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| Displayed name | Or else o'erleap. |
| Member number | 335 |
| Title | Law Bringer |
| Postcount | 14579 |
| Homepage | http://www.polarisboard.net |
| Registered | Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Wednesday, November 30 2005 20:15
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Can we not start this, please? These are noob-friendly boards! I also don't want a headache right now, thank you. —Alorael, who never wants to see internet abbreviation in 1337 again. In fact, he could live happily without seeing 1337 ever again and would be relatively content to exist in the absence of net abbreviations. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, November 30 2005 15:08
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Numa numa dance indeed. —Alorael, who could count on Wikipedia to explain the ambiguity of the title, along with a few other things. Like that link. That terrible, terrible, only safe for work by the slimmest of technicalities link. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, November 30 2005 14:58
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Your lack of a <leetness> tag damages the contents of your posts, although for real damage control you could remove tags entirely. </leetness> implies either a sarcasm that is largely missing or a degree of self-evident superiority also largely missing. —Alorael, who can only conclude that the tag is appended in error and that theree is not and never was any leetness involved in any posts. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, November 30 2005 09:22
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John Malkovitch in The Glass Menagerie. A different Glass Menagerie? —Alorael, who doesn't remember any Sam Waterston, but since he doesn't know who Sam Waterston is, that's not particularly helpful. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, November 30 2005 07:53
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Monkey Island! I think you already knew that, though. The era of the point and click adventure was truly a golden age of piracy. The Escape Velocity series has pirates, but they have fewer peg-legs and more Thunderheads and EMP torpedoes. —Alorael, who also once encountered a game called "Pirates" that was not "Pirates!" Unfortunately, a title like that is difficult to find again. It was an extraordinarily lackluster game, but it did involve plenty of pirates, swordfights, rum, and doubloons. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, November 29 2005 18:39
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Christopher Lee in The Man with the Golden Gun. —Alorael, who has nothing to add to a post like this. Except, perhaps, that this chain had better finish quickly or he will be displeased by ignorance. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, November 29 2005 16:14
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I'm sure there are other ways to find two degrees of separation. I'm pretty sure there has to be a one-step connection between Whoopi Goldberg and Brad Pitt somewhere. Unless Whoopi Goldberg and Kirsten Dunst were in the same film or show, though, there's nothing shorter. —Alorael, who would be interested in seeing the (impossible to determine) degrees of separation between actors using only non-actors as intermediaries. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, November 29 2005 16:03
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The art is very nice, and there is always a desire for more graphics for BoA, which is quite alive and active. The graphics don't look like Avernum's, really, and that's a good thing. Avernum's graphics are lackluster. I agree with Aran that the slith doesn't look like a slithi, although it looks to me more like some other draconic critter. The underslung jaw (it is a jaw?) doesn't look slith-like. —Alorael, whose favorite is the ooze. It looks shiny and menacing and strangely tasty. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, November 29 2005 15:53
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Not all damage is physical, but there are some bows that do things even more fun than different damage. —Alorael, who will say two things. Poison is nastier than it was in previous Avernums, and killing with poison gives experience now. (Poison also has become the most common cause of character death, but that's subject to playing style.) Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, November 29 2005 07:15
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Now that a chain has been established, a shorter one is Winona Ryder in Girl, Interrupted to Winona Ryder in Little Women to Kirsten Dunst in Little Women. —Alorael, who has never seen the full name of Interview with the Vampire written out anywhere before. It's rather cumbersome, isn't it? Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, November 28 2005 22:45
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Brad Pitt in Mr. and Mrs. Smith —Alorael, who was going a different and shorter route originally. He'll post it after this particular chain ends. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, November 28 2005 21:17
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I think Jeff's real problem is that he doesn't have any guarantee that he can make a good game that isn't an RPG, period. He's said in interviews that sometimes he'd like to try his hand at something else (strategy came up, I think), but that it's a financial risk that he'd rather avoid as long as he can keep churning out relative cash cows. —Alorael, who still hopes to see Nephil vs. Slith: Battle for Avernum sometime around 2012. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, November 28 2005 19:08
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Whoopi Goldberg in Girl, Interrupted. —Alorael, who actually has a chain for this and who has to give credit to certain beloved family members to whom he thought he would never give anything up to and including the time of day over a certain related matter. Forgiveness comes in strange forms. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, November 28 2005 18:47
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That's the cat I was talking about. It's often better to shoot something than to stab it. There were several battles in which my fighters did more damage to themselves than to enemies thanks to ripose, but arrows can't be riposted. I generally accepted charm, terror, and poison and had a caster cure the problem, but with fewer priests or more caution archery is the better solution. A4 did teach me not to haste any fighters until after the first blow has been landed. Never let anyone attack an unknown critter with enough AP to attack again, possibly taking out the priest who can cure charm! —Alorael, who is strongly convinced that not having at least two of eaech caster type (overlapping works) is a mistake. You'll definitely want to have two priests quite often, and two mages can save the day. Fighters really only have to be able to supply interposing bodies and occasional hits with sword, spear, bow, hurled rock, or spider on a string. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, November 28 2005 13:32
