Gromnir

Care to elaborate why? I am genuinely curious. if you do not gain attributes past character generation, each o' those points is all the more precious. if you will never get more points, you needs be more careful in spending. in theory this should lead to more balanced characters being built, but it typical works out the opposite way with extreme min/max. there is also the issue with some systems (particularly class-based systems) where a character will eventually have one or two stats improved to relative superhero levels through ability inflation. hypothetical: a rhino has a str o' 20. the absolute best strength a starting human character may have is 18. ok, so maybe the rhino is a bit weak, but is not so outrageous that it makes folks fall over laughing. the thing is, by level 20, our human is likely to have a strength that far surpasses the rhino, and that ain't even talking 'bout magical boosting. as is a Fantasy Game, such stuff doesn't actual bother us, but the aforementioned is typical answers given for avoiding inflation o' abilities... and such notions does have merit. HA! Good Fun!

you know, that is what cheeses us off 'bout poe development. we saw interview where we got developers saying that 'cause this is kickstarter, the fans know everything 'cept story. not true. we don't know genuine how combat works and we ain't seen character generation and leveling. we don't know functional advantages o' different races. sure, we has been told the special powers o' each class, but guess what, if you tell us that d&d rogues get uncanny dodge and backstab and more skill points without giving context o' d20 system, such stuff is largely meaningless. this game is near to being released as beta (a kinda faux beta if obsidian is serious 'bout a 2014 release) and we still don't know how poe works. ... is not so much that we don't know how poe mechanics will function so much as is bothersome when developers pretend like we know everything. guess what, we don't. am still guessing if we get attributes boost or how all those derived stats is generated on the one freaking screenie o' a character sheet we has seen. for a game we know everything about but story, we is feeling left much in the dark 'bout how poe actual plays. HA! Good Fun!

Now I'm curious - what do you mean by that? Which characters are modeled after Ravel, and what makes them tick? I must confess that I never played PS:T long enough to encounter her. I've been meaning to give it a try but all this talk about how characters with high Wisdom and Intelligence are the only way to go kind of made me lose interest. (If someone tells you that there's so much to explore if you follow a very specific way of playing a game, you can become downright paranoid about missing vital information and find yourself stop playing. It's really a curse.) kreia is most obvious example as she were a main character. gulk'aush in motb, gann's mom, is another ravel "hag." the blind seer with all the cats from iwd2 is one example that is easy to miss but were mentioned by chrisA in an interview. the ultimate "villain" from HoW also is 'posed to be a kinda homage/incarnation of/to ravel. etc. chrisA has done some blogs and interviews wherein he admits that ravel is kinda like an obsidian stan lee in marvel films... though that is not how chrisA describes o' course. HA! Good Fun!

That is the issue. Well written romances can be great, but most of the ones you find these days in any form of media are passable at best. It's hardly a video game only problem. You see it in novels, in movies, in TV shows, in comic books, and pretty much any and every storytelling medium... ...and personally I believe this is one of the main reasons why. Love is awfully overrated. Or maybe it is better to say it is so often given strange definitions that come stuffed with cheese. Victorians weren't satisfied just with ruining fairies and fairy tales, no, they had to come up with this "romantic love" nonsense and curse their descendants to a hell of terrible storytelling. Oh, well. oh, there really ain't a question that ravel were romantic in love with tno. she tells you so when you meet here in the maze. becoming immortal were tno's idea, but as in the case o' fairytales, something went terribly wrong. ravel didn't want to, or could not bear keeping your immortality bound, and so the transcendent one and all those shadows is out making things miserable for tno. nevertheless, ravel is clear doing everything for love. she is ei-vene, and marta and mebbeth. when you return to sigil from your plane hopping, you may speak to mebbeth one last time. is one o' the few true poignant game encounters we can recollect. *shrug* like or dislike romantic love. however you look at it, ravel were deep in love with tno, and she suffered much 'cause o' that love. is no wonder chrisA has managed to work her into every obsidian game since... though am not knowing about ap, ds3 or south park as we did not play those games. chrisA, for all the criticism we direct at him, did something wonderful with ravel, and is no surprise he has brought her along with him as he ha matured as a game developer. HA! Good Fun!

