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canopy (this is weird)(and funny) in Blades of Avernum
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quote:
Originally written by The Creator:

A bug that I found:
When you cast Summon Beast, you will often get important NPCs. The kind of NPCs you face in boss fights. Slightly unbalancing to say the least.

I defeated Trahison through liberal summoning of goblins.

And through the overuse of Blattstrahl, which appears to take no APs when used thus enabling me to obliterate an army in a single turn. :P

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Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
I have a love of woodwind instruments.
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Moderator Board - What are they up to? in General
Law Bringer
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We don't talk about who to give a custom title to - that's me and me alone.
Which reminds me... there is another conspiracy theory that all mods, in fact, are multiple accounts of Drakefyre, and in the mod board he lives out his schizophrenic urges. :P

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"I single Aran out due to his nasty temperament, and his superior intellect." --- SupaNik
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The second weekly international spiderweb contest will now begin in General
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The question concerns "Spiderweb Games", so Homeland wins hands down. Not a fair contest.

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"Polaris leers down from the black vault, winking hideously like an insane watching eye which strives to convey some strange message, yet recalls nothing save that it once had a message to convey." --- HP Lovecraft.
"I single Aran out due to his nasty temperament, and his superior intellect." --- SupaNik
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The International Contest of Spider Games shall now commence! in General
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quote:
Originally written by Ash Lael:

I've killed all kinds of ridiculous stuff with a level 1 party in BoE, relying mainly on melee. Hasting and blessing fighters is essential, of course.
Yes, but you also go through high level scenarios with L1 singletons on Torment, which does not represent the average player. :P

[ Sunday, April 17, 2005 07:48: Message edited by: Eyrin Fontramonn ]

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"Polaris leers down from the black vault, winking hideously like an insane watching eye which strives to convey some strange message, yet recalls nothing save that it once had a message to convey." --- HP Lovecraft.
"I single Aran out due to his nasty temperament, and his superior intellect." --- SupaNik
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The International Contest of Spider Games shall now commence! in General
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I'd like to contest that Blades of Avernum's only drawback compared to BoE is its present lack of scenarios, and even considering that it is already nearly as good.

The point stands, however. Blades of Avernum, then Blades of Exile, then, with a long distance the other games.

If I'm meant to rank them all: Avernum 3, Avernum 1, Avernum 2, Exile 3, Exile 2, Exile 1, Nethergate, Geneforge, Geneforge 2. I prefer GF because the plot, at least, is new at that point.

[ Saturday, April 16, 2005 12:29: Message edited by: Eyrin Fontramonn ]

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"Polaris leers down from the black vault, winking hideously like an insane watching eye which strives to convey some strange message, yet recalls nothing save that it once had a message to convey." --- HP Lovecraft.
"I single Aran out due to his nasty temperament, and his superior intellect." --- SupaNik
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Singleton Vs. Spellcaster in Blades of Avernum
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quote:
Originally written by Toasty Warm:

I am interested in your strategies of using a singleton versus spellcasters. How do you build up spell resistance, fight multiple spell casters at once. I find it is fairly easy to handle melee combat as a singleton. I am running up against problems versus spell casters.
I commonly use a singleton spellcaster... :P

Well, scratch that, not entirely true. I use a pair of characters, both spellcasters (one priest, one mage).

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Phaedra in Blades of Avernum
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There is a theory concerning web boards, which states that any thread that successfully lives beyond a certain number of posts - anywhere from the average length to double that - will continue to inflate itself by inciting further people to post.

A corollary theory states that these further posts consists to a good part of spammers and other less sharp individuals who have nothing to say except marvel about how long the topic has become. :rolleyes:

[ Saturday, April 16, 2005 02:36: Message edited by: Eyrin Fontramonn ]

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Moderator Board - What are they up to? in General
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The funny thing with a database and a php page accessing it is, no matter where the link is and how you got it, if it leads to a forum you're not allowed into, it won't lead you in.

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"Polaris leers down from the black vault, winking hideously like an insane watching eye which strives to convey some strange message, yet recalls nothing save that it once had a message to convey." --- HP Lovecraft.
"I single Aran out due to his nasty temperament, and his superior intellect." --- SupaNik
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Nooooo! in General
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Note that this topic would be half-way down the first page and well on its way to merciful death by now if you hadn't yanked it back with those pictures.

—Arancaytar, who always feels some deep-seated satisfaction when a topic dies from natural causes rather than requiring a mercy-sniping from Alo. It restores trust in the natural order of the forum.

