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Piracy is a solved question, pretty much.

By the way, if you don't want a really cool NPC to die, join the chaos servants, give them 30 humanity and open the door that's down in the hallway near the Demon Firesage.

Also lets you skip Dragon Arse heaven, and you want to skip Dragon Arse heaven.

You can get the Dark hand for free if you kill the 4 kings before placing the lord vessel down or talking to Frampht at all, and if you throw thirty humanities into Kaathe you get the Darkwraith sword and armour set. Also, the Lifehunt Scythe is probably my favourite boss weapon. God damn that thing...

Technology isn't exactly going to go away anytime soon(or at least I hope it doesn't), and it isn't going to be "changing employment". I actually work in a steel factory, and robots are replacing workers. A robot does the same job as a person much better than that person ever could, and th...

Okay, I won Round 5 (the aforesaid was Round 2). And then downgraded that free Lightning Spear weapon you find into a +10 spear to make it into Ornstein's spear. Still, that was the hardest boss fight. I tried looking for player help, but no signs were appearing. I ended up whistling up Solaire, wh...

I already provided an awesome way to make action points an in universe thing and not dissociated at all. Does everyone just have me on ignore or something?

Skyrim has a whole bunch of problems that a lot of people in this thread (and even me in another thread) have pointed out. It really isn't quite finished, and needed more work and more effort put into the quests(making them actual quests rather than, you know, fedex missions). But when the creation ...

Action points on their own are a pretty silly idea, but the concept is cool and works. In my current game I've basically stolen the command seals from Fate/Stay Night - you have three magial tatoos which do something cool for you. You can use them up to do something awesome. There's nothing dissocia...

Attracting the Call of Duty audience is sticking to its nerd roots, in the case of video games. It's just banging a gong and getting out the entire nerd base, top to bottom. Call of Duty-style success is the best D&D is ever going to do. Dominicius is (I think) talking about appealing to an aud...

I'm totally happy with TTRpgs remaining a fairly small niche, and sticking to its' nerd roots. Dnd will not be improved greatly by attracting the Call of Duty audience.

IRC is still the best chat software out there.

Its' also used for filesharing and controlling botnets, and it does pretty well at that.

Maxus, Dark Souls is totally awesome. As for Ash Lake and the Everlasting Dragon, there's actually a sad story behind that. Ash Lake was originally going to link a lot of the later game areas(Lost Izalith, Tomb of the Giants and possibly the Duke's Archives) but it, and the boss(which was a dragon l...

Okay, point of order: computers have finite graphics power and RAM too. You can play Morrowind on your current computer with a draw distance of infinity. What happens if you do that on the computer listed under "Minimum System Requirements"? Because I'm betting the answer isn't it runs at...

There actually are technical limitations preventing skyrim from having flight, and those technical limitations are spelled "console". The reason it doesn't have open cities, the same reason Oblivion doesn't have open cities, is because to make the game work at all on consoles they either h...

Welcome to the forums Zak S.

That's completely wrong. Fighters are ahead of wizards in Tome, and I think a few of the other martial classes can make them look small in the pants as well.

Well EXCUUUUUUUUUUUUSE ME PRINCESS

I actually think that cranium rats are awesome. Chris Avellone agrees, too.

And Flail snails are actually super cool.

shadzar wrote:
Hercules was not a mythic hero, but a demigod. he wasnt Ulysses, Gilgamesh,.

Shadzar, are you high? Gilgamesh was 2/3s god. He was divine. He could also throw things so hard that they hit the stars, so I'm guessing 2 tons wouldn't be that much.

Emerald, are you high? Hercules held THE ENTIRE WORLD on his shoulders. He can handle a mountain. Hell, he could probably juggle 2 ton boulders. I don't know that much about Thor, but Hercules would laugh at a 2 ton boulder.

Maybe you're thinking of Kevin Sorbo?

Using level adjustment at all is a bad idea. Replace level adjustment with hitdice instead and a lot of problems will go away. Really, a lot of the time levels in pc classes are just flat out better than being a monster. There are exceptions(dragons and outsiders are the big ones, funnily enough), b...

You know, I wonder what the world would be like if we linked the abolitionist movement to the actions of one extreemist, say ... John Brown ? I, John C. Doyle, was born in Knox County, Tennessee December 19, 1838. My father, Pleasant Doyle, moved to Walker County, Ga., in 1845, moved to Chattanooga...

Calls Confirm Planned Parenthood Misleads on Offering Mammograms http://www.lifenews.com/2011/03/30/calls-confirm-planned-parenthood-misleads-on-offering-mammograms/ via @StevenErtelt Really, that's fucking clutching at straws. They even threw in the (just about completely discredited) claims about...

No, they wouldn't. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Gen ... f_Morality

And if you read it, you'll understand why.

Holy shit, Dark Souls is amazing. Best RPG released this gen, with absolutely no contest. The setting is fantastic and really well done(and beautiful), and the game itself is incredibly fun as well. It is very hard, but it rewards careful thinking rather than just running in and mashing. The biggest...

Morality is a solved problem. Go and read "The Genealogy of Morals" and you'll know everything there is to know about morality and what to do about it. It is that easy.