complete miss the point o' ravel, but you can read as you wish. is a game, so your interpretation, no matter how wrong, is complete valid for you. HA! Good Fun!

best game romance for us don't even have a close second: ravel puzzelwell & the nameless one. is not having cheesey and awkward sex scenes, and it is critical path, but ravel love for tno is the single most moving romance we can care to name from a crpg. in spite of the game's many flaws, ps:t is our favorite crpg and ravel is our favorite character. ultimately everything ravel did to and for the nameless one were done outta love. folks who suggest that Gromnir don't appreciate game romance is complete and entire wrong. our issue with bio romances is that they don't come anywhere close to matching ps:t efforts. is comic bad by comparison. HA! Good Fun!

as has no doubt become apparent to many, Gromnir will tenaciously argue most any issue. we saw qistina trying to peddle the All Games Belong to Kotor bit to a new group o' marks and we chose to abstain. can making sweeping generalizations and absurd comparisons to be finding similarities 'tween any Light v. Dark story. for example, episode iv of star wars had a dragon: the death star. give qistina a link to joseph campbell and call it a day. as for hot chicks in dragon age: inquisition, we ain't paid much attention. cassandra (am hoping she ain't prophetic) reminds us a bit o' maggie o'connel (jannine turner) from old northern exposure tv series. http://mixnmojo.com/galleries/full/full20110830194919.jpg we got no interest in bio romances, but am admitting that we thought maggie o'connel were quite fetching. on the other hand, giving the mage companion the same fashion sense as a disney villain strikes us as odd. http://hype.my/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/maleficent1.jpg can bio maleficent turn into a dragon too? am gonna admit that the maleficent dragon transformation were pretty darn kewl when we first saw it. HA! Good Fun!

strictly speaking, am not knowing of any me 3 romance potential character that is bisexual. some romance characters has their sexuality determined by the player's sexuality-- is not same as bi-sexual. jack is likely an exception. we didn't romance her, but am expecting that she tried to shock your character by telling him/her about her exploits. the blue squid woman were not strictly bisexual neither as she could procreate with even non-sexual creatures, but am admitting that such is a game-specific distinction. regardless, much like the other party npcs we don't recall liara (sp?) speaking or sharing the details o' any o' her other partners with you. the squid women is portrayed as libidinous, but the me 1 liara were purposeful written as kinda innocent and naive. were she a "virgin"? we don't recall. even if you think that it is okie dokie to dismiss a potential romance interest in real life or games because o' their bisexuality, there were, as far as we know (and again, am actual just guessing)only one such example in me3, and jack were only a romance option in me3 if you romanced her in me2, so it would be extreme hypocritical to complain 'bout her bisexuality in me3, yes? the bisexuality o' character in me 3 were, for the most part, a function of game mechanics. we know that ashley were willing to have sexual relations with a woman if shep were a woman-- is not the same as bisexual. dismissing a romance option because o' a game mechanic that makes it possible for other players to do homosexual romance strikes us as homophobic... and in the alternative, sorta silly. HA! Good Fun!

figures chil would like *eye roll* actual issue is not as you suggest. we addressed earlier and noted that preferring a specific aggregate o' physical features is not, in and of itself, racist. regardless, the hypothetical girl o' bester's genesis post claimed it were misogynistic that bioware did not offer her an alternative to a black male romance partner. ... all on the same page now? HA! Good Fun!

we went and used the tedious search engine and discovered that the last time you asked, we gave an answer. is not a secret or anything, but we don't think it matters... or at least we don't believe it should matter. and as we did already tell you last time you asked, you can now go digging with the horrible arsed search function and Feel our Pain. see, now that is whiny. not bester level o' whiny, but we don't quite have the knack for martyrdom. HA! Good Fun!

