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Displayed name	Arancaytar
Member number	2984
Title	Law Bringer
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Registered	Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00

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New Draft in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Friday, May 7 2004 11:08 Profile Homepage #4 Not that funny... I gulped when I saw that before scrolling down to the chickenhead.org footline to make sure it actually was a joke. From what I've heard recently, it's not that improbable; probable enough to scare me anyway (yes, I live in Germany, but I have both citizenships and will probably go to the US to study). Edit: Still, once you actually read it, I must agree it's quite amusing. [ Friday, May 07, 2004 11:13: Message edited by: Arancaytar ] -------------------- Visit The Santharian Dream and its RP board. Or the Encyclopaedia Ermariana! Got a brain? Go to Polaris! "It is as if everyone had lost their sense To a conspiracy for downfall and desperance And a wisp it is they have chosen as their beacon." Reinhard Mey (freely translated). Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Monster Rancher in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Friday, May 7 2004 10:58 Profile Homepage #1 What game are you talking about, just out of interest? Geneforge? And if so, I must say I fail to understand the gist of your post... there is a PC version of both games... so what is your point? :confused: -------------------- Visit The Santharian Dream and its RP board. Or the Encyclopaedia Ermariana! Got a brain? Go to Polaris! "It is as if everyone had lost their sense To a conspiracy for downfall and desperance And a wisp it is they have chosen as their beacon." Reinhard Mey (freely translated). Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Turns out.... in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Sunday, April 18 2004 10:59 Profile Homepage #18 quote: Originally written by Alorael: No other author creates languages just for his world! No other author creates a world just for his languages, rather. quote: Originally written by Alorael: —Alorael, who would say that if anyone deserves the title of father of modern mass market fantasy (good and bad, lots and lots of bad), it's Tolkien. People claim that that's a non-original standpoint because thousands have it. However, in the now 3 years since I read it, I never came across someone sharing that point of view. You'll notice a definite shift in the fantasy written before Tolkien (basically, only children's fairy-tales, like the Narnia Chronicles) and that written after him. Even if the setting is completely different, the basic plot-twists and motives can be found everywhere if you look for it. Edit: Even a quoted — deserves fixing... [ Sunday, April 18, 2004 11:00: Message edited by: Arancaytar ] -------------------- Visit The Santharian Dream and its RP board. Or the Encyclopaedia Ermariana! Got a brain? Go to Polaris! "It is as if everyone had lost their sense To a conspiracy for downfall and desperance And a wisp it is they have chosen as their beacon." Reinhard Mey (freely translated). Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Article - Items: Balance and Cool Stuff in Blades of Avernum Editor
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Sunday, April 18 2004 07:20 Profile Homepage #10 Some basic math can be useful when balancing the damage values of a weapon. (I'm assuming from the documentation that damage and other variables are still determined using the xdy + z model, where you throw x dice with y sides each and add z to the result.) The minimum is always x + z, where as the maximum is xy + z. The average result is at x(y+1)/2 + z. So if you have 2d7+4 (two seven-sided dice, adding four to the result), you have a minimum of 6, an average of 12, and a maximum of 18 points. It is easier to decide whether a damage setting is reasonable if you have the values in those terms. -------------------- 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
Article - Items: Balance and Cool Stuff in Blades of Avernum
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Sunday, April 18 2004 07:20 Profile Homepage #10 Some basic math can be useful when balancing the damage values of a weapon. (I'm assuming from the documentation that damage and other variables are still determined using the xdy + z model, where you throw x dice with y sides each and add z to the result.) The minimum is always x + z, where as the maximum is xy + z. The average result is at x(y+1)/2 + z. So if you have 2d7+4 (two seven-sided dice, adding four to the result), you have a minimum of 6, an average of 12, and a maximum of 18 points. It is easier to decide whether a damage setting is reasonable if you have the values in those terms. -------------------- 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
Getting rid of webs in Blades of Avernum
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Sunday, April 11 2004 14:14 Profile Homepage #9 No, it just used poor grammar. What it meant is, approximately: 1. You get webbed during combat (ie. by spiders or by spells.) You cannot avoid this by standing next to the web and looking at it. 2. You step into webs by mistake. It's easy to do double steps in Avernum if you click once. 3. You find it more comfortable to click twice (on the web and yourself), than to press L and click. All these are reasons for why you might get webbed despite the wonderful fact that you can clear webs by looking at them with L. :) -------------------- 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
Ranks in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Sunday, April 11 2004 12:24 Profile Homepage #24 Good policy. I'll shut up about it now (except I think I got one star from you long ago, Djur ) -------------------- Visit The Santharian Dream and its RP board. Or the Encyclopaedia Ermariana! Got a brain? Go to Polaris! "It is as if everyone had lost their sense To a conspiracy for downfall and desperance And a wisp it is they have chosen as their beacon." Reinhard Mey (freely translated). Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Post yer monster scripts here in Blades of Avernum Editor
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Sunday, April 11 2004 11:29 Profile Homepage #36 No exponential operations at all? That sucks... :( -------------------- 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
Post yer monster scripts here in Blades of Avernum
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Sunday, April 11 2004 11:29 Profile Homepage #36 No exponential operations at all? That sucks... :( -------------------- 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
Ranks in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Sunday, April 11 2004 10:31 Profile Homepage #21 I don't think I've rated more than 5 people this year yet... whereas last year, not a week would pass in which I didn't rate 5. I guess it'll lessen more. The problem is, you're most incited to rate someone when you're either enormously pissed at the person, or intensely admiring, at this specific moment. I bet that more than 80% of all votes in total are either ones or fives. -------------------- Visit The Santharian Dream and its RP board. Or the Encyclopaedia Ermariana! Got a brain? Go to Polaris! "It is as if everyone had lost their sense To a conspiracy for downfall and desperance And a wisp it is they have chosen as their beacon." Reinhard Mey (freely translated). Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
UA and Control (Topic Split) in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Sunday, April 11 2004 10:20 Profile Homepage #10 UA (paraphrased): "I am incapable of admitting I am wrong." That is not insanity. That is merely stupidity. Everyone knows that to ever gain any intelligence of any sort, the mind has to be able to revoke opinions it forms for the event that such opinions prove false at a later time. Otherwise the mind is malfunctioning, and its owner incapable of ever ending up in anything other than a a prison, a mental hospital, or a grave, or all of them in that order. In the hope that it will contribute to the probably futile process of repairing your thus malfunctioning mind, I tell you this: You are an ant. Nothing more. You are an ant in an anthill, dreaming of controlling that anthill and every single little ant in it. Right now you are a baby, and those close to you step around you carefully in order not to upset you because you are a cute little ant. This gives you the illusion of being able to 'manipulate' (that was your definition for imperfect control, I believe) others. Oh, the dreadful realization that you will come to when you see that those that 'obey' you are but few in the large anthill, and that all the others refuse to even bother with you, the stupid little ant unable to think or converse intelligently. And then, the terrible disillusioning despair that will grip you in the moment of realizing that the anthill is but one among millions in your country, your country but one among thousands on this planet, this planet but one among an infinite myriad in this universe, and even the universe just a limit that you cannot ever think beyond, let alone ever cross physically, let alone ever control. When you come to that realization (and you will, if you pursue your present path down far enough), you will either change your current philosophy (if that term can be applied to this rubbish) or kill yourself. If I was Alec, I would say that would be no great loss, but I don't. I hope, for your sake, that you will be capable of developing an intelligent and sane mind before you fall into that abyss of disillusionment. In that case, as Morpheus would say, "Welcome to the real world." Good luck. And that is all I have to say about this, really. -------------------- Visit The Santharian Dream and its RP board. Or the Encyclopaedia Ermariana! Got a brain? Go to Polaris! "It is as if everyone had lost their sense To a conspiracy for downfall and desperance And a wisp it is they have chosen as their beacon." Reinhard Mey (freely translated). Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
move_to_new_town limitation in Blades of Avernum Editor
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Saturday, April 10 2004 13:46 Profile Homepage #1 start_state... Isn't that the one called when the party enters the town? Couldn't you use variable town entry in that case? -------------------- 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
move_to_new_town limitation in Blades of Avernum
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Saturday, April 10 2004 13:46 Profile Homepage #1 start_state... Isn't that the one called when the party enters the town? Couldn't you use variable town entry in that case? -------------------- 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
