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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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BoA Status Report! in Blades of Avernum
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Wednesday, August 13 2003 14:18 Profile Homepage #10 That about the PCs sounds nice, it's similar to the creations in Geneforge a bit, right? It's a bit meager, but we have to make do with what we get, eh? :P Beta-testing - well, since I don't have a mac anyways (and I'm not about to buy one either! :P ) it doesn't matter that I'm unexperienced and can't get the job. So there. ;) -------------------- 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
If anyone noticed I was gone in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Wednesday, August 13 2003 13:50 Profile Homepage #15 That's sure an extremely efficient child, which can erase all your data from your PC and wipe your CDs with a magnet. Scary - I'd panic if someone like that was within 100 miles of my PC... -------------------- "And all should cry, Beware, Beware! His Flashing eyes, his Floating hair!" S. T. Coleridge --- "It is as if everyone had lost their sense Consigned themselves to downfall and decadence And a wisp it is they have chosen as their beacon." Reinhard Mey. --- Quote of the Week: "I have a high opinion of myself, which makes up for my total lack of intelligence." Anon. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
If anyone noticed I was gone in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Tuesday, August 12 2003 13:42 Profile Homepage #2 What kind of magnet could erase a CD? -------------------- "And all should cry, Beware, Beware! His Flashing eyes, his Floating hair!" S. T. Coleridge --- "It is as if everyone had lost their sense Consigned themselves to downfall and decadence And a wisp it is they have chosen as their beacon." Reinhard Mey. --- Quote of the Week: "I have a high opinion of myself, which makes up for my total lack of intelligence." Anon. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
D&D (Dungeons and Dragons) - Influences? Players? Opinions? in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Tuesday, August 12 2003 07:25 Profile Homepage #13 I fail to see what power-gaming has to do with doing a bit of math to figure out what course of action is to your advantage - it'd be the equivalent of the character trying to decide what to do, only in numerical terms since all the stuff like HP etc is quantified into numbers. But I agree with you on dice not being necessary for the game; they should be an aid and not a binding factor. For example, in those online RP boards, they don't need any dice or maths in order to write good stories. Dice are not necessary when they're replaced by creativity, and by the readiness to accept that sometimes things will go wrong - demigod players in forum rps are people who have to be reminded of their mortality by dice. And complex dice systems are absolutely annoying when they're on paper-and-pen RPs rather than computer games, because in a computer game you have a calculator available, and since you will usually be in single-player mode, endlessly calculating dice and comparing weapons does not earn you impatient glares from fellow players... -------------------- "And all should cry, Beware, Beware! His Flashing eyes, his Floating hair!" S. T. Coleridge --- "It is as if everyone had lost their sense Consigned themselves to downfall and decadence And a wisp it is they have chosen as their beacon." Reinhard Mey. --- Quote of the Week: "I have a high opinion of myself, which makes up for my total lack of intelligence." Anon. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
member #'s in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, August 11 2003 14:24 Profile Homepage #122 Speaking of custom titles, why did you remove all of our new ones, Drakey? Where's my 'Exile Historian'!!! Hahaha, I'll rebel! I'll plot your dethronement, Drakey! Down With Drakey! Stareye for Admin!. -------------------- 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
Leaders of the Empire? in Blades of Avernum
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, August 11 2003 13:52 Profile Homepage #147 Well, from one point of view, all of it is made up. :P Some of the emperors are in the games by Spiderweb though - Prazac, Hawthorne I-III, and Stewart, some more maybe. (I think Sol is also in the spidweb games, but I'm not sure). The rest is made up by the veterans here. It goes like this: I and some others ask questions, the veterans answer them, when we've got enough info we make a list. There's a version of the list online here: Encyclopedia / Emperor Reigns It's as simple as that. ;) [ Monday, August 11, 2003 13:54: 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
