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What's Heartbreaker Press?

The anus (...) is an opening at the opposite end of an animal's digestive tract from the mouth. Its function is to control the expulsion of (...) unwanted semi-solid matter produced during digestion, which (...) may include: matter which the animal cannot digest, (...) material after all the nutrie...

When I run a game, I usually let the animals only communicate basic emotions and/or recreate actual memories of sensory input. The PC can provide real or imagined memories and/or feelings, and the animal can either react with an emotion or a memory that it is reminded of by the input. Only the smart...

Funnily enough, I've been playing an Elementalist the whole time :V I basically just stick to Fire Attunement 98% of the time, Dagger/Dagger Fire is a pretty fun set of skills. I'll roll a Warrior some time soon and see how that feels. I went a similar route. I was mildly shocked how quickly enemie...

Does every class in Guild Wars 2 operate on a cooldown-only schedule? I mean, at least all the cooldowns I have so far are reasonably short, but still. More or less. Rogues have a single ressource called Initiative fuelling their weapon skills, with no cooldown on the individual skills, but managin...

Great review. One nitpick: This is Sigmar Heldenhammer (literally, "he who holds the hammer") If the name is supposed to borrowed from German, and the first name supports that theory, it translates to "Hero's Hammer" (Held=hero). On the other hand, that may be a purposeful play o...

I've been trying out "A story about my uncle" on Steam lately, mostly because it is currently on sale and the advertising videos looked promising. So far (level 2) it looks like a justified investment. It's a first person platformer, with jumping puzzles, exploration, and a story advanceme...

Oh, and two general tips that usually help: 1) In your inventory there is a menu in the upper right corner. That menu has a command "dump all that collectible shit in my bank". That button is your friend. 2) PvE is really not hard. To perform, it is enough to replace your equipment every 4...

Whether or not the ranger is messed up depends on what you'd like to do with it. For normal PvE/exploration, ranger is fine - a longbow ranger with a tank pet is, in fact, almost easy mode and thus the target of a lot of scorn. (because making your pet attack and then spamming basic attack doesn't e...

deanruel87 wrote:Do you have suggestions for an alternate term?

"Accomplishing interesting things" sounds right to me, too. Accomplishment implies that the power level of a game is a means to an end.

...and me, the supposedly tough dwarven warrior defender, died by a stone slinged to my eye from skinny goblin. So...he was supposed to be powerful? I shoud have heard the GM advice: "do not bother creating a background for your char untill he reaches level 3 at least". So why does it the...

I've had a couple of games of In Nomine (the french version though) and we've concluded that if you run as a group of demons, it works best with the following assumptions: You all serve a Demonic Prince and are mainly opposed by forces of the other Princes. Killing a demon or a worshiper is fair gam...

In my experience, in pictures of Talenta halflings people riding dinosaurs, the halflings riders are not the cool part of the picture. Fixed that sentence for you. (I'm open to counterexamples, though.) There is no such thing, ever. So...what are you saying? That Eberron halflings are an example of...

No, it's not. It's like arguing that parrots in Texas say English words and parrots in China say Chinese words, so you don't need to think of all parrots as knowing words of one particular language. You are comparing ethnicity and culture to race while Hogarth is treating them properly, as being tw...

hogarth wrote:In my experience, in pictures of Talenta halflings people riding dinosaurs, the halflings riders are not the cool part of the picture.

Fixed that sentence for you.

hogarth wrote:(I'm open to counterexamples, though.)

There is no such thing, ever.

That's like arguing that India is not an indian culture because there are Indians in Dallas who dress, act and speak like Texans. The setting clearly states that the Talenta tribes are the ancestral culture of the halflings, and that the tribes are predominantly halfling in population, to the point...

This is kind of a mediocre example. In Eberron, PC races are supposed to be divided along nationalistic lines more than racial lines (e.g. a halfling with roots in Aundair looks and acts like an Aundairian, not like a Talentan). That's like arguing that India is not an indian culture because there ...

The hard thing to do with halflings or gnomes is make them interesting at all. Something D&D has consistently failed at, and spawned some really egregious horrors in the process. Thanks, Dragonlance. Barbarian dinosaur riders. Life-shaping canniballistic savages. To name two. (And to hope you d...

Different characters can and will carry the same physical objects and they should nonetheless do different things because they are different characters . a fire mage has different skills than an ice mage when using a wand Warriors in Guild Wars 2, for example, use greatswords to cut people (the ext...

Yes, maybe the fighter gets +1 bull rushing when wielding a greatshield or whatever, but so does the cleric or some other caster. Well, the Fighter already has the implicit class feature of 'most competent at hitting things in melee'. That would cover that, as well. And why not have other classes p...

If I had more free time I'd be playing more GW2. There are a couple of other selling points too: Then let me add one or two more: * Crafting materials and other collectibles you can send directly from your inventory, sellable equipment you can send directly to the auction house, which makes buying ...

Fighting Styles can be useful and interesting if they add to existing tactics; but that requires said tactics to exist in your game at the first place. For example, if you have Bullrush and forming a defensive line as meaningful maneuvers in your system, using a weapon-shield combo may add something...

No, but now I'm itching to calculate the probability of those words ever appearing in a thread title together (again).

I'd buy it. Bioware shouldn't be punished for the good games they make (or, better said, made). Story wise, the first one is far and away superior in almost every way. The only benefit the second one has, is that you start off Jedi instead of having to work your way there. Instead you get you first ...

I know it actually doesn't, but I can only imagine that five guards will be a bit troubled if they all wake up in a Great Big Pile of Gay(TM). Well, since you are obviously aiming for the good ending, maybe they are actually relieved and thankful for someone to break the ice and reveal their hidden...