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Displayed name	Ephesos
Member number	4153
Title	Law Bringer
Postcount	4130
Homepage	http://www.freewebs.com/ephesos
Registered	Friday, March 26 2004 08:00

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8000: Pseudoscience Postravaganza in General
Ephesos Law Bringer Member # 4153	written Saturday, December 9 2006 10:24 Profile Homepage #11 Yay! Alex's sticks are back! -------------------- Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice. I hate undead. I really, really, really, really hate undead. With a passion. Posts: 4130 \| Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00
Avernum 5 Early, Early Notes in Avernum 4
Ephesos Law Bringer Member # 4153	written Saturday, December 9 2006 10:22 Profile Homepage #50 quote: Originally written by i: I think simplicity is a virtue with the spell library. Although I would like to see a greater number of scripted monster special spells.* Seconded. There's no reason for aranea to cast the same spells as people... and as Lenar said, über-powerful mages/priests should have different spells to which mere adventurers can't devote enough time to learn. A4 had some good examples of this, like Nociduas' infamous demon-summoning (finally, good summoning!) and even the fear wand on the leader of the Loyalists (despite how much of a cop-out it was). And let's not forget X's anvil spell. :P -------------------- Thuryl: "Runescape: for people who are too stupid to save their games." Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice. Posts: 4130 \| Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00
The Future of Blades of Avernum in Blades of Avernum Editor
Ephesos Law Bringer Member # 4153	written Saturday, December 9 2006 10:15 Profile Homepage #15 sigh... It seems that I arrived in the community one series too late. This is really pretty depressing. I mean, 1 and 2 are uplifting to a degree. 3 is sad, but manageable. 4 is downright depressing. And I also can't quite believe that BoA didn't sell well. Perhaps at some point in the future Jeff could collect the cream of the BoA crop and sell them on CD... didn't something similar happen with BoE? I mean, it'd give a much better impression of the game itself. Then again, I suppose there'd be the issue of whether or not to compensate the designers... Oh well. If A4 kept the company alive, then huzzah. Here's to A5! EDIT: I just wish there was some way to stay more involved with the canon, I guess... designing for BoA really made it feel like there was more of a community surrounding the Avernum games. That said, I won't stop designing. Meh, I guess I'll just have to apply to help betatest. [ Saturday, December 09, 2006 10:20: Message edited by: Ephesos ] -------------------- Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice. I hate undead. I really, really, really, really hate undead. With a passion. Posts: 4130 \| Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00
8000: Pseudoscience Postravaganza in General
Ephesos Law Bringer Member # 4153	written Friday, December 8 2006 15:37 Profile Homepage #2 Ooh! Ooh! Do Biological Radiation! -------------------- Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice. I hate undead. I really, really, really, really hate undead. With a passion. Posts: 4130 \| Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00
Avernum 5 Early, