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Displayed name	Or else o'erleap.
Member number	335
Title	Law Bringer
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Registered	Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00

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15,000 Coin Limit? in The Avernum Trilogy
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Thursday, April 6 2006 14:01 Profile Homepage #12 You run out of enemies that give experience before you hit a cap. I'm not sure the 64,000 is true, but it's not worth losing sleep over either way. —Alorael, who doesn't understand why the limit is so low. 15,000 is small change by the end of any Avernum game. 30,000 would make far more sense and still leave a comfortable margin of 34,000 (35,514?) to prevent errors. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
No Extra Damage? in Avernum 4
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Thursday, April 6 2006 11:37 Profile Homepage #4 From what I can tell, duration stacks and damage increases up to a point but doesn't stack. Damage and duration may be related. —Alorael, who definitely had fun killing enemies with Acid Spray and more fun killing more enemies with the Oozing Sword and Jade Halberd. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
for those of you with humor in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Thursday, April 6 2006 11:34 Profile Homepage #29 "Hey, this is Albert! I was wondering if you received the fax I sent yesterday at around 4:30. Could you get back to me about them? I need to make sure they were properly received or my department is in big trouble." beep —Alorael, who is not named Albert and has not been named Albert at any point in the last fifteen years. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Asfestor? Is that you? in Avernum 4
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Thursday, April 6 2006 07:11 Profile Homepage #1 I completely missed that. It's probably accidental, and I find the Shadowlords more intimidating than the shades, but yes, there is a resemblance. —Alorael, who noticed much more Ultima resemblance in the earlier Exiles than in later games. It is probably at least partially intentional. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
easter is comeing in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Thursday, April 6 2006 07:01 Profile Homepage #14 As I said, my family is not very Jewish, and a significant number of those present at the seder are actually Christian. They aren't more Christian than the rest of us are Jewish, though, so we average out to something in between. Deists? Seders usually start sometime between 5:00 and 6:00 depending on how much effort has to go into shepherding everyone to the table. The seder goes until 8:00 or so, depending on how cranky the small children get, but we don't take it terribly seriously. Humorous interjections are encouraged. Then we eat, and while going without anything that could conceivably be construed as bread for a day is hard, the dinner makes up for it. —Alorael, who will once again demand an explanation of the absolute absence of yeast in all Pesach products. The Israelites weren't intending to make matzah until they left in a hurry. No self-respecting, intelligent person would deliberately make matzah. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
for those of you with humor in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Thursday, April 6 2006 06:47 Profile Homepage #3 "Oh my God! It's got me leg! Oh my God! Please, in the name of all that's holy, don't let it co—" beep —Alorael, who is less than enamored of those who feel that having others record their messages is helpful. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
easter is comeing in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Wednesday, April 5 2006 20:33 Profile Homepage #8 Easter Schmeaster. I'm looking forward to the Passover seder. All you can eat and all the relatives you can stand at the low, low price of a long semi-religious quasi-service. —Alorael, whose family is not very good at being Jewish. It does better at the producing and consuming food, and that's the important part anyway, right? Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
There Are Other Worlds Than These . . . in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Wednesday, April 5 2006 19:13 Profile Homepage #21 For a while a number of Classic applications wouldn't open. Now they've started working again. DM2 is among them. —Alorael, who just noticed that NetFungus is also among them. There go many potentially productive hours of his time. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
random subject in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Wednesday, April 5 2006 19:11 Profile Homepage #6 Sometimes people go for more than five minutes without posting in a topic. Sometimes people actually refrain entirely, particularly when the topic is entirely spam. Please do not post meaninglessly and pointlessly. If you have nothing worth saying to say, don't bother saying it. —Alorael, who is in before the lock! Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
The most boring spell and monster in The Avernum Trilogy