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The Encyclopaedia Ermariana <-- Now a Wiki!
"Polaris leers down from the black vault, winking hideously like an insane watching eye which strives to convey some strange message, yet recalls nothing save that it once had a message to convey." --- HP Lovecraft.
"I single Aran out due to his nasty temperament, and his superior intellect." --- SupaNik
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Beta call for Win 3D BoA Editor in Blades of Avernum Editor
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Ah yes. I already found the 3d editor from the sourceforge link in Notus' siggie.

How could I ever design without this? Oh right. I couldn't. :P

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Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
I have a love of woodwind instruments.
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Beta call for Win 3D BoA Editor in Blades of Avernum
Law Bringer
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Ah yes. I already found the 3d editor from the sourceforge link in Notus' siggie.

How could I ever design without this? Oh right. I couldn't. :P

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Beta call for Win 3D BoA Editor in Blades of Avernum Editor
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What is the status of this? Somehow, I missed the topic when it was posted, and I've been dying to see a 3d editor for Windows all this time. Is there any final version available yet?

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Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
I have a love of woodwind instruments.
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Beta call for Win 3D BoA Editor in Blades of Avernum
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
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What is the status of this? Somehow, I missed the topic when it was posted, and I've been dying to see a 3d editor for Windows all this time. Is there any final version available yet?

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My BlogPolarisI eat novels for breakfast.
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canopy (this is weird)(and funny) in Blades of Avernum
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TM, from what I understand, you try to balance your heavy plot by making the combat technically impossible at the designated level for anyone not called Creator or using the character editor and then claim that about three quarters of BoA players suck at combat because they can't do it. :P

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Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
I have a love of woodwind instruments.
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I finished Bahssikava! in Blades of Avernum
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Well, with the sparse information Jeff gives on Bahssikava and the Homeland, it is impossible to make such a work and not add significantly to the canon.

And no, I haven't played LP yet. There's only so much free time I have, and this past week I've been shamefully lazy. All your fault, Kel! :P

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Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
I have a love of woodwind instruments.
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Do you think there is a Hell? in General
Law Bringer
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quote:
Originally written by Maxmillion:

Do you believe that the people who are challenging you should go to hell. Because according to you can only go to heaven if you believe in Jesus. Do you believe that disbelief is a big enough crime to merit eternal punisment. Also, you say that the bible is literally true and that all of it is correct. In one passage, women who wear pants should be stoned to death. So tell me, do you often go to jail because of your throwing rocks at women on the street?
For the most part, the most rabid conservative will draw a line between practicality and impossibility even concerning the bible. And, although this is possibly the place where such an argument has the most value it can have...

Setting up a known and accepted bad standpoint ("stoning women") and pinning it on one's opponent's stance ("the bible is literally true") is called a "strawman" (alternatively "slippery slope"), is a fallacy and unusable in debate.

Regardless, I don't think there is anyone in the the world who knows the whole bible and believes that every single word in it is solid and immutable fact and law. Even the clergy does not maintain this, and those people who do and do so with all their honesty (mostly, forgive me for this generalization, ignorant hillbillies) have never read those parts of the bible you mention.

[ Thursday, April 14, 2005 16:03: Message edited by: Novus Ordo Seclorum ]

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"Polaris leers down from the black vault, winking hideously like an insane watching eye which strives to convey some strange message, yet recalls nothing save that it once had a message to convey." --- HP Lovecraft.
"I single Aran out due to his nasty temperament, and his superior intellect." --- SupaNik
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Moderator Board - What are they up to? in General
Law Bringer
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quote:
Originally written by Tierra, humo, polvo, sombra, nada:

TM's Krazy Kwilting Korner lives on!

—Alorael, who will say nothing of hidden smoky compartments in smoky rooms where the conspiracies behind conspiracies are planned.

Conspiracies behind Conspiracies?!

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"Polaris leers down from the black vault, winking hideously like an insane watching eye which strives to convey some strange message, yet recalls nothing save that it once had a message to convey." --- HP Lovecraft.
"I single Aran out due to his nasty temperament, and his superior intellect." --- SupaNik
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
I finished Bahssikava! in Blades of Avernum
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Whew. Maybe I shouldn't make a topic about this, but it was a tremendous experience. For far more than three days (with long, very long evenings), I have been enthralled by a work that can be rivalled only by the Avernum series itself, if that. So prepare for a longish post.

I have seen scenarios with gratuitous combat, and scenarios where the plot replaced the gameplay. I have seen games where the plot was little more than an excuse for the action. The mixture here, however, was perfect. Rarely before have I seen a plot that meshed so seamlessly with itself and with the game, that managed to take anything into account that I could think of doing, where the combat was equally challenging and exhilerating with an overpowered near-god party as with normal characters. That this is Kelandon's first work only makes it more incredible. Ladies and Gentleman, we have a second Brett Bixler!

