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An Affiliation for Bards The rules for affiliations can be found in chapter 7 of the Player's Handbook II . Name:   The Amazing Chicanery Troupe Symbol:  A white snake, with red eyes and tongue Motto:  Trickery is mightier than the fist Members:  Lukwind, his cohort and followers Secrets:  Lukwind's identity as a Changeling; Rohit's identity as a Vanara; Helena's identity as a half-Drow Type:  Business Scale:  1 (neighborhood) Capital:  1 Criterion: Affiliation Score Modifier Character level: +1/2 PC’s level Charisma 13 or higher: +1 Bard: +1 Can cast 3rd-level or higher illusion spells: +1 Can cast 3rd-level or higher enchantment spells: +1 5-9 ranks in Perform, Tumble, Sleight of Hand or Gather Information: +1 per skill 10 or more ranks in Perform, Tumble, Sleight of Hand or Gather Information: +2 per skill Extraordinary performance as part of the troupe: +1 per performance Has no...
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Planescape: Torment Retrospective  by Kieron Gillen (Rock, Paper, Shotgun) More lengthy, academic analysis of the game: Carr, Dianne (2003) Genre and Affect in Silent Hill  and Planescape Torment Game Studies 3 (1) ISSN:1604-7982 The PC game has been re-released  on the occasion of its 10th anniversary. However, you'll probably need to install the fixpack   to run it successfully on XP or Vista. Planescape: Torment has been released on GOG.com It is their second most-requested game title. GemRB Game Engine open source re-implementation of BioWare's Infinity engine, 1998-2002 http://sourceforge.net/projects/gemrb/files/ http://www.moddb.com/mods/gemrb-the-infinity-engine-clone http://linux.prinas.si/gemrb/doku.php http://forums.gibberlings3.net/index.php?showforum=91 Pages of Pain Troy Denning's book