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I almost never finish any game. I like games that feel completely open-ended, or at least so big that I can get my fill without ever reaching the actual end. That includes Baldur's Gate. I haven't fought Melissan in ToB for more than a decade now, yet I've started new characters in BG1...

I have another suggestion that will make this new thread much more readable as it lengthens. Please spoiler tag most of the screenshots. What is going to happen if you don't is that the thread will go nuts jumping around trying to download all the screenshots on the user end every time it's...

Is "Zork" by any chance a play on "Vork" from "The Guild"? (I highly recommend watching it to anybody who hasn't.)

Yes, I'd definitely read an Alesia_BH documented no-reload run here. I started checking this forum daily instead of Beamdog after the changes there, and because most of the people I was friends with there migrated here.

If you enjoy Shadiversity, you might also enjoy LindyBeige.

I've been interested lately in seeing what ESO can do with music emotes, because I've been leveling a bard in FFXIV and thinking about how to do a similar feeling build in ESO. Maybe a bow build for fighting, light armor, something like that, use music emotes to play in towns? Are there music...

I'd be very interested in hearing updates about your experiences and impressions. For me, the combat wasn't challenging enough to keep me interested past my initial excitement to explore. I'll still play it from time to time, though, when I'm in the mood for good rp stories with trivial combat.

On the first thing, if you mean that the existence of arcane magic should make divine magic less appealing to people, I would point out that arcane spells can't heal and raise the dead. I find that an important distinction, and a good reason why people might pray for spells from a deity who...

That's a cool question. I can't answer as to the details of divine trickery, but I would assume it has something to do either an evil deity posing as something else, perhaps faking benign intent and setting up a slippery slope of some kind, or else offering a cunningly worded magically binding...

Yours and @Urdnot_Wrex 's insightful posts may convince me to give Shadowheart a chance one day. The statement that struck me in your post was "...may have been tricked into serving Shar..." That struck me because I sometimes like to RP a cleric of Sharess, the Goddess of Cats and Sensual...

I've played AoW games. They're okay, but I never could get into them all that much. First of all, unlike the HoMM series, each installment radically changes the rules and the gameplay. The first three don't feel like continuing installments in the same game series to me. I'm not talking gradual...

I agree with this to a large extent. If games with a morality system didn't provide "evil" choices, and enough reward for making those choices to actually tempt people to want to choose them, then my "good" choices *not* to do those things would have no meaning. For example, my personal...

That bit does gnaw at my conscience. If I was playing EE, (I have a paladin run going in that, too), I would be a cavalier, and the Horror spell wouldn't be an issue, so the choice would be easier. In the BG2 engine, there is also a chance to hit through Mirror Images, making that also less of...

Lately I've been running a paladin through original Baldur's Gate 1. I was inspired by that D&D paladin figure I was gifted that I showed in another post, and also I got hit with a desire for some nostalgia. There are so many little charming and quaint elements of it that I think are largely...

Hello, I got a special Christmas gift from a parent of a student who found out I like D&D. He is a professional sculptor, and plays D&D himself. I had told him I like to play paladins and clerics, and he remembered that, and made me a custom made figure. It occurred to me that people here might...

I'm happy you're enjoying ESO, Urdnot_Wrex. It looks like you're having great fun with it. :)

Okay, I read the article. Very interesting indeed, since it reflects a lot of my own attitudes while gaming. I needed to review Stoicism to understand the context. My first impression on re-reading about Stoicism was to be struck by similarities to the Buddhist philosophy I have studied and...

Ah, great to hear you found time to give it a try! I'll be very interested to hear your impressions.

Okay, good to know, thanks. I was going by what I had read about tournaments in Eastern Europe where they banned the use of the necromancer faction in those tournaments because the organizers thought that it was unfairly unbalanced against the other factions.

I've never played multiplayer HoMM, so I think I'd get destroyed by any experienced HoMM players. It's a completely different game against human players than it is against the AI. Also, wouldn't there be a lot of just sitting there waiting for other players to finish turns? Like, I've heard...