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Meet the GOG.com community-inspired NPC for the upcoming RPG epic


UPDATE: A slender column of white smoke rises gently towards the sky: <span class="bold">The community hath spoken</span>! Dominating the competition with a whopping 59% of all votes, Eithne has been chosen as the GOG Hero to join the cast of Divinity: Original Sin 2 – heading to GOG.com day one.


Back in October, we asked you guys to devise a GOG.com character with a unique quest in Divinity: Original Sin 2. We collected tons of incredible ideas, while the talented team at Larian Studios designed three characters to embody the most awesome of those traits and concepts:



- Doryld "The Doryld" Surpass: On a soapbox in the town square, the madman messiah proclaims his divinity. He is the new Divine! His audience of three, two of whom are drunk (the other may be you), ask for proof of his powers. He resists. They insist.

- Fadeland Johns: The veteran masked adventurer drones on about her exploits in the old world. How the young people of today don't know nothin'. She's going out into the world to show 'em how adventure is done proper. Just as soon as she finishes this drink.

- Eithne: You encounter Eithne - masked and cloaked - weighed down with a massive rucksack of knowledge. She has books to trade and books to sell - mostly rare and arcane knowledge better left unlearnt...



Turns out the allure of the wandering librarian was <span class="bold">irresistible</span>. Ancient scrolls? Forbidden knowledge? Enigmatic mask? Yes, please!
Thanks to everyone who helped choose the GOG Hero for Divinity: Original Sin 2 and for making the anticipation for this epic RPG even more unbearable. At least we have <span class="bold">Divinity: Original Sin</span> to keep us busy, right?
Whooo!
Too bad.
I would have love to see a character saying something like : "like the Gogbear predicated, 'The Day The Server Falls Upon Us, The World Will Be Doomed' So drink before it happens!"
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deonast: I want to move to ebooks and an ebook reader (e-ink) to replace my paperbacks (still want to keep the hardcover books). Except that I want DRM free ebooks as I don't want to be tied to a particular platform or risk them going out of business and then I find I get a new reader and can't access my content. Need GOG for ebooks I think. I do have the odd ebook that has no DRM that I've picked up through humble bundles but doesn't really replace all the paperbacks I have.
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Gilozard: Buy from Baen (sci-fi, fantasy, http://www.baen.com/baenebooks)
Smashwords is also DRM-free but it's self-pub books mostly.

Get classics from Project Gutenberg ( https://www.gutenberg.org/).
You live in Australia? You can even get reasonably recent stuff like Sayers and also specifically Australian authors from Gutenberg Australia. http://gutenberg.net.au/

Lots of DRM-free books on Amazon, kind of like how Steam has some DRM-free games.

Last but not least:
Get Calibre (ebbok library management software) and Apprentice Alf's DRM-removal plugins and strip the DRM out of the books you buy. It is slightly less convenient because you don't get automatic downloads on purchases, but it's more convenient to organize through Calibre anyway. I buy from all kinds of different ebook stores because of Calibre and Apprentice Alf, they're the reason I started buying ebooks really.

I still love paper books, and get them for things I know I want to keep, but ebooks have let me keep reading without the hassles of needing to manage physical books and I love them for it.
Thanks for that yes I was familiar with Calibre, but I also want to put my money where my mouth is, and part of that is not buying the DRMed stuff as a silent and totally useless personal protest ;)

Legally in Australia I think we are not allowed to remove the DRM protections. With CDs it was only in the last 10 years we legally were allowed to change the format (rip eg to MP3 or FLAC). For DRM protection I think we legally are still not supposed to remove that, probably a legal alignment with the US (we take some of their crap laws for trade reasons but don't get other protections they get from fair use and other laws). I haven't looked into the legal stuff in a few years but I don't believe anything changed for the better.

I've added http://www.baen.com/baenebooks to my shopping book marks to look into now and I didn't know about the guttenberg Australian site I'll see what they have. I guess I should buy a reader to be ready for the day more recent works are available DRM free.
Post edited April 30, 2016 by deonast
fake jebus is white? that's sssoooo bigoted and grosse imho :P
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Gilozard: Buy from Baen (sci-fi, fantasy, http://www.baen.com/baenebooks)
Smashwords is also DRM-free but it's self-pub books mostly.

Get classics from Project Gutenberg ( https://www.gutenberg.org/).
You live in Australia? You can even get reasonably recent stuff like Sayers and also specifically Australian authors from Gutenberg Australia. http://gutenberg.net.au/

Lots of DRM-free books on Amazon, kind of like how Steam has some DRM-free games.

Last but not least:
Get Calibre (ebbok library management software) and Apprentice Alf's DRM-removal plugins and strip the DRM out of the books you buy. It is slightly less convenient because you don't get automatic downloads on purchases, but it's more convenient to organize through Calibre anyway. I buy from all kinds of different ebook stores because of Calibre and Apprentice Alf, they're the reason I started buying ebooks really.

I still love paper books, and get them for things I know I want to keep, but ebooks have let me keep reading without the hassles of needing to manage physical books and I love them for it.
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deonast: Thanks for that yes I was familiar with Calibre, but I also want to put my money where my mouth is, and part of that is not buying the DRMed stuff as a silent and totally useless personal protest ;)

Legally in Australia I think we are not allowed to remove the DRM protections. With CDs it was only in the last 10 years we legally were allowed to change the format (rip eg to MP3 or FLAC). For DRM protection I think we legally are still not supposed to remove that, probably a legal alignment with the US (we take some of their crap laws for trade reasons but don't get other protections they get from fair use and other laws). I haven't looked into the legal stuff in a few years but I don't believe anything changed for the better.

I've added http://www.baen.com/baenebooks to my shopping book marks to look into now and I didn't know about the guttenberg Australian site I'll see what they have. I guess I should buy a reader to be ready for the day more recent works are available DRM free.
is aussie currently the worst place to bad videogames in or what?
Post edited May 03, 2016 by dick1982