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| Displayed name | Arancaytar |
| Member number | 2984 |
| Title | Law Bringer |
| Postcount | 8752 |
| Homepage | http://encyclopedia.ermarian.net/ |
| Registered | Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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| I wish upon a star in The Exile Trilogy | |
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written Tuesday, April 11 2006 00:21
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I'm not paid enough to delete posts on demand. The most I'll do is obscure the error by making it much more confusing. —Alorael, who is well on his way to becoming everybody. [ Tuesday, April 11, 2006 06:58: Message edited by: Hors d'oeuvre or ordure+V? ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
| I wish upon a star in The Exile Trilogy | |
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written Tuesday, April 11 2006 00:21
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That's what beta-testers are for, obviously. :P -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
| Is this Plot Overcliche? in Blades of Avernum Editor | |
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written Tuesday, April 11 2006 00:16
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quote:Question answered. :P quote:Sort of done before. Demon, by someone I didn't remember but now see is Khoth. However, one piece of prior art doesn't make a cliché. You could yet pull it off in an original way. quote:This one's new, I think. (I'm not sure if something similar happened in Demon; the demon who greeted you was killed almost immediately, but I don't think he was a very significant character.) It sounds more original than most demon-related scenarios, all in all. Good luck! -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
| Is this Plot Overcliche? in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Tuesday, April 11 2006 00:16
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quote:Question answered. :P quote:Sort of done before. Demon, by someone I didn't remember but now see is Khoth. However, one piece of prior art doesn't make a cliché. You could yet pull it off in an original way. quote:This one's new, I think. (I'm not sure if something similar happened in Demon; the demon who greeted you was killed almost immediately, but I don't think he was a very significant character.) It sounds more original than most demon-related scenarios, all in all. Good luck! -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Monday, April 10 2006 22:35
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quote:Just what you were doing a moment ago. Please do it again. And again. :P -- Seriously, I'm not sure Saunders was even logged in when it happened... -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
| Satanism in General | |
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written Monday, April 10 2006 20:13
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To address a point from several posts back, there really is no ground on which to assess human behavior on the same scale as that of other animals such as lions. While trying to avoid the humanocentric arrogance that pervades most thinking, humans are the only animals on Earth to have developed complex communication and the ability to keep complex records that last many generations. Other species have not. Said communication is part of our biological identity. Just because we looked practically the same when we could only grunt does not mean one can arbitrarily draw a line at which to separate our culture from our biological instincts. [ Monday, April 10, 2006 20:14: Message edited by: Kuranes- ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
| Satanism in General | |
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written Monday, April 10 2006 13:08
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Actually, no. LaVeyan Satanism has nothing to do with balancing one's own happiness against that of others - rather, it is about increasing one's own happiness regardless of the cost to others, as much as one is able to get away with. -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
| Are fantasy RPGs inherently conservative? in General | |
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There are two factors that would cause this: The first is the original source for fantasy settings, which are fairy-tales. Being very old and also usually pushing some kind of moral, it is clear that some of that world-view would come over to fantasy. The second is the gross delineation of good and evil (partly caused by the former factor) that results in a binary scene where the good smart beautiful (white) humans slaughter the bad dumb ugly (non-white) goblins. Replacing the labels of White and Black Magic with Light and Shadow/Darkness has only partly disguised this. However, one has to recognize the efforts of authors like Rick Cook ("The Wizardry Compiled") and J. K. Rowling ("Harry Potter") for including one or several token black White Wizards. Why can I still play/read it? For the same reason I can listen to fairy-tales and discuss politics/religion with my grandmother - the module responsible for hypocrisy and suspension of ethics goes into overdrive, making me feel vaguely uncomfortable, but simply looking past it. As a point of interest, Jeff's games contain several hints to a worldview that is not conservative but rather libertarian. It cannot be conservative, really, since the Evil Emperor is neither a bastard nor a usurper, but is the legitimate king to many centuries back. On the other hand, the Church of the Divine Lucre, the prevalent concept that even the poorest beggars will reward you in coin if you help them (although that is part of the generic RPG cliche) and such things are indicators of capitalism. The priest Paulo, in the inn of Pergies, in fact appears to be an Objectivist, if not a LaVeyan Satanist ("anyone who needs the help of others is a parasite"). But I believe TM can argue that point much better. :P -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
| Slithy, Slithier, Slithzerikai - a grammar question in The Avernum Trilogy | |
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written Monday, April 10 2006 01:02
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I'm quite sure that this has been discussed earlier, but I can't find the archived topic. So far I've believed "Slithzerikai" to be the plural of "Slith". However, groups larger than one Slith are sometimes referred to as "Sliths" (a debased form by humans, I assume, much like "Troglos"), and a single Slith as "one Slithzerikai". So is Slithzerikai its own plural (much like Vahnatai), and the "Slith/Sliths" form is just an abbreviation by humans? -- Edit: And while we're fact-checking the Wikipedia entry anyway, can someone please confirm that a "Slithzerikai Goddess" was actually present in the game, and that this goddess "requested" the adventurers to slay Thsss-Sss? [ Monday, April 10, 2006 01:10: Message edited by: Kuranes- ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
| OoC Thread for "An RP in the World of Avernum... *Reloaded*" in General | |
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written Sunday, April 9 2006 10:34
