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Favorite spidey product in General
Dallerdin with a custom moniker. Shock Trooper Member # 3898	written Thursday, February 3 2005 21:40 Profile #7 Ocean Bound, Homeland, Galactic Core, SubTerra and Lost Souls aren't Spiderweb Software Games. Other than that, this post has no real meaning. Oh, and why did anyone vote Linux for the OS choice? AFAIK, none of the games are available for Linux. -------------------- ~Note : The professional newbie's advice should not be taken seriously, or at all.~ L I N K A G E Posts: 364 \| Registered: Saturday, January 17 2004 08:00
Video Games 101 in General
Dallerdin with a custom moniker. Shock Trooper Member # 3898	written Thursday, February 3 2005 21:33 Profile #13 Alpha Centurai taught me that sufficiently experienced worms can beat gunmen armed with weapons that harness the power of a black hole and have armor that protects those wearing it by stopping time. Warcraft III taught me that standing near fountains causes you to regain life, that four night elves need as much food as one chimaera, and that the average peasant will only start running away if he is hit by a sword, not the guy next to him (and it takes many hits to kill him) and that most bows are more powerful than rifles. Halo taught me that a torus about 1/10000 times the size of the earth has equal gravity, that every alien weapon is usable by humans exactly as well, and that any alien race has no goal other than annihilation of humanity. Video games provide a useful window into the real world. -------------------- ~Note : The professional newbie's advice should not be taken seriously, or at all.~ L I N K A G E Posts: 364 \| Registered: Saturday, January 17 2004 08:00
Beta-Call for Backwater Calls in Blades of Avernum
Dallerdin with a custom moniker. Shock Trooper Member # 3898	written Wednesday, February 2 2005 00:35 Profile #13 Name: Dallerdin Email Address: jake _ lord _ of _ fire (at) hotmail (dot) com Operating System: Windoze Party: A level 93 singleton from the HLPM and a level 30 quad from about half of DWTD. -------------------- ~Note : The professional newbie's advice should not be taken seriously, or at all.~ L I N K A G E Posts: 364 \| Registered: Saturday, January 17 2004 08:00
Top 5 Favorite Weapons in The Avernum Trilogy
Dallerdin with a custom moniker. Shock Trooper Member # 3898	written Wednesday, February 2 2005 00:24 Profile #3 I rather like the God Longsword from the HLP- Oh? You mean in A3? I fight with a Stick. As a singleton. On Hard. It's actually rather fun, when you get high enough level. You just walk around killing Alien Beasts with one hit from a stick. Although that's not to say I haven't used the Character Editor quite a bit. [ Tuesday, February 15, 2005 00:39: Message edited by: Because we all need a good moniker. ] -------------------- ~Note : The professional newbie's advice should not be taken seriously, or at all.~ L I N K A G E Posts: 364 \| Registered: Saturday, January 17 2004 08:00
Naples in General
Dallerdin with a custom moniker. Shock Trooper Member # 3898	written Sunday, January 30 2005 19:56 Profile #2 I can't actually tell you anything about the volcano itself, but I can tell you: It's spelled Pompeii. It also destroyed the nearby town of Herculaneum. Volcano is not usually capitalised unless it's the start of a sentence. (Sorry for being nitpicky...) [ Sunday, January 30, 2005 19:56: Message edited by: Dallerdin ] -------------------- ~Note : The professional newbie's advice should not be taken seriously, or at all.~ L I N K A G E Posts: 364 \| Registered: Saturday, January 17 2004 08:00
Were the Vhanitia things in Avernum 1? in The Avernum Trilogy
Dallerdin with a custom moniker. Shock Trooper Member # 3898	written Wednesday, January 26 2005 18:11 Profile #16 Selling, I believe. And of course, teaching people not to raise topics from the dead. -------------------- ~Note : The professional newbie's advice should not be taken seriously, or at all.~ L I N K A G E Posts: 364 \| Registered: Saturday, January 17 2004 08:00
creating new items/monsters? in Blades of Avernum Editor
