Mr_Morbid

I'm pretty sure this is correct. The First Ward Furies are derived from Greco-Roman mythology. The 'Well of Furies' is used broadly to refer to something that probably has no 'real' name. The literal Well of Furies was just the particular access point used by SM and LR to tap into the underlying power.

PS Twice while typing this I misspelled 'furies' as 'furries,' which would be a rather less dangerous enemy group.

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Since the base chance for a mob to hit a player is 50%, having 5% defense means that, on average, 9 out of 20 attacks would hit, not 19. On those 20 attacks that do 1,000 damage the character with no +defense and 90% resistance to the damage type in question would end up taking, on average, 1,000 damage (the same as the soft-capped defense with no resistance.)

Damage typed defense does have advantages in that an attack with mixed damage types (say smashing/energy) will hit based on whichever of the damage types the character has the most defense against. Resistance will effect only the portion of the damage that is tagged as that particular type. Positional defense such as that from shields or super reflexes ignores the damage type completely and only considers whether the attack is ranged, melee, or AOE (Note: Some attacks do not have a position tag and are thus unaffected by positional defense.)

QFT. Look at virtually any MMO that has PVP rules that vary by server and see what kind of activity the dedicated PVP servers get compared to the rest.

PS I don't have anything against people who like to PVP (I do myself on occasion) but they do tend to fit better in FPS or Simulator games than in RPGs.

In general, the movies do indeed suck. Most of them bear little resemblance to the original material. Of the ones I've seen only A Scanner Darkly really sticks (mostly) to the source. Not that it's a great movie.

Edit: Thread has not only derailed, it's fallen down an embankment into the woods.

VALIS is not boring, poorly expressed, or full of explosions. It IS, however, bat-shift insane.

*****SPOILER ALERT******

You don't capture her as a loyalist. Instead she convinces you that Praetoria would be worse off if you turn her in.

I fully support this idea. Since it would require only some new missions and not any new powers it should be fairly simple to implement. And some of us just plain don't like having to make our heroes temporarily evil to get the PPP's the standard way.

I also would believe you for not knowing about VALIS. Horselover Fat isn't nearly as well known as Gandalf.

I can honestly say I've never watched the show. I will swear to that on a stack of books including the Bible, the Koran, the Book of Mormon, the I Ching, Atlas Shrugged, Dianetics, and VALIS.

I didn't say it was a felony.

A 'jury of peers' typically consists of people who can't figure out a way out of jury duty and people who genuinely don't have anything else better to do. I can't say whether MG belongs in either of those groups or not.

Er.....I'm pretty sure I haven't read them all. But I can read the post count. If you spent only 30 seconds average on each of your posts then you've spent 189 hours just making posts on this game's forums.

Drunken hicks of the jury, I rest my case. You must find Mr. Company guilty of Nerd Activities

PS Yes, I realize that making that calculation was a nerdy thing to do. But I'm open about my nerdiness instead of trying to stay in the closet.

Well.......you do have over twenty-thousand posts on a computer game's forum. A jury would find you guilty of being a nerd based on that evidence alone.

I didn't complain, I merely made light hearted attempts at humor.

Are you sure about that? Princess Pistachio is a Cold/Energy defender. The only cold power she has is Infrigidate and all her energy attacks as slotted for knockback. She communicates only in emoticons, giggles, and the occasional "Whoopsie!" She also thinks everything but Death From Below is too hard and has never left Atlas Park.*



*Disclaimer: Described character may not actually exist.

Quietly sneaks off to create Mental Midget, Angelic Hamster, Princess Pistacio, and Voodoo Incorporated.

The problem with help channel is that it's the only "global" freebies can use and seems to have become more the "Looking for DfB Team" channel. The issues that genuinely belong there are getting lost in the background of DfB chat, RMT spam, and the occasional total jerk. I think a "Looking for Group" channel is desperately needed to give freebies a place to go other than Help.

As for the player created globals, at least on Victory, they are much the same as always. Used mostly for team formation and insulting each other (in a good natured way.)

A lot of people like them for being small and unobtrusive. If you want more obvious bot pets from lore there are warworks and clockwork. Or longbow if you want a REALLY obvious bot.

News Flash: Zwillinger promises in game puppies! Spread the word!

And big congratulations to the happy couple.

Unknowable means something that simply can never be explained or understood no matter how advanced our theoretical science becomes. Some of Lovecraft's creations would probably qualify, but other are more the product or users of Clarke level technology. Those are things which we are currently unable to understand, but might that might become comprehensible as our understanding of reality improves.