The BSG game and the Delurking thread expiring on the same day means that I have to go find other threads to procrastinate by reading. Any suggestions?

Bitches? Usually pretty happening.

Or, you could GM a game in here.

Anyone picking up Dragon Age? It looks pretty cool, but I don't know where I'd find the time to dedicate to CRPG. "Spiritual successor to Baldur's Gate" catches my interest, though.

ETA: I will say the limited character race and class options are kind of disappointing, but I understand the first couple hours of the game deal with your character's backstory based on those options, so I can see them putting a limit on just how much of that they want to program.

D wants to run a Star Wars campaign. It sounds like you can be just about any race but you do get the extra feat for going human.

Kalshane, the hub picked it up the other day and he's really liking it so far. From the halfway sorta watching while doing stuff on the laptop seat, the first part seemed even more talky than a lot of CRPGs, but on the other hand, all that backstory really looks like it has a lot more depth to the characterization and story than you sometimes see. If that impression is right, I'll take fewer initial choices (as I am a HOOR for a game that's not totally eyerolly writing-wise). I haven't played it myself yet, but I'll let you know if I do (or maybe get him to log in here for the first time in yonks.)

BSG

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oh frak.

I caught the end of the game but wasn't able to log in, and then got swallowed by a tough deadline.

So the fleet makes merry while it drifts in space, out of fuel, waiting for the Cylons to nab them and throw them into a breeding program? Cheery.

President Tigh is probably missing in action, having commandeered the Colonial One. He's off getting thoroughly drunk and hoping no one works out the secret ingredient in his "Booster Fuel" brand of moonshine...

Thanks again, BT!

*Hic*

Kalshane, the hub picked it up the other day and he's really liking it so far. From the halfway sorta watching while doing stuff on the laptop seat, the first part seemed even more talky than a lot of CRPGs, but on the other hand, all that backstory really looks like it has a lot more depth to the characterization and story than you sometimes see. If that impression is right, I'll take fewer initial choices (as I am a HOOR for a game that's not totally eyerolly writing-wise). I haven't played it myself yet, but I'll let you know if I do (or maybe get him to log in here for the first time in yonks.)

Cool. The review I read mentioned re-playing the game with a different background and the reviewer found himself playing through events that NPCs had talked about in his first run through. Which is kind of neat.

Yeah. The D&D geek in me misses the wide array of classes and races, though I only really play humans, elves and dwarves anyway (well, and half-elves) so not having a half-pint racial option doesn't really bother me. Having the class choices only be three kind of sucks, but the specializations you can choose later may help with that. Though I'm not sure how different a Rogue-Bard and a Rogue-Ranger, for instance, will actually play out in the game.

I used to always choose human for that extra feat but lately I've been trying all sorts of races including dragonborn and goliath.

Yeah humans got good starting in 3rd Ed with the extra feat and skill points. (Whereas in 1st and 2nd Ed they were pretty lame.) The games I play in/run we don't monkey with non-standard races too much, and I personally don't care for the way Dragonborn are written up in 4th Ed. They seem too much like scaly Klingons.

I don't know, it definitely would have made sense from both an RP and mechanics perspective for my current Paladin of Bahamut to be a Dragonborn, but the race just didn't really do it for me, so I went with human again. (We just added a Dragonborn Warlord to the party, but prior to that the only non-human in our group was the halfling rogue.)

I'm having a lot of fun with my paladin, though. I semi-modeled him after Aquaman on Batman: The Brave and the Bold (complete with Int of 8 and the constantly speaking in a heroic timbre) and so far have managed to keep him entertaining enough to the rest of the party that their very-mercenary group of louts haven't knifed him in his sleep yet.

Anyone picking up Dragon Age? It looks pretty cool, but I don't know where I'd find the time to dedicate to CRPG. "Spiritual successor to Baldur's Gate" catches my interest, though.

Me! Exactly because of the "spiritual successor" bit. BG/BG2 was great.