Dallerdin with a custom moniker. Shock Trooper Member # 3898	written Tuesday, January 25 2005 19:56 Profile #1 There are some tools for easily making items/monsters, but I forget the link. They're HTML pages, if I recall correctly. Otherwise, you have to place a monster (say, a child, or a sheep), or an item, then use the "Edit Placed Object" tool, then click on the "Edit this creature/Edit this item" text in the bottom part of the screen, where variables normally would be for a terrain script/special encounter. Also, you might want to try and fix your spelling and capitalisation. It earns you a bit more respect on these boards. [ Tuesday, January 25, 2005 19:59: Message edited by: Dallerdin ] -------------------- ~Note : The professional newbie's advice should not be taken seriously, or at all.~ L I N K A G E Posts: 364 \| Registered: Saturday, January 17 2004 08:00
creating new items/monsters? in Blades of Avernum
Dallerdin with a custom moniker. Shock Trooper Member # 3898	written Tuesday, January 25 2005 19:56 Profile #1 There are some tools for easily making items/monsters, but I forget the link. They're HTML pages, if I recall correctly. Otherwise, you have to place a monster (say, a child, or a sheep), or an item, then use the "Edit Placed Object" tool, then click on the "Edit this creature/Edit this item" text in the bottom part of the screen, where variables normally would be for a terrain script/special encounter. Also, you might want to try and fix your spelling and capitalisation. It earns you a bit more respect on these boards. [ Tuesday, January 25, 2005 19:59: Message edited by: Dallerdin ] -------------------- ~Note : The professional newbie's advice should not be taken seriously, or at all.~ L I N K A G E Posts: 364 \| Registered: Saturday, January 17 2004 08:00
BoA Graphics Entries and Judging Details in Blades of Avernum
Dallerdin with a custom moniker. Shock Trooper Member # 3898	written Monday, January 24 2005 02:20 Profile #81 And I don't seem to be listed at all (admittedly I only sent in one graphic, but still...) -------------------- ~Note : The professional newbie's advice should not be taken seriously, or at all.~ L I N K A G E Posts: 364 \| Registered: Saturday, January 17 2004 08:00
Root of all evil in General
Dallerdin with a custom moniker. Shock Trooper Member # 3898	written Tuesday, January 18 2005 23:30 Profile #25 I would like to suggest that prejudice is the root of, if not all, a significant amount of evil. I would also like to suggest that it can be argued that any moral/ethical code is the root of all evil, as if there were no morals, there would be nothing that could be considered immoral. Also, given that predjudice is the root of most evil, all Exile fans are irrevocably idiotic. If you fail to understand the meaning of that statement, you are pathetically stupid and deserve only to be treated as if you adhered to the view in the second paragraph. -------------------- ~Note : The professional newbie's advice should not be taken seriously, or at all.~ L I N K A G E Posts: 364 \| Registered: Saturday, January 17 2004 08:00
Open Source in General
Dallerdin with a custom moniker. Shock Trooper Member # 3898	written Monday, January 17 2005 05:44 Profile #3 As far as I can see, the GPL is rather clear on this: quote: 1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty; and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License along with the Program. You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy, and you may at your option offer warranty protection in exchange for a fee. However, if you were a prospective programmer who wanted a copy of the source to WidgetCalculator2000, would you get it from me, the writer, who distributed the program and source code for free under the GPL, or the man down the road, who charges $200 for the program and source code, under the GPL? [ Monday, January 17, 2005 05:45: Message edited by: Dallerdin ] -------------------- ~Note : The professional newbie's advice should not be taken seriously, or at all.~ L I N K A G E Posts: 364 \| Registered: Saturday, January 17 2004 08:00
