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I confess - I'm a cheat! in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, December 24 2004 12:19 Profile Homepage #19
I had an easier time with Avernum than with Exile. I also agree with Djur. Very few fights dragged on for a long time with the end in question. Some are very quick and hard, some are very long and hard at the beginning, but none leave you sweating all the way through.

—Alorael, who had an even easier time with A3, at least at the beginning. The damage really didn't quite balance right. By the end, the cap made damage stop being ridiculous, but that's only for the very last battles of the game.
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Whack bonga bonga whack whack in Richard White Games
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, December 23 2004 18:43 Profile Homepage #5
Death.

—Alorael, who doesn't need fancy weaponry to bring down a topic from a distance.
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Morality question in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, December 23 2004 18:41 Profile Homepage #68
It's Milgram with a twist! I'd give myself a change of, oh, 65% for cranking it up all the way. No, make that 75% to account for monetary incentive.

—Alorael, who supports his scientists, right or wrong. If he has to be a blind follower, he might as well follow something that has produced tangible good along with tangible evil.
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A2 Easter Egg in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, December 23 2004 18:31 Profile Homepage #6
Nope, no relation to the smith. This fight really isn't supposed to be won reasonably, and the only thing it gives you is access to the easter egg (or EAS TER EGG, as the case may be).

—Alorael, who also doubts you could miss the fight. Even a party strong enough to breeze through the Ziggurat would notice all the efreets.
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Encumbrance and Armor Use in Nethergate
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, December 22 2004 18:18 Profile Homepage #4
It's called Glorious Shield or something of the sort. It also may be possible to keep it if you use the editor to leave Goagh-Nar without passing the entrance.

—Alorael, who still doesn't consider that especially significant. Cheaters deserve to lose AP!
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A2 Easter Egg in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, December 22 2004 10:24 Profile Homepage #2
If you have potions of invulnerability, this is definitely the time to use them.

—Alorael, who also would consider summoning creatures to act as cannon fodder. He didn't do it when he fought the efreets, but if you can get the critters in front of you, they'll help.
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Morality question in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, December 21 2004 10:00 Profile Homepage #47
The Great Spirit does not want them back after Arctic is finished with them.

—Alorael, who would like to know whether it is okay to euthanize a friend without eating him or her. This could significantly change his answer.
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RPG Recommendations in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, December 21 2004 09:57 Profile Homepage #50
quote:
Originally written by The Dog And Pony Show:

Is this like that stupid distinction between SF and sci-fi that fat Berkeley beardos like to talk about?
Probably. Has that ever stopped an argument on Spidweb before?

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A role-playing game... is a game in which role-playing is the primary focus. There's no ambiguity about that definition.
Right. An "RPG," for lack of a better term, is a game with hit points, quests great or small, etc. That's not a good definition, but it is one. That's why even railroading games like Final Fantasy are RPGs.

Actually, you could also make a case for Final Fantasy being a role-playing game because your characters have very definite, unchangeable roles regardless of what you want.

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Alorael: Exile gives you at the very least the choice between villainous self-interest and noble charity.
Villainy at its worst usually just makes a town hostile. You can't advance the plot at all by being evil. It may be role-playing, but it's not much of it.

—Alorael, who insists that the term RPG exists based on the games put in the category, not vice versa. Any mechanics can surround role-playing, but that does not an RPG make.
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RPG Recommendations in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, December 20 2004 20:18 Profile Homepage #38
I would say that RPG games are no longer at all tied to role-playing, so loserclassof06's list of characteristics is valid. A role-playing game is something else entirely, and while it may be an RPG as well, it need not be.

—Alorael, who doesn't see much role to play in Exile/Avernum. Your characters have no personality, nor can you give them much of one. You can make almost no choices with any impact. The only real effect you have is by completing quests, and even that tends to be minimal. BoE/A has role-playing. Geneforge does too. E/A does not.
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Morality question in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, December 20 2004 09:31 Profile Homepage #37
I, for one, have no idea where or how hard to hit someone to knock them unconscious instead of just hurting them even more. It's also much easier psychologically to pull a trigger than to hit someone over the head with what amounts to a metal pipe.

—Alorael, who wouldn't be too surprised to find that Arctic does know where to hit people. Unconciousness has its uses in certain circumstances.
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RPG Recommendations in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, December 20 2004 09:17 Profile Homepage #27
Deus Ex is a game that involves role-playing. That does not mean it fits in with the game genre of RPGs, which are not, in fact, always about roleplaying at all.

—Alorael, who wouldn't even say that the Exile/Avernum games involve role playing. You don't have a role, you just kill stuff and complete quests. They're still called RPGs because they use the elements common to RPG games.
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A3: Quest list? in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, December 19 2004 18:15 Profile Homepage #1
You can use the editor to set the flags in theory, but nobody knows what flags they are. Sorry.

—Alorael, who invites you to kill golems instead of giants.
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Avatars in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, December 19 2004 09:19 Profile Homepage #25
TGM, never post explicit images again. Putting them two links away does not make it okay.

