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Originally written by Delicious Vlish:

A game about Vlish would be nice.

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Yeah, and there could be the chance to make them... NO! Forge them!

Really, I agree with Alo. Let the guy that makes the games make the games.

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Originally written by Dintiradan:

I'm so sad; no more Nephil archer on Torment.

In BoA, it was Nephil archer with Fast on Feet & Brittle Bones, with a disgusting amount of DEX, Bows, and Sharpshooter. Worked pretty good (APF was weird though).

I change him to FoF & Deadeye in A4, and I'm feeling pretty good after mowing down a couple goblins. Then I run into baddies I can't drop in one shot. Stupid eight moves per round. Stupid changing Attacks of Opportunity into "slowing down" (NO! 9AP -> 1AP!). I renounce all claims I made on how I liked the new combat system.

Oh well. Maybe I'll try "Hard" instead of "Torment".

Hmmm. I'll continue the trend with MP.
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ANOTHER SHUBBERY!!!
- The Knights who say Ni (Quest for the Holy Grail)

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Originally written by Left Outer Join:

As disturbed as I am by things getting deleted without warning, I am much more disturbed at what, in the long run, this will mean for Jeff's policy regarding General.

Bluntly, we've built a playground on his company's parking lot.

I hope I will not see the day he decides to evict us from said playground.

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Originally written by Randomizer:

Try fighting Nodicaus with a singleton before leaving the Eastern Gallery. You can't dodge his attacks and there are only so many invulnerability potions available. That is a real challenge to do it without burning up too many magic items.

The game isn't as hard for a singleton as Jeff would like, but you have to make sacrifices that restrict what you can do during the game. No looting every cache until the end when all they are good for is extra money and knowledge brews.

Torment mode gives the monsters a decent chance of hitting you as opposed to easy where you can just stand there a kill monsters leisurely.

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Originally written by I_am_a_Minotaur:

I hope guns don't appear. I'd stop playing if they did.

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Originally written by Student of Trinity:

The interesting danger in canisters is the slowly growing paranoia and megalomania. The munchkinism typical of RPG players makes our characters do anything for one more skill point, as they grow into the gods they are foredestined to become. Anything keeping us from the canisters, whether it's a warped creation or an uppity servile, is just a bunch of pixels, after all. Geneforge pulls a judo move on munchkinism, by making it the main role-playing issue.

The risk of outright bad canisters might be worth adding, for atmosphere, but it won't really affect the game much, because we will just save-load around them. Canisters with benefits and penalties combined would make for interesting dilemmas. But the deeper interest, for me, would be in canisters that are as good as Barzahl's best, but whose use affects game events that players care about. I could be really torn between, say, being able to help an Awakened-like sympathetic sect, and getting Aura of Flames. If the Aura of Flames canister tipped me into a plotline where my role in the Awakened became tragic, this would be really interesting.

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There gotta be canisters, and they've gotta be somehow dangerous. Probably the single cleverest thing about Geneforge is that as a player you are just about as ravenous for canisters as the characters are supposed to be, so you feel a personal stake in the theme.

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Actually, they don't always have to be dangerous. In G2 (and maybe some in G3 too? Can't remember exactly) there are people who were using them and not going insane. It'd be cool to play a character who isn't driven insane by them.

Though I wonder if the servile characters will be able to use them at all. So far, using a canister is fatal for a servile. But perhaps now some serviles will be re-shaped enough to take it, or canisters will be made for serviles. Hm...considering that it is about genes, it'd really need to be the canisters that are changed to accomodate serviles, not change serviles to accomodate the canisters. Otherwise, you'd have to just make the serviles into humans.

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Originally written by Delicious Vlish:

Silly lesser life forms can not read.

I said that we Vlish would not take to kindly to being merged with a lesser life form.

That implies that the lesser life form is indeed human.

**Lifts tentacle in obcene gesture and gurgles something profane**

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Well, had you not written something about tentacle porn, I might not have misunderstood your post. I just didn't know Vlish were into that sort of thing. :eek:

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Originally written by Socane:

What about, Say... A device in some sect, that is supposed to shape you and give you ultimate power, something like the Geneforge... but when you use it, it shapes you into some wierd half/creation half/shaper thing and you get locked up as an experiement, and you then get the option of quiting and trying again on a previous save, or trying to escape from jail.

I mean... A half/human vlish thing that can shape? It scare the crap out of anything and be better at throwing spells, yet really really really easy to kill with a good melee hit.

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