Is it just me? in The Avernum Trilogy
Dallerdin with a custom moniker. Shock Trooper Member # 3898	written Sunday, January 16 2005 17:32 Profile #1 I'm fairly sure that Jeff Vogel mentioned somewhere that he got the name Avernum from the mythical Avernus (Avernus was taken by a rock band or something). Probably in one of those interviews he did. -------------------- ~Note : The professional newbie's advice should not be taken seriously, or at all.~ L I N K A G E Posts: 364 \| Registered: Saturday, January 17 2004 08:00
Graphics Contest Winners - Edited Terrains in Blades of Avernum
Dallerdin with a custom moniker. Shock Trooper Member # 3898	written Thursday, October 21 2004 03:16 Profile #6 In retrospect, I suppose I scored a bit harshly. Note to self : don't be so totally condemming in the future. You can't say you'll better anyway. And, of course, congrats to Big Blue and Kalinging, along with all the others. -------------------- ~Note : The professional newbie's advice should not be taken seriously, or at all.~ L I N K A G E Posts: 364 \| Registered: Saturday, January 17 2004 08:00
Spiderweb Software - One Year On in General
Dallerdin with a custom moniker. Shock Trooper Member # 3898	written Thursday, September 30 2004 18:41 Profile #13 Well, registered for about a year, I think, active for about a day in total time, lurked for about 2 years. -------------------- ~Note : The professional newbie's advice should not be taken seriously, or at all.~ L I N K A G E Posts: 364 \| Registered: Saturday, January 17 2004 08:00
Avernum 4 in General
Dallerdin with a custom moniker. Shock Trooper Member # 3898	written Wednesday, September 29 2004 19:20 Profile #35 The thought of an Avernum 4 makes me cringe. It seems to me as if Jeff is trying to make sure that no outside company will ever try to steal his BoA idea by making it so redundant, disliked, and just plain **y the way he tried to do to BoE. And if an Avernum 4 game was a prequel, then there would soon be an Avernum 5, an Avernum 6, (all prequels) an Avernum 7, 8, 9, (all sequels), and dear olf Jeff Vogel would suffer the same fate as a person who tried to do the same thing with a series of movies that rhymed with Car Wars. Let us all pray for a NG2, before we get a Bandit Busywork 2. [ Wednesday, September 29, 2004 19:46: Message edited by: Dallerdin ] -------------------- ~Note : The professional newbie's advice should not be taken seriously, or at all.~ L I N K A G E Posts: 364 \| Registered: Saturday, January 17 2004 08:00**
Extending Graphics Comp Deadline in Blades of Avernum
Dallerdin with a custom moniker. Shock Trooper Member # 3898	written Thursday, September 23 2004 02:59 Profile #59 I'm only moderately resurrecting this topic, but TM, did you get the pictures I sent you? Because I have recieved no confirmation... -------------------- ~Note : The professional newbie's advice should not be taken seriously, or at all.~ L I N K A G E Posts: 364 \| Registered: Saturday, January 17 2004 08:00
Xian Living tool in Geneforge Series
Dallerdin with a custom moniker. Shock Trooper Member # 3898	written Saturday, September 18 2004 01:22 Profile #25 You need to talk to the Septagenurian Eskimo locked in one of the chests in the Power Core. If you have a Leadership of 0, he will give you the Xian Servant Mind. Then, you kill him by having seven of your Pyroroamers attack him and explode on him, and get the broken goggles he drops. Pretend to fix them and give them to Trajkov, saying they are fixed. He will try to go swimming in the Geneforge, and then quickly throw the Xian Servant Mind in, causing the Geneforge to congeal into a credit card. Use it to lever up all the ovens in Kazg. One of them will be a secret passage leading to the cellar full of undead in RoR-BoA. From there, take the train underneath the prison back to New Formello in E3. [ Saturday, September 18, 2004 01:24: Message edited by: Dallerdin ] -------------------- ~Note : The professional newbie's advice should not be taken seriously, or at all.~ L I N K A G E Posts: 364 \| Registered: Saturday, January 17 2004 08:00
