Gromnir

gonna admit, we didn't see it coming. HA! Good Fun!

the pandemic changed things a bit. in the spring o' 2020 trump announced a halt to who funding, which were not complete unjustified given the who position on china, but recognizing the circumstances, the US as the primary who contributor sudden halting funding during a pandemic were nevertheless monumental foolish. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/04/who-funds-world-health-organization-un-coronavirus-pandemic-covid-trump/ gives you an idea what the numbers looked like before the pandemic, so... btw, we never expected china to be a huge contributor, but a large number o' pre covid global pandemic nightmares cooked up by epidemiologists involved influenza outbreaks originating in southern china, 'cause that is the origin point o' a significant number o' previous influenza threats and the influenza strains typical is starting with birds before making the leap to humans... humans in china. cultural biases against frozen meat and the prevalence o' highly unsanitary practices in chinese markets meant that all those big brain folks were looking at china as the next likely epicenter for pandemic. who refusal to cross china is probable less 'bout funding than it is concern for their mission. cut off access to china would be devastating to current and future efforts to deal with the spread o' infectious diseases. HA! Good Fun!

given the ease with which modders addressed the issue, am suspecting the reason for not changing is less a mater o' capacity than it is o' desire. if we assume that from owlcat pov the feature is working as designed, and recognizing the existence o' a mod which "fixes" the issue for those who do not like owlcat implementation, it is possible the developer is seeing no need to alter the status quo. is hardly as if this would be the only curious owlcat design choice based more on a preternatural capacity to be obdurate than any other explanation. is why we keep getting more puzzle content, yes? HA! Good Fun!

to be fair, @majestic's fever dream image o' shady were o' a meth dealer who "looked like" hawk. reminds us gordon from sesame street. 'course "gordon" from sesame street would never be a pimp. HA! Good Fun!

am kinda leaning in this direction as we don't see any signs o' self mockery or camp from owlcat. cartoony cringe as 'posed to subtle parody... which effective has us at the same place. regardless, if wotr purchasers is ok with the current situation, we don't see any motivation for owlcat change. that said, 40k is kinda an ideal property for the cringe+ approach. HA! Good Fun!

1) d&d legacy alignment is idiotic and anachronistic. ... really ain't much more need be said. alignment exists as a limit on role-play and it inhibits decent storytelling-- camellia being a useful example. as to making all wotr alignment dialogue choices axis specific, such would at least cure the nonsense wherein a paladin choosing "good" choices reflexive in wotr, absent a single chaos option, nevertheless falls from grace. however, as a practical matter, without serious increasing current dialogue option numbers, am suspecting a few alignments would be receiving very little attention... which just goes to show how idiotic is the alignment mechanic as any character with an alignment restriction is already needing game the alignment mechanic as 'posed to necessarily playing the character they envisioned when they started wotr. regardless, without additional writing investment, one need accept a few alignments would benefit from relative paltry coverage. an alternative would be to create significant additional trash (alignment) dialogues. huzzah. am personal fine with seeing a relative insignificant number o' dialogues for a few characters, but for some inexplicable reason players complain if their chosen whatever isn't identified in a crpg, even if the identification is managed with preternatural clumsiness. why would you want more bad dialogue options is baffling to us, but try and deny it wouldn't be a thing where some helpful person literal counted every alignment dialogue in the game to reveal how a few players were getting shortchanged. that said, this is kinda a dead horse, even for wotr. referencing an earlier post from november 2021 and no doubt ignoring multiple other such posts from the beta period mentioning how ordinary busted is wotr's application o' tired arsed d&d alignment. regardless, the real solution is exorcising alignment from d&d legacy systems such as pathfinder, which ain't near as difficult as you might believe as we have done so more than once in pnp. obvious ain't gonna happen in a pathfinder game, but am disappointed every time a pnp game developer updates their d20 based system to a new edition w/o dumping alignment. lost opportunity. HA! Good Fun!

see, that is where am conflicted. owlcat efforts to pander to their audience is so extreme it feels like parody. is owlcat perhaps indulging a bit o' mockery o' their fans? it is possible the developers is doing their best and their best results in cartoony extremes. the thing is, as you note, a significant portion o' the wotr groupthink is encouraging owlcat to continue with the over-the-top antics. we will observe how if there is a setting which already embraces owlcat penchant for accidental or intentional parody level excess it is warhammer 40k. perhaps too many fans o' 40k fail to recognize the over-the-top and tongue-in-cheek qualities o' the grimdark setting, but that just makes the situation more amusing. HA! Good Fun!