Website Overhaul and Reorganization in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Saturday, April 10 2004 13:43 Profile Homepage #14 If you've opened the source of the translator (and the .js files it uses) you'll see it's a rather primitive approach that can only search for one string in the database at the time, and needs to match that string with the entered one perfectly. I don't know enough javascript yet to know how to do it better, and I haven't found any translator sites that did so and were yet simple enough for me to understand and adapt... -------------------- Visit The Santharian Dream and its RP board. Or the Encyclopaedia Ermariana! Got a brain? Go to Polaris! "It is as if everyone had lost their sense To a conspiracy for downfall and desperance And a wisp it is they have chosen as their beacon." Reinhard Mey (freely translated). Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Post yer monster scripts here in Blades of Avernum Editor
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Saturday, April 10 2004 13:30 Profile Homepage #34 quote: Originally written by Walker White: quote: Originally written by wizardr6: quote: Walker White: It would be nice, however, to have !x available for making x = 1 if 0 and 0 if anything else. Right now that requires an if-branch. Or you could do: x = 1 - x Shorts can be negative. So if x = 2, x = 1 - x makes -1, not 0. x = x ^ x, maybe? It would make it 1 if x was 0... and for any value larger than 1, it would be larger (unless I'm dumb and tired as hell, shorts are integers only, right?). For any value below 0, it would be positive but smaller than 1. Then, for any value x != 1, x = x * 0 ^ (x - 1) would make it 0. (if shorts can be non-whole numbers, the exponent of 0 should be in absolute value signs of course, to avoid giving a divide-by-0 if x<1.) So after these two operations, , x should be 1 if it was 1 or 0 before, and 0 if it was any other number before. I'm too tired to think of how to get rid of the 1... Can you use min to get the smaller of two values? If so, x = min .5,x paranthesis omitted due to strange html error before the two others should leave it as x if it was smaller than .5, or changing it to .5 if it was anything larger, such as 1. Probably bugridden, but if it works, you should have changed the x successfully in just three mathematical operations without any if-clause. :) -------------------- 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
Post yer monster scripts here in Blades of Avernum
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Saturday, April 10 2004 13:30 Profile Homepage #34 quote: Originally written by Walker White: quote: Originally written by wizardr6: quote: Walker White: It would be nice, however, to have !x available for making x = 1 if 0 and 0 if anything else. Right now that requires an if-branch. Or you could do: x = 1 - x Shorts can be negative. So if x = 2, x = 1 - x makes -1, not 0. x = x ^ x, maybe? It would make it 1 if x was 0... and for any value larger than 1, it would be larger (unless I'm dumb and tired as hell, shorts are integers only, right?). For any value below 0, it would be positive but smaller than 1. Then, for any value x != 1, x = x * 0 ^ (x - 1) would make it 0. (if shorts can be non-whole numbers, the exponent of 0 should be in absolute value signs of course, to avoid giving a divide-by-0 if x<1.) So after these two operations, , x should be 1 if it was 1 or 0 before, and 0 if it was any other number before. I'm too tired to think of how to get rid of the 1... Can you use min to get the smaller of two values? If so, x = min .5,x paranthesis omitted due to strange html error before the two others should leave it as x if it was smaller than .5, or changing it to .5 if it was anything larger, such as 1. Probably bugridden, but if it works, you should have changed the x successfully in just three mathematical operations without any if-clause. :) -------------------- 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
Website Overhaul and Reorganization in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Saturday, April 10 2004 09:15 Profile Homepage #12 Alec: The translator contains, as of now, only single words. You can look up 'vah' (people), 'na' (living), and 'tai' (crystal). I expect to add compound words at some point, but can't now for lack of free time. -------------------- Visit The Santharian Dream and its RP board. Or the Encyclopaedia Ermariana! Got a brain? Go to Polaris! "It is as if everyone had lost their sense To a conspiracy for downfall and desperance And a wisp it is they have chosen as their beacon." Reinhard Mey (freely translated). Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Ranks in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Saturday, April 10 2004 08:21 Profile Homepage #18 Ratings are misleading though. There are members who I gave five which would imho deserve a zero, but I can't change it. I gave others a one, who would really deserve much better. Oh well. -------------------- Visit The Santharian Dream and its RP board. Or the Encyclopaedia Ermariana! Got a brain? Go to Polaris! "It is as if everyone had lost their sense To a conspiracy for downfall and desperance And a wisp it is they have chosen as their beacon." Reinhard Mey (freely translated). Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
BoA will be out for pc during Summer.. when is summer? in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, April 8 2004 05:06 Profile Homepage #11 My guess is your browser tries to display the zip file. If you don't have a browser that automatically saves undisplayable files instead of displaying them, just right-click on the link and click 'Save Target as'. Or something. -------------------- Visit The Santharian Dream and its RP board. Or the Encyclopaedia Ermariana! Got a brain? Go to Polaris! "It is as if everyone had lost their sense To a conspiracy for downfall and desperance And a wisp it is they have chosen as their beacon." Reinhard Mey (freely translated). Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Healers? in Blades of Avernum Editor
