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If it was at eye level
and the chair was comfier
and there was a place for my ashtray and coffee.
Average Manatee
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Trying to remove them with dispel magic and failing causes them to detonate, so presumably ripping apart pages does the same.
Seeing as you and your allies can personally read the runes without triggering them, presumably you could just put the initial trigger rune on the cover of a book and just fling it at your enemy like a frisbee. The main question is on the strictness of the "read" requirement.
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Some voting bullshit here: http://www.dorkly.com/toplist/57693/the-most-anticipated-game-of-2014
Mentioning because Pillars of Eternity is in it
Mentioning because Pillars of Eternity is in it
SERIOUSLY?
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The voters are probably a mix of WoW burnouts looking for a new fix, and bethtards who have no idea that the MMO won't be anything like Skyrim.
DraQ
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I look forward to TESO.
More specifically - I look forward to it bombing harder than Bar Daau and Red Mountain combined.
More specifically - I look forward to it bombing harder than Bar Daau and Red Mountain combined.
Baron Dupek
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Not to mention people that first contact with RPG got with Oblivion/Mass Effect.
The most (only?) valuable thing in last 3 Beth abominations (2 of them are TES) was modding. Wonder what happen when it's gone in case of TESO...
The most (only?) valuable thing in last 3 Beth abominations (2 of them are TES) was modding. Wonder what happen when it's gone in case of TESO...
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Most of Beth's customers play on consoles and so get no mods, and they are still very happy. Modders and heavy mod tend to stick with a game for a long time and talk about it a lot on the internet, which makes them seem more significant than they are. But sales-wise I think Beth would do fine without them.
DraQ
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Actually they kind of rebounded with Skyrim - still plummeting in terms of mechanical complexity (FFFUUUUUU-), but trying to bring back actual world design, lore and so on.
Too bad most of in-game writing sucks and they are relying mostly on already written stuff, but there is a lot of old TES lore still unexplored by games themselves and it's kind of uplifting to see a new game referencing PGE1, instead of derpy PGE3.
Mechanically, while there is a lot of dumbing down, I can't help but give credit for addressing some of the most glaring flaws not addressed through the entire series and expanding the systems a bit where they didn't dumb them down massively.
If only Bethesda didn't backtrack from good decisions and didn't try to ape completely incompatible game styles.
As for TESO it's not even done by Bethesda or anyone having any clue about TES.
Luzur
Good Sir
but, what about those enemies that cant read? like Orcs, Zombies etc?
Average Manatee
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Yes, that's the question. Most humans probably can't read mystic runes either. So where do you draw the line? There's also the fact that an omniscient being or the like could be considered "reading" the runes, causing them to randomly explode whenever you enter certain areas.
Does holding a mirror up to the runes and reading the reflection count? What if someone traced the indentations on the paper? Could they draw a replica of the rune based on that without exploding, and if so would reading the replica trigger the explosion? What if you held your hand over the top half of the rune, drew it, then someone else held their hand over the bottom half and drew that, then you put the two drawings together?
Lots of good stuff for rules lawyers to argue over.
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When I DM I usually take the approach that the rules do not define a spell, they merely describe how it works when used for it's intended purpose. The actual magic behind the spell is far too complex and mysterious to be reduced to a short rules paragraph. Overly "creative" spell use tends to go poorly for the caster in some way he doesn't expect, and rules lawyers can just shut up.
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Awor Szurkrarz
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That's a sad story
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warpig
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I don't know what's worse popamolers or manchildren nostalgic for their console kiddie games.
Why are you unbanned again?
This. Both of them
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Horus
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It's simple: Everything is shit.
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Delterius
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So the pornographic uses of the oculus rift are already made. Thats even quicker than betheseas fanbase.
Excidium
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What else would you use it for? It doesn't look practical for serious video games.
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