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Outdoor Fight Terrain in Blades of Avernum Editor
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So, a warning not to leave combat mode or instant death while in the town? Yay! The minute they leave combat mode, DIE!

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Outdoor Fight Terrain in Blades of Avernum Editor
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In that case I'll make it impossible for them to leave, and then when they've killed everyone, I'll move them to the second fight. Is there any way stop them from leaving fight mode? Also, this is a 1 on 1 fight.

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Outdoor Fight Terrain in Blades of Avernum Editor
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The whole reason I wanted it outdoors was so that the party cannot rest or use any town-only functions. I also didn't them to be able to enter and then leave w/o killing everyone. I know I can extend the border of the town from (1,1) to (48,48), but there is no call to force them to leave unless I use move_to_new_town(). Correct? Also, I'll probably test this later, but you can perform a teleport (within a town) and call a cutscene upon the death of an NPC, correct?

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What have you been reading lately? in General
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Ditto. I stopped about halfway through and the other books didn't pick me up.

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Outdoor Fight Terrain in Blades of Avernum Editor
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Actually I was referring to the towns you fight in when you have an outdoor encounter. Each battlefield is pre-designed, and is a town, but it is a special usage of a town, so I'm not sure.

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Outdoor Fight Terrain in Blades of Avernum Editor
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Can terrain/town scripts be used in an outdoor encounter when you use a custom outdoor fight terrain?

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What have you been reading lately? in General
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quote:
Originally written by I'll Steal Your Toast:

I'm reading a little bit of paranoid special operations history with too many acronyms, lots of blundering lies, and some interesting tidbits here and there. It is not too bad. It is Michael Smith, Killer Elite, The Inside Story of America's Most Secret Special Operations Team. Yep most special. :P
Hint: America's enemy did it.

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Operating Systems in General
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I preferred Starbridges and later Carriers. My only problem is that the Starbridge is a trader rather than a warship class. so don't use it for those missions that require a warship. I missed out on the Auroran sidequest because of that. =(

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Operating Systems in General
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Desktop War!

Its all about the Mac.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v208/Dahak/desktop.png

Edit: And link again!

[ Monday, April 16, 2007 16:28: Message edited by: Dr. Johann Georg Faust ]

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What have you been reading lately? in General
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quote:
Originally written by Magician:

I'm Reading a Magnificent Book called "Thr3e" its by ted dekker (he IS the greatest) its about a crazed cereal killer that killed people if they didnt solve a riddle, and finally got to someone who he doesnt kill... instead he kills the friends and things that this person likes.(e.g: car, dog etc).

the book is mainly about the person the killer is after, Kevin (the main character) is getting constent riddles and has a time limit to solve them and if he fails to solve the riddle something heats up. i still dont know who the killer is DARN! no one tell me!

Oh and also there are these 2 really hot girls that like him! (did that just make it more interesting for you all?!)

i have nearly finished reading the book (apparently there is a massive twist at the end).

GET THE BOOK AND READ IT! ITS SO AWSOME!

Did he eat their cereal too if they failed to solve the riddle? I admit I wouldn't like people eating my cereal. Cruncy Oats with Strawberry and Blueberry is mine!

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Witch Hunt Has Been Released! in Blades of Avernum
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Yes on downloading for mac from your site.

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What have you been reading lately? in General
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Unfortunately I have all of Lois's SF books already and have read them.

I'm rereading Heinlein (sp?), and Dickson's Childe Cycle, and Kim Harrison's Hollows Series (Rachel Morgan).

I'm waiting for my reservation of White Night (Jim Butcher) to arrive at the library.

On a side note: I FINALLY have a non dial-up connection at home. HAH!

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Google TiSP in General
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Has anyone else read this?

http://www.google.com/tisp/

Interesting April Fools joke.

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What have you been reading lately? in General
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Does anyone know of a good space story? The main elements I'm looking for are:

1. Life in space
2. Realism (i.e. no FTL, or highly advanced societies)
3. No aliens
4. Politics

Edit:
5. Not at war or fleeing a war.
6. Not post-apoc

[ Saturday, March 31, 2007 19:06: Message edited by: Dahak ]

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Imperial Religion in Blades of Avernum
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The general ideas behind the various priests in the game seems to be philosophical rather than based upon the decrees of a higher power.

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the finest games in town in General
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Chess, Dice, Uno.

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Game music -the poll in General
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I'd go with:

Nethergate
Exile II: The Crystal Souls
Exile: Escape From the Pit

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Provincial Avernum? in Blades of Avernum
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Guard lizards.

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Governments in Blades of Avernum
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Also, there are serfs as indicated in A Small Rebellion. I haven't played it in a while so I need to recheck, but was serfdom dying out? Also that seems to the only sign of serfs in all of the games.

Is there any indication of how the upper government is structured?

Edit:
Has the Empire discovered all major & minor landmasses on the surface? I seem to recall that they had, but I'm not sure.

[ Tuesday, March 13, 2007 09:20: Message edited by: Dahak ]

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Governments in Blades of Avernum
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Getting a dervish rank is like a knighthood w/o the land.

Q: Who owns the land?

[ Tuesday, March 13, 2007 07:55: Message edited by: Dahak ]

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Governments in Blades of Avernum
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The way I saw things there could be the following setups:

a. Multiple houses/families with Prazac's being the ruling house/family.

b. Government officials could be elected (unlikely), appointed (likely), inherited (?). Those appointed could be along the lines of a family appointment where a family rules a branch of the bureaucracy and uses its power in that branch to secure jobs for its people. Or there could be a test with top people passing & with influence getting the good jobs.

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Governments in Blades of Avernum
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Imperial nobles are the tourists of Avernum in A4. I always thought of the Abyss cities as independents city-states.

Why do I want to know? Because.

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Governments in Blades of Avernum
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I'm trying to figure out how the governments of Avernum and the Empire are structured.

As far as I know:
Avernum -
Monarchy w/ an advisory council made up of the mayors 6 biggest cities in Avernum. No aristocratic class. Legislation is passed by the monarch, judged by the mayor of the cities with appeal to the monarch.

Q:
1. Are mayors elected or appointed?
2. What power do the individual cities have?

Empire -
Imperial government. Each nation/region is divided with a governor ruling it. Each governor appoints mayor to rule the individual cities. Has a aristocracy. Some regions may be feudal.

Q:
1. What role does the nobility play?

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Java Programming.... in General
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Check out "Head First into Java"

It explains things really well at the basic level. It doesn't cover Java 5 unless they've released a new copy. It doesn't cover J2EE.

[ Sunday, March 11, 2007 14:08: Message edited by: Dahak ]

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Ode to BoE in Blades of Avernum
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I haven't played some of these scenarios. So I either need a description of the item or a list of all custom items in a scenario so I pick and choose.

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