Actaeon

If this is in some way a violation of the CoC, let me know and I'll take it down. I'm banking on it's obviousness to keep me in the clear. Plus it's quite skin dependent, isn't it?

Take a screenshot to remember it by. Of course, we'll all claim it's photoshopped when you try to show it around, but YOU will know the truth.

Somewhere there is a record room for lowest postcount/time on the forums before a custom title. I imagine you've done quite well, all because you asked the right question. There's a lesson there somewhere.

Originally Posted By: Kreador You can also get to Khoth's lair without going through the gate to the Northern Isles by walking north and east from Erica's Tower. Does that assume the use of the orb, or is the land route there just something I've missed in my wanderings?

Originally Posted By: Custom PDNs for all! Paranoia mode, ACTIVATE! *lurks the forums for the rest of his life watching titles* Surely you'd agree that's a bit excessive. We'll take shifts.

Originally Posted By: Lilith you say "could" as if it hasn't already happened Originally Posted By: Actaeon ...and none of us would ever know about it? If I had known about it, then it didn't happen as described. If it happened as described, I can't have known about it, and thus would have written it just as I, in fact, did. It also occurs to me that I broke the first rule of getting a custom title (don't talk about custom titles). I'm a thousand posts and several years from that, anyway, though, so I'm not too worried.

Am I to understand that you are not automatically notified upon the receipt of a custom title? An inebriated mod could hand out a slew of them one evening, then take them away in the morning and none of us would ever know about it?

Originally Posted By: Paint Quality Monitor WoT doesn't even really start off LotR-like, except in the broadest stokes. Two Rivers is a bit Shire-like, but it's directly attacked. There's a group of heroes, but they're not especially Fellowship-esque. And they're not quite aiming for the same task. They leave in the night, are forced into taking more party members than planned, and are attacked at an inn just outside of their homeland. The wise, magical leader is accompanied by a king without a kingdom who knows the wild well. The core character has some suggestive dreams, they have a run in with an evil that is separate from the main one but nearly gets them anyway... I think that covers Bag End to Rivendell and Emond's Field to Caemlyn pretty well. It's certainly not as blatant as Inheritance's Star Wars links, but I think there's something there. Whether it's enough to qualify as derivative is questionable. Most of the involved tropes are quite well worn.

If you want an obviously similar plot line to the Lord of the Rings, look no further than "The Eye of the World". It certainly takes off in a different direction, but it's very Fellowship, otherwise.

Originally Posted By: Dintiradan I've finished Lord of Chaos, and I'll get my hugemassive post finished sometime this week. It's unfortunate that I've been slowing down in my reread (more working from home -> less time on bus -> less time reading). Well, Sanderson only finished the first draft this past week. You're two million words in and have eight or nine months to finish the other half.

Originally Posted By: Erasmus Originally Posted By: Actaeon Sophie's World fits two of those criteria, but I'd be curious to here what it actually is. No, you got it right. Are you sure we're not talking about a bound volume of the webcomic "Cat and Girl"? Bad Decision Dinosaur is up there with Kierkegaard and Rousseau.

Ditto. Lumped in with the likes of "Astrosquid". Then I discovered Geneforge 2 right here, and the rest is history.

Sophie's World fits two of those criteria, but I'd be curious to hear what it actually is.

We'll just have to fall back on the Festivus miracles.

I have a grievance against the Airing of Grievances, for probably qualifying as a posting game. Unlike the Twelve Days of Christmas.

But we never got past nine for Geneforge! And Tyran will have to write the Nethergate one all alone! (3 "cheap wines") Edit: Alternatively: "mushrooms".

Shame on them for not including Festivus.

Indeed! I have almost five hours set aside for that purpose. Out of curiosity, how does one implement time zone sensitivity like that?

Does pretty much everyone steal if they can get away with it? For some reason I haven't considered it.

I feel like a year or so might be covered in "some time". It just might be nice for there to be something waiting when Avernum comes out on Steam and Windows and the boards are flooded with new blood. (... A creepy combination of idioms, I'll admit.)

Originally Posted By: Signaling Pathways into Darkness No need to respond to the banned troll. —Alorael, who actually thinks this thread should be unstickied. Surely Spiderweb can collectively do better in game recommendations. Besides, those recommendations will change with things like, oh, new game releases. But as no entirely new games will be out for some time, perhaps something better formatted and more tightly controlled might be viable?

The first two Geneforges seemed just about perfect to me. I, too, found A4-6 a bit constrictive, and was consequently pleasantly surprised by the change. Although I actually liked the sheer size of A4. It made the Honeycomb ridiculous.

Originally Posted By: Cala I find I'm dying fairly frequently while creeping about in enemy areas, like when I open a door and the room is packed and has a 'boss' in it. Though I save a lot, the frequent autosave is an absolute godsend. Brilliant idea! There are some mild cheat codes that might help with that, depending on how you feel about such things (and whether you got the hint book).

Originally Posted By: The Turtle Moves Is that you, mad dog? The sentence structure sure is suggestive, isn't it?

A light touch works wonders where the paranormal is concerned. The X-Files did an admirable job of walking the line between acceptance and skepticism, at least initially. Obviously the setting is different (and skeptics are a bit harder to come by), but I imagine that if you sit down with "Poltergeist" and "Hamlet" for a bit, inspiration will find you.