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February Blades of Avernum Chat in Blades of Avernum
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I'll be there.

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Ode to BoE in Blades of Avernum
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Yeah, yeah double post.

Anyway. I have an initial list of items, but I need more! Exile Items provided just because.

Help if you can! Provide items from the needed scenarios or an item to represent that scenario.

Type Item Stats/Abilities BoA Graphic Scenario
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Food Deli Sandwich Bless Sandwich Exile: Escape from the Pit
Weapon Amber Short Sword 6 dmg, 3 bonus, Poisoned Short Sword Exile II: The Crystal Souls
Item Wand of Pyhrrus Cloud of Blades Wand Exile III: Ruined World

Item Soporific Herbs Cause Sleep, Herbs A Small Rebellion
Item Pulsing Horn Ice Lances, Horn A Valetian Mystery
Armor Voidplate 1 bonus, 9 def, 4 encum, Resist all HE Woman's Armor Amazonian Saga
Item Rope Rope An Apology
Item Flowers Flowers An Apology
Item Hrras Juice Heal/Hurt Bottle Bandit Busywork
Ranged Force Bow 0 dmg, 6 bonus, Protection Bow Blade of the Jedi
Armor Golden Plate Mail 4 bonus, 9 def Woman's Armor Brotherhood of the Hand
Armor Banshee's Shroud 1 bonus, 10 def, Int+ Robes Burned to the Ground
Item Resistance Tome Radiant Shield Book Caverns of Stylbore Mountain
Item Chicken Egg Egg Chicken Plague
Ranged Mahogany Bow 17 dmg, 2 bonus, 3 def Staff Chickens Are Back and Bigger
Helm Skull Mask Skull Curse for the Jewels
Armor Mail of Life 10 bonus, 10 def, Life-Saving Green/Brown Armor Curse of Rentolhm
Item Tome of Power Heal & Bless Book Dagger of Mystery
Ranged Power Bow 0 dmg, 6 bonus, 3 def, Accuracy Bow Demon Island
Weapon Orge's Club 8 dmg, 6 bonus, Str+ Club Demon Island Part 2
Item Elemental Gems Various Gems DOOM MOON
Item Golden Pot Bucket DOOM MOON II: Dragon's Revenge
Weapon Scimitar 15 dmg, 5 bonus Scimitar End of Longflight
Item Lucky Water Skill Points+ Potion Final Chicken Plague
Necklace Amethyst Charm Acid Resist Necklace Forsaken
Ranged Throwing Spears 14 dmg, 2 bonus Javelins Heirs to Theseus
Weapon Butter Knife 1 dmg, +To Hit Knife History of Bizstra
Ring Recovery Ring Regenerate Ring Hut of Baba Yaga
Ring Annabelle's Ring Resist All Damage/Hostile Effects Ring Islands of the Wheel
Cloak Ceremonial Robes 1 bonus, 1 def Cloak Johnny Favourite
Weapon Serpentstrike 12 dmg, 3 bonus, Reptile Dmg 1036 0/1 Justice
Helm Undead Helm 5 bonus, 1 def, Regenerate Helm Labyrinth
Ammo Silver Arrows 11 bonus, Undead Dmg Arrows Lamentations

Item Various Supplies Various Cloths Lost Expedition

Food Olive Oil Food Bottle Lost Hope
Item Pamela Lee Poster Sheet Nature of Evil
Cloak Arms of Chimney 3 bonus, 6 def, +To Hit Cloak Nephil's Gambit
Ammo Steel-tip Arrows 3 bonus (11 dmg?) Arrows Nightfall
Item Blessing Stone Bless Egg Orb of Hauyne
Item Blood (Various) Various Status Effects Various Potions Our Man Vlad
Armor Robes of Darkness 5 bonus, 6 def, Dex+ Robes Plague Against Cyclamen
Armor Shirt of Protection 5 bonus, 10 def, Resist Petrify Shirt Quest of the Spheres
Item Glowstone Light Orb Realm of the Dragon Knight
Weapon Sovash-Raithe 21 dmg, 6 bonus, Resist Cold Slith Spear Redemption
Item Avian Nectar Flying Potion Requelle's Nightmare
Item Flying Scroll Flying Scroll Riddle of the Spheres
Armor Corbomite Plate 4 bonus, 9 def, Return Dmg Spiked Armor Rubacus
Weapon Triad Staff 12 dmg, 7 bonus, 5 def, Resist HE Staff Search for Motrax
Item Exploding Tome Poison/Disease/Dumbfound/XP- Book Slavers of Pardes Valley
Helm Mentor's Cap 8 bonus, 10 def, Int+ Wizard's Cap Stranger's Quest
Item Golden Rune Far Sight Orb Strength of a Kingdom
Ring Blessed Ring To Hit+/Dmg+/Resist All+/AP+ Ring Tatterdemalion
Item Bowl of Milk Bowl Treacherous Waters
Item Tome of Knowledge, XP+ Book Valley of Dying Things
Item Opal Gem Za-Khazi Run
Needed:
Adventure Club 1-3
Destiny of the Spheres
A Band of Wanderers
A Gathering Storm
Aftershocks
Areni
Ashen
At the Gallows
Avalon
Back to Normal
Bandits
Bandits 2
Chains Compositus
Deadly Goblins
Deadly Evil
Echoes (All)
Election
Emulations
Erika's Legacy
Eye for an Eye
Falling Stars
Farmhand's
Fog
Grey Moon
Isle of Boredom
The Leaving
Magnificent Six
Mariwen's Crystal
Masks
New Life
Odessa's Journey
Of Good and Evil
On a Ship to Algiers
Pyramids
Quintessence
Revenge
River and Leaf
Roses of Reckoning
Shadow of a Stranger
Signs and Portents
Spy's Quest
To Live in Fear
To the Quick
Tomorrow
Trouble in Mendor
Truffle Days
Two Strands
Under the God's Hand
Wreck of the Slug
Zankozzie's Big Mistake

Edit:
Try to avoid super items!

[ Friday, February 23, 2007 10:35: Message edited by: Dahak ]

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Frills in Blades of Avernum Editor
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Frills are floors, not terrains. They cannot be spray painted. Or did that get changed in the latest version of the 3D editor?

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Frills in Blades of Avernum Editor
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As far as I know frills are hard-coded and you can only change them by replacing the graphic.

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Graphic Request - Metal Terrains in Blades of Avernum
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I'll be using the BoE for inspiration. Also, I forgot how to simulate metallic surfaces. :D

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Graphic Request - Metal Terrains in Blades of Avernum
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Does anyone know who hosts the BoE metal walls? I remember seeming them in the early years, but neither the Keepers of Ni nor Luz's homepage has them.

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Custom Terrain Questions in Blades of Avernum Editor
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1. Are the sign terrains (213, 214, 215) hard-coded as signs? Can a 4th sign be made or does it need to replace one?

2. Is it safe to mess with the beam projector & mirror terrains (380 - 389)?

3. Since I have dial-up I haven't checked the new BoA beta, but do stairs still cause the cliffs they are aginast to be blacked out whether or not the floor is suppressed?

4. What terrains are unsafe to mess with due to bugs or hard-coded behavior?

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Graphic Request - Metal Terrains in Blades of Avernum
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Does anyone know of a set of metallic walls, floors, and other metallic terrains? I believe something like this was done for BoE, but BoA?

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Graphics request! in Blades of Avernum
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So would I, but it takes a long long long time. That plus I still need to do the scripting.

Bah!
The hardest part is the writer's block. I mean I have the following:
Nethergate where the party can rest and shop while waiting. (2 levels)
Squiggly mountain/cave pass. (2 levels)
Tendo Hall, home to rich lord. (4 towns large)
Northwind, our snowed in trade/fishing village (2 towns levels)
The mining camp. (1 level)
The heavenly abode. (3 levels)
Elemental towers. (6 levels)
Capital city. (4 towns)
Scout tower. (1 town)
3 hidden trainers (3 towns)
The enchanted palace (2 levels)
disguised temple (2 towns/variants)
Mindscape (1 town)

Moving the party smoothly along is slow and hard work, and I just can't figure out how I'm supposed to get the party to go into the enchanted palace in order to recover the elements from the towers.

Oh, and each elemental tower has the ability to move the party to a unique outdoor section.

Northwind is from the water tower.
The main game is from the earth tower.
The fire tower goes nowhere yet.
The air tower leads to the temples/mindscape.

[ Saturday, February 17, 2007 23:11: Message edited by: Dahak ]

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What have you been reading lately? in General
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1634: The Baltic War.

Yay! I have an ARC copy and this book is certainly changing the 163x world.

While I would love to add spoilers, I am very afraid that the Baen snerk collar would find me even here.

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Graphics request! in Blades of Avernum
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quote:
Originally written by Cryptozoology:

Hee hee! I love the little BoE tree you snuck into the bottom left hand corner.
I was wondering who would notice.

Oh here is the terrain:
IMAGE(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v208/Dahak/BoA/window.png)

Edit:
Someone, post item ideas in my Ode to BoE thread. It makes it hard to meet the 1/10 deadline without!

[ Saturday, February 17, 2007 22:46: Message edited by: Dahak ]

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Oldbiehood in General
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Great. Now I have to deal my aching bones. These young'n nowadays have no respect for proper polls. Things were better back in my day. We really knew have to be a poll. Grumble. :rolleyes:

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Graphics request! in Blades of Avernum
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Okay.

How is this?

