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Originally Posted By: Master1 Originally Posted By: Thin Gypsy Thief Just finished The Wise Man's Fear, and I can easily call it the best book I've ever read. Words describing how much I loved it fail me. Originally Posted By: Student of Trinity That's a pretty strong recommendation. I guess I'll get it; thanks for the tip that it's out. I was waiting for Rothfuss's next one anyway, since The Name of the Wind was pretty good, even though my memories of it and a couple of other books are totally garbled together. If it's music I'm sure it was Rothfuss, but if it was magic school days, I'm really fuzzy. The tropes are thick there, these days. Ahh, I am now a happy man. I guess I'll be off to the bookstore in the next week or so. I went looking for it on the day of its release, and only belatedly realized I couldn't afford it anyway. The experience (especially because I actually found the book on the first try) was downright infuriating.

Originally Posted By: Enraged Slith Saddler, you're small-time! No, I'm wrong-time. My favorite non-SW games: Loderunner: The Legend Returns Tales of the Unknown The Island of Dr. Brain The Castle of Dr. Brain The Secret of Monkey Island ZORK: I, II, III, and maybe 0 Planetfall (maybe) Below the Root Paganitzu: I, II, and III etc.

Originally Posted By: Nikki. Originally Posted By: Goldenking Originally Posted By: loyal servile of sasuke uchiha shanti was fully loyal. i think, though it would probobly help if i had the full version and not the demo Not really; you find out that she is kidnapped in the demo, and then that she was killed in the registered version. Tragically. Finding Shanti is one of my all-time most memorable SW moments. Jeff really nailed the writing in that subplot. Subplot? No such thing as a subplot when each and every thread in the skein is of equal significance.

How much do we know about Miranda? I seem to remember that she gets about four sentences total in Geneforge 5. I combed Geneforge 4, but I can't get much more than a few details about her. In fact, probably the most informative bit of text about her is her death scene--which is rather disappointing. Is there some material--a conversation maybe--that I missed?

Originally Posted By: CRISIS on INFINITE SLARTIES And let's remember that second games tend to go well for Jeff: E/A 2 is generally considered the best of the series, and G2 is one of the more favorably viewed Geneforge games overall. I don't know how many times I have to tell you people that I am of the strong opinion that Geneforge 2 was Jeff's masterpiece. Maybe we should poll it.

All right, I thought long and hard, and took everything I knew (and some things I didn't) into account, and here is what I consider to be the greatest enigmatic game quote of all time: Originally Posted By: The Bard's Tale IRKM DESMET DAEM

A collection of the best: Click to reveal.. Originally Posted By: ZORK >Kiss me > I'd sooner kiss a pig >Kiss pig > I don't know the word "pig" Originally Posted By: ZORK >Get > get what >Get house > not bloody likely Originally Posted By: Tales of the Unknown >**drink** > who will drink? >**anyone** > what will **anyone** drink? >**ginger ale** > the girls are not impressed >**drink** > who will drink? >**anyone** > what will **anyone** drink? >**beer** > not bad!!! There's more; I'll add them later.

Originally Posted By: Synergy I believe that is how Jeff intends it—the typical player's game will not end with Redbeard dying, and I also believe he's supposed to be back for Avadon 2. I hope Av2 is at least significantly (preferably overwhelmingly) larger than part 1.

Oh here's my all time favorite: Originally Posted By: ZORK >Kill me > what do you want to kill the me with? >Hands > what do you want do do with the hands? >Kill me with hands > suicide is not the answer

Originally Posted By: Triumph Rahul and Anjeli (sp?) seem like pretty straightforward loyalist shapers (the Shaper leaders in G3), as do some (but not all) of their subordinates. Other shapers that stand out for trying to do the loyalist thing are Diwaniya (though not very competently) and Erika (kill the Creator). Rahul's agents (I think there are two) on Gull Island are also loyal (unlike the regulars on Gull Island who dabble in canisters). In G2, I think I'd have say Shanti trumps even the Loyalist Encampment gang for her loyalty. Those three that you named stand out as true loyalists.

Originally Posted By: Out in the waking world Don't express it as subtraction. Call it rolling against a target number. If you roll higher than that number, you succeed. More than 3 higher, you succeed even more. More than two under your target, and you fail abjectly. —Alorael, who has two reasons for this. One, nobody likes subtraction. Two, nobody likes adding an extra and unnecessary complication. It's because subtraction serves another purpose. Instead of damage dice, the damage you deal is equal to the variable "a" which, you will remember is achieved by subtracting. Happy birthday, Fflewddur

Originally Posted By: CRISIS on INFINITE SLARTIES What made it sound like I had a good experience? I'm just saying that it clearly makes adjustments based on syntax. Its adjustments often fail to conform to actual syntax, but that's a different issue. I never said "good" I said "better" as in, "less bad"

Ah, an excellent question, Slarty. There are two good reasons why I choose to do so. One: It was fun doing it. Two: I have little to do in life and a lot of time to do it in. So I often start doing pointless things. If this hurdle gets nothing but negative criticism, it will shortly disappear, never to be heard from again, and I will start work on a tactical wargaming engine. Best, Fflewddur Fflam

I take it you had a better experience with it than I did. Maybe its grasp of some languages is firmer than others.

Google Translate does a word for word translation with no thought to syntax.

Arms: I found subtraction easier to express in text. Slarty: I said I was aiming for simplicity. Fflewddur

Theoretically, however, what languages would you translate it into?

Well, I finished. I won't bore anyone with details, but I will bore you exceedingly by explaining my core mechanic. Roll xd6 where x equals your level of skill in a field, then remove from the pool any results of 1 or 2. The remainder, which we shall call y, then gets put through y-z=a, where z equals the DC of an attack, a bluff, etc. I Then, if a>0, you succeed. If a<1, you fail. If a>3, you succeed easily with exceptionally good results. If a<-2, then you fail miserably and incur some extra consequence of failure. Regards, Fflewddur

Do role-playing sessions with friends count? If so, Originally Posted By: Me I'm sure the goblins won't mind us raiding their vaults for magic scrolls. I mean, if they did, they would have told us instead of sending arrows at our heads.

Traditionalism runs strong in Middle Earth, it's true. And yes, that reflects the way Tolkien saw the world. But he was referring, as you pointed out, to the cultured points of the old days; he was not celebrating the old act of dumping chamber-pots out the window into a busy street, was he?

Originally Posted By: Carving Spoon I've seen an RPG that uses only d12s. The justification? Your d12s feel lonely and abandoned. —Alorael, who rejects non-Platonic solids. Banish your d10! And your d8. As for finding the dice, I live in Manila, where specialty stores are out of the question. As for deliberately using obscure stuff, I'm doing the exact opposite. I am deliberately avoiding anything more uncommon than a pack of cards or a six-sided die. See my point now? Anything more constructive? Fflewddur

Thanks Nikki.

Originally Posted By: Goldenking Shapers are not all-powerful beings, though. They are very good at maintaining that illusion through the first few games, but the longer the Rebellion goes the more evident it becomes that they are not omnipotent. Some of you may remember Shanti's abject fury at Zakary's failure to maintain the Shaper image.

Some dice are more common than others. A d6 is infuriatingly common. A d20 is somewhat harder to find and it took me a year of searching to lay my hands on a d4. So die size does matter. Fflewddur

I said nothing about Satanism, I was talking about misinterpretation of otherwise harmless fiction. I just gave particularly strong examples is all.