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If that thing about Grolar Bears is true I'll follow you to the gates of hell right now.
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greatn posted:If that thing about Grolar Bears is true I'll follow you to the gates of hell right now. A grizzly–polar bear hybrid (also pizzly bear, polizzly, prizzly bear, nanulak, Polar-Grizz[citation needed], or grolar bear[1][2]) Pack your bags, buckaroo.
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Jan 28, 2016 22:25
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All of these owns
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Jan 28, 2016 22:38
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Enjoying the first comment jumping to the inevitable there.
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Jan 28, 2016 22:52
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Who What Now posted:What's great is that you can be any [Skill]mancer you want. Of particular fun are "Craft:" "Knowledge:" and/or "Perform:". Start a death cult where you recruit people using your astounding mastery of Craft: Fake Horse Vaginas, or by laying some mind blowing facts on them with Knowledge: Bears. Watch in amazement as they go pants-shittingly insane as you tell them that the offspring of a Grizzly and a Polar bear is called a Grolar Bear and pledge themselves to your cause. Completely destroy the concept of nation-states as you cause every single member of nobility to become your fawning sycophant after seeing just one minute of your amazing Perform: Fart Noises You Make With Your Mouth. The possibilities are limitless. This is the best thing
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Triple Elation posted:This is the best thing According to the SRD, going from Indifferent to Fanatic is a DC90 skill check. That's not even all that hard to meet by 20th level. Taking someone from Hostile to Fanatic is a DC 150, harder but still not impossible. Fanatics themselves get +2 Strength and Constitution, +1 to Will saves, and a -1 AC. You can Concentrate so hard that people literally get healthier. Fanaticism last for 1+Cha mod days, and is considered Mind-Affecting for purposes of immunity, saves against it (the SRD does not allow saves for it), and Sense Motive checks, but it is not magical and cannot be dispelled, only temporarily suppressed. After the effect ends they go back to their original, or better, disposition, but there's no reason you can't just amaze them again with some more kickass Perform: Spin Kicks and just re-up the duration. And unlike the Leadership feat or the Thrallherd prestige class, there is absolutely no upper limit to how many Fanatics you can have or what HD they can be. If you have the Wild Empathy class feature you can even use it on animals! The other great thing about Exemplars is at tenth levels, you have become so amazing at the thing(s) that you do that you transcend your mortal trappings and become an Outsider. This is the exact same capstone feature as a 20th level monk. Imagine that monk meets another person in his travels, and instantly recognizes a kindred spirit. The monk explains how he achieved true oneness of mind, body, and spirit in order to ascend into a higher form. The other being, a Commoner 10/Exemplar 10, explains that she is the best there ever was at Craft: Jenkem Brewing, and pulls out a goat bladder filled with poo poo fumes so amazing you would kill to get another whiff of them. Suddenly everything the monk knew was a lie. All his years of hard work did nothing for him that huffing rotted human waste gasses couldn't. Such is life in the realms.
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This thread made me start a new playthrough of NWN2. Holy poo poo the first act is intolerable.
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Eifert Posting posted:This thread made me start a new playthrough of NWN2. Holy poo poo the first act is intolerable. Hurrr aren't fairs great? I love fairs! Sure beats swamp farming yaaaayyyyy Me: "This can't last too long, can it?" Ron Howard voice: "It would last a long, long time."
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Eifert Posting posted:This thread made me start a new playthrough of NWN2. Holy poo poo the first act is intolerable. You really do have to go through an insane amount of bullshit before you get to do anything interesting.
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Who What Now posted:What's great is that you can be any [Skill]mancer you want. Of particular fun are "Craft:" "Knowledge:" and/or "Perform:". Start a death cult where you recruit people using your astounding mastery of Craft: Fake Horse Vaginas, or by laying some mind blowing facts on them with Knowledge: Bears. Watch in amazement as they go pants-shittingly insane as you tell them that the offspring of a Grizzly and a Polar bear is called a Grolar Bear and pledge themselves to your cause. Completely destroy the concept of nation-states as you cause every single member of nobility to become your fawning sycophant after seeing just one minute of your amazing Perform: Fart Noises You Make With Your Mouth. The possibilities are limitless. Holy gently caress I can make Cats Facts: The Character. This is why D&D is an amazing game.
