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I'd add Jade Empire, as a couple people have tossed out as a possibility. The combat isn't at a fighting-game level (deliberately, as it was specifically designed to be easy enough to be friendly to RPG-players), but it's a very beautiful game with a nice story. Unless, of course, you're gonna...

Ah, my bad. I've been on other boards having to explain to people that, really, BioWare didn't make this one, seriously, not at all. Apologies for seeing a slam that wasn't there. And yeah, the error message of doom after getting a long-awaited game is pretty much never fun. That was Half-Life...

Yes. As I noted in another post. I did not take issue with the statement that NWN2's forums are at BioWare. I took issue with the implicit statement that BioWare was failing to support NWN2 properly, when trancejeremy complained about BioWare's links sending him to Atari. The link on BioWare's...

Yep. BioWare hosted the forums, by the wishes of both Obsidian and BioWare, in order to help NWN1 fans over to NWN2 smoothly. I'm not arguing that. If you've got technical questions that poking around on a forum might solve (by asking other users or talking with one of the designers who posts...

Going to BioWare's site was likely not going to work well, anyway, since Obisidian, not BioWare, made the game.

I'm going to use "bonatrix" like nobody's business. I'd always assumed that bonatrix were feminine, and penalties were masculine. That would, at the very least, explain some of the vulgar but incedibly specific discussions about what the (male) player wanted to do to that +2 bonus, or what that...

It's definitely a trade-off. Not enough points, and PCs can't do the cool things they want to describe themselves doing. Too many points, and they get artificially inflated in some ways to a higher level. The problem with the latter is that they're only inflated in some ways, not all -- so they...

Steel, it's difficult to tell people what they should like, and it sounds a little like that's what you're trying to do, here. If the designers believed so strongly that the game should have the graphic power to support a three or four year lifespan, then they should be willing to accept the...

It obviously depends on your game world. Create Water and Plant Growth never came up in my three-year campaign. It wasn't that type of setting. I'd say "Detect Good/Evil/Law/Chaos", as well as any spell that acts differently for people of different alignments. (Cloak of Chaos, Dictum, etc.) At...

If I can offer completely unasked-for advice, I think that's an excellent way of doing it. NaNoWriMo is a great way to start a novel. NaNoWriMo is a great way to complete an already-started novel. NaNoWriMo is a decent way to hack out a complete first draft if and only if you are so good at...

*cough* http://pats-quinade.livejournal.com/14531.html Seriously, good luck! Hope it's going well so far.

Pretty much what the Roudmeister said. You can get Improved Critical, in effect, from the Soldier Advanced Class, and it's fairly deadly. To nitpick, I wouldn't specifically say that Massive Damage takes the PLACE of Improved Crit, but I'd say that they're pretty dangerous together. In the...

See, sales-y I've got no problem with. What tweaked me in that design diary was, as I said, sales-y about something that wasn't as good as the previous game. Sell me on the graphics. Sell me on the single-player story. Sell me on (I'm hoping) deeper and flashier combat animations for all weapon...

I didn't say that NWN2 is a failure. Please don't put words in my mouth. I said that putting up a diary post talking about how awesome and configurable weapon creation for that particular weapon is when, in fact, that particular weapon is less configurable than it was in NWN1, is either...

Indeed. That wasn't the part of her post that bothered me.

Hey, I'd be happy to do the math for shortbows, too. :) The thing is, I'd have no problem if the point of the article was, "Yeah, fewer possibilities, but they look better, and it's easier to get something that's easy on the eyes." That's a valid selling point. It's using "selling points" that...

1) Stargate: Atlantis, Only Not Really When an earthquake causes a new island to surface off the coast of California, a mixed corporate and military team explores it and discovers that, impossible as it may seem, it appears to be the lost city of Atlantis. Portals on the island lead to what may...

Minor note: Anyone head over to Gamebanshee's weapon-and-armor-making preview? http://www.gamebanshee.com/editorials/nwn2diary1.php Wow! That's fantastic! This really is a step up from NWN! I mean, five different bow models and three tints! That's a whole 15 different bow possibilities! What...

Not exactly, but I did run a heist caper recently at a con -- a pick-up game made up of people I couldn't assume knew anything about running heists, beating security, or conning people. I didn't want to just tell them to make a Bluff check, so here's what I did. It took more work for me, but...

Two points, in re mmu1: Your opinion is, I think (as somebody who works there), totally correct. If you didn't want or need multiplayer, the single player campaign was a letdown. The really cool thing about it is that it works with multiple players, so everyone can do all the quests (well...