again, not black and about as far away from upper class as is possible. how many times we gotta let you know we ain't black before it sinks in? you is so dogged on this and we can't explain the origin. oh well, poor white kid growing up in the ghetto and suffering more racism than we can imagine sounds far more whiny than anything we has posted. am trying to decide if that is counting more as hypocrisy, irony or just plain stupidity on your part to not recognize that your complaint 'bout Gromnir followed right after your little hard knocks for bester tale. you need a tissue and a chance to compose self? btw, we thinks we kinda made clear that we ain't suffering oppression in the office. some o' our colleagues don't even think o' us as a minority and others clear forget that we is til after they say something stoopid. is like our euro friends who didn't seem to see us as American. Gromnir ain't poor educated. we don't talk funny, quote che guevera, or think oj were innocent. sure, we look different, but is amazing how folks can kinda ignore that kinda stuff. bester is in his own little world now... is probably his way to try and get himself out o' the horrible hole he dug with his hypothetical racist and homophobic girlfriend. and we got absolutely no idea how the tale o' woe o' how you suffered at the hands o' blacks and arabs is 'posed to make us think your girlfriend is less racist or that bioware is more misogynist. is it 'posed to makes us think that you is a racist but that you got reasons for it? am suspecting you think you made some kinda relevant point, but am not seeing it. HA! Good Fun!

the fact that she had (you is the one who used past tense, so that makes it even better) black friends is not an issue. you and her thinking it is meaningful that she had black friends is what is funny. Well she did have them, so what? Grow up. am recalling when we were teaching in europe we would frequent find our euro friends talking 'bout the shortcoming o' Americans. apparently we were stupid and fat and uncultured and a laundry list o' other shortcomings. we would remind folks that Gromnir were American and they would actually seem surprised. they were comfortable 'nuff 'round us that they didn't even think o' us as an American. "oh, we don't me you." that made it better? Gromnir has white friends who is racist. we can even like the racists. is often good folks and if they saw you were in need, they would give you the shirt off their back, regardless o' your color or creed. nevertheless, put them in charge o' hiring new employees and ask 'em why they didn't hire Mr. A, a seeming superior qualified minority candidate. response is,"our more conservative clients won't react well to his accent, and and if it wasn't for affirmative action..." is quote from a smart and funny guy who we would happily introduce our sister to if not for the fact that the guy don't even realize that he is racist. "oh, i don't blame them--it's not their fault that they didn't have the same educational and social advantages that we did." he can say such stuff with Gromnir in the room. we is the guy who didn't have the same social and educational advantages that he did. we like the guy. it pisses us off more than a little that we like the guy. we has largely given up trying to get him to understand that he is a racist 'cause he just acts hurt when we point out when he is being racist. the other kinda racist "friends" is no better--the ones who say or do something racist, then need necessarily check to see if Gromnir caught 'em in the act. *eye roll* honestly we don't give a rat's fart worth o' concern when such happens. Gromnir acting indignant is not gonna make the guy with white guilt any less racist. when they clumsily try and retract racism or bend over backwards to avoid appearance o' racism, we can't help but feel some small amount o' pity. regardless, we is certain that we has been held up as an example o' the minority friend that proves that a racist... isn't. y'know, 'cause we is educated and don't like rap music and 'cause we don't constantly make everything 'bout race. HA! Good Fun! ps thanks to bruce and bester... and now Gromnir, we is getting way off topic. is about bioware writers being misogynistic, yes? not anymore.

"No. I actually showed her this thread and she said some people on this forum are incredibly dumb because she's had black friends when she lived abroad and she's always made fun of people with prejudices." this might be better than the percentages shtick. the, "i have friends who are black," bit is so freaking rich. bwahhahhhaahh! lordy, we didn't think you would go there, but you did. classic. hey, go ahead and google "i have black friends." see what kinda funny stuff your search turns up. no, really. HA! Good Fun!

