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I'm wondering about the Raffen Shiv, their society, and their kids in particular. I've only played Cyberpunk 2077 so far and would be grateful for some lore input.

The Raffen, if I got it right, become such by being expelled from regular Nomad 'families' for comitting the most despicable of crimes (from a Nomad point of view), such as the murder of fellow tribe members. There is also a Raffen-only gang, the Wraiths.

Am I right in assuming that the two groups are not necessarily identical? Granted, given that the Cyberpunk universe is a rather hostile world, non-Wraith Raffen loners or small Raffen families would probably find death pretty quickly due to a lack of support, but what about re

This repurposed Prophet of Baphomet clearly did and promptly decided to quit. Not just quiet quit, but the real deal. Splat.

First chance he got he said 'Eff this, I'm out' and cast Heal on himself to brazenly give my necromancer the middle finger. The merged sound effect of the angelic beam and the bloody splat was the icing on the cake.

Prophet of Baphomet retires himself from service.

Sorry if this has been asked before, but my google-fu is lacking, apparently.

I'm having trouble with Refined Power's solar panel roofs mk. 1. They regularly, but inconsistently, blow my fuse, and I have no idea why.

Context: Satisfactory EA version, current public Refined Power release. I've built a roof consisting of solar panels mk. 1 (maybe 50), then wired all up to a network of batteries (maybe 20-30, I'm planning to expand). That is already enough to occasionally blow a fuse, I don't even need a power consumer to trigger it.

I've also connected a manufacturer to this basic network to see if maybe Refined Power was checking if any consumers are even in the grid, but that didn't chang

The shifter is a class added by one of the next DLCs. But I simply have no experience with and no feel of/for this class. I look at PF rulesets and read 'like a more martially inclined druid'; but what does it feel like in a game?

More specifically, if I read it right the main trick of the Shifter is... that they shift, i.e. that they can assume a form that is most useful for a given situation. But won't this result in just one, perhaps two, form(s) that are almost universally useful vs. a lot that you won't look at because it doesn't fulfill a useful role the rest of the party hasn't filled yet? Phrased differently, is the flexibility a shifter brings useful, or does it go to waste?

The Sovereign Shard of Hatred grants +20% to damage against all races, +10% crit chance, but also has the massive drawback of a 75% chance on ability use to inflict 'poisoned' on its wearer (!). Assuming that this is working as intended (is it?), this means that the nominal damage bonus against all races of 20% is practically permanently reduced to 5% give or take a bit. This not only leaves the Sovereign Shard of Intuition (+10% crit chance, +20 initiative, +10% evasion) strictly and vastly superior because it has no such oppressive drawbacks, it also leads to the somewhat questionable strategic option to use lower-tier Shards of Hatred which lack the self-poisoning 'feature'.

Two question

Something weird happened today: Ramien refused to join my forces. This has never happened to me after using the two [Angel path] responses to talk Hulrun out of attacking the Desnans.

Instead, Ramien said something along the lines of 'Thanks for saving my life, but I fear my presence at the inn would just incite Hulrun again.' -- and left.

The only option I now have is to talk to Hulrun again and ask him to join, which he does.

It's not that this is a major issue -- I'm just baffled this happened after I always sailed through with the Desnans almost automatically and only got Hulrun once when I was playing LE and killed Ramien myself. Could it be that Ramien senses my CE alignment this ti

We all know how painful negative levels are when we ourselves get afflicted with them. Especially at low levels, facing energy draining creatures can be quite a challenge.

I'd like to turn the table today and say: 'Don't ask what level drain does to you, ask what you can do to leveldrain!'

As a reference, from the pathfinder SRD:

Some spells and a number of undead creatures have the ability to drain away life and energy; this dreadful attack results in “negative levels.” These cause a character to take a number of penalties.

For each negative level a creature has, it takes a cumulati

Picking 'good' or 'evil' options can potentially ruin your alignment along the lawful/chaotic axis. My paladin 'fell' once because she picked too many 'good' options and became neutral good. IMO, shifts along the lawful/chaotic axis should only occur if you actually take an action that explicitly moves you in that direction. Of course you can use a scroll of redemption, but I feel that's just dealing with the symptom, not with the cause.

The wonderful lad09 (i.e. not me) has written a mod to fix this and I'm loving it.

Owlcat has really managed to pull it off.

Not only did they manage to sway me from CE to LG within the first four minutes of the game -- something that hasn't happened ever --: Seeing Deskari unceremonously swatting Terendalev like a fly made me so angry that I wanted to put a holy boot so far up his cloaka that Mordin would have called it a paradigm shift.

But they also managed to keep my interest for well over 100 hours. I usually abhor LG because all too often it's just the standard blue-and-gold paladin boy saving the world again, but the story really managed to captivate me. Whereas in Kingmaker playing good was quite painful (making me feel seriously stupid at times), this time a

I just updated from 1.0.1c to 1.0.3c and have run into an issue that makes the game unplayable: Just running in a circle with my character (a paladin/angel) will make FPS drop from 100 to 10ish within 30s. This happens after every load, so reloading is not an option. It's also not something basic with my settings, I think, since I never witnessed this with the old version.

Details that may or may not matter:

• Switching to another character will make the FPS jump back up again, but going back to my pally makes the fps drop directly down to where it was before the switch (so no restart at 100, but back to whatever it was).

• Area size or NPC density does not matter. The FPS drop will occur

There's a Vavakia Vanguard with insane stats (lvl 35 outsider / 6 Mythic / 20 Fighter) in the Laughing Caves that has Spell Resistance 41, con/refl/will saves at 29/14/28 and an AC of 45, accompanied by some more dangerous, but handleable goons. That all doesn't sound too bad yet, if I had a functional party (touch effects etc), but I've no idea how to get around its fear spam. Every round, it uses a quick/free action dazzling display with rolls in the high 50s/60s that ignores line-of-sight and that I apparently cannot do anything against. My paladin MC's 'Angel's Holy Aura' should confer immunity 'to all mind-affecting spells and effects', but it doesn't. Neither does Aura of Greater Coura

--- please disregard, I was stupid ---

Weird issue, is anybody else having this? My paladin can't prepare any spells; the spellbook is simply blank, saying 'can't cast spells'.

My character is a Monk (Scaled Fist) 1 / Paladin (Warrior of the Holy Light) 6 with CHA 20. Her character sheet shows 'lawful good'. IIRC I should have access to level 1 paladin spells... I'm stumped -- I'd be grateful for any pointers.

It has been more than half a year since Valve's decision to block any and all adult content from purchase (or just view) by German customers. Just as a reminder, the issue was not wholesale censorship, but the requirement of 'strong age verification' to prevent minors from accessing 'harmful' content [1].

Granted, Valve had to act to prevent being fined, but I hope that there has been some progress to remedy this, frankly, inacceptable situation. There are several methods available that would satisfy the legal requirements, has the deliberation on Valve's end yielded any progress?

I'm an adult, heck, my account itself would legally be an adult. It's beyond infuriating that I'm not able to

As I'm currently wrapping up my private re-translation (because the spirits know how uninformed, dispassionate and all-around atrocious the original translation into my language is), I've been stumbling over Zedd's statements again. I'd previously just pegged them as authorial continuity errors and reasoned that it was just T.G.'s first book in the series, and that inconsistencies were thus to be expected, but I've recently begun to doubt this and am now questioning whether Zedd just is generally a lot less truthful than most anyone believes/wants to believe, and/or quite a bit more prideful than he appears at first glance.

Exhibit A

It starts with James, the court artist, where Zedd c