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Hitting things in melee is also just more difficult, because, well, there's that thing that happens when you hit even ordinary enemies in melee that doesn't happen when you shoot them. By the end of the game, even my pure casters did reasonable damage with bows and hit more than half the time. No, I don't really know why. My fighters were actually less accurate because of low bow skill and very heavy armor. —Alorael, who developed elaborate strategies to defeat the enemies that you don't want to touch in melee, then usually ended up blowing them away with really excessively damaging spells because, well, they were frustrating. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, November 28 2005 08:43
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There is no E in sarcasm, but there are two A's (and no 4's) in win now. There is but a single A in  .—Alorael, who has an urge to kill that particular GIF, and he "made" it. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, November 28 2005 08:37
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Summoning has become a far more palatable option in A4 from what I've seen. All you need is a wall of bodies to keep your singleton from being gnawed, and a few summons and buffs can probably take care of that. It's a little extra magic spent in each fight, but you'll probably have enough extra skill points to toss into intelligence to handle it. —Alorael, who is tempted to attempt a party with absolutely no melee skill. A bunch of archers would be a challenge, but two archers and two casters or archer/casters might be even more effective than standard setups. The beginning would be tough, and traits would be more problematic, but by the endgame those archers would mangle many supposedly difficult enemies. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Sunday, November 27 2005 16:07
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In A4 I found myself generally carrying a pair of weapons for my fighters, a ton of potions on my lead character, worn and wielded gear, and some very light rings for emergency resistances on my casters. That's it. It left plenty of room for loot, which is important, and I just didn't have much else I wanted to carry. Wands and scrolls were always worth more as cash than as weapons. The battle in front of the Ornotha Ziggurat is definitely large, but there are battles that struck me as far more interesting in A4. A certain place that shall not be named with many monsters of unspecified characters, which must be defeated for Quest X comes to mind. Yes, this is very specific. [Edit: I've also found several encumberance tricks to work through. The system is like Geneforge's, but having four party members makes it an interesting load distribution problem. Even distribution is only optimal to a certain point, and then it becomes a question of scapegoats.] —Alorael, who now realizes that his party's two casters are a pair of glass cannons by DV's definition, except they're not exceptionally glass. They have a decent chance of surviving a round of surprise attack when properly buffed by maybe a quarter of the way through the game, and that one round means that anything attacking them is dead. [ Sunday, November 27, 2005 16:09: Message edited by: Line Left ] Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Sunday, November 27 2005 15:59
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If you join the Anama you lose the ability to cast mage spells, and trying to get mage spells again later gets you kicked out of the Anama. If you leave a mage behind in Fort Emergence, however, you can retrieve the character later and "cheat" the Anama. —Alorael, who is now getting confused between the A3 and E3 Anama penalties and circumstances. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Sunday, November 27 2005 15:57
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De Lint's specialty is introducing the supernatural to ordinary people living in what they think is ordinary Earth, which is different from relocating people to the land of elves, Elohim (not the Hebrew kind), or lios alfar. There's a different between learning that everything you thought was true isn't quite right and learning that everything you thought was true was probably true but really not too applicable to your current situation. —Alorael, who read the Faded Sun and was unimpressed by Cherryh. He has been told to read something else and may get around to it one day. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Saturday, November 26 2005 17:01
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Who ensures that you don't cheat, especially accidentally, and what are the rules for dealing with such cheating? It can become a problem when you're fifteen moves along before your opponent points out your mistake. —Alorael, who is reminded of a board game entitled Field Marshal. You and an opponent each write down 10 moves and then reveal your moves and make them simultaneously. Among other difficulties, this requires rules for illegal moves discovered after the moves are written. According to the official game rules, the quickest way to legally win is to cheat and accept the penalties. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Saturday, November 26 2005 16:56
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I've read the first two books of Martin's magnum opus, and I have to say I'm underwhelmed. His world-building is impressive but not unparalleled, and his plots are intricate but, as far as I've read, not really coherent. The real problem for me is that too many of his characters aren't likeable. The best are self-reliant and self-centered. The worst are scum and idiots. I can live without them. —Alorael, who wants more of Aristotle's people better than us to go with Martin's tragic impulses. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Saturday, November 26 2005 10:30
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Salvatore's problem is that his characters and plots are simple. The characters really are righteous. There's no ambiguity to support the angst. Really, as long as Salvatore sticks to action and some mild comedy he's okay. As soon as he tries to move ino real literature he stumbles around awkwardly. —Alorael, who should not prejudice future readers. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Friday, November 25 2005 21:04
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I can proudly say that my build got me through A4 without requiring the use of a single energy potion. Now, granted, that's ridiculous, especially since I carried around every potion I found for the entire game, but it's something I can claim with pride. —Alorael, who actually used no potions at all. It is a problem of his, and he's trying to work on it. He's managed to almost sip some gremlin wine, but he chickened out at the last second. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Friday, November 25 2005 18:44
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BoA was already a rude awakening for the Unlock Doors dependent. A4 is only moderately evil in comparison. —Alorael, who had a particularly good time getting his entire party killed after clearing a nasty cave but before saving when he accidentally triggered a trap. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |