Profile for I'll Steal Your Toast
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| Displayed name | I'll Steal Your Toast |
| Member number | 2210 |
| Title | Agent |
| Postcount | 1084 |
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| Registered | Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
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| Poll: Password protected scenarios: what do you think? in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Saturday, August 28 2004 12:35
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This is a silly game which is a lot of fun to play. Cheating is fun sometimes. It has no bearing on anything real. Worrying about whether someone is going to steal your picture of a goblin in a party hat or your special item code for an uber mace is silly. Pfft :P to passwords. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
| What things are you looking for in a scenario? in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Saturday, August 28 2004 06:42
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What things are you looking for in a scenario? When you are playing a scenario what things are you looking for that make a scenario satisfying to play? Some of the things I look for which make a scenario interesting are: 1) New items. 2) New monsters. 3) Unique structures. 4) Skill trainers. 5) An original plot. 6) Natural formations like volcanoes, swamps, etc. 7) Back story items like books of history, etc. Some of the things I would like to see in a scenario. 1) An encounter based on what happens when you slaughter a whole village. Either a mass murder insta-kill screen, or a nearly unbeatable fight. Please list the stuff you are looking for as well as what you would like to see in a scenario in Blades which hasn't been done yet. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
| unidentified items? in Blades of Avernum Editor | |
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written Friday, August 27 2004 08:59
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Make some of the items cursed. Not necessarily negatively cursed. Cursed items are not identifiable unless you bring them to a store. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
| unidentified items? in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Friday, August 27 2004 08:59
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Make some of the items cursed. Not necessarily negatively cursed. Cursed items are not identifiable unless you bring them to a store. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
| Conan vs. Drizzt in General | |
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written Tuesday, August 24 2004 09:05
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Conan killed a demon with a silver candlestick with one blow. Drizzt couldn't do that in a million years. Besides Conan doesn't worry about honor in a fight, he would just sneak up on Drizzt and hit him in the back of the head when he wasn't looking like he did to so many picts in the novels. There is a writeup in Dragon on Conan's stats. I think he is something like 20th level barbarian, and 15th level thief with over 150 hp. He is a lot tougher than Drizzt. How about I get to be Elric and you get to have both Conan and Drizzt. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
| Artifacts Hall in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Sunday, August 22 2004 17:15
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It was cool. Where is the priest from the cult of the sacred item? He would definitely be in that room somewhere. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
| A Perfect Forest Beta Call in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Sunday, August 22 2004 17:12
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Name: ButteredToast Email: wehireu@yahoo.com Platform: Windows XP Betatesting: A few suggestions for HLPM. A first try at a contest. A few suggestions for a test dungeon. Design: No specific design experience. Why should you let me test: I read very fast, I am good at picking out imbalances in fights, also pretty good at extrapolating where pieces might lead. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
| Conan vs. Drizzt in General | |
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written Sunday, August 22 2004 05:12
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How about Conan vs. Musashi -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
| Today is a special day! in General | |
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written Friday, August 20 2004 07:19
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Its Desperance.nets third birthday. If you have some toast then you need some milk. If you have some milk then you need a cookie. If you have a cookie you need to go outside. If you need to go outside than have a smoke. If you have a smoke then you need to go inside. If you are inside its time to get some toast. :P :eek: :D -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
| Suggestion for scenario design contest. in Blades of Avernum Editor | |
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written Thursday, August 19 2004 07:54
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Just did some followup with posters who said they were interested in starting dungeons for contest. Should have done this about three days before contest ended. Going to leave idents alone. One said started scenario designing for contest-- had outline, start of town, and beginning of structure. Also reading through the posts, both here and on The Blades of Avernum got a couple comments about not having scripting ability yet. Another two are holding off on scenario development until later. Haven't heard back about adding other two scenarios in development Edge of Ciprius or Xerch'De. Looking at the timing involved, I realize now that initially didn't factor in betatesting and programing together. Should have run 4 weeks to allow for new programmers. This leaves Emerald Mountain and "Death at Chapman's" as the two entered scenarios. Both are excellent scenarios. We are running through them to get a feel for the scenarios right now. Just a note. Both Terrors Martyr and Erik Westra are excellent scripters. Terrors Martyr wrote the first scenario for Blades of Avernum and Erik Westra wrote the Blades of Avernum Editor Cookbook. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
| Suggestion for scenario design contest. in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Thursday, August 19 2004 07:54