D&D (Dungeons and Dragons) - Influences? Players? Opinions? in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, August 11 2003 13:18 Profile Homepage #8 At least in real life the dice are limited to 4,6,10,20 sides and a few other euclidian shapes - no such luck with computer games... And a bit of statistics can be rather helpful for the player. Picture this (this is an actual example from a series known as "The Dark Eye" in Germany, I think it's "Arcania" or something in English): You're in a cavern with a huge treasure, but its guardian, an undefeatable demigod, doesn't allow you to take anything. He does offer you to play a little game though. The game runs as follows: You get a large heap (100) of valuable coins set before you. You have to pull at least 33 out of the heap. In the heap there are 3 which are enchanted to trigger a deadly doortrap beneath you when drawn. Do you take the offer? (Answer: No you wouldn't, because you have about a 28% chance to survive. I actually wrote a program on my calculator to figure that out. ) -------------------- "And all should cry, Beware, Beware! His Flashing eyes, his Floating hair!" S. T. Coleridge --- "It is as if everyone had lost their sense Consigned themselves to downfall and decadence And a wisp it is they have chosen as their beacon." Reinhard Mey. --- Quote of the Week: "I have a high opinion of myself, which makes up for my total lack of intelligence." Anon. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
D&D (Dungeons and Dragons) - Influences? Players? Opinions? in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, August 11 2003 10:23 Profile Homepage #5 I guess those 'some' are the people also believing Harry Potter to be satanic propaganda... About dice algebra - calculating the average of 23d5+40 looks imposing, but you can do it in your head: ((5+1)/2 * 23 ) + 40 = 109. I use that alot when I play ADOM, where the damage values are also given in XdY+Z form. Useful for making BoE scenarios too, because it uses the notation too. EDIT: ADOS - Elves? Not Satanic? Everything in fantasy books is satanic, hear me, everything! We must burn the evil stuff, BURN IT!!!111 [ Monday, August 11, 2003 10:26: Message edited by: Arancaytar ] -------------------- "And all should cry, Beware, Beware! His Flashing eyes, his Floating hair!" S. T. Coleridge --- "It is as if everyone had lost their sense Consigned themselves to downfall and decadence And a wisp it is they have chosen as their beacon." Reinhard Mey. --- Quote of the Week: "I have a high opinion of myself, which makes up for my total lack of intelligence." Anon. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Message to Somebody/Order Mage/Iceman in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, August 11 2003 10:10 Profile Homepage #60 Who threatened to leave in the Solberg affair? -------------------- "And all should cry, Beware, Beware! His Flashing eyes, his Floating hair!" S. T. Coleridge --- "It is as if everyone had lost their sense Consigned themselves to downfall and decadence And a wisp it is they have chosen as their beacon." Reinhard Mey. --- Quote of the Week: "I have a high opinion of myself, which makes up for my total lack of intelligence." Anon. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Message to Somebody/Order Mage/Iceman in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, August 11 2003 09:33 Profile Homepage #57 Sorry, OM, don't take my last post in the wrong way, I was only poking fun at you having three different accounts. -------------------- "And all should cry, Beware, Beware! His Flashing eyes, his Floating hair!" S. T. Coleridge --- "It is as if everyone had lost their sense Consigned themselves to downfall and decadence And a wisp it is they have chosen as their beacon." Reinhard Mey. --- Quote of the Week: "I have a high opinion of myself, which makes up for my total lack of intelligence." Anon. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Message to Somebody/Order Mage/Iceman in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, August 11 2003 09:28 Profile Homepage #55 How is history repeating itself in these two cases? Solberg ripped off a scenario by Alcritas and entered it in Alcritas's contest; OM made three different accounts with the same password and email address. The only common thing I see is idiocy... -------------------- "And all should cry, Beware, Beware! His Flashing eyes, his Floating hair!" S. T. Coleridge --- "It is as if everyone had lost their sense Consigned themselves to downfall and decadence And a wisp it is they have chosen as their beacon." Reinhard Mey. --- Quote of the Week: "I have a high opinion of myself, which makes up for my total lack of intelligence." Anon. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Intelligence in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, August 11 2003 06:38 Profile Homepage #22 We'll see when the voting is going to end. Pity ??? didn't set it to results being visible earlier. Btw, I expect more than 75% believing themselves above average. To be honest, I'm expecting something from 95-100%... -------------------- "And all should cry, Beware, Beware! His Flashing eyes, his Floating hair!" S. T. Coleridge --- "It is as if everyone had lost their sense Consigned themselves to downfall and decadence And a wisp it is they have chosen as their beacon." Reinhard Mey. --- Quote of the Week: "I have a high opinion of myself, which makes up for my total lack of intelligence." Anon. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Message to Somebody/Order Mage/Iceman in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, August 11 2003 06:22 Profile Homepage #51 OMG, this topic is hilarious. Just to avoid this post being spam, I'll make a point: Calculating the probability using all letter combinations is senseless. You get passwords like rekfdnbzodv. Nobody on the planet has this password, has ever had it or probably will ever have it (unless you change yours to it now, duh ). Passwords are usually real words, or names. For example, most of my passwords are characters from LotR. However, that doesn't make a real difference. People will almost never have the same IP, let alone the same password. Btw, if I made multi accounts anywhere where it's not allowed - such as online games and stuff, provided they don't check the IP - I'd choose different login names, different passwords and different email addresses - preferrably at different providers and with no apparent similarity. What OM has or has not done is just plain stupid. Zephyr, sticking to friends is fine - however, I suspect you're absolutely overdramatizing this. Your posts read like a bad-written TV soap. -------------------- "And all should cry, Beware, Beware! His Flashing eyes, his Floating hair!" S. T. Coleridge --- "It is as if everyone had lost their sense Consigned themselves to downfall and decadence And a wisp it is they have chosen as their beacon." Reinhard Mey. --- Quote of the Week: "I have a high opinion of myself, which makes up for my total lack of intelligence." Anon. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Leaders of the Empire? in Blades of Avernum
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Saturday, August 9 2003 22:58 Profile Homepage #142 Okay, as I take it, the history written by Lord Arkanor is part of the arena, and it's not well-liked. Is there anything at all that should be taken into official history from the arena, not being part of scenarios? Custer raised a point here about 'non-canon' stuff messing the thing up. I'm not sure about Drakey's site, since Jeff more or less approved that one, but should the arena history also be included? -------------------- 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
ETA?` in Blades of Avernum
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Friday, August 8 2003 22:22 Profile Homepage #7 What about us Windows users then? Sometime Summer 2004? :( Oh dear, when I finish school I've got a whole year's holiday which I could use to make scenarios. And after summer 2004 that year's over. :( Oh well... -------------------- 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
BoA Graphics Contest?? in Blades of Avernum
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Friday, August 8 2003 22:18 Profile Homepage #17 Windows users only get the terrain bitmap files in Avernum 3. I don't know about Macs, but there are no bmp files in Averum1/2 for Windows. I think it was just the terrains, and the others are there all right, but I'm not sure. If you use Windows, just get Avernum 3 (you only need the demo), install it, and open the Data folder. The bmp files are numbered, not named, but the terrains start - I think - at 7000. 700, coming right before then, sorting by names, is the cool intro picture. -------------------- 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
Leaders of the Empire? in Blades of Avernum
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, August 7 2003 23:45 Profile Homepage #137 So then, somebody got a map of the first Doston? I think there's one of the second Doston already. -------------------- 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
SMoE's ban in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, August 7 2003 11:23 Profile Homepage #71 Luck, and the whim of our admin. :P -------------------- "And all should cry, Beware, Beware! His Flashing eyes, his Floating hair!" S. T. Coleridge --- "It is as if everyone had lost their sense Consigned themselves to downfall and decadence And a wisp it is they have chosen as their beacon." Reinhard Mey. --- Quote of the Week: "I have a high opinion of myself, which makes up for my total lack of intelligence." Anon. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
SMoE's ban in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, August 7 2003 10:37 Profile Homepage #68 No, you're not gloating but I am. :P I was asking sarcastically if it was allowed to gloat for any of us. You requested a custom title (indirectly), and so did several others (even more covertly). Your request was fulfilled. The others weren't. :P [ Thursday, August 07, 2003 10:40: Message edited by: Arancaytar ] -------------------- "And all should cry, Beware, Beware! His Flashing eyes, his Floating hair!" S. T. Coleridge --- "It is as if everyone had lost their sense Consigned themselves to downfall and decadence And a wisp it is they have chosen as their beacon." Reinhard Mey. --- Quote of the Week: "I have a high opinion of myself, which makes up for my total lack of intelligence." Anon. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
