Re: General Non-game Chat Thread

[Aerion Storm]

Don't know who he is but I can agree on this year can fuck off to oblivion lol.

He's the guy who did the old Lone Wolf books, like choose-your-own-adventure stuff? And some more recent Kickstarter products (same IP).

Pretty pivotal stuff to a lot of geeks.

[Gwyneth Drakeson]

I think I need to go check if Tim Curry is ok.

I think he's just a little brought down because, when you knocked, he thought you were the candy man.

[Loreia]

Always sad when the great minds who first spun the great worlds we escape in pass into the great beyond. But no matter what the seasons bring, we will endure them!

...Sorry, the music for the DA:I Trespasser DLC is playing through my headphones, heh.

[Aerion Storm]

"Null sweat chummer," Darron says. Heh. Heheh. I wasn't expecting to see that on here.

[Loreia]

I've never played Shadowrun, but I have messed around with creating a character. I'm part of a tight-knit group whom I am involved in a custom DnD campaign with right now, but some day...

I was thinking orc conjurer who had Goblinized later in his life.

[Aerion Storm]

Sounds solid. Just be aware that Goblinization doesn't really happen too much by the mid/late 2070s. That was an earlier in the Awakening thing, mostly, when the mana was still spiking and (meta)humanity was still adjusting to it. Nowadays you tend to be born a certain metarace and stay that way; not saying it's impossible, just that it's rarer, so is likely to make you stick out a little bit. You might get some flak from righteous tuskers who have a chip on their shoulder about the smoothskin who's joined 'the family' later in life (and speaking of families, your actual parents and siblings might have some problems, depending on their situation and megacorp).

Is there a reason you're sticking with a conjurer/summoner in particular, instead of going full mage? In earlier editions "aspected magicians" like that were pretty strong -- folks who could only cast spells, or who could only summon spirits -- but SR5's Priority Chart has some wibbly-wobbly issues to it, and for the most part you're better off going full mage (plus, well, you're just so much more versatile, got more stuff to sink Karma into, more skills, and bring a whole lot more utility to a team). You could still cast comparatively subtle spells if you just wanted to be low key about it, and stick with kind of a "support" role, instead of flashy fireballs and stuff.

[Darron Greyjoy]

I think the last bout of goblinization was halley's comet. Sr5 aspected magicians are a complete joke you are just pound for pound better taking full magician and slapping on incompetent in whatever flavour of magic you don't like.

[Loreia]

Uh, I like the idea of summoning fuck-off ethereal beasts? That right there is what I wanna be about. All of that, basically, but also to have a few spells up my sleeve for supporting the party. Maybe a gun too, I don't want to lean on a spirit too much that they break free, so Spirit Control ideally would be high.

See what I'm going with is an orc from an orc-human pairing who was a "human" child who would goblinize later, either the medical technology exists to predict this or it just happened suddenly (but not unexpectedly)?

[Aerion Storm]

Yeah, so you'll want to be a full magician, then (to have access to both spellcasting and spirit manipulation). It's pretty easy to still get a lot of utility out of a character like that (sometimes maybe too much, compared to mundanes), so it's a solid start. And tossing on a little Pistols skill or Automatics or something is never a bad idea. "Geek the mage first" has been a truism for literally decades now, so while a gun is nice to have for back up, too, it's also nice to have some firepower on ya so you don't look like the mage. Combined with a solid Orkish Body stat, you're off to a good start for a nice jack of all trades 'runner.

Anyways, don't mean to derail the thread or anything, but the shadow-slang caught me off guard. I thought I may've found a corner of the internet where I could escape the Sixth World, but alas, work will always find me.

[Lady Corrine Marsten]

I think I need to go check if Tim Curry is ok.

I think he's just a little brought down because, when you knocked, he thought you were the candy man.

I love you, dear.

[Darron Greyjoy]

Yeah, so you'll want to be a full magician, then (to have access to both spellcasting and spirit manipulation).  It's pretty easy to still get a lot of utility out of a character like that (sometimes maybe too much, compared to mundanes), so it's a solid start.  And tossing on a little Pistols skill or Automatics or something is never a bad idea.  "Geek the mage first" has been a truism for literally decades now, so while a gun is nice to have for back up, too, it's also nice to have some firepower on ya so you don't look like the mage.    Combined with a solid Orkish Body stat, you're off to a good start for a nice jack of all trades 'runner.

Anyways, don't mean to derail the thread or anything, but the shadow-slang caught me off guard.  I thought I may've found a corner of the internet where I could escape the Sixth World, but alas, work will always find me.  

I seen my chance after reading the intro you put up and I thought it was subtle enough lol.

[Baelon Drakeson]

If anyone is interested, GoG.com currently has Neverwinter Nights Diamond edition available free (DRM free too, I believe).

The offer is only good for another 15 hours or so.

[Lady Corrine Marsten]

Some accounts get NWN 2 Complete as well, for some reason. I noticed this when one of my accounts got both, but the other only got the first one.

[Darron Greyjoy]

I think the only NWN game I played was mask of the betrayer. I enjoyed going around the map fighting random battles but just got bored with it after a couple of hours.

[Lady Corrine Marsten]

For those that are comfortable with modding, some clever soul used NWN to do a very good reskin of Baldur's Gate 2.

[Ser Walton Dulver]

BG2 (and 1) is good as it is in enhanced edition in my opinion. I was little shocked by amount of added stuff, especially after checking some mods, but that's another story.

I've added NWN to my gog library (thanks for posting about that!)- as I'm steam person, I had to create account, but it's worth. I bought box versions of NWN 1 and 2 in past, but as most of my things it's gone... Anyway, in first one I remember that skill for warrior, which after killing opponent was granting you extra attack- fun, when surrounded by MANY weak opponents. One turn and they all are dead, one after another, falling like domino Don't remember english name of it, though...

[Gwyneth Drakeson]

NWN 2 was pretty cool. It might be fun to try it again sometime...though I still have the old CD ROMs somewhere.

NWN 1 I loved back in the day, but I can't see getting back into it now.

Walton, I believe the word you're looking for is Cleave.

[Lady Corrine Marsten]

You can add non-Steam games to your Steam library.

[Ser Walton Dulver]

yes, Gwyn- Great Cleave to be specific

loved NWN2, finale was great. But when I launched Mask of Betrayer, it pushed me away, that wasn't what I expected and wanted. But I'm generally not fan of planes, implementing gods, demigods and shit like that into games, books and whatever else comes to mind...

You can add non-Steam games to your Steam library.

Does it do anything except adding game to list on Steam? I'm rather single player person, so it shouldn't really matter, right?

[Lady Corrine Marsten]

It's not essential, but it lets you collate and launch non-Steam games through the Steam client. I like to do it so all my games can be listed in one place and launched from there. It's not for everyone, but I personally find it neater than having 3 separate game clients.

[Baelon Drakeson]

I'm generally a steam guy as well, but launch my GoG games (three of them now, all of which were free or gifted) as stand-alone. I just do it the old-school way and have a folder of games shortcuts on my desktop. Even my steam games have shortcuts in there. Just an old habit, I guess.

[Lady Corrine Marsten]

I'm way too lazy for that. The only external shortcut I have is my heavily modded Skyrim installation.

[Ser Raynald Dulver]

Hi there, I'm back. Is there a possibility for me to play again? Is Raynald still alive?

[Lady Corrine Marsten]

Hi there, I'm back. Is there a possibility for me to play again? Is Raynald still alive?

I think he's still alive.

[Gwyneth Drakeson]

Two! TWO psychotic Dulvers!

Ah ah ah!

*thunderclap*

Kidding of course. Welcome back!

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