it is not racist to acknowledge that you prefer a certain aggregate o' physical features in a prospective romantic partner. some may consider that shallow, but is not racist. perhaps you prefer gabrielle union to halle berry? if bester's hypothetical girl had made the observation that the one nwn male romance option for women were ugly, we would chuckled but that woulda' been the end o' it. all the nwn companions looked a bit comical to us. their aesthetic were the result o' a single portrait and a blocky 3d avatar, so they all looked silly. on the other hand, to dismiss the nwn option because he were black is racism. is a kinda and stoopid variety, but is clear racist. "In fact in South Africa certain people won't even date outside there religious group. So would this make them racist ?" am thinking the proper term is "bigot" not racist. values is acquired and is not a matter o' birth. dismiss the possibility o' dating a crpg gamer or a santerian priest is not making a judgement 'pon a person simple for aspects they got no control over. it is different than racism or misogyny. nevertheless, we believe that mindless discrimination 'gainst persons simple because o' their religious beliefs is bigoted and bad. Gromnir is a bit less touchy 'bout discrimination based on acquired values. discriminate 'gainst willful ignorant individual is ok by us. discriminate 'gainst a person who can't distinguish their/there/they're is also striking us as fair. so if somebody wanna discriminate 'gainst an individual who has not taken Jesus or Odin or Ganesha into their heart, perhaps they got just as much o' a basis to do so as does Gromnir to discriminate against people who didn't get at least 1350 on their sat (old score). that makes us an elitist snob and we is ok with that. keep in mind that English is weird and "discrimination" is having complex nuances o' meaning. discrimination that is bad is requiring us to treat unfairly 'cause o' categorical labeling. we discriminate 'gainst you personally based on personal qualities and not 'cause o' broad categories and it ain't evil and prejudicial discrimination. regardless all this is beside the point-- not make hypo-girl less racist if you happen to know some religious bigots in south africa. and whether hypo girl is racist or shallow or whatever not make gaider any more misogynistic. HA! Good Fun!

... in the history o' this board, we has never taken oby, or his her dopples, seriously. as harsh as we is 'bout vol, the canadian is ten times more likely to get some measure o' our consideration. that is all we need say on the matter. HA! Good Fun!

girl considers it misogynistic that developers only give her a single human option to romance, and that the option in question is a (*shudder*) black man. yeah, that sounds racist... and stupid. girl seems fixated on humans-only romances. fine. is a crpg so more power to her. some thirteen-year-old girls like elf and vampire romances. nevertheless, bio developers give our maturity-challenged girl gamer a human male to romance in me 3. heck, alenko is also white. hooray! unfortunately, because a male shepard playing a complete different iteration o' me 3 can also romance alenko, the racist girl finds the romance unpalatable. alenko is not even demonstrably bisexual in her play of me3, but mere possibility that a male shephard somewheres will romance alenko makes it unworthy o' consideration. it also, in some as yet inexplicable way, reveals the misogynist leanings of bioware writers. ... yeah. btw, as far as we can tell, at this point all we is talking 'bout is a hypothetical racist and homophobic teenager girl... is kinda a schrödinger's cat thought experiment. HA! Good Fun!

at actual sporting venues, our experience suggests that there is a correlation 'tween alcoholic beverage consumption and obnoxiousness. nascar events, surprisingly, has relative polite fans in attendance. tickets is relative cheap at such events and you usual get the whole family piling into the ford f-150 to see a nascar event. dads, even southern dads, is less likely to get slobber-knockered with the missus and little billy watching. Less likely. compare to average nfl football game in the south... places such as atlanta. tickets is so expensive that whole family making the trip is kinda rare. even if mr. southerner doesn't go to game, he might go to a sports bar to watch. our token atlanta fan gets drunk and stoopid and angry. mr. southerner is now mr. angry and angry goes home to his wife who weren't all that happy 'bout being left at behind and chooses too give her drunk and angry husband some grief 'bout the falcons losing... again. is no wonder domestic abuse calls increase so dramatic after a loss by a local nfl team. same guy who were nice and polite at a nascar event has just been arrested for beating his wife half-to-death with an end-table lamp. sure, is a gross oversimplification o' the situation, but am serious in thinking that if you can be discovering the fans who drink the most, you will also be discovering which fans is most unpleasant. HA! Good Fun!

condolences. were you at least the first to discover the new reflecting pool in your kitchen? no doubt mrs. enoch is the most kindest and understanding woman in the world, but in our experience there is a tactical advantage to discovering your own blunders before your significant other does so. HA! Good Fun!