keeping in mind owlcat must work w/i framework o' an existing paizo pathfinder adventure path and maintain some kinda paizo approval, am tending to agree with this observation. am having pointed out how the female romance options is, at first glance, designed to mock and ridicule those who like crpg romance. the fact owlcat romance fans aren't in on the joke and seem largely happy with owlcat's efforts makes the efforts at parody more amusing. arguable all o' the mythic paths is indulging in mockery o' the player's choice. aivu's saccharine nature and cookie silliness, along with the complete haphazard approach to teh freedom integral to the azata path, looks to be tongue-in-cheek fodder. as such, how can we not take the comical depiction as commentary on the stoopid indulged by those embracing goodness untempered by practicality? azata is over-the-top cartoony. people understandable are repulsed by a few o' the lawful=a-hole choices in the game, but am thinking is easier to overlook or indulge the owlcat mockery o' do-gooder's who seem to thinks if we all held hands and danced in a meadow under the moonlight, all the world's problems would disappear as if by magic. ... the thing is, there is nothing particular clever 'bout owlcat writing, so is tough to give the developer credit for a perverse level o' subtlety wherein they manage to constant mock their fan's desires and choices w/o the vast majority o' fans recognizing or caring that they is the victim o' a tens of hours long prank. converse, is quite possible owlcat is as much victims o' their own efforts as is the rest o' us. in an effort to make sure players get it, perhaps owlcat consciously abandoned any pretense o' subtle and so we end up with exaggeration which feels like parody? is not that owlcat is indulging parody, but rather that their efforts is intentional blunt and crude to a comic degree, which is ordinarily what results in parody, yes? HA! Good Fun!

take it for what it is worth, but we noticed the following reddit post/exchange: HA! Good Fun!

sounds as if you got a new weekend (sunday through saturday kinda weekend) breakfast staple. HA! Good Fun!

no xp gain for us, but we do get the Banner Over The Citadel completion message. am positive on the xp 'cause one such save is from immediate before the start o' act ii, after gaining mythic powha. we went through the whole becoming lord commander bit and xp did not increase in spite have having received the banner over the citadel completion message. we had a save immediate following galfrey's speech as well, so were ez to compare xp. downside means while it ain't showing in the quest log, one suspects we wouldn't gain or be able to complete the quest in act ii. could be a serious game breaker in drezen... or maybe not. who knows with owlcat. hopeful a few bugs would be addressed sooner rather than later, we instead did an unfair inevitable excess run. our clever girl velociraptor coulda' solo killed inevitable darkness as she had the blind fight feat (so no concealment misses) and a 30 charisma at the time which helped lead to an ab o' 111. scroll o' trnasformation and a few other personal buffs were useful. didn't even have visions of madness active or touch of good from sosiel. had the raptor attack after seelah got off her mark of justice, so she technical did not do all damage, but it were a near thing as seelah got horrible unlucky with the concealment misses as we only had true seeing on her and forgot to do echolocation in spite o' fact she had more than enough umd to read the appropriate scroll. couple o' crits and bonus damage from spells such as sun marked meant the dino damage output were overwhelming. if we had a skald merc in the party (we did sans mercs,) the damage woulda' been even more extreme. court poet could push the raptor charisma to 36, which gets her 3 more ab. vanilla skald provides a bunch o' extra natural attacks plus lethal accuracy. 'course if owlcat ever fixes the unlimited smites bug for divine hunter... HA! Good Fun!

could do a baron munchausen thing and see if anybody catches on. "people ask me why i work at __________, but i believe the answer is obvious: i love a challenge. my doctoral thesis was just sold to a major hollywood studio and the finishing time for my 67th marathon was within 30 seconds of the world record, but working for _________ is what gets me out of bed in the morning. after climbing everest for the third time..." HA! Good Fun!

so what? before their stunt was anybody unaware o' their issue? overreliance on fossil fuels? serious? they brought attention to a 'cause 'bout which almost everybody is already knowing w/o doing anything to shift opinions. pointless. narcissistic. dumb. garnering attention for a cause near everybody is already aware does not look to be useful. "henry, did you see this story with the kids and that sunflower painting?" "nope" "well, i know it sounds crazy, but it looks like producing and using fossil fuels is not only unsustainable but there are all sorts of health and environmental problems linked to fossil fuel use." "huh." ... a conversation held nowhere by nobody 'cause whatever is your position on fossil fuels, chances are you already got one. serious though, what is wrong with people these days wherein getting attention is an end in and of itself as 'posed to a means to bring 'bout change? however, the soup can kids didn't hurt nobody and the damage they caused were negligible. perhaps the next collection o' wannabee world changers learns and improves on the scheme. HA! Good Fun!