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Wednesday, April 5 2006 08:15 Profile Homepage #27 This thread is about boring monsters. You mentioned Dark Wyrms. They may bother you, and they definitely bother me, but they aren't boring. —Alorael, who considers townspeople very boring monsters. They don't even attack you! Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Geneforging in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Wednesday, April 5 2006 08:13 Profile Homepage #8 If everyone is six inches taller and 50 IQ points smarter, the ranges don't change, so individuality isn't lost. Adding an average of six inches and 50 points could increase or decrease diversity, depending on the distribution, but I still don't see any loss of individuality. I have heard horrific predictions of genetic superhumans and subclasses where the wealthy become an entirely different subspecies or even species. That's a little extreme for the present and needs more consideration before it can be categorically labeled disastrous. —Alorael, who has ethical qualms with preventing anyone from becoming "superhuman" because not everyone can. Enforced mediocrity isn't a good thing. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Indian Doctor Jailed For Agreeing To Abort Female Fetus in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Wednesday, April 5 2006 07:57 Profile Homepage #41 I don't think anyone is claiming that abortion controls population. I think sex-selection abortions would, though. Women are the limiting factor in children, and fewer women would mean fewer children. It isn't quite that simple and linear, but having a 6:10 ratio of women to men would make a big difference. There's a very interesting assertion that I unfortunately can't find online. There's a fair amount of evidence, both from other cultures and from psychological studies of familiar Western culture, that we are programmed to love our babies deeply and irrationally. This makes good evolutionary sense. It's also true that we're programmed not to immediately fall in love. There's a window of time during which mothers weigh the costs and benefits of their newborns and then possibly kill them. Abortion is a difficult process without advanced medicine and technology, but neonaticide is free and it makes sense in the absence of sufficient resources for both the mother's and the baby's survival. I wouldn't want to condone neonaticide, but from an evolutionary standpoint there's a reason for abortion, and I'd say killing an embryo beats killing a newborn. From an ethical standpoint, because the line between aggregation of cells and human is arbitrary, I think that well-defined freedom trumps ill-defined life in this case. With legal abortion everyone can decide where the limits lie for himself or herself, and that's the choice in pro-choice. More importantly, choice may offend pro-lifers, but it cannot impose upon them. Illegalized abortion does impose others' will on those who want abortions. —Alorael, who will dig back into the thread and criticize inbreeding myths some more. There is no difference between the meeting of two genetically closely related gametes and two unrelated gametes. Statistically, however, the former is likely to increase the frequency of homozygosity and decrease the frequency of heterozygosity. That's a problem because many rather unpleasatn phenotypes are the results of recessive traits. Iterative inbreeding over generations can be terrible if the inbreeding group has those deleterious alleles, and nearly every group will, but one iteration isn't going to cause idiocy, deformity, and depravity. [ Wednesday, April 05, 2006 08:08: Message edited by: Wang is Sympatriot ] Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Best Spiderweb game in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Tuesday, April 4 2006 19:00 Profile Homepage #16 Blades of Avernum doesn't start with Avernum, obviously. It starts with Blades. —Alorael, who supposes the list is ordered in reverse alphabetical order but in the usual numerical order. G is before A and 1 is before 2. It makes sense! Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Indian Doctor Jailed For Agreeing To Abort Female Fetus in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Tuesday, April 4 2006 18:53 Profile Homepage #3 I'm not keeping up with the latest on sex discrimination, but I think the issue here may be less about protecting the unborn girls and more about protecting the born boys from having to face painfully skewed sex ratios. [Edit: There is no Freudian subtext to sex rations.] Forbidding sex-based abortion puts a slightly more legitimate stamp on it, though. —Alorael, who thinks an absence of potential child bearers would work wonders for birth control and anti-wonders for morale. [ Wednesday, April 05, 2006 07:42: Message edited by: Wang is Sympatriot ] Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
There Are Other Worlds Than These . . . in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Tuesday, April 4 2006 07:32 Profile Homepage #17 Dungeon Master 2 won't even open successfully on my 1.67 Ghz, OS 10.4.5 Powerbook. This is news to me, and I'm very sad about it. —Alorael, who doesn't know what to do without suicide by walking into walls. And then multiple suicides by hurling the bones of the deceased at shopkeepers and getting mauled by bird-ninja-men. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Best Spiderweb game in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Tuesday, April 4 2006 07:20 Profile Homepage #9 Of the choices offered, A2 is the best. I strongly recommend looking into Nethergate as well. Blades of Exile is great if you can accept the engine, and Blades of Avernum is very good if you can accept the engine and the smaller scenario output. —Alorael, who still wants a Carbonized Nethergate. It has been promised, but before Apple's next big switch would be nice. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Changes for Better or Worse? in Avernum 4
