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  1. Originally Posted By: FnordCola
    This would run up against problems of in-story consistency, since even the 7 creation limit in the Geneforge series is clearly far fewer than an experienced Shaper can create and maintain under direct control.


    This has nothing to do with D&D, but I assumed that the limit of 7 was because you were an adventurer. A sedentary Shaper with vast reserves of essence, too much to travel with, could make more.
  2. Well, for one thing, Shaping just can't be accounted for. How do you add a Vlish to your party? Can you play as a Battle Beta? If so, what stat changes would that make? How do attack techniques tie into Shaping? How do you handle Serviles as a new race? how about Drayks? Drayks are sentient and ought to be viable PCs, but how would you arm or armor a Drayk character? Etc.

  3. Originally Posted By: Locmaar
    Unless you don't believe the deeds and events related in those epics actually ever happened like they have been written down. I've also read novels based on real people so, no, I don't think the way you're distinguishing between novels and epics makes any sense.


    It does. A novel is an individual act of creation. No one would have heard of, say, Arrakis, were it not for one individual--the author. Things like Beowulf, despite the fact that we are reputed to have only one original text, were the product of a collective imagination, whether or not ne individual did the compiling. Make sense now?
  4. Graphics have nothing to do with it. It's how they're used. Some of today's best animated arcade-style games can't hold a candle to the game-play of Loderunner Master by Broderbund. And many if not all of the best puzzle games ever were made before the new millennium. And if this threshold you speak of is REALLY outdated, then let me say, there were OK games back then, too.

  5. Originally Posted By: Txgangsta
    Personally, I think Jeff never thought of any correlation between these people, but we are simply creating them. I think it is much more likely we are all just fanatics.

    The characters that are used from previous games are made quite obvious. In G2 (which I'm playing now), the servile which guards Belik's bridge is named Mekkan. This servile has no correlation with the G5 Mekkan. No Mekkan was in G3 or G4. Jeff just kinda reuses stuff from time to time.


    Oh, how could you?!
    Have you no respect for the spirit of post hoc gaming archaeology? (that's what it's called, you know)
  6. Originally Posted By: Lord Safey
    You attack him till he is dead.


    Thanks, Safey.

    As for my other response, thanks, that helps. But after releasing the wingbolts and kyshakk, i only had enough living tools for one of the pylons, which killed me five times since I last wrote.
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