhance gameplay hours and exploration and you got folks complaining. place greater emphasis on exploration and folks complain that such resources coulda' been used on more raedric's keep kinda stuff. am suspecting that a rather significant amount o' poe padding coulda' been removed w/o it being missed... but only in retrospect. take out much o' the filler and padding content and people would then lament the paucity o' exploration. developers got our sympathy. HA! Good Fun!

our dyslexia is making the title an issue as we tend to drop letters, but we will get over that. the core concept is probable the least significant aspect for Gromnir. starting point is that the bad guys won? from our pov, that is star wars, willow and almost every western ever made. meh. is an isometric, party-based crpg being developed by obsidian as a new ip. good. sold... for now. am gonna be enthusiastic until something drastic occurs. is this the crpg that re-introduces packs w/i packs bag exploits and time to bake bread? is this the crpg that resurrects armour class and irrational "saving throw" progressions? get 20 hours into the game only to discover that we didn't have enough skill points in X or a high enough Y attribute to progress? as long as obsidian avoids such anachronisms, am expecting that we will give it a shot. HA! Good Fun! ps am also relieved that this ain't a vampire game. am knowing that shady and others like vampires, but we got a reflexive dislike for vampires. 'tween anne rice, blade and twilight, we could go 20 years w/o missing vampires in any sorta media. we even hated only lovers left alive and that were barely a vampire film.

so, Gromnir were right after all? ... the teaser video were kinda silly, but am ok with the concept. HA! Good Fun!

based on the questions at the linked site, am gonna make a guess. US Senator a crpg in which the player starts out as a lowly habidasher (or whatever) with the goal o' becoming a US Senator. blackmail, bribes and boondoggles is your weapons? perhaps. you must choose how you will become a Senator, and if the costs is worth the power... power for good, or evil. no? oh well. HA! Good Fun!

the thing that has surprised us 'bout harrison ford is not that he is getting old. he is old. what shocks us is just how old he seems in interviews. am always asking our self if harrison is drunk while doing interviews, 'cause he gots the pregnant pauses and lapses in concentration we associate with the aged and the serious inebriated. HA! Good Fun!

kaepernick is a classic gm/coach killer. am figuring one or two more teams will give him a shot based on his physical gifts and the promise o' his early career. is understandable why elway feels empathy for kaepernick-- a young nfl qb with a strong arm and incredible athleticism is taking heat 'cause o' his attitude problems... problems often linked to his public admission that he don't wanna play for particular teams. since becoming gm in denver, elway's qb instincts has been a seeming benefit. running tebow outta town were not popular at the time, but it were the right call. acquiring an old manning who were recovering from serious injuries were a questionable decision in 2012, but it paid dividends. could kaepernick have a second career in denver? it could happen, but the more common result o' taking chances on gifted young qbs who has already failed once is that they will fail again. am trying to think o' the bag o' money we could justify as trade value for kaepernick. ziploc sandwich bag full o' money? old lady change purse? as much as this fella can fit in his cheeks anything more than the peanuts zippy is trying to hoard strikes us as wasteful. HA! Good Fun!

Is this true, I've never been able to suss a bias. Gromnir is not a broncos fan. if we were a broncos fan, we would be equal scared o' the prospect o' mark sanchez or colin kaepernick being our starting qb this coming fall. apologies. we were placing our self in shady's shoes. ... am hopeful that shady is also a magnanni man. HA! Good Fun!

well, as an experienced backup qb, sanchez is a decent acquisition. shady knows more than most that starting nfl qbs rare make it through an nfl season w/o incident. the thing is, with fitzpatrick seeming no longer an option, as a bronco fan, am not sure who we would actual be enthusiastic seeing as next year's starter... given the options available. the remaining free agent pool isn't exactly deep with quarterbacks. the draft? lynch, cook and hackenberg are early round guys that the broncos have a shot at and they all have positives and negatives. am not sure if lynch were ever under center in college and all three o' the guys we mentioned have question marks related to accuracy. ... it would kinda suck if sanchez became the broncos starter by default. HA! Good Fun! ps we all knew that eric weddle's time in san diego were over once the chargers put him on ir... in spite o' the fact that weddle seemed healthy. dunno. so many nfl teams is mired in 1980s complaceny when it comes to certain positions. you can always wait til late rounds o' the draft to pick up a competent offensive guard or safety, yes?

