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Awesome, thanks for the info. Joel Send a noteboard - 07/10/2011 11:16:02 PM
However, even without the promotion it looks like I can still get what I really wanted (BGI&II plus expansions) for $20, so my question now is: I assume you would not be linking this site if it was chock full o' viruses, right? My guess is that concern is why I did not already download the games (since trying to create an account just now revealed that I already joined at the height of my BG replay craze last January. ) Additionally, is the whole thing a download, or do they physically ship things like the manuals and reference cards? If the answers are "no" and "yes" I suspect I will soon be hacking my way through Durlags Tower again, and you will have my heartfelt thanks for the tip. Too bad it looks like they lack Mechwarrior 3 (the best of that series, IMHO) 'cos I would really love to play that again.

And I've downloaded, er, far too many games from that site the past year and a half or so - some of them I've barely played. But yes, it's entirely safe and reliable, and you can download manuals, reference cards, etc. separately in addition to the main game. In the case of BG, having the physical manuals might have made the maps rather more useful (the font of them is seriously too tiny to read), but that's a small enough quibble.

I suspected you would not all be using that site if it was dangerous, but appreciate the confirmation; since they take PayPal I am not too worried about the other well known risks of e-commerce. I will not sweat the BG1 map too much; I know my way around it pretty well (and played it all the way through again in the weeks before my wedding so the refresher is still clear in my mind.) BG2 might be a bit more challenging since it is a bigger, more complex map where everything is not neatly connected so that if I keep walking I will find myself at a point where I can reach the area I want. If their maps are giving you trouble though, I trust you know there are plenty of sites with good area maps (including several that host "spoiler free" and comprehensive versions.)

And after running through the stats for each board with Excel over the past few hours I think I will have to try making more visits to this board as well as most of the others. The stats are very interesting if one divides ones views by ones percentage of views to get each MBs total. Basically, the WoTMB and CMB dominate the site with 70% of views and 2/3 of posts. Most astoundingly, while the BMBs second place view/post ratio is a solid 58.6 (just a little below the site average,) the WoTMBs ratio is a stunning 136.4, despite the fact it has the second most posts (17% to the BMBs 13%.) The CMB has nearly as many posts as the rest of the site combined, but the lowest view/post ratio at 40.95 (believe it or not, my stats only lower that by 0.065, which would be negligible save for the fact it vaults the CMB past the RPGMB by 0.007 views/post (if that can be called a vault. )) Fitting that the CMB and RPGMB are virtually tied for last place in views/post, since I think they have a similar dynamic for very different reasons.</end ramble since I will probably post about it tomorrow anyway. >
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GOG sale on D&D titles this weekend. - 23/09/2011 08:49:02 AM 1058 Views
Oh, now they do that? After I've already bought half of them? - 23/09/2011 09:19:31 AM 824 Views
Planetscape:Torment. - 23/09/2011 09:24:24 AM 971 Views
(Planescape) *NM* - 23/09/2011 03:56:21 PM 442 Views
Re: Planetscape:Torment. - 24/09/2011 09:17:50 AM 836 Views
Planescape for su re *NM* - 24/09/2011 09:19:03 AM 418 Views
Re: Planescape for sure - 24/09/2011 09:19:32 AM 764 Views
God I suck, edited to remove double post *NM* - 24/09/2011 09:19:56 AM 430 Views
I can't even... need the ability to delete failurific posts, *NM* - 24/09/2011 09:21:07 AM 427 Views
will this finally solve the totsc expansion pack patches for bg1? *NM* - 23/09/2011 11:40:40 AM 377 Views
No idea at present. - 23/09/2011 11:47:10 AM 951 Views
What's wrong with them? *NM* - 23/09/2011 12:15:35 PM 401 Views
living in the uk - 23/09/2011 02:02:32 PM 809 Views
Haha I sort of want to buy them all again *NM* - 23/09/2011 03:57:30 PM 395 Views
I may go ahead and buy them since I have Steam now anyway... - 23/09/2011 04:47:26 PM 826 Views
*hates* - 07/10/2011 06:21:20 PM 731 Views
Woo hoo! - 23/09/2011 04:53:36 PM 826 Views
I got Planescape since I've never played, and been told I should. - 24/09/2011 01:30:54 AM 763 Views
honestly, I wasn't that enthralled with Planescape - 24/09/2011 01:46:10 AM 758 Views
i got planescape got most of the other *NM* - 25/09/2011 12:41:35 AM 418 Views
I obviously need to visit this board more often. - 07/10/2011 06:05:13 PM 905 Views
It's all downloads, they don't ship anything. - 07/10/2011 10:39:16 PM 824 Views
Awesome, thanks for the info. - 07/10/2011 11:16:02 PM 957 Views

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