that does not surprise us in the least. with such an observation we would assume most folks were trying to make a joke, but the years has taught us better. predict a double-down. security/law enforcement shows up and they find two young women each of whom were on there knees with their left hand glued to the wall behind 'em, presumably spouting off 'bout oil and injustice. am not sure what sorta threat the young vandals coulda' possible presented given the circumstances, but 'course the natural reaction is to give the youths a teeth rattling jolt o' electricity. *insert eye-roll emoticon here* 'cause make victims outta the dopes would be the obvious way to handle the situation? am suspecting the vandals changed no hearts or minds regarding fossil fuels, so from our pov their efforts were little more than self-indulgent narcissism. were yet another display o' the look at me mentality o' today's youth where instead o' doing the hard work to bring 'bout change, they instead went with a slap-dash effort garnered at generating a viral story which will no doubt be forgotten by next week. lazy. the kids with their soup is fails, but maybe the next group has a useful plan. as long as they ain't hurting anybody, am applauding their verve if not their sense. HA! Good Fun!

"the reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."-- george bernard shaw HA! Good Fun! ps am drawing a hard line in regards to violent change. is no doubt situations when violence is required but from our pov is never ok to indulge violence as a form o' protest. use violence in defense o' others who need protection from violent actors? in rare circumstances am ok with such, but presumption is to resist violence to bring 'bout change. and

is quite possible the vandals do not know the difference 'tween petroleum and plant-based fats. am ok with that. young, dumb and... am knowing we sound dismissive o' the protesters, and we are, but the kinda stoopid the vandals suffer is not a bad thing. am assuming they didn't do any real harm and their outrage may serve to motivate enough similar young and dumb people to change the world. probable not, but change needs to start somewhere. is an unfortunate truth but meaningful alterations to the dominant paradigm comes about when young and/or stoopid people ignore sober and smarty boomers. is tough to admit, but it is the people being unreasonable who make the world a better place. real change requires mind-numbing unreasonable which is why people such as Gromnir is poor suited to bring 'bout real differences. 'course being unreasonable usual leads to wasted effort and harm, but we need young and dumb if we wanna save the _____________. ... wanna punish the kids? make 'em clean the museum with non biodegradable paper towels and environmental harmful cleaning agents. HA! Good Fun!

am even less understanding their anger at glass, 'cause is the protective glass which they decorated with soup. in any event, am finding fault in the vandal's aesthetic as seems obvious they overlooked the chance to do their stunt in ny and to a warhol pic... though admitted ny might have been the main obstacle for these kids. am not giving them a break however as is no excuses in art. regardless, as far as we can tell, the middle class socialist brats didn't do any real lasting harm, so, meh. on the downside their ineffectual efforts means they will be forgotten that much quicker. HA! Good Fun!

less true after a recent patch. spontaneous prepared non angel spells do not get the level advantage a prepared caster angel does, which is mostly beside the point as you will be casting near exclusively the angel spells. even so, is a significant change particular at the mid levels. edit: @InsaneCommander playful darkness now has greater heroism on unfair, which means you need dispel it if you wanna succeed with fear effects. as an azata you should potential be able to get three rolls per check with favorable magic and fortune hex so have your court poet cast greater dispel magic with a quicken meta magic rod... and then reload if that don't work. however, assuming you are level 15, you need at least 13 levels o' court poet to have access to greater dispel magic. am not sure what your current build entails. got at least one level for thug? *shrug* HA! Good Fun! ps am pretty sure playful always had greater heroism, the change is how intimidation works in wotr. more than a few players learned how the well-nigh irresistible vavakia vanguard's intimidation-based fear effect resulted in a couple o' the more shocking encounters in the game. paladins were immune, but virtual everybody else, regardless o' spell protections, had to beat the intimidation dc, which is so not the same as a will save. regardless, am thinking the greater heroism protection against fear effects resulting from intimidation has finally been fixed.

am not particular creative with the naming choices for our raptors-- clever girl or vince carter. edit: additional vid o' vince going beast mode, albeit in an all-star game. HA! Good Fun!

didn't wanna overt spoil, but the start-from-scratch situation in act v with your army is precise why we suggested that focus on upgrades and buildings should be your act iii crusade priority. build a sooper army in act iii only to need start with a handful o' scrubs in act v is disheartening if you ain't prepared. got a number o' bugs which has us temporarily holding off further gameplay. the isle nine spawn bug is disappointing 'cause from what am able to see from boardie feedback, this has been a problem since the dlc release. in part 'cause we weren't advancing our dirge bard or our act iii aeon, we built a few test mercs and companion builds; discovered new and annoying bugs in the process. built a couple judge characters which is effective save for their most important and useful ability: judgement aura is not swift. 'course neither is sentence. this serious undermines the usefulness o' judge. zen archer shortbow damage is not calculated correct as it should be = to monk unarmed damage 'stead o' 1d6. based on past owlcat releases, we figured it would take a month post ee release to see wotr in decent condition, so we ain't surprised. the thing is, we were assuming far more changes to the base game as 'posed to quality o' life enhancements such as inventory search. regardless, am gonna wait a bit on an isle 9 solution before resorting to a mod fix. HA! Good Fun! ps am gonna observe how in act v we typical end up with two main armies as the frequency with which we got three simultaneous enemy forces attacking increases. camp of the camp of the mammoth lords is a frequent target. so too is tower of yath.