—Alorael, who very, very strongly disapproves of major infractions of the CoC. You make baby Cordelia cry.
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Morality question in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, December 19 2004 09:17 Profile Homepage #29
"All right. We're going to do this—" BANG "—on three..."

—Alorael, who would probably shoot first whether or not it could be called self-defense and whether or not it would be discovered. Anyone who gets you into a suicide pact isn't that much of a friend.
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Morality question in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, December 18 2004 22:17 Profile Homepage #19
This comes down to a question of euthanasia with the option to perform it on oneself for no particularly good reason. I am in favor of euthanasia; I would shoot a loved one if they asked for it. (I might not be able to sleep for the next month, but that's another story.)

I cannot possibly imagine why I would want to shoot myself because someone else is dying. It solves absolutely nothing.

If I were in the car as well, I'd like to think that I'd shoot the other person (again, with permission), but I don't know. Then again, I also don't know if I'd have the guts to shoot myself.

—Alorael, who would like to add another permutation. What if you're trapped in the car with the other person, both of you immobilized and about to die, and somehow you are holding a gun to your own head but can't move it? Okay, the situation is contrived, but go along with it. Would you kill yourself quickly or not?
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Avatars in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, December 17 2004 11:36 Profile Homepage #13
I would still have a signature without signatures built in and the rest of you would not.

A signature has to reach obscene proportions before it actually causes loading problems. It becomes an unbearable hassle and eyesore long before that point. Avatars, on the other hand, become eyesores at around the same size as they become loading sores.

—Alorael, who believes that characteristics two and three are in direct opposition to characteristic one in most opinions.
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Ocean Bound in Richard White Games
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, December 16 2004 11:13 Profile Homepage #26
I only take offense when it's clearly copying and not imitation. Well, or when it's so incompetently done that it's really only funny.

—Alorael, who hadn't thought about Stained Glass in years. That truly is a great way to waste hours and hours in a Tetris-like stupor, only without the panic and reflexes.
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Spell Tell in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, December 16 2004 11:00 Profile Homepage #4
Divine Warrior is so good it's almost no fun. War Blessing makes a great cheap substitute. Beast Ceremony is great for the times you know that the evil, dangerous [insert person/demon/etc.] is just around that corner or behind the door.

Haste 3 and Mass Healing are simply staples of the killing things business.

Light is simply essential.

Out of the damage spells, I get the most mileage out of Divine Fire, Lightning Spray, and Ice Lances.

—Alorael, whose only real spell dislikes are Forcecage, Acid Spray, and the summoning spells.
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MacNN liften me up, to drop me back down again :( in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, December 15 2004 18:00 Profile Homepage #6
Yes, and they were discussed here.

—Alorael, who doesn't mean this as an indication of approval for topic revival. This is referenced for archival purposes only.
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Yurk Pippen in Richard White Games
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, December 15 2004 17:46 Profile Homepage #2
Indeed.

—Alorael, who concurs wholeheartedly.
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hey ppl in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, December 15 2004 17:44 Profile Homepage #13
I have been active perpetually since my registration and I must regretfully inform you that I have only the vaguest recollection of your existence. 100 odd posts isn't all that much in the scheme of things.

On the bright side, this leaves you a blank slate to work with! I suggest starting by adding the essential vowels to 'ppl' to get the much nicer 'people' that most people prefer.

—Alorael, who will add that he still has a thing for skribbane, although he's usually quieter about it, and he prefers it spelled correctly. Skribane is poorly processed and may cause dizziness, hallucinations, and liver damage above and beyond the usual toxicity.
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Just 'cause nothing's been here for a while... in Richard White Games
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, December 15 2004 10:56 Profile Homepage #7
The Association of Awful Game Haters (AAGH) declares this thread dead. Yes, by sharpshooter.

—Alorael, who discourages any and all attemps to find Richard White. Surely there are people with a game design record better than one out of three?
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Remote Cavern in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, December 14 2004 18:08 Profile Homepage #1
It should work if you step only one the last rune on the right. I suggest reloading and trying again. If you can't or that doesn't help, you're in for some fun times using all the runes to try to get the brazies lit. For what it's worth, they all work in a certain pattern.

—Alorael, who is positive that the last rune works. If it doesn't, you have a definite problem.
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I AM TEH SPAMER in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, December 14 2004 18:03 Profile Homepage #44
Like many Despisms, 'teh' may be traced back to JeffK. Like many JeffKisms, 'teh' may be traced back to stupid people.

—Alorael, who is particularly fond of the eccentric past participle pwnt.
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A3: Rentar-Ihrnos Keep...wheres Erika? in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, December 14 2004 12:26 Profile Homepage #5
It's five times if you haven't gotten and activated Erika's amulets. If you have, Erika appears the first time you charge Rentar-Ihrno after setting all the beams. If she doesn't, you've missed a beam or two.

If you don't have the amulets, you're in for some fun while charging the panel five times.

—Alorael, who is willing to bet large sums of money that there is no bug in your copy of Avernum. Note that some lasers can't be activated in the order that you reach the switched because the beams will block your path.
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