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Originally written by Solodric:
That is good to know, considering I have so many ideas for Avernum. I truly and honestly want to make a full, complete and unabridged CEP (Community Expansion Pack) for BoA. I have a lot of ideas about little dangling plotlines and all. Start by making one scenario. Then we'll see.

I want to get into contact with Jeff and see if I can make a CEP and get it officialized so that it counts as part of the storyline I can tell you right now what his answer is going to be: no. Many scenarios have been made in BoE in the Exile universe, and I think it's fair to say that Jeff has never even played them, much less considered them part of his storyline. Be content with having it part of our community's accepted storyline, which it will be if it's good enough.

But again, trying making one scenario first. It's harder than you think.

Gah! Sorry about the double-post. There is an "edit" button for a reason, you know.

By the way, if the editor cant do those things now, is there any chance it will be updated to do it later?....or any chance that, if I find a way to improve the editor so that it can, I can submit it to be released as a patch? This is not possible. The issue is not with the BoA editor, which is open-source, but with the BoA app itself, which is not. BoA will never directly support special skills, although you can sometimes fake something like them with a Stuff Done Flag. (By the way, you get four custom abilities to work with, not just two, so you could actually add several new spells — especially because the best way to do new spells is to have them be items anyway.

and finally.....can I make new races in the editor? No. And you won't be able to make the editor do this no matter how hard you try. You could fake it by giving the party a bonus to certain skills and negatives to other skills and just telling them that they were a certain race, but you can't directly do this.

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Originally written by Solodric:
That is good to know, considering I have so many ideas for Avernum. I truly and honestly want to make a full, complete and unabridged CEP (Community Expansion Pack) for BoA. I have a lot of ideas about little dangling plotlines and all. Start by making one scenario. Then we'll see.

I want to get into contact with Jeff and see if I can make a CEP and get it officialized so that it counts as part of the storyline I can tell you right now what his answer is going to be: no. Many scenarios have been made in BoE in the Exile universe, and I think it's fair to say that Jeff has never even played them, much less considered them part of his storyline. Be content with having it part of our community's accepted storyline, which it will be if it's good enough.

But again, trying making one scenario first. It's harder than you think.

Gah! Sorry about the double-post. There is an "edit" button for a reason, you know.

By the way, if the editor cant do those things now, is there any chance it will be updated to do it later?....or any chance that, if I find a way to improve the editor so that it can, I can submit it to be released as a patch? This is not possible. The issue is not with the BoA editor, which is open-source, but with the BoA app itself, which is not. BoA will never directly support special skills, although you can sometimes fake something like them with a Stuff Done Flag. (By the way, you get four custom abilities to work with, not just two, so you could actually add several new spells — especially because the best way to do new spells is to have them be items anyway.

and finally.....can I make new races in the editor? No. And you won't be able to make the editor do this no matter how hard you try. You could fake it by giving the party a bonus to certain skills and negatives to other skills and just telling them that they were a certain race, but you can't directly do this.

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