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Just did some followup with posters who said they were interested in starting dungeons for contest. Should have done this about three days before contest ended. Going to leave idents alone. One said started scenario designing for contest-- had outline, start of town, and beginning of structure. Also reading through the posts, both here and on The Blades of Avernum got a couple comments about not having scripting ability yet. Another two are holding off on scenario development until later. Haven't heard back about adding other two scenarios in development Edge of Ciprius or Xerch'De. Looking at the timing involved, I realize now that initially didn't factor in betatesting and programing together. Should have run 4 weeks to allow for new programmers. This leaves Emerald Mountain and "Death at Chapman's" as the two entered scenarios. Both are excellent scenarios. We are running through them to get a feel for the scenarios right now. Just a note. Both Terrors Martyr and Erik Westra are excellent scripters. Terrors Martyr wrote the first scenario for Blades of Avernum and Erik Westra wrote the Blades of Avernum Editor Cookbook. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
| Suggestion for scenario design contest. in Blades of Avernum Editor | |
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written Tuesday, August 17 2004 17:28
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I am okay with you announcing it in the morning. It is good to see new scenarios out for people to play. Thanks. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
| Suggestion for scenario design contest. in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Tuesday, August 17 2004 17:28
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I am okay with you announcing it in the morning. It is good to see new scenarios out for people to play. Thanks. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
| Suggestion for scenario design contest. in Blades of Avernum Editor | |
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written Tuesday, August 17 2004 09:22
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I received an entry today from Erik Westra -- Death at Chapman's in the morning. So far there are two scenarios that are definitely part of the contest Death at Chapman's and Emerald Mountain. I am hoping that Edge of Cipirus and (Xerch'de-- Johnny Zolohani's scenario) will be entered. I think that I may allow enough time for these to be finished and entered. Please give me feedback on what you think. Is this enough to have a complete contest? I am not sure about adding any new entries. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
| Suggestion for scenario design contest. in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Tuesday, August 17 2004 09:22
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I received an entry today from Erik Westra -- Death at Chapman's in the morning. So far there are two scenarios that are definitely part of the contest Death at Chapman's and Emerald Mountain. I am hoping that Edge of Cipirus and (Xerch'de-- Johnny Zolohani's scenario) will be entered. I think that I may allow enough time for these to be finished and entered. Please give me feedback on what you think. Is this enough to have a complete contest? I am not sure about adding any new entries. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
| Suggestion for scenario design contest. in Blades of Avernum Editor | |
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written Monday, August 16 2004 15:24
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Oops. Sorry about that. I should have said Terrors Martyr. I was a little bit tired when I posted this. I was saying ten days because. It took 5 days to finish the scenario-- then it took another couple of days for the beta test-- 2 days I think to receive the comments and then another 1-2 days to finish updating the fixes for the scenario so 9-10 days to have it ready to be posted. Then there was talk about doing a next version-- 1.1, 1.2, etc. I was looking at the whole process to complete a scenario and submit it for publication in the spiderweb scenarios section. I think that it might be good for someone more experienced than me like Kelandon, Terrors Martyr, Eldiran, or someone else to give some hints on how to do betatesting and updates for scenarios if you are the designer. The point at which the scenario is finished and it sent up for beta. Go over some of the mistakes or hints to make the process easy for someone doing their first scenario. It may be helpful for the regular upcoming Spiderweb scenario contest. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
| Suggestion for scenario design contest. in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Monday, August 16 2004 15:24
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Oops. Sorry about that. I should have said Terrors Martyr. I was a little bit tired when I posted this. I was saying ten days because. It took 5 days to finish the scenario-- then it took another couple of days for the beta test-- 2 days I think to receive the comments and then another 1-2 days to finish updating the fixes for the scenario so 9-10 days to have it ready to be posted. Then there was talk about doing a next version-- 1.1, 1.2, etc. I was looking at the whole process to complete a scenario and submit it for publication in the spiderweb scenarios section. I think that it might be good for someone more experienced than me like Kelandon, Terrors Martyr, Eldiran, or someone else to give some hints on how to do betatesting and updates for scenarios if you are the designer. The point at which the scenario is finished and it sent up for beta. Go over some of the mistakes or hints to make the process easy for someone doing their first scenario. It may be helpful for the regular upcoming Spiderweb scenario contest. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
| ZKR Fly areas. in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Monday, August 16 2004 03:48
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There is no Orb of Thralni or fly spell in Blades of Avernum as far as I can tell. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
| Suggestion for scenario design contest. in Blades of Avernum Editor | |
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written Sunday, August 15 2004 05:42