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fool_of_sound posted:You really do have to go through an insane amount of bullshit before you get to do anything interesting. I just got to Neverwinter proper. Splurged all the money I was saving up on an actual set of full plate, a kickass magic bastard sword, and a dumb feathered mask that gives me a +3 Diplomacy for my Paladin character. Dwarf gets all my hand me downs and now I'm ready to kick this city's rear end. This is the farthest I've ever gotten because everything before this point sucks. Hopefully the game picks up here, but I'm having fun the further I get. Classtoise posted:Holy gently caress I can make Cats Facts: The Character. It'll take you a minimum of 15 levels, but yes. Yes you can. Go nuts!
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Eifert Posting posted:This thread made me start a new playthrough of NWN2. Holy poo poo the first act is intolerable. All I remember about Act 1 was the ending, that dude who just wanted to get the gently caress away from his wife and a mountain area that was, I swear to god, exactly one variant of grey stone texture plastered over everything. Including occasionally some of my own party members. The game does pick up after that but holy gently caress does it ever take awhile to get going.
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my favorite part of nwn2 was after you get done fighting your way through like 3 areas populated by at least 100 orcs all with the same dumb model you get a magic axe that gives you a bonus to damage or whatever against orcs. you never fight another orc for the rest of the game
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I've heard good things, but I've yet to even make it as far as Neverwinter. Is there a way to make the camera not awful? I remember the camera being awful
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The NWN2 main campaign is a weird beast. It has some genuinely good bits, and it's not bad, but a lot of it is just extremely generic and it's long, like long, like it's gigantic and lengthy and it bears repeating, long for how uninteresting a lot of it is. I liked Neeshka and Qara and Khelgar, though. And Sand, I guess. Like I like it. I don't dislike it. But drat, that game is longer than it needs to be, I think.
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Who What Now posted:A grizzly–polar bear hybrid (also pizzly bear, polizzly, prizzly bear, nanulak, Polar-Grizz[citation needed], or grolar bear[1][2]) A DC 90 bear fact would probably be some Lovecraftian revelation that annihilates minds and turns people into cultists praying to the hibernating ursine overlords (and you, the herald of their awakening).
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Jan 29, 2016 10:26
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OldKentuckyShark posted:Honestly, it's not really a "build" you can look at; it's just the way 3.x's core classes worked. It's not a matter of min/maxing, except to the extent that writing "Wizard" on you character sheet is a form of min-maxing.
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I'm going through the OC for NVN2 as well. Agreed, it takes For freaking EVER in that first act. I do give it a little more credit then most, cause when it's good, it's really, really good. The trial is fantastic, the Keep is a pretty good set piece as well for what it could have been, and while a lot of characters are 'meh', the party interactions are genuinely entertaining. Elanee is a terrible character, but her party interactions are hilarious when she's allowed to show some sass and not have a stick up her rear end. I might blame the VA writing, but I think all non voiced dialogue from party members is loads better then the voiced stuff, and that's what makes the game entertaining to play through for me.
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I don't know why but this is the funniest thing I've seen in a while 
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Shugojin posted:I don't know why but this is the funniest thing I've seen in a while I think it's how the one guard just nods them through after a brief moment of being stunned.
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Unrelated, but I have been looking for OldKentuckyShark's 2008 election fanfic for over a month, but I couldn't remember the poster's name. I had it as somethingsomethingalligator. So, thanks.
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Poison Mushroom posted:I still love that 3.5e prestige class that can use any skill in place of any other. Opening a lock by bluffing it into believing that you already opened it is still an inherently hilarious concept to me.
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Isn't that just the concept behind "Dashing Swordsman" as a prestige class that Rich was going for?
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May I ask what game this is from? I can't tell by looking.
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Feb 1, 2016 10:15
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It's from Pillars of Eternity. Someone's running a party of six rangers with six bear companions.
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I really need to get round to playing that game sometime.
