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That would place it around 1469DR. From what I'm reading 5th Edition takes place around 1484DR but I know basically nothing about more recent developments in the setting, if someone could fill in anything I've left out that they think is relevent?

If Ascent into Avernus is supposed to be a prequel of sorts to Baldur's Gate 3, we're looking at a date around other modules.

Lost Mines of Phandalin - 1481 DR (Whilst technically not 5e yet, it takes place a number of years after Mt Hotenow erupted)

Hoard of the Dragon Queen - 1489 DR

Rise of Tiamat - 1489 DR and potentially 1490 DR

Prince of the Apocalypse - 1491 DR

Out of the Abyss - 1485/1486 DR is when the Demon incursion starts (from the novel Archmage) - It's been mentioned by Chris Perkins that RoD overlaps with ToD and PotA storylines. However Demons like to plot a lot, so they can have been building up strength for a couple of years.

Curse of Strahd (Ravenloft setting) - This can be slotted in whenever as Ravenloft is it's own Demiplane.

Storm King's Thunder - Takes place after the ToD storyline (as there are references). Personally I'd go with 1492 DR.

Tales from the Yawning Portal (Collection of 7 previous editions adventures, rewritten for 5th edition) - As technically only Dead in Thay takes place in the FR, there isn't any timelines on these - they are just dungeon/adventures, with no over-arching storyline. Dead in Thay takes place directly after Scourge of the Sword coast (which starts in 1485 DR), so would most likely be 1486 DR.

I'm trying to remember some indie adventure game that I don't have on Steam. I remember there was an election where one of the candidates is low-key Rob Ford and the other one is also corrupt. I think you have to repair a car at some point. I think the graphics were top down indie style, like it was a somewhat old-school adventure game where you have to get things and then bring the things elsewhere to solve puzzles and advance. I think it starts out and there's an alleyway outside a casino or something but it's not in chronological order.

A game where you play as a mad scientist who creates creatures in their lab out of various bits and pieces. The creatures you create have some modelling for different functions. They need a heart, a brain, blood, lungs, etc. The quality of the pieces you get will have some impact on the capacities of the creature. Body parts from a super strong boxer would help you make a creature that is good at fighting, etc.

The game loops would be:

1. Creature creation / design.
2. Using said creatures to help you go on missions to gather more body parts by raiding cemeteries, morgues, or abductions. Gather better lab equipment, or rob places for
money to buy supplies.
- Go back to 1, make new, better creatures, or append parts onto your existing creatures in order to upgrade them.

Game Style: Possibly you could go more abstract, with raid results all occurring via text. But with more time you could maybe do more of a darkest dungeon style, or perhaps X-com exploration of levels.
Visual Style: a gothic 19th aesthetic, Shelly's Frankenstein for literary influence, decent 2D graphics

There's an old RTS called Impossible Creatures where you kind of do this- just you're combining different creatures where it's like top half one bottom half is the other.

Quote from: Rakonas on November 26, 2017, 01:28:17 pm

Is there a reliable workaround to the trade company merchant bug yet?

Don't think so

Found elsewhere that if you just remove provinces from trade companies you don't have 51% in you get the merchant from the ones you do in case anyone was wondering.

Is there a reliable workaround to the trade company merchant bug yet?

I wish the AI was better. My experience with the game is basically just playing as the elves so far, and with a little knowledge of how to guerilla warfare and their good units, you can easily wreck pretty much every army, or at least escape without death in every battle.

Master of the Hunt with overrun promotion, and a few archers, all I would have to do is weaken each enemy with an arrow volley, then swoop in with master of the hunt. Each kill resets some movement and attack, so I would slaughter entire armies with only a 4 unit insurgency. If the enemy actually made use of other than the cheapest units, that strategy in particular would be countered, sure. In battles the AI often just shield walls against the side of the map in presumed fear allowing you to pick off the entire thing from afar. If they would just use their cavalry to charge me, I would take casualties if not outright lose.

I really like the game, the interface seems unrefined at first but allows you to do whatever you need with a little familiarity. The AI is just terrible, there's no real challenge even if everyone in the world hates you.

They're just units of population working a given planet tile: there's no pop types, political alignment, militancy, needs, etc.

Pop Types: Slaves, Free, Robots, Transhuman

Political Alignment: Ethos varies by pop, has significant effects on what the pop does

Militancy: Pops do have this, and they will join factions (rebel movements)

Needs: Obviously not as deep as Vic 2, but they need food and such.

That's because we need to get to 200 pages before release. That said, are the Mede emperor dragonborn/dragonblood? Because they only appeared after the dragonfires stopped being relevant to the coronation (thanks to Martin).

They definitely aren't, that's why the blades stopped being a thing.

My understanding was that they were Dragonborn, but there weren't any dragons, so they couldn't really demonstrate it, aside from the Amulet of Kings only being wearable and working for Dragonborn. (The pact with Alessia was made when she was dying, so changing her blood to make her a dragonborn at that point couldn't have affected any children she would have already had. Plus apparently it contains her soul or something, says a wiki.)

I haven't heard that part about Alessia but her descendants clearly were capable of wearing the amulet of kings and all that. I don't think it makes any sense to say that the unimportant emperors were dragonborn but couldn't demonstrate it. That would mean having several simultaneous dragonborns vying for inheritance. Makes way more sense to say that being the descendant of a dragonborn is what the blood of the dragon means in terms of the amulet of kings stuff. So you needed to be a descendant of a dragonborn to light the dragonfires. After Oblivion the medes weren't so the dragonfires eventually went out.