Xian Living tool in Geneforge 2
Dallerdin with a custom moniker. Shock Trooper Member # 3898	written Saturday, September 18 2004 01:22 Profile #25 You need to talk to the Septagenurian Eskimo locked in one of the chests in the Power Core. If you have a Leadership of 0, he will give you the Xian Servant Mind. Then, you kill him by having seven of your Pyroroamers attack him and explode on him, and get the broken goggles he drops. Pretend to fix them and give them to Trajkov, saying they are fixed. He will try to go swimming in the Geneforge, and then quickly throw the Xian Servant Mind in, causing the Geneforge to congeal into a credit card. Use it to lever up all the ovens in Kazg. One of them will be a secret passage leading to the cellar full of undead in RoR-BoA. From there, take the train underneath the prison back to New Formello in E3. [ Saturday, September 18, 2004 01:24: Message edited by: Dallerdin ] -------------------- ~Note : The professional newbie's advice should not be taken seriously, or at all.~ L I N K A G E Posts: 364 \| Registered: Saturday, January 17 2004 08:00
Magic and Progress in Blades of Avernum
Dallerdin with a custom moniker. Shock Trooper Member # 3898	written Tuesday, September 7 2004 23:54 Profile #31 quote: Originally written by Eric-Ihrno: [QB]I don't think that there will ever be magical progress, for the simple reason that magic is not like technology. Technology is a democratizing force because its fruits can be used by anyone. Magic, on the other hand, is an inherently centralizing force, because to use it you have to have spent years training as a mage (that is, you must be rich, well-educated, and priviledged). Any pesant soldier could use a gun if given one, but only a specially-trained mage could shoot fireballs. And you can't become a mage unless you get permission from the governmane and the magical elite. Therefore, I would expect that fantasy worlds involving magic don't change and progress the way the real world does. Rather, the world ends up under the thumb of a powerful elite and their hired mages. This sort of repressive society would stifle most people's creativity and fail to produce any technological progress, magical or otherwise. [QB] Tell me, has nobody on the entire board ever read a Tamora Pierce book? Or even played a game of D&D with a sorceror as a character? Or looked one of the thousands of other ideas in fiction of magic developing without special training : as in the "little kid gets angry and suddenly starts a forest fire" thing? I mean, even Harry Potter... Those kind of people would be the magical scientists in such a case as described by Eric-Ihrno. -------------------- ~Note : The professional newbie's advice should not be taken seriously, or at all.~ L I N K A G E Posts: 364 \| Registered: Saturday, January 17 2004 08:00
BoA Graphics Competition Question in Blades of Avernum Editor
Dallerdin with a custom moniker. Shock Trooper Member # 3898	written Tuesday, August 31 2004 04:47 Profile #2 Yes, I knew that one, as it happens, I was just wondering about how it would be accepted under the specific rules of the 1st BoA Scenario Graphics contest : i.e. : should I send it in under original graphic or edited graphic. From that, I am led to believe it is edited graphic. Thank you. -------------------- ~Note : The professional newbie's advice should not be taken seriously, or at all.~ L I N K A G E Posts: 364 \| Registered: Saturday, January 17 2004 08:00
BoA Graphics Competition Question in Blades of Avernum
Dallerdin with a custom moniker. Shock Trooper Member # 3898	written Tuesday, August 31 2004 04:47 Profile #2 Yes, I knew that one, as it happens, I was just wondering about how it would be accepted under the specific rules of the 1st BoA Scenario Graphics contest : i.e. : should I send it in under original graphic or edited graphic. From that, I am led to believe it is edited graphic. Thank you. -------------------- ~Note : The professional newbie's advice should not be taken seriously, or at all.~ L I N K A G E Posts: 364 \| Registered: Saturday, January 17 2004 08:00