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sebmojo posted:aggressively hegemonizing ursine swarm mods please Re: NWN2, it really does fall into the category of "games I have pleasant memories of, but only because I played it when I had time to put up with a 60/40 game-to-bullshit ratio". Much like the original NWN, the second xpac was more of an in media res deal with less pseudo-mmo bear rear end collection quests overall (or, as NWN was always wont to do, “please find my lost husband / child / ring / heirloom so that you can get your +1 L/C G/E alignment point in a dialog when you come back"). I need to do PoE, but I'm currently getting back into Divinity:OS since I haven't played since they dropped the enhanced edition and I hear the storyline was overhauled significantly.
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CapnAndy posted:This is honestly not a bad idea for a dashing rogue in the Nathan Fillion mold. You can replace any skill with an opposed Bluff check, so long as you can think up a clever lie and have an audience to tell it to. So you'd open the lock by going "what, that door? No, no, it's not locked, it just sticks", and then bam, door opens when you try it. There'd be rules underpinning it but from an in-universe standpoint, your character is just this ridiculous sap who gets by on sheer luck and a lot of charm. Make Fonzie in D&D. All skill checks are replaced by Fonzying it.
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For most RPGs I've played, I can more or less recall half of the plot. In Baldur's gate 2 you're the son of Baal and there's this crazy wizard called Jon Irenicus and he has no soul so he takes yours. In the original Neverwinter Nights Lady Aribeth becomes a blackguard because a misguided angry mob lynched her boyfriend, and then the lizard people invade. In Tales of Symphonia The ancient hero became immortal and is actually the villain menacing you, and also the whole religious pilgrim quest you're on is a sham he started to revive his dead little sister and pull out everyone's soul because racism against half-elves is a bummer. WTF happens in NWN2? I cannot recall to this day. Your home swamp has been destroyed to the ground. Your childhood friends are dead. You are the Kalach-Cha. You start a collection of magic shards. There's the obligatory cave with troll-equivalents in it. Then out you go to the great big world. There's a wizard called Sand, and he's tedious. Some guy called Ammon Jerro is designated your enemy. You meet up with his granddaughter and then with the guy himself and this causes a big tragedy, wherein people unnecessarily die and everyone finds out they were fighting the wrong enemy and they just made a colossal mistake, which could have been prevented if they had just stopped for two minutes to properly talk to each other. Some shrill bitch yells "BY YOUR OWN BLOOD BETRAYED JERRO!". You clip through some other girl who was supposed to give you a quest, and she says "and what of Casavir?" even though neither of you have ever met Casavir. Later you meet Casavir. Also you meet some other guy that Casavir hates, and for good reason, because the other guy is a complete rear end in a top hat. You are awarded a castle and get to play Medeival Big Shot Tycoon. At some point you confront the bad guys. I don't remember who they are, what they're called, what they wanted, or how they were (inevitably) behind the demise of your beloved home swamp. Worst of all, there isn't nearly enough screentime for the crazy redhead sorceress who wants to burn down everything. fe: I checked. "The King of Shadows". The bad guy is called "The King of Shadows". 
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And then it ends with everyone dying after you kill the Big Bad! That is NWN2, right? The literal 'rocks fall, everyone dies' ending?
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RandallODim posted:And then it ends with everyone dying after you kill the Big Bad! That is NWN2, right? The literal 'rocks fall, everyone dies' ending? Correct! Anything actually good you remember about NWN2 was probably Mask of the Betrayer  Actually the trial in the original campaign was really fun but unfortunately ends up in the big fight no matter what so there isn't a cutscene death if the player screws up. e: I wonder how many people got really mad about being cutscene killed on Manaan in KOTOR if they failed the trial there
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New one! V and Blackwing continue to be Cool and Good. ^Tons, I hope.
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Shugojin posted:e: I wonder how many people got really mad about being cutscene killed on Manaan in KOTOR if they failed the trial there I didn't even know it was a possible outcome.
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Aww V, you DO care. 
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Shugojin posted:Correct! Christ, KOTOR is not something I've thought about in years and just reading the name Manaan started me mentally griping about the loving diving suit sequence.
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RandallODim posted:Christ, KOTOR is not something I've thought about in years and just reading the name Manaan started me mentally griping about the loving diving suit sequence. Nostalgia is a hell of a drug. 
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Rygar201 posted:New one! V and Blackwing continue to be Cool and Good. Panel 4 is "You okay?" "Yeah, I'm good."
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