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With Modern English (and I haven't went back to re-read about it so as always I could be wrong), the primary attempts to standardized the form really comes from Dr. Johnson's dictionary as it was the most comprehensive and thus became widely used. This was all well and good until about a century later when Noah Webster based a dictionary on the American use of English where he also simplified a lot of spellings (draught - draft, colour - color). When Engish adopts words, it tends to adopt the pronounciation, which leads to some of the exceptions in spelling in words (typically ones borrowed from French). With Roman Numerals, a bar over a number means that number times 1000. So 5,000 would be a V with a bar over it, 10,000 an X with a bar over it (I can't represent it graphically)

Arguably annoyance factor is important because the game isn't "real life adventurer simulation" so I'd imagine most people would want the game play aspects to not become tedious. Note I consider "annoyance" to be inherently unequal to "cost/benefit". perhaps you rested at gnoll's fortress or firewine bridge in BG1 or say troll cave in BG2 or anywhere you just had a battle ? During my last BG2 playthrough i think my rest was disturbed mostly just once at the same resting spot. It wouldn't make sense to savescum, instead just wander off a little bit and rest where it's more likely that you won't get ambushed multiple times. Any outdoor location (and some indoor) had a chance of opponents showing up in BG1. If you rested at the first location and several early ones, gibberlings/xvarts/wild dogs/wolves could spawn. Kobolds around firewine, but also around the nashkell mines. Skeletons around High Hedge or Bassilus' location. Gnolls as you came closer to the fortress. Bandits/hobgoblins in a number of locations. i actually don't know of anyone who rested after every fight in BG1/BG2. The player learns, gets better and rests less. I seem to recall there were people during PoE's campaign who said they rested after most every fight in BG/BG2 so that they could always be at full strength. Particularly in BG2 so they could be prepared for mage battles as they were regularly exhausting their spells. Certainly there was little incentive not to save-rest-reload if necessary in the game for the most part since I don't think there were many time based quests (none in BG that I can recall and...one or two in BG2?)

To be fair, those Changelings have to come from somewhere...

My understanding its because in Middle English, gh was pronounced as either f or w. The Old English source word was dræht which in turn came from dragen, "to drag"; so Draught would have originally been pronounced drawt (belying its origin in draw). However even by early modern English there were uncertainties on gh - Shakespere rhymed "daughter" with "after" and "slaughter" for example. Over time the "gh" for "f" pronunciation won out over the "gh" for "w" in the case of draught to the point that the American language changed it to "draft" because who has time for all those extra vowels and consonants, right?

What about a Pathfinder dating sim set in a wizard academy? Not a genre I'm really into, so gameplay would have to sell me on it.

County ← Anglo-Norman counté ← Old French conté ← Latin comitātus, meaning "Jurisdiction of a Count" Country ← Middle English contree ← Old French contree ← from vulger Latin contrata as used in the phrase terra contrata meaning "land opposite" My guess (can't find any evidence online to support it so possibly wildly inaccurate) is the "u" in Country came from one of the standardizers of the language.

Seriously though (I can't just leave the joke answer), the tradition in English is to spell and pronounce words from other languages as they would have been in that language (or at least as close as you can get translating it into the English Alphabet). Sometimes over the centuries, the origin of the word gets obscured, but the pronunciation remains. In this case the spelling got changed; can't tell you why bas in Middle English became Bass in English. At some point that's how someone codified it to be. Typically you'd find Shakespeare (the biggest of the early Modern English authors), Dr. Samuel Johnson (influential Modern English Dictionary in the early 1700s), and/or Noah Webster (for American English) at the root of such things, but given the timing we might also find blame for Robert Cawdrey, Thomas Blount, Edward Phillips, John Wilkins and William Lloyd, or Elisha Coles as I think they all created modern English dictionaries prior to Johnson.

Not much, we mostly use email now...

I think google is a bit off - Bass (instrument) comes to English from Italian Basso which is from the Latin word Bassus. Bass (fish) comes to English from Middle English Bas, which derives from the Old English word bærs (similar to Dutch Baars) which itself derives from the Germanic Barsaz.

I'd love a Pathfinder traditional RPG - isometric or otherwise. I confess I'd also probably enjoy a Pathfinder Action RPG that allowed you to play the Iconic characters in a game like an updated BG: Dark Alliance, Champions of Norrath or Dungeon Siege III type as well (but I understand not everyone likes action RPGs).

Film expert, Hollywood Reporter columnist, author, actor (mostly with Desilu; Lucille Ball was a mentor and encouraged him to write about movies) and TCM movie host Robert Osborne passed away at 84.

Are you dragging the characters to the left most open circle? If you drag them to the middle or right circles - even though they're highlighted - the character won't fill the slot. Has to be the left most open circle.

Thinking about it a bit more, for all we know there are alchemists working with merchants to create soul powered respec-potions. Since so much in Eora is tied to soul power™, a magical alchemist using soul-power to create a respec potion is just as valid as an animancer, really.

I understand and I agree it will get more visibility as its own topic.

I think that if the NPC is going to be a fully-fledged character, they have to have their own interests and attractions - including those of sex and romance. That's not to say that an NPC can't exist who is up for anything, but that has to be part of their character from the begining of their creation, not something tacked on at the end to ensure that every player choice gets a romance (the validation of player choice is just as strong in being denied something due to your choices as it is by achieving something, a thing that often times is forgotten by creators and players all the time).

Since I view respec as a game aspect and not a game-world aspect, I don't really need an in-game explanation for it. However the plot of Deadfire itself - that Eothas somehow soul sucks your skills away so that you're a level one newbie pretty much establishes that even the physical skills that are grown through training are still somehow filtered through the soul in the gameworld, so the argument that animancy might be a way to game-world respec still seems to fit to my mind. That said, given that animancy is such a dicey proposition, it seems like there should be an element of risk if you're applying a real game-world condition to respec.

Whether you felt the answer you received was the answer you sought or not, it is still a fair point that one shouldn't spam the forum with the same question in multiple places.

I think the idea is that all the skill and powers and stuff is driven by a character's soul, therefore respec in a gameworld sense could/would require a tweak of the soul to accomplish.

Should have been a barn door anyhow. Then when people using ranged weapons missed you, you could have taunted them that their aim was so bad they couldn't even hit a barn door. ... I'll get my coat.

Schultz isn't retired, he's working on a new 60 page Xenozoic Tales story - https://www.bleedingcool.com/2015/12/14/a-new-60-page-xenezoic-tales-comic-from-mark-schultz-to-pick-up-its-20-year-cliffhanger-in-2016/

TO CATCH A THIEF (1955) - Its been awhile since I last watched this film; Grant, Kelly are great as leads, Landis, Auber and Williams all do well as support. But while it works as a fun breezy film, there's some sloppy elements that seem to be fairly unusual for one of Hitch's films. The bit where Grant is attacked towards the end is a mess. Still you watch this kind of film for the fun and breezy dialogue and that is totally nailed.

Are you pulling them down to the left most open circle? If not they will not be added, the circles are there to show where you'd place them generally, but you have to drag them to the left most open circle.

Probably rather go for a meteor hammer, as it could possibly still be useful against an armored opponent for more than just disarming and tripping, but animating it would be a pain.

Alien Covenant Prologue short:

The Criterion Collection is certainly an embarrassment of riches in many ways. There is so much there to try and work through.