Frank Zappa is cool, but he's clearly not in education. It varies by state, but in California they teach about the Constitution in 8th grade and then again in high school, typically in your senior year as part of the principals of American Democracy and Economics content standards. This can be called a few different things, depending on the school district. edit: The term social studies, which is actually called social science, refers to a wide range of topics that are covered throughout the k-12 curriculum, including 'civics' never let the facts get in the way of a good rant. HA! Good Fun!

in this case, less = more. am genuine concerned that thor: ragnarok is following civil war, 'cause one o' the more ridiculous aspects o' civil war were the cyber-clone of thor: ragnarok. civil war were such a mess that a massive reduction in the plot lines is likely to help. HA! Good Fun!

am not certain how far $130 will get you insofar as hookers and blow is concerned, so perhaps the ce for sod is the more enlightened option. our imagination is getting the better of us at the moment as we envision snaggle-toothed prostitutes wasted on coke cut with bath salts. *shudder* obviously Gromnir ain't the target audience for the sod ce. we suspect that beamdog would get far more ce purchasers with a more modest offering o' the collector's edition bundle o' an expansion for a +15-year-old game.... leonard nimoy's suspect business advice notwithstanding. that being said, the ce extras is no worse than is typical o' collector's editions for more robust games. even so, sod looks to be a genuine expansion that will be offering a fair amount o' additional gameplay to the bg catalog. without having played the title, am not gonna complain 'bout the $20 pricetag for sod and we sure ain't gonna try and convince folks that beamdog's efforts is little more than a mod. $130 does strike us as a bit steep for the ce. aside: nepenthe can acquire the original bg soundtracks by purchasing the $40 package, yes? sure, you won't get the amulet, dice and cloth map at $40, but... *shrug* as we said, Gromnir is clear not beamdog's target purchaser for the ce. HA! Good Fun!

well, the fact that you had garfield plush toys made us wonder if perhaps manifested were a girl when he was young. 'course, Gromnir had a pony, so am not certain we can be too dismissive. HA! Good Fun!

Sue was on Cap's side, Reed was on Tony's, Johnny was on Cap's after he woke from his coma, and Thing was reluctantly part of Tony's, but buggered off to France after he decided both sides were stupid for fighting and putting civilians in harms way. All are owned by Fox right now so won't be part of the movies. I hope Fox lets go of those rights soon though. Marvel is going to need some of the villains bundled into those rights to keep their movies going. Fox owns the Skrulls, Galactus, Kang, Doom, etc. ... he did ask you Not to tell him. HA! Good Fun!

we were sixth grade (if we had gone to public school) in 81-82. *shrug* no lasagna though for bill. he drank to excess, smoked and free-based tender vittles. a "vegesexual" and bartles & james junkie, bill's long running affair with jeane kirkpatrick were not the kinda thing content that woulda' been appropriate in a jim davis comic. ... am pretty sure he ended up with donald trump's brain near the end o' bloom county's run. HA! Good Fun!

hmmm... as a bloom county fan, Gromnir prefered the Bill the Cat parody o' garfield. go figure. HA! Good Fun!

recognizing your ff affinity, am gonna recommend that you do not read civil war. odd handling. one o' the most perplexing civil war moments for Gromnir were ben grimm related. HA! Good Fun! ps is our opinion that every comic title that runs long enough is gonna provide multiple instances o' childhood memory ruination. no biggie. just roll with it.

when we saw the trailer, our first thought at the conclusion were that something looked distinctly off with spider-man... kinda like the weird cg fight scenes in the matrix sequels where neo and elrond looked almost cartoony. spider-man looks weird, which actual takes some effort given that spidey normal is a blue and red gimp suit. am gonna admit that we weren't a fan o' the comic civil war. am thinking that a movie version is actual a positive as much o' the padding and idiocy from the comic book storyline can be excised... or exorcised. regardless, we disagree with the assessment that spider-man looks great... unless civil war is actual a who framed roger rabbit sequel. HA! Good Fun!