"Ah, now we've hit at the core of the matter-- the Court is trying to expand employment opportunities for those misguided souls who stumbled out of law school under the illusion that they could find paying work practicing First Amendment law! " how could anybody with the minimal brainpower it takes to pass the bar exam think that they could earn a living doing First Amendment law? HA! Good Fun!

if the guys in the picture had any kinda muscle-tone, they would look like traditional hazing victims we recall from our rugby days. am not certain why it were funny to get new recruits drunk to point o' illness, have them cover each other in graffiti with permanent black marker and then have them walk home naked or near naked... typical wear nothing but your rugby boots and maybe a jockstrap. nevertheless, that were how we built esprit de corp. yay us. HA! Good Fun!

1 romancable human male companion 1 romancable human female companion misogyny Not found. ... how is this not getting through? am serious baffled. gotta a problem with thane? Gromnir would not romance any o' the bio companions. use us as measure stick is poor. that being said, faceless hazmat-suit girl with bird legs and the squid headed woman whose eyes go complete black and can mind-fry us seem no less bizarre to us than does the tragic and soulful iguana assassin. mermaids is 'posed to be attractive and they is having fish parts from waist down. am having no urge to check, but we suspect there is a whole sub-genre o' asian porn based on weird animal-human hybrids. again, Gromnir is quite happy that he don't "get it." regardless, thane is no different than alien female options male players would have available to them if they were actual interested in the bioware romances. as for alenko, smart move on passing the buck, but that don't help much does it? is hardly compelling to note that the wife says alenko and anomen is same in spite o' you earlier having noted flaws in anomen that is not shared by alenko. doesn't matter though as you got bare handful o' possible male romance options... is same for female. limited for same = no mysoginy. as a bio writer, chances are you is gonna need cover the various cliché male romance types. racist girl don't like that alenko were the wrong personality? tough. is not misogyny, is simple math. short o' giving alenko mpd, chances are he weren't gonna be the right fit for a race sensitive homophobe looking for love in a bioware game. garrus mighta been a better personality fit. so mighta' the blue thing. dunno, Gromnir is wrong one to ask, but fact remains that male players were having same similar issues with their option for a human female companion. that being said, please recognize the following so we need not repeat yet again: 1=1 1 human female option = 1 human male option. same exact treatment makes claim o' misogyny difficult to take serious. HA! Good Fun! ps but this is going back to being pure stupid. were funny when bester were trying to explain how unacceptable blackness is acceptable by posting his percentages. we won't be responding unless bester or his girlfriend gives us more such stuff.

btw, observing that some folks were raised in more homogenized societies does not diminish the breadth or depth o' bester's girlfriend's racist tendencies. if she comes from such a homogenized nation or community, then that enculturation likely explains her racism, but it don't validate or excuse it. HA! Good Fun!

relevancy? misogyny is the contempt for women, yes? somehow the existence o' one lone human companion were evidence o' mysoginy... am still trying to figure that out. me 3 offers one human female companion. relevance found. 'course is only relevant if your "friends" utter ridiculous notions is relevant. seriously can gives us a headache. as to wiki *chuckle* so she is complaining 'bout romances not available to her? fine, then that again puts thane back into the mix. and without wiki we effective have same alien:human ratio for romances. and round we go. seriously. read or reread your posts before hitting "post." will save loads of time. "He's bisexual and Anomen is gayish. They're very much alike." so, racist and homophobic? there mere existence o' a possible same-sex relationship makes a hetero relationship unpalatable? ashley is the one human female may also have a same-sex relationship. so your racist girlfriend (friend who is a girl, not necessarily suggesting you is romantic involved,) is having same treatment as male players. no misogyny found. am not sure what the relevance o' anomen being "gayish"? simple grammar fausx pas we expect. you suggest that anomen and alenko is similarly "gayish" yes? is that the technical term-- "gayish"? this is getting good. please indulge and describe how me 3 alenko is particularly "gayish." oh, sure, any joinable npc could be given such a label, but after your wonderful race % contribution we really wanna see you define the gayishness o' alenko. will no doubt be fascinating. HA! Good Fun!

