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Far East Island / Re: Calm before the storm on FEI

« on: May 03, 2012, 08:55:11 AM »

I think you also underestimate how badly Zonasa, Aenilia, and Kindara could have hurt Arcaea if they stopped dicking around in Larmebsi and went for the western regions looting with a vengeance.

Until Zonasa rolled up with every noble glaze-eyed for gold and showed that they had no idea how to attack a city. Wow. Been a while since I remembered that.

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Other Games / Re: Diplomacy: The Game of International Intrigue

« on: May 03, 2012, 08:36:52 AM »

I'll play this round. I'm not stupid busy like I was when the last round started.

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Other Games / Re: SW:ToR

« on: December 13, 2011, 01:55:55 AM »

Joined a Yank based guild for TOR on Lord Adrass. Legacy of the Republic and Legacy of the Empire (which might change to Legacy of the Sith if possible). Bunch of good guys and gals so should be a fun 3 years of entertainment at least. (16 Characters for 16 Classes... and thats if I dont do Light Side/Dark Side/Neutral characters, after all each class, advanced class and force side gets a little unique few quests, the advanced classes and main class having 1 each ofc)

You might be insane. 

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Other Games / SW:ToR

« on: December 12, 2011, 09:27:51 PM »

Anyone going to play it? I don't know if I have the time, but I'm still highly tempted.

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Other Games / Re: Legend: new D&D-variant tabletop game, designed for speed and ease of play

« on: December 06, 2011, 05:08:28 AM »

To be clear: he's talking about D&D 4th edition, not Legend there.

Yeah, and there's an implied "and" there. One reading of what I wrote would be that "creative players" had always turned DnD into WoW, which wasn't what I was going for. I'm thinking skill challenges, utility skills, and the like. Pretty much every group I ever played with had skill challenges- we just didn't call them that, and we didn't award XP for them.

As far as the 3.5 cleric archer and why you would want to play with one, you would do it because you are the type of person who enjoys breaking games. The cleric archer would drop all his self-buffs and then kill everything in sight once per day. He was really limited only by the duration of his buffs.

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Beluaterra / Re: Fifth Invasion

« on: December 06, 2011, 04:56:31 AM »

Always hopeful yet discontent,
He knows changes aren't permanent.
But change is.

haikus about blight
spreading on Beluaterra
is this the far east?

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Helpline / Re: Abusing Power as Judge

« on: December 05, 2011, 04:37:33 PM »

You're banning people at tournaments who will -never return- to Arcachon, and soon ther will be no Arcachon to do anything to those you've banned.

Sounds like the Judge is banning people who came to Arcarchon for a tourny. That's not an inalienable right, as you basically pointed out above.

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Other Games / Re: Legend: new D&D-variant tabletop game, designed for speed and ease of play

« on: December 03, 2011, 07:00:56 PM »

I play 3.5 myself with a group and we had a look at 4.0.

Most of us felt that 3.5 is roleplay with combat and 4.0 is combat with roleplay.

I feel that 3.5 was minmax twinking time (See: spiked chain trippers, cleric archers, hulking hurlers throwing the damn EARTH) with an opportunity for sissies to roleplay. 4.0 is an attempt by WotC to add game mechanics for all the things that creative players did anyway, compete with World of Warcraft for the RPG combat feel and coddle people who don't like minmaxxed death machines (See: Stormwarden and Blood Mage fixes).

Legends sounds fun, though, especially since I don't have time any more to break regular DnD rules.

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Other Games / Re: Diplomacy: The Game of International Intrigue

« on: December 03, 2011, 06:48:31 PM »

Russia + Italy is not uncommon. I think France/England/Italy is more a product of a slumbering Germany than anything.

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Feature Requests / Re: Crusade

« on: November 18, 2011, 04:54:19 AM »

The original proposal was to add prestige bonuses in certain situations. How does that punish anyone?

It punishes.. um.. it um... Atheists!

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Feature Requests / Re: Guild/Temple Estates

« on: November 18, 2011, 04:52:13 AM »

someone grabs a region by whatever means. gives everything to church then gets banned... no one else will be able to get the stuff back from church... short of jihad against that church.

thing about church is.. instead of region lord, they have the religion equivalent... bishoprics, etc.. dotted all over the place..

Since the largest estate you can make is 50%, this is a non-issue. I think (taking other's suggestions), you could have the largest temple take up a 50% estate and tailor down from there. "Tax" for the temple could be based on follower % in the realm.

Priests could also be tied into this system- choose a "home temple" and gain a portion of that tax as your income, rather than choosing a traditional estate. Give religious hierarchy the option to boot that priest from his temple, rather than the region lord as is done now.

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Other Games / Re: Diplomacy: The Game of International Intrigue

« on: November 13, 2011, 11:00:23 PM »

I'm in.

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Other Games / Re: Steam Warning:

« on: November 11, 2011, 05:45:19 PM »

This just happened to the LOTRO forum and client data as well (theirs was worse, though, since the forum and game accounts and passwords are linked). Would not surprise me to find out that they are related.

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Other Games / Re: Diplomacy: The Game of International Intrigue

« on: November 09, 2011, 08:58:11 PM »

Been a looong time since I've played Diplo, but I'd be up for a game.

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Atamara / Re: The Current War

« on: October 17, 2011, 12:05:45 AM »

Oh by the way: You're looking pretty smart right now. 

Edit: Also richer, if you did in fact place money on it.

Heh.