there is a famous scene from witness for the prosecution (1957) which you likely never has seen but know even so 'cause has been done in variations a thousand times. "the question is, frau helm, were you lying then, are you lying now, or are you not in fact a chronic and habitual liar!" (will check internet) is verboten to attack the character o' a witness not 'cause we want politeness in court but 'cause to impugn character o' witness is deemed irrelevant and has a tendency to prejudice that witness in the eyes o' a jury. exception: propensity for falsehood is always relevant, which is one reason no lawyer would ever put trump on the stand to act as a witness in his own defense. regardless, the aforementioned scene, plays out everyday in courts 'cross the land, albeit with far less drama. impeach a witness as to their tendency for mendacity is relevant and allowable under the rules o' evidence in every US state as well as fed courts. however, is not some kinda objective standard. judge doesn't instruct jury to dismiss witness testimony if the witness lied 'bout their age on a facebook profile. assuming the witness offers a decent explanation which convinces the jury/judge they is telling the truth, such as speaking against their own interests, then a finder of fact may decide the testimony offered is reliable enuff. keep in mind that it is illegal to lie to the feds in most instances. by admitting he/she lied to feds, the witness exposed self to legal jeopardy. have witness explain why he/she were afraid o' speaking truthful to the feds may not be in trump's best interest, so the degree to which prospective defense attorneys seek to impeach on truthfulness is a tactical consideration which is all kinda schrödinger's cat at the moment. HA! Good Fun!

Trump worker told FBI about moving Mar-a-Lago boxes on ex-president’s orders kinda tough to not indict assuming is true, and given the recent doj filing which mentions evidence o' obstruction, am thinking the release o' this story is hardly coincidental. keep in mind indictment is so not same as conviction, but is difficult to explain why the doj would avoid charges o' the x-president given the former guy's public efforts at self-immolation as well as the reveal that somebody in trump's employ spoke to the feds and gave testimony which makes don's knowledge o' the existence o' additional documents marked as classified less o' a question. such testimony is also pretty freaking strong evidence o' trump intent. add in fact that doj believes trump has not yet turned over all documents marked as classified and an indictment is all but a forgone conclusion in our estimation. meanwhile, at mar-a-lago... but again, am cautioning people who thinks the case against trump is a slam dunk. the obstruction aspect is looking stronger. however, the espionage act is not how any prosecutor would wanna go after trump, and a jury trial o' an ex-prez who has a cult-like following makes even a solid case a bit o' a gamble, and prosecutors ain't 'posed to gamble with justice. in any event, while have been directing our criticism most to judge cannon's overt buffoonery and her handling o' the pre-indictment civil stoopid she allowed team trump to pursue, am now at a point where we would admit genuine surprise if there were failure to indict. HA! Good Fun!

agreed, but am likely not seeing the same as most. wednesday displayed emotion frequent in the new yorker comic, and am having difficulty recalling her doing anything overt sinister... although pugsley and his sister did prepare one christmas eve by waiting in front o' the fireplace, ready to turn up the heat on santa. truth to tell, pugsley were the addams family spawn pulling pranks with regularity. by contrast, wednesday silent smiled cheerful (frequent) or wept ironic, but she existed to react to situations as 'posed to foment mayhem. you would not recognize the ricci movie character or burton's take based on the one-panel comic. the thing is, am kinda glad burton's most recent waif is no wednesday, 'cause while the original were a sweet little girl with a curious perspective, it is unlikely charles addams' wednesday woulda' worked as the focus o' a 2020s tv show or movie. HA! Good Fun!

experienced same problem at the same point, but we had no difficulty exiting the island at the start point and returning to the ship. as such we could, if we wished to, finish act iii. we got multiple saves, jic. got saves pre island 9 and saves after finishing sans the boss. am not certain how the fix will work. edit: depending on how long it takes to correct the problem, we may revisit your toybox solution, but that would involve installing toybox. regardless, is good to know we could possible fix the issue manually. finished gray garrison with our bard and will play up to drezen in hope owlcat address (again) the dlc non-spawning boss problem. HA! Good Fun!

"is that classical music?" "yes doctor, it would seem to be." HA! Good Fun!