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Dagon posted:I did. The references to older seasons are few and can be mostly put together from context. Yep, same. They actually recommend against starting with their early stuff, because of bad audio quality etc.
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dwarf74 posted:And ... sorta on the albino bit. I mean yeah, cave-dwellers in the real world lose their pigmentation over time, but that's because they're in dark caves, among other blind creatures, where that's not a problem. So for drow, it would depend on what else sharing the underdark with them was sighted. If you assume "occasional light sources like luminescent fungi, tons of shadows, other beings who can see with real eyes" then jet-black skin would be good for camouflage whereas a pale albino elf would stick out. The loss of pigmentation is also because there's a selective pressure that significantly reduces the fitness of animals that have to produce unnecessary pigments. If there's no such selective pressure on a population, it'll keep its pigmentation even though it's not optimum fitness. It's also possible that the Drow are an ethnicity of black/purple/grey/brown/dark-skinned elves who only recently (on an evolutionary scale) settled underground. As a dominant civilization with few natural predators, the Drow would not have a pressure on them to evolve a lack of pigmentation, and may not have had time. Consider: white South Africans are still adapted to North and Western Europe despite living in southern Africa, and the native Greenlanders did not have a pressure on them to evolve light skin because their cuisine had sufficient vitamin D.
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Subjunctive posted:Can I jump in at Marielda, or do I need to listen to the first season played in DW first? O yeah totally, and I recommend it. There are a few (as in 2-3 in the whole arc) jokes about earlier episodes out of character, but not even like bits just someone referencing a thing and everyone laughs. The closest thing to “missing out” is you won’t get that they’re riffing off of their own weird pantheon of gods they made up, cause you’re coming in with it fully formed already. Which should be fine. Maybe maybe maybe if you really hate picking up on things through context listen to the episodes right before where they play The Quiet Year and talk about the history of Marielda as a city? If you fall into that group. It’s really fine to just jump in.
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Xiahou Dun posted:Maybe maybe maybe if you really hate picking up on things through context listen to the episodes right before where they play The Quiet Year and talk about the history of Marielda as a city? If you fall into that group. I’m actually interested in the Quiet Year stuff in its own right, so that’s great.
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Yawgmoth posted:stealing this so hard I'm reminded of how dragons apparently often start kicking out their kobold servants as they get more powerful and are able to attract and control more powerful agents, much to the dismay and resentment of the kobolds, but I bet as they get old enough it turns around since kobolds are clever, hardworking and ridiculously loyal, they're much more ideal for long-term projects, not to mention building more traps around your hoard than anyone can count.
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Apparently Pathfinder Kingmaker reviews slams it for having WoW-like progression and loot plus scaling. Well, well, well,
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Plutonis posted:Apparently Pathfinder Kingmaker reviews slams it for having WoW-like progression and loot plus scaling. Well, well, well, lol if this means Pathfinder is finally falling victim to people starting to complain about what was exactly the same or ten times worse in the previous edition that they only notice now the nostalgia goggles are off.
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Plutonis posted:Apparently Pathfinder Kingmaker reviews slams it for having WoW-like progression and loot plus scaling. Well, well, well, lol
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So apparently some interesting things are coming from Schwalb Entertainment in the near future; http://www.blackcandlegames.com/rob-schwalb-interview/ I'm especially liking the looks of The Forest Hymn & Picnic
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drrockso20 posted:So apparently some interesting things are coming from Schwalb Entertainment in the near future;
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Splicer posted:I'm worried about the blood and poop levels of most of them but I am extremely interested in Free Companies of Four Towers. I think by now they realized the potential issues that has since most of their new stuff seems relatively light on it if it has any at all
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01011001 posted:lol From a Steam review:  loving  if true.
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Was Kingmaker the isometric game they kickstarted after Pathfinder Online when it would have made more sense to do an isometric game instead of Pathfinder Online because there was still a retro itch for isometrics then?
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Nuns with Guns posted:Was Kingmaker the isometric game they kickstarted after Pathfinder Online when it would have made more sense to do an isometric game instead of Pathfinder Online because there was still a retro itch for isometrics then? Yep.
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Slimnoid posted:From a Steam review: Yeah, not the smartest decision overall.
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As far as I understand, Pathfinder: Kingmaker has almost no connection to actual Paizo. Owlcat came to Paizo wanting to make the game, not the other way around, and while I have no idea what time that was relative to Pathfinder: Online finally decaying away, because time has lost meaning in the last two or three years, I'm pretty sure it was just good fortune on the timing and nothing else.
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01011001 posted:Yeah, not the smartest decision overall. Idk, how many of the old infinity engine games let you make your entire party and at the start of the game? It makes a lot of sense to limit you to mostly pregens, both to ensure some difficulty by limiting toolkit and also to make up for any lack of system mastery the player might lack (or counter their urge to build something optimal in tabletop that just doesn't work on the pc) Like nwn was a pretty fun game, but powerwise you the scary 'I win' wizard build was more like what Monte Cook and the early 3rd devs thought would dominate the table, going for all the charm spells not so much.
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Pillers of eternity lets you create custom party members for a much lower fee, really thats the audience you are aiming for in this day and age.