I must admit that I felt reserve before, any time there was a discussion concerning the slith background, and "Bahssikava" was used to back up a point. Adding background information to a world far more shallow than it deserves to be is always desirable, but too often I have been disappointed because the new canon was either illogical, poorly planned, or poorly put into practice. I was skeptic when I saw that the first work of a beginner in scenario design stood to take the place as the most extensive authority on Slithzerikai history. No more.

So. I think I'm going to cry myself to sleep now in the certainty that I will never in a century produce a work like this, and then, tomorrow perhaps, see if I can write a few reviews. :)

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Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
I have a love of woodwind instruments.
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Moderator Board - What are they up to? in General
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They're secretly having great orgies, I have heard. Tentacle orgies. But you didn't hear that from me. ;)

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"Polaris leers down from the black vault, winking hideously like an insane watching eye which strives to convey some strange message, yet recalls nothing save that it once had a message to convey." --- HP Lovecraft.
"I single Aran out due to his nasty temperament, and his superior intellect." --- SupaNik
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
LP Nethergate graphics in Blades of Avernum
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quote:
Originally written by Poit:

wow I just love watching the simmering sexual tension beween you two.
Thanks for that mental image. :D

I haven't played LP, but concerning graphics:

I just noticed that the grey rock graphic you used in Bahssikava (my very own one :) ) displays messily on PCs, as the white background is non-transparent in places, surrounding it with a nasty haze of white pixels...

This weekend, I'll see if I can submit a fixed graphic to the Louvre, and you can update Bahssikava with that if you want. :)

[ Thursday, April 14, 2005 10:20: Message edited by: Annuit Coeptis ]

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Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
I have a love of woodwind instruments.
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I want to play but the there is no time in The Avernum Trilogy
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Well, with the character editor you can change the day. So with that, I could do it in 0 days. :D

It's pretty much impossible to do it significantly under 20-25 days without the benefit of a walkthrough or previous experience. Finding out what to do next takes a lot of the time.

This is not taking into account that someone could play by backing up the save file, exploring, then reloading and going again by the shortest way. I would count that as "previous experience".

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Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
I have a love of woodwind instruments.
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
post-canopy badness in Blades of Avernum
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quote:
Originally written by Rebel without a Cause:

I use Adlerauge in Bahssikava. I don't see how it is cheating; it's powerful but not a McGuffin... or am I not using it correctly?
Okay, question answered. I am not using it correctly. That is mainly because I hate archery and alchemy (a leftover remnant from Blades of Exile) and will therefore go melee all the way even if I have an infinite ranged attack of 200-300 damage points.

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Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
I have a love of woodwind instruments.
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
post-canopy badness in Blades of Avernum
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quote:
Originally written by silver harloe:

It took me two scenarios to notice my archer's ammo was never decreasing. I just was so used to buying arrows and switching types based on what I was facing.
Same here.

Actually, now that I think of it, this is a god party. It wasn't with only two PCs, because even hasted to beyond 10 AP you can only do so much in combat, but now it is. I realized that when I made two new characters in the abandoned Guardpost and leveled them to 20 in Kar-Ghrav without dying once.

So I'll probably fiddle a little and take away L5 Arcane Shield and Divinely Touched, which makes easy meat of anything short of a TM Boss.

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Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
I have a love of woodwind instruments.
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Do you think there is a Hell? in General
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quote:
Originally written by 1001011001000:

As for believing the Bible, one good piece of evidence that it's true is all the prophecies that were fulfilled and are continuing to be fulfilled today. The reforming of Israel was prophcied, as well as many wars and the end times.
A prophecy predicted the end times and was fulfilled? I didn't realize the end times are here yet... though looking at this mess I see a point...

As far as prophecies go... wars are easy:

Lo!

I see a future, dark and terrible,
And a world running crimson with blood
A great war is coming, within three centuries
Of this day!


Made it up just now. And I have no doubt it will be fulfilled.

[ Thursday, April 14, 2005 03:19: Message edited by: Annuit Coeptis ]

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"I single Aran out due to his nasty temperament, and his superior intellect." --- SupaNik
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Favorite Author in General
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quote:
Originally written by VCH:

I don't like Shakespeare because well he wrote plays. One is meant to watch a play, not read it. Do we read TV transcripts? I would doubt anybody does.
Have you ever watched a Shakespeare play? I have, and trust me, reading it is better. Unless the actors just were crap. They spoke so fast and monotonously that it was impossible to discern anything.

I tend to think of Shakespeare's works as more like ballads than plays. In the form they are in, yes, one is meant to read them just as much as watch them.

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"Polaris leers down from the black vault, winking hideously like an insane watching eye which strives to convey some strange message, yet recalls nothing save that it once had a message to convey." --- HP Lovecraft.
"I single Aran out due to his nasty temperament, and his superior intellect." --- SupaNik
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00

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