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Seriously, wtf is wrong with Florida?

Haven't I already said this like a dozen times? It's too goddamn hot and there's too many drugs in this state. That's what's wrong with Florida.

What always leave me puzzled is whether they're doing R34 just to be different/lulzy....or if someone out there truly gets sexual stimulation from that kind of juxtaposition. Either way, it's beyond what I want to look at. Ever.

It's pretty certainly both, sometimes at the same time, sometimes not. Guro is a surprisingly prolific genre, enough so that even avoiding it like the plague I still run into it. I can sorta' grok the triggers it's supposed to be flipping (there seems to be a definite aesthetic to a lot of it, and it's actually somewhat coherent), but those triggers are triggers I lack. S'like vore. I grok vore, I understand the appeal, it just doesn't appeal t'me.

I'm glad you're being intelligent about this as usual, Bay 12. I was hoping people wouldn't say that we should stop eating animals for illogical ideological reasons. However, the same counterargument still holds ground; if we don't need meat we wont bother with the animals that give it to us. They'll be mass cullings, and i suspect it would take many generations for the amount of animals that have lived human free in the wild outstrip the ones killed then or because of overgrazing and suchlike from a lack of natural predators.

... I can only half parse that for some reason, but nah, there's not really enough left of the wild, by and large, to support the current farmed population, so far as I'm aware. But preservation issues are a sorta' separate issue, for all that the consequences of actually stopping animal farming would be pretty significant regarding the animals themselves (I'd give strong odds a good chunk of them would be extinct within a few generations, t'be honest, if only because a goodly number of the non-domestic relative species are already endangered, from what I understand.).

I'm pretty sure cows and chickens would go extinct pretty quick if we left them to their own devices.   

Naaah, chickens would probably be fine, I think. There's still decent wild populations of those, iirc. They're vicious little bastards, and their dietary habits (i.e. goddamn everything) means they've got a pretty decent range. Cows... less so. That's more of a range issue, and it's pretty much a given we're not going to yield much land to 'em if we're not eating them.

Got NWN up and running, so if you wouldn't mind someone joining in that's got pretty much zero experience with this sort of thing (and hasn't played NWN in years ), count me in. Though I might be a lil'drowsy during the suggested playsession, as that's ~midnight to 3 AM for me. Better for me would be starting a few hours earlier (between that and about 9 PM CST, a three-ish hour range), but so long as it's on a weekend I think I can swing it regardless.

My current thought is to not power-game much (i.e. at all ) and go with a fairly simple background/motivation. A somewhat unscrupulous (a sort of watered down CN) dwarf loremaster (bard) sent from the mountainhomes to seek knowledge and artifacts of dragonkind in the wider world. Eventually multiclassing into dragon disciple (should he live that long, heh), as he learns the ways of the wyrm and how to turn that power against them.

Fairly standard dwarven upbringing, but the negotiable morals and fairly strong inquisitive nature (for a dwarf, in any case) causes a bit of friction, ultimately resulting in his current assignment which is as much penance as duty. His own inclination towards curiosity and somewhat conflicted view on the mountainhomes (as well as the general lack of logistical support therefrom) means that he's currently somewhat lackadaisic in his pursuit of his assigned goal, leading to him being... wherever it is this thing starts up, looking for work, amusement, or leads.

Name is... let me run the NWN name generator a couple times... Semli Conforge.

Izzat alright? Suggestions for improvement, or more detail/etc. wanted?

Can't offer advice without more info

Catchall stuff would be to use your inscriptions (regeneration infusion for most, shielding runes for others. Use both of them pre-emptively when possible, before you're at half health or below.) and give berserkers or alchemists a roll. The former, just max the berserker talent and pick up some combat accuracy and weapons mastery and you can mostly faceroll the first few dungeons just bumping into crap*. The latter, go 5/5/5/- into explosive admixture and you basically win a good chunk of the game. 2/2/- or so into the golem tree will mostly take care of the first few dungeons for you, too.

If you started with a shalore, note you can leave the dungeon and probably should. Just about anything can do their starting zone, but it seems to eat new players pretty easy. There's easier ones further north (you can start as something besides shalore or dwarf and start in them, if you want help findin' 'em). If you started with a dwarf, note that you can walk (well, run screaming like a little girl but either way ) past Brotoq while he's wailing on Norgan and just leave. You can combat later after you've killed Prox or Norgos.

*Though that's somewhat deceptive -- if you want to succeed in the longer term, you're going to have to be using your active abilities (such as stunning blow, death dance, rush, etc.) very much regularly. T4 has an active design goal of making it so you can't win just bumping everything to death. DG found that sort of gameplay (which is pretty endemic among melee characters in roguelikes) to be boring.

Janet for Mayor Y/Y?

/IFF she wears the eye patch and pirate hat. *bubbles in choice three*

The, the... the ones you can? Is... is there other options? Ask teacher-thing, or academic advisor equivalent?