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Honestly, if they were going to implement space whales in a gameplay-impacting manner, they'd probably use them as an excuse to make organic looking battle arenas.

Which I could dig. Could do a whole series of spaceborn superfauna -- possibly even having the arena construction algorithms, and perhaps other aspects of the battlegrounds, take their outline from the procedural monsters. Attacks and movement types of the critter its based on could change arena hazards and stuff like gravity or whatever. There's a lot you could do with that, really, and it'd be a pretty neat tie in to have some of your "asteroids" actually be supersized versions of something you've already encountered on land.

Gwarble. I'd seriously suggest giving the T4 forum a search on stealth specifically, as the details are annoying and I can't remember them off the top of my head. Suffice it to say that stealth is actually really powerful and stuff "seeing you" doesn't quite do what you might expect it to. Insofar as I can recall, just because they can see you one turn, doesn't mean they see you the next. Stealth is just... really nice, but the mechanics are somewhat obtuse.

As for DS/Flurry, I wouldn't max those early, myself. I usually get flurry to about 3/5 (around 90-100% damage per hit) and leave it for quite a while, and there's no telling if I'll invest much in DS at all (stunning's good, killing is better, and DS+dirty fighting is usually enough to kill most things even with both at 1/5). Sweep and whirlwind are both good, as well.

Traps will get you through most of the tier one stuff. Bear trap alone is enough to kill most of the melee bosses, really, if you felt like kiting a lot (obviously not as viable with a ghoul rogue [also note: ghoul rogues are pretty solid. They're beefy.].), and it makes kiting in general a sinch. Just remember you can place a trap directly below you and then step off it.

Other than that... I'unno. Don't forget that instant melee attack you've got, it's nice. You probably want to prioritize debuffing daggers (icy, elemental, slime, etc.) since you'll be doing plenty of damage anyway. The poison tree's fairly solid for that, too.

There's... probably plenty more that could be said. Check the T4 forums for character reports, I think we had a few rogue winners fairly recently. The posts on those should be somewhat illuminating. E: Actually, that was a shadowblade. Ehn. E2: Though according to the vault, tiger_eye did win with a (really freaking weird) ghoul rogue that... as near as I can tell, went, uh. Staves. ... man, I don't know what the hell went on with that critter.

In Superman: The Movie, Superman's speed was shown as fast enough to reverse the timestream.

Which is all that really needs to be said, I guess. There's probably other incidents involved, and gods know that if he couldn't himself he'd just go mug enlist one of the DC critters capable of it.

Superman's power levels also grew throughout the 1940s; by 1947, he is able to use his super-speed to break the time barrier for the first time.[13]

If the movies aren't acceptable. [13] points at #48 of Superman volume one (whatever that is). So. One of the superman incarnations can probably manage it.

Anyway, silliness and character breaking aside, is the thing actually entertaining to watch?

I know they are trying to steer clear of race having much effect but... Will those tentacle-thingies be better swimmers? I mean, a robot has the duel problem of being heavy AND vulnerable water. I'm assuming the tentacle-thingies are from a water world. Maybe their starting armor gives them a bonus to swimming?

I don't know if anyone has mentioned this, but your race doesn't only change the aesthetics of items, but each race's armor will also have a different special ability. Here's the list, copied form the forums:
    Avian: Allows you to glide
    Apex: Allows you to jump higher, maybe run faster
    Human: Allows you to carry more items "possibly"
    Robot: Allows you to mine faster
    Floran: Allows you to convert sunlight into extra energy
    Hylotl: Allows you to breathe underwater and swim faster

Assuming the information's accurate and remains thusly on release.

I officially forgive anything the U.S. administration has ever done wrong.
_{(not really, but this is hilarious and awesome)}

Key point with the response probably being more who wrote it (and what they're part of) than anything else. I don't think the "Science and Space Branch at the White House Office of Management and Budget" has done anything particularly odious, uh. I won't go so far as to say ever, but if our non-military research has been doing stuff notably immoral it's been at a much lower frequency than most of the rest of th'government.

Aannnndddd now I'm thinking of a homoerotic Romeo and Juliet done inside a wrestling ring with the entire (all male) cast being the wrestlers. There would be elbow drops and junk _(heeheehee).

Considering they used to do the whole all-male casts anyway, it's not as much of a stretch _{(ahahahahahahahahahaha)} as it might be.

Really though, a lot of classical theatre was pretty damn violent. Shakespeare didn't even remotely have a monopoly on that.

Honey, if the water's not on fire you're not trying hard enough.

Back! Back, foul Kender!

No, no. No wanderlust. Or compulsive lying. And while I am somewhat below the national average in terms of height... not that much.

But then again, that may be what an internet enabled kender would say. Hrm.