Excidium II
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Fairies sound like a level 0 adventure antagonist.
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What good are spoiler tags when you dumbfucks can't even be arsed.
Anyway, yeah, it's dumb. The basic principle is really sound: who is the antagonist when your main mechanic is expansion and kingdom-building? Nature of course! And sometimes it works really, really well, like when entire settlements just disappear into thin air because fey magic or the land in the form of shamblers and treants and shit start getting up in your shit and you're like "wtf is going on", but townships getting slaughtered by armies of Tinker Bell is less menacing
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A very accurate plot summary from Reddit if anyone wants to spoil the entire story:
The overall arc is of starting a community that grows into a kingdom in a relatively untamed wilderness, with ever growing threats.
Book 1: Explore the Greenbelt, kill a Bandit leader and establish a settlement. Miss the Book 6 plot hook because nobody is using speak with dead on a random unicorn at really low level.
Book 2: Explore further, deal with a handful of complications like a rampaging Owlbear and unfriendly locals to secure the area for your growing community.
Book 3: Varnhold, another nearby settlement, has vanished. Explore the area and find out what happened.
Book 4: One of your outlying villages is attacked by the settlement to the west. Fly directly there and smack the leader for it, because you are high level now and the hexploration is getting boring (or, you know, "explore the area" etc etc). Then get rid of his barbarian buddies.
Book 5: After a really fun little festival with minigames to play you start the plot. Pitax covets your growing kingdom, and launches an all out war to take it. Nuke their armies from the sky because again, high level. Alternatively raise armies and play a really rolly mass combat mini-game before, you guessed it, exploring the area and defeating the King.
Book 6: Crazy fey magic attacks your land and you have to venture into another plane to defeat this foe. Be super surprised to find out they were the villain all along, because the hints about this are shockingly difficult to come across naturally.
I hope this gives both a plot summary and my opinions. It starts really cool, the hexploration gets a bit boring as things go on, and you need to place a lot more hints if you want the player's to know about the big baddie in Book 6. Really great path overall, probably the most consistently good one they've done, highly recommended.
Book 1: Explore the Greenbelt, kill a Bandit leader and establish a settlement. Miss the Book 6 plot hook because nobody is using speak with dead on a random unicorn at really low level.
Book 2: Explore further, deal with a handful of complications like a rampaging Owlbear and unfriendly locals to secure the area for your growing community.
Book 3: Varnhold, another nearby settlement, has vanished. Explore the area and find out what happened.
Book 4: One of your outlying villages is attacked by the settlement to the west. Fly directly there and smack the leader for it, because you are high level now and the hexploration is getting boring (or, you know, "explore the area" etc etc). Then get rid of his barbarian buddies.
Book 5: After a really fun little festival with minigames to play you start the plot. Pitax covets your growing kingdom, and launches an all out war to take it. Nuke their armies from the sky because again, high level. Alternatively raise armies and play a really rolly mass combat mini-game before, you guessed it, exploring the area and defeating the King.
Book 6: Crazy fey magic attacks your land and you have to venture into another plane to defeat this foe. Be super surprised to find out they were the villain all along, because the hints about this are shockingly difficult to come across naturally.
I hope this gives both a plot summary and my opinions. It starts really cool, the hexploration gets a bit boring as things go on, and you need to place a lot more hints if you want the player's to know about the big baddie in Book 6. Really great path overall, probably the most consistently good one they've done, highly recommended.
PrettyDeadman
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Main enemy of nation-building should be internationalists, globalists, communists, leftists and *ews, not nature.
Gandalf vs. Commies: The Video Game sounds like an enticing proposal
EDIT: I suppose you could view the feys as a collective of gaia hippies, that would fit your bill
EDIT: I suppose you could view the feys as a collective of gaia hippies, that would fit your bill
PrettyDeadman
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First Kickstarter stretchgoal is reached btw!
I wonder if they are going to announce new goals now?
I wonder if they are going to announce new goals now?
ArchAngel
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Or Eco Terrorists. Codex Trumpists just need to imagine them as Muslim terrorists and they can enjoy this game more than anyone.
PrettyDeadman
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Will Kodex be able to raise 5,000 dollars to be allowed to design an NPC for this game? That's a lot of money.
Infinitron is a ~trademaster~ maybe they will be able to negotiate a best deal for lesser amount of money.
Infinitron is a ~trademaster~ maybe they will be able to negotiate a best deal for lesser amount of money.
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i mean if you really hate tinker bell
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Meh, faeries, elves, all deserve the same.
maybe we get to murder these guys
annoyed me since my first encounter with them in the after school club in 4th grade
annoyed me since my first encounter with them in the after school club in 4th grade
AD&D Monstrous Manual said:
get the fuck out my house you pesky rodent and stop waking me up in the middle of the goddamned night
laclongquan
Arcane
If instead of Tinkerbell you think of
Massive mosquito the size of your finger.
That will stick you in and let you bleed like a fountain.
That a swarm of it will darken the sky.
That the sound of its flight will make you turn off game's sound.
Yeah, it can be pretty scary.
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Anyway, regarding kingdom building genre.
Do you know what raise a player's blood pressure in this genre?
A swarm of those creature invade one of the settlement out of nowhere.
One little town that we lovingly send troops to open the way, clean up the bandit, invest the resource to build.
Then those fuckers turn up, massacre our villagers, kill our cattles, then leave.
GENOCIDE! TREE HUGGERS DIE!
Massive mosquito the size of your finger.
That will stick you in and let you bleed like a fountain.
That a swarm of it will darken the sky.
That the sound of its flight will make you turn off game's sound.
Yeah, it can be pretty scary.
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Anyway, regarding kingdom building genre.
Do you know what raise a player's blood pressure in this genre?
A swarm of those creature invade one of the settlement out of nowhere.
One little town that we lovingly send troops to open the way, clean up the bandit, invest the resource to build.
Then those fuckers turn up, massacre our villagers, kill our cattles, then leave.
GENOCIDE! TREE HUGGERS DIE!
massive mosquitos are icky
tiny super models with needles are not
tiny super models with needles are not
Fenix
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No matter which buttons I press, I still keep recieving alerts from this thread, ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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Just unfollow the thread?
Fenix
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How could you, you!...
Already, but that's doesn't work.
Hm, is it possible that "ignore thread" doesn't work if "watch thread" is turned on?
Mustawd
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Are you fucking kidding me?
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Unsubscribe plzkthx.
laclongquan
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He is not kiddingly fucking you~
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