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quote:There are some things it is just not safe to say on Spiderweb. Also, I'm catching up with the plot. Expect a post later, hopefully. -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. | I have a love of woodwind instruments. "That damn meddling eskimo." --WKS about Alorael Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Saturday, April 8 2006 16:03
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Today I started practicing the guitar again - I tried it once nearly a year ago, but then gave up again. I still can't do more than play a few tunes from memory while searching for each note in turn, but that's how I started playing the piano twelve years ago. :) -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
| OoC Thread for "An RP in the World of Avernum... *Reloaded*" in General | |
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written Saturday, April 8 2006 15:48
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TM - oh please, do so. Leaving the Hunters hanging like this would disrupt most of the action in southern Valorim, if nobody is willing or competent enough to play out their end. I'm concerned that you got a new faction, Goldenking. I hope you will handle this one better than the last, and especially that you will not make it magically disappear in a single post after making it a major player in the storyline. -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. | I have a love of woodwind instruments. "That damn meddling eskimo." --WKS about Alorael Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Saturday, April 8 2006 15:18
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This wrangling is positively ridiculous by now. I can't fault anyone for not liking their faction anymore, but to pull something like this without a proper build-up is just bad form. Oh well. -- Just as a note, I have not dropped out, but as I told some of you, I still have a cold and can't concentrate enough to write well (and I don't want to write crappily). I'll catch up with the story tomorrow and hopefully post. -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. | I have a love of woodwind instruments. "That damn meddling eskimo." --WKS about Alorael Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
| Which spiderweb software game is best? in General | |
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written Saturday, April 8 2006 08:24
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I remember BoE with a lot of fondness, but I can't find it in me to put it above BoA - retro nostalgia is nice, and it is amazing what the scenario designers accomplished then, when they had to place all those nodes by hand, and up-hill both ways, but BoA is more powerful and more shiny, and what has already been made for it is just a hint of what lies in store over the next years (hopefully). -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Saturday, April 8 2006 07:33
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Alternatively, if you have disabled Javascript or taking your hands off the keyboard to click the link button takes too long, you can type [ url=http://www.link.com]link text[/url]. Without the space, this becomes link text. -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Saturday, April 8 2006 02:34
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The concept looks intriguing, but the site you linked to has such atrociously mangled English that it turns me off again. -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Friday, April 7 2006 22:43
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Since a new topic has been posted that offers a more complete range of games, I suggest we move discussion over there. By "suggest", of course, I mean "decree". :) -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Friday, April 7 2006 03:58
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Gah. They should have added Linux instead. ;) quote:My tiredness made me read this as "even if you get a Windows virus you should be able to run it on your Mac." :P In other news, I wonder how this will affect Spiderweb - will Jeff still make two versions of his games now? On the other hand, having to adapt to developing on a Windows platform might not be worth the time saved in porting. But I don't know anything about that. [ Friday, April 07, 2006 04:34: Message edited by: Kuranes- ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
| The Ultimate Favourite Game Poll v. 2.00 in General | |
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written Friday, April 7 2006 03:52
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quote:Or just play it on Windows. You know it runs on Macs these days. :P (that said, I do not know if it is possible to upgrade an old Mac with it...) -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Friday, April 7 2006 03:49
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quote:You forget the signature. I doubt Alorael could cope with making a single post without it. :P Planning ahead makes many things a lot less fun, but it also makes life a whole lot easier, I've found. Given the topic, that sounded weird. -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Friday, April 7 2006 02:55
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Piano. What's with all the polls lately? -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Friday, April 7 2006 02:53
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Accidental misspellings are nothing to be ashamed of. Spelling "great" with a number is. :P [ Friday, April 07, 2006 02:54: Message edited by: Kuranes- ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Friday, April 7 2006 02:46
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Please do not double post. You can edit your posts if you need to add something. --- I'm torn between moving this to Avernum Trilogy, A4, Geneforge Series, or locking it. However, I suppose General *is* still for general discussions about all games, and the topic hasn't been talked to death for more than, oh, a dozen times. So it stays. --- However, llama, I advise you to stop starting new topics for a while. If you post 1 topic per week, that is still more than the average. :rolleyes: [ Friday, April 07, 2006 02:47: Message edited by: Kuranes- ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Friday, April 7 2006 02:43
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quote:  There's a reason. A2 rocks. Personally, I prefer A3, but that's only because E3 was the first one I played - thus, when I noticed the recurring themes and cliches, E/A3 still felt like the most original of the storylines. -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, April 6 2006 23:45
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Most travel was by boat presumably because GF1 and GF3 were set on islands. This, of course, is because it is far easier to have an isolated map with clearly defined borders when it is surrounded by water (or mountains, in case of GF2). There was a BoE article complaining how most scenarios are set in valleys or on islands. I forget what alternatives it offered, though... -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |