David Frohman

I really don't understand what this debate is about, but then again as far as I'm concerned all spellcasters are spellcasters. Cleric, Druid, Wizard, Chanter, whatever, spellcaster. They're all the same class to me. They're usually funner to play than fighters because they get more options. If the class called 'wizard' is weak, I really don't care, and I don't understand why other people would care. I don't really like damage dealing spells. They're boring. Divinity Original sin, I guess, did a good job of using elements and environmental effects to make attack spells interesting. With the help of awesome graphics! ___ Casters need the ability to blind people, to trip them and knock them down, to make them unable to distinguish friend from foe, and to be able to cure or undo the effects of other casters. (buff and debuff in mechanical terms). They don't need the ability to actually do any damage. Stealthies need to dance around the edge of combat, attacking units that have weakened in the behind, hunting casters, and using single target ranged attacks, occasionally getting sucked in by undistracted fighters. Fighters need to bash each other in the face in an ugly mess in the center of the map while the casters and steathies dance around the outside, and the side that runs out of fighters first loses. ___ But more important than all that! FAR more important! Everything needs to look cool. If someone is blinded, I want to be able to see it, the black cloud in front of their face. If someone is tripped I want to see them fall over and have to stand back up! If someone is grabbed by a vine, I want to see that vine crawl up his legs and grab his arms! If someone is suddenly glowing in the dark, negating their stealth skill, I wanna see them glow! If someone is frozen, I wanna see their hair turn white and frost form across their skin! If they're burned, I want to see them on fire! You can make wizards as powerful or as weak as you want, if the spell animations and status effect animations are not there to support it, they'll just be boring. So... make it look good! Make it LOOK good, make it look BEAUTIFUL! PLEASE! Also make the fighters punching themselves and each other in the face look entertaining, please. That'll probably take a few hundred combat animations by itself.

People who are not spanish or portuguese speakers tend to assume that the two are the same language with slightly different accents. This is, in fact, totally wrong but people persist in making this mistake. The two languages are no more similar than Itallian and Spanish. They also tend to assume Spanish is more widespread than Portuguese, which while technically true leaves out the fact that Portuguese is incredibly widespread. (Spanish is the #2 most natively spoken language in the world, and Portuguese is the #6. English is 3 followed by Hindi and Arabic. Mandarin is #1. German is 11, French 18. So Portuguese is objectively more common than german and french)

The big question is "Can the community keep the wiki up to date after release, or will we be far too enraptured with actually having the game on our hands to bother writing pages in a wiki"?

It's (Theoretically) possible he was a kickstarter backer who bought a whole bunch of copies on kickstarter with the intent to resell them? I don't know, Nicht Sprechken zie Deuitsch. I don't speak german.

I generally prefer not to play Betas. They kinda tend to ruin my enjoyment of the game, not because of spoilers, but because of remembering how frustrating things were until fixes were put in place. Still, I played Divinity Original sin's beta, and it's given me the impression that there's not quite such a thing as a 'normal' beta. Things changed a lot in Divinity Original sin between Beta builds, and gave very little clue as to the plot as a result.

Once they're done with Project Eternity, maybe they should kickstart Alpha Protocol 2?

So I was wondering on if there were any thoughts about what the Backer only pet would possibly be? Is it possible to even get a pet if you're not a backer? Is it a ranger animal companion, or a special critter that can show up at your stronghold? What do people think it will be? And what do people hope it will be? Me, I'm hoping for an animal that you can get at your stronghold.