IMAGE(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v208/Dahak/BoA/sglass.png)

// Glass
begindefineterrain 390;
clear;
te_which_sheet = 500;
te_which_icon = 0;
te_ed_which_sheet = 680;
te_ed_which_icon = 0;
te_second_icon = 1;
te_icon_offset_y = -15;
te_second_icon_offset_y = -70;
te_icon_offset_x = -24;
te_second_icon_offset_x = -24;
begindefineterrain 391;
te_which_icon = 2;
te_second_icon = 3;
Edit:
If you want a rectangular version let me know.

[ Saturday, February 17, 2007 22:48: Message edited by: Dahak ]

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Oldbiehood in General
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I'm not an oldbie I hope. I remember Ikon and recognize the avatar, but I tend to drift in an out of the community depending on my work schedule.

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Recommend a new (to me) game in General
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The Fool's Errand. Old B&W game, all puzzles w/ storyline. However you may have problems running it under Windows.

If you can find a good Mac System 6/7/8/9 emulator however you can play it pretty well. Don't use Classic as the any Quickdraw based game has issues due to buffering.

Other good oldies include Dark Castle and Beyond Dark Castle, Realmz :D .

Also try The Ninja Game (Flash download) Very addictive and fun. Just load iTunes with some good music and away you go trying to beat all 200 levels.

BTW, does anyone know of a Mac OS X LodeRunner game?

Masters of Orion 2, Galactic Civs are good. Skip Masters of Orion 3.

Does Baslisk work on Intel Macs?

On the SNES front:
Lufia 1 & 2
FF6
Chrono Trigger

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Graphics request! in Blades of Avernum
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I would probably use blue and violets.

Sunset, Morning, Cloudy, or other sky type?

Any dominating colors?

edit:
3 wide would make it wider than it being taller. The building could feel squat. Perhaps a variety of 1 wide, 2 high windows.

I could make a 3 high window, 2 wide but you would have to use 2 terrain slots similar to the Nethergate Tower.

[ Saturday, February 17, 2007 15:57: Message edited by: Dahak ]

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Graphics request! in Blades of Avernum
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For the windows do you want certain icons or geometric patterns? Do you want them 1 or 2 high. 1 or 2 wide? Are there specific colors you wish to use? Do you want an arched window as a terrain against a wall, or do you want an arched windows as part of the wall? Or do you want a rectangular window?

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Ode to BoE in Blades of Avernum
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Anyone have any item ideas? Anyone?

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Calling all empires in General
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The Persian Empire
Opponents of the Romans/Greeks. Based in the Mesopotamian area and founded by someone with the coolest mane EVER. Cyrus the Great. Don't you just love how Cyrus sounds and is spelled? Famous for its heavy cavalry a cataphract.

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Why? in General
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My name? Research 3-headed dragons and ancient myths to find the answer.

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Ode to BoE in Blades of Avernum
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Nope, that is you. I have trouble tracking who is who since names can change. :mad:

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Help! Scripting is complicated! in Blades of Avernum
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3 basic sections:

begin
variables
body

The body contains states. Each state is called as programmed or by design (see editor for placing specials).

Example:
beginstate 12;
if (get_flag(0,0) == 250)
end();
message_dialog("You arrive at the sleepy farming village of Willow. Actually, sleepy isn't the right way to put it. Exhausted seems a much better word. Tired serfs mechanically farm rows of rich crops, as guards watch them carefully.",
"After the richness of Selathni, Willow comes as a bit of a shock. Most of the people here are hungry and beaten down.");
set_flag(0,0,250);
break;
The state is #12 as shown by beginstate 12;The state ends with break;It begins with an if to check the value of flag 0,0. If the value of 0,0 is 250 then end() is called.

Following that is a series of messages to be displayed to the character and setting of flag 0,0 to the value of 250.

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Help! Scripting is complicated! in Blades of Avernum
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Can you be more specific?

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Ode to BoE in Blades of Avernum
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Gah, I've had to do some complete redesigns as well as making graphics. At least that is done.

Since I am unable to import scenarios and look at their items, I was hoping that people could give me ideas for items that are reminders of BoE scenarios or community events. Silly items are encouraged.

Examples:
Musical Spehere - Bless party and plays music (Spheres)
Flying Pot - (Baba Yaga)
Clockwork Spider - Says, "HI!" (GIFTS)
Gold Trophy - On it: "1st Scenario Contest, 1st Place" (Community Event)
Undoomgahvaz Armor - Same as BoE item
Red Berries - Random Status Effect (Tatterdamelion)

These do not need to be items that you carry between scenarios. The party can earn money in this scenario.

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Who's Planning To Compete in the 1/10 Contest? in Blades of Avernum
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I am unless this new job position is coming through. In that case I'd have to release after the contest is over.

Or someone can help me write scripts. :D

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