» Sat May 14, 2011 3:00 am PS, is that a badger in your avatar tejon?
Yep! In fact, "tejón" is Spanish for badger (and it's pronounced tay-HONE, for the record). Mind you, I'm not a native Spanish speaker; it just sounds cooler. And is less frequently already-taken on forums.
I commissioned that image as part of a series of animal-themed persona icons for my long-defunct rock band. Kept it since then as a personal logo.Great to hear you're enjoying nGCD! Jumping from 4 to 18, ouch... I'm guessing you were doing the major-as-minor thing. Yeah, you can't really get away with that anymore.
Leaving nothing for my inner min-maxer to obsess over during gameplay is a top priority in the design.Regarding your spellcasting, assuming default .ini settings: any magic skill (including alchemy) will increase your magicka pool, whether or not it increases Intelligence. (Stealth skills too, but to a much smaller degree.) Intelligence by itself gives some benefit, but also multiplies the benefit from skills. The speed at which your magicka regenerated is independent of the pool size, and based on a similar formula using Willpower in place of Intelligence. (Personality has a small effect on both pool and regeneration.) So if you're casing a lot of Restoration, Alteration and Destruction, but not much Conjuration and Mysticism, it's likely you've got high Willpower and low Intelligence -- you'll have far more magicka regeneration than an equivalent vanilla character would have, but a smaller total pool.
