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Obsidian Entertainment was responsible for both Neverwinter Nights 2 and Knights of the Old Republic 2. The founders of Obsidian came from Interplay's defunct Black Isle Studios, which was responsible for Fallout 2, Planescape: Torment and the Icewind Dale series. Interestingly, some of the...

YMMV with Fallout Tactics. Think of it as Jagged Edge set in a slightly non-canon Fallout universe. It was a big disappointment to many just because it wasn't an RPG. I thought it was worth playing, but nowhere near the enjoyment level. I have verified, BTW, that both Fallout and Fallout 2...

Thank you! The simplest things are usually the most frustrating...

Just FYI, I expanded on classic race categories here in this forked thread: http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/255140-forked-thread-what.html#post4769912 The thread title came out nonsensical, though.

I just stumbled across it at Target for about $20, I think. Well worth it, in my opinion. One thing I noticed is that I have to turn down my screen res manually before starting Fallout to get a normal looking view, but that's trivial. It's also on Amazon.com: Amazon.com: Fallout Triology - 3...

OK, well the categories of half-breed and things man was not meant to know are so obvious they don't really merit a whole paragraph. Gnomes also don't really need to fit in, since they already have a WotC-made backstory that can work in pretty much any campaign with a Feywild. These racial...

Group Consciousness At the borders of existence lie the fringes of madness. It should be understood that this is not just a descriptive term for the incomprehensible. While this is not generally known by the races that live on the World of Ka, the edge is where the mind that was Ka tries to...

Touched by an Angel The Primordial Chaos touches the world in many places. Humans caught in the most violent of elemental events are sometimes changed in subtle ways. Sometimes the eyes or hair change color. Sometimes the skin becomes rough and hard or translucent in small patches. In...

Personifications of Nature When many people thing about personifications of nature, they think of the Feywild. This common fallacy makes druids shake their head in frustration. The Fey are reflections of the natural world, but not of it. In the ages of god-war and dragon-birth, the world...

Personifications of Ethics Magic is relatively uniform. One location on Ka is pretty much the same as another, magically speaking. There are a few exceptions, however. Sometimes, there are concentrations of magical power called nodes. Sometimes, the actions of humanity can create temporary...

The Dead The shadar-kai are reflections of humanity in the Shadowfell, just as eladrin are reflections of humanity in the Feywild. If pride can be said to be the defining characteristic of the eldarin, then cold logic defines the shadar-kai. This turns into something a lot more horrifying...

The Created At one point in the moderately distant past, the largest continent of Ka was mostly split between two rival empires. Both came up with the idea of creating super soldiers to help defend against/defeat their rival. They took two vastly different approaches, however. The first...

The Hidden Vampires do not exist. Oh, sure, undead exist, of the mindless sort. Most people of Ka think about undead the way a 21st century Earthling thinks about cancer-causing toxic waste – hazardous, but not especially horrifying as long as it isn’t in your own backyard. Stay away from...

Humans with Rubber Foreheads Eladrins were formed as the Fey reflection of humanity. Reflecting the prejudices of the creator, they were created with a pre-existing “ancient” history and culture. Most see themselves as superior to humanity. Pride is a common trait, though this isn’t always...

Anthropomorphic Animals Dragons came into being shortly after the Awakening (as dragons call the ascension of Ka). In effect, whenever the Astral Plane comes close to coalescing into an actual “thought,” that pseudo-thought materializes as a dragon on the material plane. Right after the...

First, we have a little back story to set the context for the racial concepts. The term "Ka" is directly stolen from Stephen King's Dark Tower, but you could use any short word with a big meaning -- Chi, Po, etc. The World of Ka A long time ago, on a planet circling a yellow star, there was a...

Forked from: What "classic" races are left? -- Forked Thread: PH3 Playtest Race: Wilden I was thinking about this, and I was wondering if I could fit all of the current 4E D&D races into these archetypes. So, I created a background world concept and started slotting in the D&D player...

Hmmm... Touched by an Angel: Nephilim, Chaos Marines, Jedi...all of these are infused with something else. More willful than pure personifications, and more flavorful than half-breeds, they imply a purpose that may be flouted or flaunted. Genasi might count under the 4E Elemental Chaos...

Bethesda Softworks and Obsidian are the gold standard in single-player RPGs, IMNSHO, so I am VERY happy that Obisidian is doing FNV while Bethesda will tackle F4 after the next Elder Scrolls game. I haven't been this happy since the Black Isle/Bioware era of D&D 2.x CRPGs!

I just picked up a copy of the Fallout Trilogy, a three-pack from Interplay of Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics. I already owned all three games, of course, so why would I buy them again? The new pack includes the games setup to install and run on Vista, fully patched with both the...