"Most women don't go outside their age and race group when looking for a partner. Well, race is vague in this context, so let me clarify. This is my approximations, but anyway: 100% white females would go for a white or white-ish (spanish, italian) male, 60% would also go for arabs and turks, 40% would also go for asian males, and only 20% would also go for blacks. Hence her disappointment. A black romanceable NPC is so outside everyone's type that it's basically like offering a 70 year old frail NPC as a romanceable guy." that were hilarious. do it s'more. honestly. try to makes yourself look like a bigger yutz. we dare you. and Gromnir ain't black. sooo... *shrug* there goes that theory. as to interracial romance, particularly in a game with inter-species romance, the comments seem at least odd and arguable racist. your friend seems willing to lump aliens o' various species in to bolster male hetero sex options, but black, which is clear more human than the calamari heads and hazmat suit girl, is distinguished? dig your hole Deeper. please. did you even think before posting? "Two of which are ALIEN, and one "Anomen". Thanks, bio." and of the two female companions, one is alien and one ashley. we read the complains 'bout anomen from racist girl, and alenko is not a lonely rich kid whose biggest problem is that his parents want him to be a paladin. am not thinking there is an option to make him evil neither, so other than the fact that he is a white guy, we don't see how she is drawing such close comparisons to anomen. soooo... btw, the only way you get five female romances from a male sheppard that is "not a one night stand that has no implications whatsoever," is if you has played me2... so am gonna call bs. your "friend" is doing totals based on previous me games played, but you now claim "she" hasn't. sound like bs. as an aside, 'cause we typical avoid crude, but is clear that your woman friend could use the bioware style "love" o' a black man... or perhaps two. HA! Good Fun!

am thinking gaider recognized that he hadn't managed to create a romance option for women that had broad appeal when he penned anomen. that is one reason he were so active with the Ladies of Neverwinter and their site. you ain't gonna get an argument from gaider that anomen were fantabulous... other than the typical writer knee-jerk kinda thing whenever somebody mindlessly flames your stuff. is also worth noting that if bester's woman acquaintance wants to be taken seriously, then suggesting black doesn't count is not the bestest option. sure, the lady's racism does not diminish the potential validity o' a claim o' misogyny, but it comes off as hypocritical nevertheless. we also had a difficult time following the nwn complaints. mass effect 3 musta played different for different folks... somehow. now, there were many games that bio released between nwn and me3, so am guessing those didn't support the main thesis-- we don't know as we purposeful avoid bio romances. nevertheless, to have so many games not mentioned is noteworthy in itself. regardless, as to me3, am not recalling as many joiables as does bester's friend. again, we so rare pay attention to romances, so we needed to go to the wiki for me3 to even recollect all the party npcs Kaidan Alenko Tali'Zorah vas Normandy Liara T'Soni Garrus Vakarian James Vega Ashley Williams Javik EDI edi were a joker romance, so even the no doubt vocal lesbian robot sex crowd were likely disappointed (only for a bio game does we need make such an observation.) javik were the angry alien and part of dlc. he had kinda a stereotypical "black" accent too, so no doubt bester's friend woulda' been uninterested even if he weren't visually alien. leaves six companions: 3 male, 2 female, and 1 blue thing that looks female but isn't. bester's girl could get sexed-up by two o' the three males and the blue thing... if that were her desire. male shephards could have ugly digital sex with the two female companions and the blue thing. am not sure o' the same-sex couplings, but bester's pal didn't mention them either, sooooo... *shrug* sounds even to us. am guessing you could have somewhat abbreviated libidinous relations with previous companions that make appearances in me3. yes? jack and miranda? wouldn't thane be a similar option? we didn't explore, but seems doubtful that bio would pass up potential sex with a sad and dying guy? if tali gets counted as a woman, then thane and garrus should counts as male, yes? ... regardless, we responded serious to a silly post. any more than this would be criminal. HA! Good Fun!