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Monday, April 3 2006 17:24 Profile Homepage #37 I think he means the use of torches and light spells, not contrast. Then again, fixing that is something that ought to be brought up in the next round of testing if Jeff doesn't fix it. —Alorael, who can live without casting Light over and over. Having elevation will go along way towards making A5 combine the best of Avernum and Geneforge, though. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
The Abominable Photo Thread IV: A New Hope in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Monday, April 3 2006 12:26 Profile Homepage #49 quote: Originally written by thaet waes gode cyning: quote: Originally written by The Lurker: quote: Originally written by thaet waes gode cyning: Whoa, TM. I didn't think much of that "noob attack" script, myself You dare to criticize the best fan-fanfic story ever written? "Everyone dies"? Sheesh. quote: Originally written by 8th Prime: Have a guide to great literature. —Alorael, who hopes that proximity explains. Following the link helps too. Note the bottom right panel. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
The Abominable Photo Thread IV: A New Hope in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Monday, April 3 2006 10:02 Profile Homepage #43 Have a guide to great literature. Mostly because I want to post it. —Alorael, who indeed sees that "everybody dies" is very close to great literature. Not verbatim, but close. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Truth about Traits? in Avernum 4
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Monday, April 3 2006 07:49 Profile Homepage #3 Good Constitution and Thick Skin are worthless. They don't scale meaningfully with higher levels. The experience penalty doesn't make much difference, but the wasted trait slots do. Natural Mage saves you the skill points you'd spend on defence and lets your casters use a few pieces of more impressive armor, but its real benefit is in added levels of mage skill. You can check all the formulas for spell damage in the manual. Natural Mage adds two or more points to your skill, depending on your level, so it improves your bonus by two or more. —Alorael, who doesn't worry about experience penalties. He's convinced that the more heavily you are penalized the better off you are. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
There Are Other Worlds Than These . . . in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Sunday, April 2 2006 18:04 Profile Homepage #10 Realmz varies from okay to awful. At best it's fun, although never as fun as Exile, and at worst its painful. It's riddled with bugs both minor and major, typos are more common than proper spelling and syntax, and balance was more or less ignored. The plots by and large don't deserve the name. I highly recommend staying away from Realmz. It wasn't great when it first came out and it has aged even less gracefully than E1. —Alorael, who is very fond of the LucasArts gem LOOM. Unfortunately, it doesn't run with sound with ScummVM, which really defeats the purpose of playing LOOM. On the bright side, he has a Mac copy that still works. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
15 inch 17 inch monitor in Avernum 4
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Sunday, April 2 2006 14:04 Profile Homepage #4 You may have a font problem. Does what you see look like the text in screenshots? —Alorael, who doesn't know anything about fixing font corruption or misinstallation but who is sure someone else does. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Themed Party Contest in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Sunday, April 2 2006 14:02 Profile Homepage #22 I'm in with Robegirl and Wayfer Boy? Okay. —Alorael, who can accept that fictitious versions of himself may have less immense dignitudes. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Talking ( Reputation / persuasion ) in Avernum 4
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Saturday, April 1 2006 14:45 Profile Homepage #2 While there isn't any reputation per se, there are some quests that have to be done before you can do other quests. It's fairly obvious which quests are important like that. —Alorael, who can only think of a handful of sequential but inconsequential quests. The fiancé quests in another active thread are a good example. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
I've made a script / story in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Saturday, April 1 2006 12:26 Profile Homepage #478 If it kills Martians... —Alorael, who can't understand how noobs can persist so long in a more or less unified fashion without implosion. It runs completely counter to every principle of noobism! Even maintaining focus on a single task is beyond any ordinary noob. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00

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