SMoE's ban in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, August 7 2003 09:56 Profile Homepage #66 Let's just hope that Drakey will not announce his return by taking away all our shiny new titles... :eek: . Zharrad, how did you know I was thankful? Not that I'm not, but anyway. :P Well, I guess my ecstatic post in the BoE links thread could be counted as thanks... And since all requests after Zharrad's seem to have gone unfulfilled, is it allowed to gloat? Especially since I didn't even ask for mine? :D EDIT: Except for ADoS's, but that one doesn't really count... [ Thursday, August 07, 2003 09:58: Message edited by: Arancaytar ] -------------------- "And all should cry, Beware, Beware! His Flashing eyes, his Floating hair!" S. T. Coleridge --- "It is as if everyone had lost their sense Consigned themselves to downfall and decadence And a wisp it is they have chosen as their beacon." Reinhard Mey. --- Quote of the Week: "I have a high opinion of myself, which makes up for my total lack of intelligence." Anon. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
BoA Graphics Contest?? in Blades of Avernum
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, August 7 2003 09:22 Profile Homepage #12 I might do some terrains. However, expect them to be really crappy. -------------------- 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
Exile games you don't want to play in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, August 7 2003 08:35 Profile Homepage #39 quote: Originally written by Cherub Rock: That test of intellegance was pretty messed up. If any of us actually went into that thing, we'd never come out. If you mean the Vahnatai intelligence test in Exile II, I don't see how that one's messed up... I got through all right after some time (ie. a week), maybe the test was too hard for you? -------------------- "And all should cry, Beware, Beware! His Flashing eyes, his Floating hair!" S. T. Coleridge --- "It is as if everyone had lost their sense Consigned themselves to downfall and decadence And a wisp it is they have chosen as their beacon." Reinhard Mey. --- Quote of the Week: "I have a high opinion of myself, which makes up for my total lack of intelligence." Anon. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Leaders of the Empire? in Blades of Avernum
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Wednesday, August 6 2003 20:39 Profile Homepage #135 Does Doston (the huge continent, the second one), rise within this timespan, before 1872 IE? If so, when? If you all could agree on the first Doston's size :P , could you make a map for it? -------------------- 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
Mountains in Blades of Avernum
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Wednesday, August 6 2003 20:26 Profile Homepage #7 Taking damage when crashlanding on mountains? That would be really cool. I hated those instadeaths just because I miscalculated the number of mountain squares in Exile. And it would make it possible actually flying over mountains! That's what I hated in BoA. Someone might even come up with a way to make the party actually appear hovering over the ground, though I doubt it. ;) -------------------- 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
Evil Companies in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Wednesday, August 6 2003 12:10 Profile Homepage #31 Custer, you left out Wal-Mart, which does the first of the things you named (buying products manufactured in third world countries at bad labor conditions), treats its employees just as badly as these laborers (firing workers with health problems and providing poor worker insurance), and which basically has an almost destructive expansion policy, moving into an area, undercutting the prices to ruin the local economy and then selling at ridiculous prices when the competition is destroyed. And I wouldn't trust M$ with anything more than my text documents, if I had the choice (I'm currently using an old PC with NT, which is more trustworthy than XP at the expense of total incompatibility with most games... ) -------------------- "And all should cry, Beware, Beware! His Flashing eyes, his Floating hair!" S. T. Coleridge --- "It is as if everyone had lost their sense Consigned themselves to downfall and decadence And a wisp it is they have chosen as their beacon." Reinhard Mey. --- Quote of the Week: "I have a high opinion of myself, which makes up for my total lack of intelligence." Anon. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00

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