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Naturally, I'm sure this has been proposed before. in General
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quote:
Originally written by Citizen of Exile's Arrest:

Consider: Avernum's story revolves around killing things, basically. There's a plot, but there's not much of a plot. There are very few real characters. A novel would be barely recognizable as Avernum or terrible or both.

—Alorael, who does think the world of Avernum could be used as the setting for a good story or two. It's just that the games aren't those stories.

I agree that telling the story as your PC plays it would never work well, but I think Exile's plot is solid enough that a good author could do a decent job of making it the underlying plot of a book and still have it come out as recognizably Exile.

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The 4.5986th Chocolate of Last Week Pageant in Richard White Games
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All our candidates all gave us beautiful performances and now it's time for us to judge which will be crowned the winner.

My vote goes to milk chocolate for it's stunning evening wear and the delightful way it so squeakily de-lubricates one's implants.

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Collections in General
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Build a boat!

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Inventions in General
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If I added a length of coiled copper wire between the two rings...

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...could I generate electricity directly? I don't recall exactly how magnets and copper wire can be made to generate electric current, but I'm fairly certain they can.

EDIT:

And why monopoles? Wouldn't this work?

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Inventions in General
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I have no experience in magnetics or electricity, but I had an idea for generating power with two cylinders with magnets attached to them.

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The Refuge in Geneforge Series
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For the sake of exploring every tiny bit of the game, at one point or another I kill absolutely everything to see what they give me or how it affects the game. I killed them once and saw all they have is crap, so I tend to leave them alone now.

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What continent do you live on? (in which the voices take over) in General
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Maybe his voices have multiple personalities.

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Red Rain in India in General
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Martian snot.

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In this topic, I celebrate my inability to shut up. in General
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quote:
Originally written by Come On Pilgrim:
Track 4:
What exactly is the unholy history of bread?
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These pretzels are making me thirsty. in General
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Is Mr. Ross George's fiancee's father?

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I'm back. Finally. in General
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Visions of the future. (was: It's my turn to spam.) in General
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Character Names in Geneforge Series
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My first play-through I always have shaper in blue named Alex. For everything else I pick or make up the names at random until I find one I like the sound of or seems to fit.

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Dreams in General
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I don't remember any dreams from last night, but a couple days ago I did have a very enjoyable lucid dream. However, like others, it would rather violate the CoC.

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Fluffy Turtles : The origins in General
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Church of the Nine-Headed Cave Cow in General
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Hmm...I'm not sure if I'm vaguely honored, highly disturbed, or ready to call a Rwoly war upon you.

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Church of the Nine-Headed Cave Cow in General
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A Few More Advance Words On Geneforge 4 in Geneforge Series
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On playing as a servile:

I think it would fun if you could be one of those serviles that gains magic by focusing until you drive yourself insane.

On balance of the classes:

I, personally, think they're balanced just fine. As some one said, it's a matter of how skilled and/or knowledgeable a player you are. Agents just seem to be the class most people are finding the secrets and strategies on the easiest.

For example, as a Shaper in GF2, put a little in leadership, a little in magic shaping and from this point on ALL SP into Intelligence, enter combat mode, run through the areas challenging no one, join the awakened, train in Vlish, if you know where to look grab a Vlish canister, make a vlish, go back to easy areas and nothing will be able to stand in it's way even on Torment, gain a couple lvls and now you have enough essence to make a Terror Vlish which will frighten away the mid level enemies it can't kill, continue to grab a few easy lvls till you have 125 essence, learn to make a Gazer and grab a Gazer canister, lvl till you have 250 essence, make an eyebeast.

Now every time you enter combat mode BAM! everything in sight is dead, or stunned long enough for to take your second turn and BAM! now it's dead. The only things you can't take on are the really higher lvl swarms of enemies, and you can take on even them if know the right strategies. By lvl 4 you can have a terror vlish, by 10 a Gazer, and by 16 an eyebeast. All of them less if you know where to sneak into to grab intelligence canisters and intelligence/shaping enhancing items.

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A Few Advance Notes On Geneforge 4 in Geneforge Series
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Long before A4 came out I proposed "Vahnatai Creationism Theory With A Twist" in General, I don't feel like looking for it though.

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International Imitation Day in General
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quote:
Originally written by Major:

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Deux Mille in General
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Guess What in General
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Stereotypically Yours in General
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I probably have a stereotype, but I'm not really sure what it would be.

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Geneforge 4 spells in Geneforge Series
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If Jeff gets rid of Unlock I'm going to incite a riot. I seriously considered doing so when he turned Unlock Doors to crap in Avernum.

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Originally written by MagmaDragoon:

Seriously, I don't think that Jeff will delete the old spells. Why you think this?
Look at Avernum. Jeff has already set the precedent of removing spells. I am hoping for reasurance.

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