BoA Graphics Competition Question in Blades of Avernum Editor
Dallerdin with a custom moniker. Shock Trooper Member # 3898	written Tuesday, August 31 2004 02:47 Profile #0 About the 1st Annual BoA Graphics competition : I'm an aspiring artist, and I'm wondering if a picture from BoA itself, modified slightly, like, (this is just an example), taking a picture of a Slith, modifying the colours and sending in a Fire Slith would be an Edited Graphic or an Original Graphic. Or, on a slightly more original note, taking a picture of a Slith, adding a few extra arms and a third leg (such that at least, say, 70% of the pixels were hand-drawn by you), and sending in a Mutated Slith - same question. Oh, and I'm not actually going to do either of those. There are already enough Slith variants. EDIT : Whoa! I'm a Journeyman! [ Tuesday, August 31, 2004 02:48: Message edited by: Dallerdin ] -------------------- ~Note : The professional newbie's advice should not be taken seriously, or at all.~ L I N K A G E Posts: 364 \| Registered: Saturday, January 17 2004 08:00
BoA Graphics Competition Question in Blades of Avernum
Dallerdin with a custom moniker. Shock Trooper Member # 3898	written Tuesday, August 31 2004 02:47 Profile #0 About the 1st Annual BoA Graphics competition : I'm an aspiring artist, and I'm wondering if a picture from BoA itself, modified slightly, like, (this is just an example), taking a picture of a Slith, modifying the colours and sending in a Fire Slith would be an Edited Graphic or an Original Graphic. Or, on a slightly more original note, taking a picture of a Slith, adding a few extra arms and a third leg (such that at least, say, 70% of the pixels were hand-drawn by you), and sending in a Mutated Slith - same question. Oh, and I'm not actually going to do either of those. There are already enough Slith variants. EDIT : Whoa! I'm a Journeyman! [ Tuesday, August 31, 2004 02:48: Message edited by: Dallerdin ] -------------------- ~Note : The professional newbie's advice should not be taken seriously, or at all.~ L I N K A G E Posts: 364 \| Registered: Saturday, January 17 2004 08:00
DwD - Vakhos' hidden weakness? in Blades of Avernum
Dallerdin with a custom moniker. Shock Trooper Member # 3898	written Saturday, June 12 2004 18:45 Profile #1 It's because, as far as I know, Cloud of Blades is the only spell that deals normal, ie, physical damage, like the damage you get when just attacking. So, if you just run up to him and hit him with a weapon, he should also take damage. It's not that he's VULNERABLE to Cloud of Blades, rather that he's RESISTANT to fire and ice and lightning and all that. (Although I haven't yet got up to that stage in DwtD, so I don't know.) -------------------- ~Note : The professional newbie's advice should not be taken seriously, or at all.~ L I N K A G E Posts: 364 \| Registered: Saturday, January 17 2004 08:00
We know about Geneforge 3...but what's next? in General
Dallerdin with a custom moniker. Shock Trooper Member # 3898	written Tuesday, June 8 2004 04:30 Profile #47 Okay, probably not Rogue. I'll give you that. Or Moria. Or Angband. And I doubt it for Nethack. But some of the more advenced ones hem ADOM hem... Sorry. I love ADOM and take the chance to advertise it every time a subject remotely related to it comes up. And it is role-playing. Your charactar actually has stats that are not related to fighting and killing stuff and items, you actually have an alignment, you actually interact with the world around you in ways unrelated to fighting and item gathering, the world reacts to you based upon the charecter you play. (Of course, it's not exactly as sophistocated as, say, Geneforge's system, but it's at least as good as Avernum 3's, without the complex conversations.) Not that I favor Geneforge over Avernum 3 that is! Not at all! And I apologise for my consistant poor spelling of charactar/character/charectar/charecter/the c word -------------------- ~Note : The professional newbie's advice should not be taken seriously, or at all.~ Posts: 364 \| Registered: Saturday, January 17 2004 08:00

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