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Originally written by Trefoil Live:

Battle creations have the inertia of four games behind them now, so I don't think the core creations will be getting any overhauls. They do need some way to become the equals of the other two types, though. I'm sure Jeff will work on it in G5.

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Originally written by Student of Trinity:

1) Let the player recognize in advance what the canister will do. By now canisters are well known, and a rebel PC might be trained in recognizing them.

2) Do some clever stuff with timers and SDFs to give canister effects that don't appear for some time, or until some specific things are done (such as using another canister, or entering some special environment). By the time you fully realize what that canister did to you, you've played too much more of the game to want to go back. Some delayed effects could even be made random, so that consulting a walkthrough wouldn't remove the risk.

I like option 2) best, but it could be combined with 1), in that player knowledge of canisters could be unreliable or incomplete.

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Originally written by Emperor Tullegolar:

I don't think you got the joke. It was actually more offensive than that.

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Originally written by Thralni:

Did you do what I told you to do? relaod a save file at a point before you started editing the location of your party?

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Originally written by Meter Maid:

I played it again with a new party - the problem occured again.

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Originally written by Frozen Feet:

My friends see me as:
Uh, somebody give me a hand here, I don't know any clown related songs!

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Originally written by Ash Lael:

My innermost desire is:
I Can't Do This (Plumb)
This works. It actually is physically impossible for me to do the thing I desire most right now.

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Originally written by Sarasaphilia:

Thuryl: You listen to the Pretenders? I thought I was the only one here.

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Originally written by -silver-:

yah. a couple levers behind pillars or walls, a couple chests hidden by trees or walls, and I'm thinking, "stop using my point of view against me. it breaks immersion because the character in the game would see this stuff easily."

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Originally written by Dr. Johann Georg Faust:

Unfortunately, the closest I've come to D&D is reading Order of the Stick et al, so I'll probably spout nonsense. But since the Shaper in Geneforge is exceptionally weak in melee, but average in magic, wouldn't it make sense if the prestige class cost fighter levels as well as spellcasting levels?

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