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  1. Eternity Josh Sawyer wants to make Pillars of Eternity 3, but only if...

    His fixation on realism is precisely why Sawyer will never be able to make a Baldur's Gate 3 or anything close to it. Could probably make a great turn-based, tactical war game set in 13th century Europe though.

  2. Moonspeak Random Non-Japanese Asian RPG News Thread

    Is it any surprise that in a country well known for its piracy of anything digital, that "games as a service" have become the dominant form of commercial game development? I thought that'd have been obvious. China - and the rest of developing Asia's - propensity towards piracy has basically...

  3. Of female characters in RPG's

    I think the fixation on medieval realism in fantasy role playing is a direct result of the war gaming influence, yes. Gygax is just an example. In fact, the two communities are joined at the root, especially early on, as the same kind of people were attracted to both. Trying to figure out the...

  4. Of female characters in RPG's

    Humans did not have "magic" in Tolkien, yes, but he believed that heroic individuals - whether men or otherwise - could be imbued with great power from having been touched by the "light" or because of their "nobility," and perform ridiculous feats. It is entirely reasonable to have individual...

  5. Of female characters in RPG's

    You're talking about a story in which a woman who has never seen battle before, literally kills the most powerful of the Nazgul. Why is it so hard to accept that Tolkien did not base power levels on combat physics? There are so many examples of great feats in his works, where an individual...

  6. Of female characters in RPG's

    That doesn't make them angelic beings. They were, on average, physically and spiritually stronger than men, but not to the extent of being a higher being. Tolkien literally said this in his letters. This sort of argument also doesn't stand up to scrutiny when considering "great men" like Turin...

  7. Of female characters in RPG's

    How are elves angelic beings in Tolkien? There was never any indication in Tolkien that great men were not capable of the same physical feats as elves.

  8. Of female characters in RPG's

    I mean, I don't think Tolkien is a great example since his characters tend to be capable of ridiculous feats, like Fingolfin (an elf) crippling Morgoth (Satan) and Ecthelion (another elf) killing multiple Balrogs (devils) by himself. Smaug was slain by a single archer, and any "noble" warrior in...

  9. Of female characters in RPG's

    Not surprisingly, the higher level the system goes, the more it breaks down. That wasn't intentional as much as it was Gygax being a victim of his own commercial success - players demanded high level content, and they got them. Dungeons and Dragons as a system is only actually plausible as a...

  10. Of female characters in RPG's

    That's because in general, Asian fantasy settings don't care nearly as much about medieval plausibility and the rules of physics, as Western fantasies do. This is not because their source material was more fantastical - Western mythology is equally fantastical - but because they never had to...

  11. Of female characters in RPG's

    There is very little evidence that a modern concept like "replenishing the population" was considered important in medieval times. The leaders of a tribe or village knew that if their men were defeated, the women would become slaves of another tribe / village, so why did it matter whether they...

  12. Of female characters in RPG's

    Yes, but the strength penalty of women is quite significant. From two separate studies on the subject of maximum strength: To use Dungeons and Dragons standards for upper body strength, if the maximum strength a man can attain is 18, the maximum a woman can attain is 9. 9 strength strictly...

  13. Pathfinder Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Enhanced Edition - now with The Lord of Nothing DLC

    "Season pass" is just the new marketing word for "expansion" except you buy it before knowing what it actually is.

  14. Western RPGs with attractive female characters?

    If you equate adventuring with a military campaign in the historical sense, sure. It's how Tolkien structured the Lord of the Rings - as a series of military campaigns and special operations, probably inspired by his own "adventures" during World War 1. But today's video game adventures are...

  15. Power creep/bloat ruining world building.

    Power bloat is usually the result of progression based games that want to be played "forever" because their business model demands it. MMORPGs being the best examples. Since the death of a character and its associated investments in time and effort is seen as the greatest risk for a player to...

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