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lol and I remember thinking it was pretty cool when I first read sourcebooks that defaulted to 'her' or used examples of male and female characters and even *gasp* sometimes had player gender not match character. For all of White Wolf's very cringe-y poo poo, they were at least ahead of the curve there, back in the 90's RE: kingmaker chargen, but pillars is pretty well balanced isn't it? I'm just assuming kingmaker at least has roots in d&d and more fiddly bits but I haven't played it so I'm just speaking from assumptions and genre norms, rather than comparing it to best in genre. Coolness Averted fucked around with this message at 05:14 on Sep 26, 2018 |
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Coolness Averted posted:RE: kingmaker chargen, but pillars is pretty well balanced isn't it? I'm just assuming kingmaker at least has roots in d&d and more fiddly bits but I haven't played it so I'm just speaking from assumptions and genre norms, rather than comparing it to best in genre. It's literally the Pathfinder adventure path adapted as close as they could get it, including the Pathfinder rules that they could put in.
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ProfessorCirno posted:As far as I understand, Pathfinder: Kingmaker has almost no connection to actual Paizo. Owlcat came to Paizo wanting to make the game, not the other way around, and while I have no idea what time that was relative to Pathfinder: Online finally decaying away, because time has lost meaning in the last two or three years, I'm pretty sure it was just good fortune on the timing and nothing else. Pathfinder Online hasn't quite decayed away yet. Or, well, Lisa Stevens was claiming it hadn't as of last GenCon but it looks to be paralyzed and on life support. I don't think there was any deep correlation or logic behind Pathfinder Online being kickstarted before an isometric game, anyway. It's just always funny that Paizo approved of an MMO before literally any other kind of video game.
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 I really like this image because on the left it showcases the worst of your bog-standard isometric fantasy RPG, a barren and uninteresting expanse of <%placename> filled with literally twos of characters, and on the right it demonstrates the worst of video games in general where you spend a bunch of extra money for a handful of promises and horseshit.
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Coolness Averted posted:Idk, how many of the old infinity engine games let you make your entire party and at the start of the game? All of them. No really. Start a multiplayer game, create your entire party, and roll out.
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LuiCypher posted:All of them. And that's just Baldur's Gate. Icewind Dale operated completely under the assumption you were going to custom build your entire party at the beginning.
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S.J. posted:And that's just Baldur's Gate. Icewind Dale operated completely under the assumption you were going to custom build your entire party at the beginning. Yeah, BG was the most story-based for companions and you could still just build a party. ID was a straight up take on the old Gold Box pure dungeon crawlers in isometric view.
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From what I understand you come across enemies immune to all physical damage real early on, so I guess at least it's teaching you the important things of Pathfinder, such as "don't be a non-caster."
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Liquid Communism posted:Yeah, BG was the most story-based for companions and you could still just build a party. ID was a straight up take on the old Gold Box pure dungeon crawlers in isometric view. I don't think PS:T lets you do it? And the BG method is arguably an exploit.
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ProfessorCirno posted:From what I understand you come across enemies immune to all physical damage real early on, so I guess at least it's teaching you the important things of Pathfinder, such as "don't be a non-caster." Gargoyles or something? Holy poo poo that's hilarious. Did they literally just port the rules over to the TT and make it pauseable real-time, or...?
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Jeb Bush 2012 posted:I don't think PS:T lets you do it? And the BG method is arguably an exploit. Nope torment didn't and neither did the fallouts (which I thought were infinity too but maybe not)
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ProfessorCirno posted:From what I understand you come across enemies immune to all physical damage real early on, so I guess at least it's teaching you the important things of Pathfinder, such as "don't be a non-caster." That is such lovely design without the game screaming at you not to go there or giving a ton of consumables. But then again I really hate poo poo like that. Hell the game I was at a few weeks ago sorta did that. Our new player was really excited to try unconventional stuff like using heat metal in combat at random times, and the dm cheerfully explained that's not really the use for that, but that it's really effective on things like constructs. Sure enough later on we fight constructs. But these ones are immune to that spell because their creator was smart and built in safeguards against the most common ways to disable constructs. Like I don't think he was being actively malicious and egging her on to waste spellslots, but he was operating in the groggy 'simulationist' mindset when building the adventure and generating the characters for us.
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What edition were you playing? In the editions I'm familiar with Heat Metal doesn't even work on constructs most of the time, unless they're equipped with weapons or armor that aren't physically part of their body, in which case it works just like it does on anyone else with metal weapons.
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I'm putting together spell lists for awizard in GURPS. Spell Prerequisites! 
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Jeb Bush 2012 posted:I don't think PS:T lets you do it? And the BG method is arguably an exploit.
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Nuns with Guns posted:Pathfinder Online hasn't quite decayed away yet. Or, well, Lisa Stevens was claiming it hadn't as of last GenCon but it looks to be paralyzed and on life support. I don't think there was any deep correlation or logic behind Pathfinder Online being kickstarted before an isometric game, anyway. It's just always funny that Paizo approved of an MMO before literally any other kind of video game. Also "paralyzed and on life support" has been the PFO status quo for like two years or so, now. The servers will probably stay online until the last of the faithful die-hards finally stop paying their exorbitatnt subscription fees. fool_of_sound posted:Real time with pause it atrocious and any Dev who uses it should be imprisoned for their crimes.
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fool_of_sound posted:Real time with pause it atrocious and any Dev who uses it should be imprisoned for their crimes. Absolutely this
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fool_of_sound posted:Real time with pause it atrocious and any Dev who uses it should be imprisoned for their crimes. not an empty quote
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fool_of_sound posted:Real time with pause it atrocious and any Dev who uses it should be imprisoned for their crimes. 
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