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Wednesday, April 7 2004 14:02 Profile Homepage #3 That should finally give designers the opportunity to include 'pay per HP' healers... :) Unless the call for restoring HP does not allow for a specific number of HP, which would seem irrational, but not unlikely (can't be bothered to read through the docs again. is it?) In any case, it'll be possible to make destoning, resurrecting or reviving (for stoned, dust, or dead PCs respectively) separate services that vary in price (unless I'm a fool and that was in Avernum 1-3 all along). [ Wednesday, April 07, 2004 14:04: Message edited by: Arancaytar ] -------------------- 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
Healers? in Blades of Avernum
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Wednesday, April 7 2004 14:02 Profile Homepage #3 That should finally give designers the opportunity to include 'pay per HP' healers... :) Unless the call for restoring HP does not allow for a specific number of HP, which would seem irrational, but not unlikely (can't be bothered to read through the docs again. is it?) In any case, it'll be possible to make destoning, resurrecting or reviving (for stoned, dust, or dead PCs respectively) separate services that vary in price (unless I'm a fool and that was in Avernum 1-3 all along). [ Wednesday, April 07, 2004 14:04: Message edited by: Arancaytar ] -------------------- 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
Website Overhaul and Reorganization in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Wednesday, April 7 2004 13:49 Profile Homepage #6 Not by much if you take into account that my Novah-English/English-Novah Translator allows to search in both directions without having to scroll... (though spelling flexibility is nonexistant, which should not matter much when searching for a Novah translation of an English word however) But anyway, I think I'll go and do a little GIFTS jig now after seeing that Drakey links to me not once, but twice, and on his front page no less! When did I deserve that honor? -------------------- Visit The Santharian Dream and its RP board. Or the Encyclopaedia Ermariana! Got a brain? Go to Polaris! "It is as if everyone had lost their sense To a conspiracy for downfall and desperance And a wisp it is they have chosen as their beacon." Reinhard Mey (freely translated). Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Favourite Smells in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Friday, April 2 2004 08:46 Profile Homepage #39 I absolutely love the musty smell of old books that have stood in a library for about 10-20 years or so. It's a wonderful scent, seriously. Oh, and a forest just after it has rained. But I think that was mentioned. [ Friday, April 02, 2004 08:48: Message edited by: Arancaytar ] -------------------- Visit The Santharian Dream and its RP board. Or the Encyclopaedia Ermariana! Got a brain? Go to Polaris! "It is as if everyone had lost their sense To a conspiracy for downfall and desperance And a wisp it is they have chosen as their beacon." Reinhard Mey (freely translated). Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Empress Prazac's Reign in Blades of Avernum
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, April 1 2004 10:31 Profile Homepage #27 Grahk could not have been anything but a surface explorer imho. That little peninsular is so insignificant that only someone who just happened to teleport directly onto it from the surface (someone tells you that is where the First Expedition first arrived) would be intrigued enough to put on a sign (and a reasonably well-written one in human language, too, ruling out goblins, Vahnatai, Sliths and most non-humans), saying he did so. Not in accord with arrogant Karzoth being the leader though... he doesn't seem the type to let anyone else discover a place and put his name under it. quote: "What muddles some of this stuff up is that Jeff clearly changed the history in the shift from Exile to Avernum. For example, BoE's VoDT says, "The proclamation is dated 130 years ago. Emperor Stewart has been dead for a century" (text 33 in town 13: Libraries), but BoA says, "The proclamation is dated eighty years ago. Emperor Stewart was dead well before you were born" (state 13 in town 13: Libraries)." Maybe Jeff read some discussions pertaining this on the board and decided to opt for more consistency? :P quote: Originally said by Erika: "I want to assassinate King Hawthorne. It would be a good start. It was his father who sent me down here, and he who accelerated the pace at which people were exiled. He poured people down here like water! He is a tyrant, and tyrants must die." . It is generally assumed that the Hawthorne she wanted to assassinate is the third, the second (her father) exiled her, and the first discovered Avernum. If anyone has any additional evidence (or evidence suggesting otherwise), please post here. -------------------- 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
scenario criticism in Blades of Avernum
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, April 1 2004 09:55 Profile Homepage #13 Okay. AtG=At the Gallows. SotS=Shadow of the Stranger. What's OG&E, and what is DotS? :confused: -------------------- 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

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