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Community Let's put a Codexian item / NPC into Divinity: Original Sin

DarkUnderlord

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Tags: Codex Original Sin KickStarter Campaign; Divinity: Original Sin; Kickstarter

Larian Studios messed up their KickStarter by launching it two weeks earlier than intended because RPG Watch couldn't stop themselves from hitting the publish button on their preview. As a result, Larian launched their campaign right in the middle of PAX and while there were some pretty big KickStarters already under-way (like Torment).

I'm not joking.

You see, we didn’t plan on announcing our Kickstarter today. But somebody else decided for us, and that somebody was…

Myrthos !

Yes, the Myrthos from RPGWatch, my first stop in the morning to get my RPG news. He wrote a really positive hands-on article about Divinity: Original Sin (calling it Divine Divinity on steroids) for which we’re really grateful, but…

He published it today!

And… we only expected it to be published once the Kickstarter page was live, next week…

So…

Everything suddenly went into overdrive.​

Ignoring the fact that launching a KickStarter because of a small RPG fan-site publishing a glowing preview is asinine, we've been running the campaign quietly since then and have already hit our intended goal of $1,000 USD - enough to put some kind of inane item in, however now has come the time to make it front page news. There's only two worth-while community goals, either $1,000 to design an item or $1,500 to design an NPC. Beyond that, having a Codexian Troll jailer might be interesting but KickStarter fatigue means it's highly unlikely we'd reach the $5,000 required.

Don't let that stop you from donating though! Whatever amount we raise, we'll use it to bribe Larian into giving us some Codexian themed stuff which we'll all regret come launch day. Donate now!

In other news, as inXile are taking PayPal contributions until 30 April, we'll run our Torment campaign until about the 28th in the off-chance we might scrape the final $500 together to reach our $5,000 goal there. Don't forget to read the raffle details for that one.
 

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We coulkd go for $2.5k, to have a NPC with an Item! :)

Just give him a really flashy armor/weapon, and place him at the door of the guard house, talking about how awesome his items are. then watch how many players will try to kill him for the loot (that would be shitty). I would even make killing hm a secret achievemnt. :cool:
 

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For $2500 we can also get a statue (1 of 4) and make it look like Chris Avellone or Swen himself. Worth considering, IMO. :P
 

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I agree that the goal should be set to 2'500 or heck even make it 5'000. Make us reach for unreachable goals:codexisfor:
 

Grimlorn

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Huge Codex looking troll that swings a club bashing in the head of a NPC named Myrthos somewhere in the game?

How much would that cost?
 

Angthoron

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Huge Codex looking troll that swings a club bashing in the head of a NPC named Myrthos somewhere in the game?

How much would that cost?
Or a Codex troll pissing on a watch tower.

I'd say set to 2,5K too, Larian are bros and deserve the money and media saturation.

Hell, I even stepped over my pride and sent an email to TotalBiscuit, though I doubt it'd help much since he don't take no requests. Still, who knows.
 

SCO

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fuck items. I want features.

Give me the ability to set a fixed seed to the item generation algorithm that doesn't take level into account on a config file somewhere.
There: Diablo--
 

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Still working on it but nearing the end. My job didn't make it easy. That said I finally managed to find the structure I wanted and it's going smoothly now.
 

Metro

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I don't kick in to these things so my opinion is to be taken lightly but for this stuff I would always default to the troll. Would be cool if :rpgcodex: were omnipresent in all of these classic cRPG kickstarter games.
 

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Still working on it but nearing the end. My job didn't make it easy. That said I finally managed to find the structure I wanted and it's going smoothly now.
Don't fret bro, just take your time. You can always post it as a retrospective 6 years from now.
 

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I guess allot of folks probably don't realize that this game is coming out later on this year, and it will give them a great game to tide them over until Torment or PE or any of the other games come out.
 

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By the way, good job on the new donations interface to Taluntain and DU, it's never been easier to lose my hard-earned cash on the Codex.
 

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