Like to leave all you fine gents with a parting thought (there are no women here, just stop it). Two premises that seem quite unassailable followed by the obvious conclusion.

Premise 1:
Online modules are set so that adding every dumbass number and combo together is standard. Knowing every secret modification, location of uber gear, etc. Amia actually has a powerbuilding thread as your most posted area. 'Tumble dumping' as requirement, yadda yadda yadda.

Premise 2:
Powerbuilding within the rules is amateur to the extreme. Check out http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic ... /6486899/6 and read the comments of Merselpath on that and the proceeding page. Not only are the griefers completely exempt from legal proceedings as long as they confine themselves to the nwn engine only, they're quite allowed on the bioware boards and to continue logging in with their kill you in one shot chars as they like. Of note is that the lead griefer seems more eloquent than most rp'ers, which is just too ironic to be overstated.

Conclusion: Powerbuilders 'by the rules' are just griefers without balls.

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Lady Astor to Winston Churchill in a matronly tone: "Winston, you're drunk!" Churchill: "Yes, Madame, I am drunk, but you are ugly, and in the morning I shall be sober and you will still be ugly."

If you're implying that Amia is full of griefers, that's simply preposterous.

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Winner of Amia's "Most Ethical Time Traveler" award 2026

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Not knowing the exact parts that are supposed to be humorous, I'll just say the build topic may be used for people to make power builds, but that is not its original intention and afaik it still isn't. It's intended use is to help people better understand the games mechanics should the NWNwiki fail to adequately inform them, so then the more experienced payers jump in to action and help them to understand how building works so they don't end up playing a Wizzie with Cha as their main attribute and 0 INT. I know that's unlikely, just a silly example.

I don't doubt it does encourage/promote power building, but before I started using that thread I knew so little about how the game worked besides how bad I was at building and I'd probably not know as much on the mechanics if I didn't access said topic.

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Ael'thil Rilyn'tlithar
Previously known as: Anubis

I was promised humor; where is it?

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feel the blood gushing from your anusfeel the blood gushing from your anus

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Pointless topic lacks a point.

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