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Here goes. There seems to be some problems with the submission process. This is especially true with beta testing. Kelandon has written an article on what to do when testing a scenario. However, there seem to be some problems before you the beta process is started. 1) Lack of an effective email to send and receive messages. Do not use hotmail it looks like spam. Norton antivirus sometimes blocks sending messages to multiple recipients with hotmail and other free emails. Yahoo email is fairly reliable for sending and receiving email if you want to create an account just for betatesting. 2) Do not expect that all of your betatesters will actually do betatesting. Assume at least one will not follow through. Waiting for everyone to send in reports sometimes doesn't work. 3) Factor in the time after beta- testing to fix the bugs which people spot. The person who sends out the beta test early can both fix the bugs and create scenario updates v. 1.1, v. 1.2, etc. before a contest is finished. This is true of Emerald Mountain. 4) Try and finish the beta before it is sent out. Incomplete scenarios are frustrating. 5) Assume it will take longer to create a small scenario than you planned. It took 6 days for Emerald Mountain to reach beta. It took 7 days for Edge of Ciprius to reach beta. Real life interrupts all the time. It will take at least 2 days to receive reports for a small scenario, then another 2 to fix problems. For a really fast experienced scenario designer it takes 10 days to do a small scenario. For others 14+ days. These are some thoughts. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
| Suggestion for scenario design contest. in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Sunday, August 15 2004 05:42
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Here goes. There seems to be some problems with the submission process. This is especially true with beta testing. Kelandon has written an article on what to do when testing a scenario. However, there seem to be some problems before you the beta process is started. 1) Lack of an effective email to send and receive messages. Do not use hotmail it looks like spam. Norton antivirus sometimes blocks sending messages to multiple recipients with hotmail and other free emails. Yahoo email is fairly reliable for sending and receiving email if you want to create an account just for betatesting. 2) Do not expect that all of your betatesters will actually do betatesting. Assume at least one will not follow through. Waiting for everyone to send in reports sometimes doesn't work. 3) Factor in the time after beta- testing to fix the bugs which people spot. The person who sends out the beta test early can both fix the bugs and create scenario updates v. 1.1, v. 1.2, etc. before a contest is finished. This is true of Emerald Mountain. 4) Try and finish the beta before it is sent out. Incomplete scenarios are frustrating. 5) Assume it will take longer to create a small scenario than you planned. It took 6 days for Emerald Mountain to reach beta. It took 7 days for Edge of Ciprius to reach beta. Real life interrupts all the time. It will take at least 2 days to receive reports for a small scenario, then another 2 to fix problems. For a really fast experienced scenario designer it takes 10 days to do a small scenario. For others 14+ days. These are some thoughts. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
| Site Sucking Software? in General | |
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written Saturday, August 14 2004 13:36
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Speak of the ..... Here goes. This might be a little more powerful if you are having trouble with sitesucking. http://www.softbytelabs.com/Frames.html?f1=Banner.html&f2=BlackWidow/index.html -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
| Early Beta Test: Edge of Cipirus in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Saturday, August 14 2004 10:02
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It would be alright if you posted it to a website to download. Wouldn't mind at all. It would not be an official submission which is fine by me. Might give you a chance to get some feedback before you submit it to Spiderweb. It would also end the back and forth about email problems. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
| Inner Sea in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Saturday, August 14 2004 07:16
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I remember reading Sailor on the Seas of Fate by Michael Moorcock. Although this is not Avernum, there is a giant underground ocean. No light exists in the ocean except for small well lit islands. It would be cool if there were a giant underground cavern with an ocean with a variety of islands on it. No light except for huge bonfires fed by giant mushrooms would exists on some islands where small groups of Vahnati or Slith lived. No humans or Nephilim would have reached these islands yet. Also there would be ruins from some vanished civilization... maybe. I think there could be water gates. The boats would sail through the gates and be teleported to different locations. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
| Infotainment, odd news, and urban legends. in General | |
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written Saturday, August 14 2004 06:55
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I have a penchant for odd news. I do not believe that most of the news that is being touted as relevant is particularly accurate so I read a lot of junk news for entertainment. I see a lot of the news on the main channels as being on the same level as the national enquirer or as blithering idiocy. Some new sources for odd and entertaining news would be nice. I read incredibly fast as well. I read: http://www.forteantimes.com http://www.snopes.com and http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=index&cid=757 -- Yahoo News Oddly Enough :rolleyes: -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |
| What are the names of the people in your parties? in General | |
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written Friday, August 13 2004 01:05
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Here goes: Idi Amin, Caligula, Nero, Countess Bathory. -------------------- Wasting your time and mine looking for a good laugh. Star Bright, Star Light, Oh I Wish I May, I Wish Might, Wish For One Star Tonight. Posts: 1084 | Registered: Thursday, November 7 2002 08:00 |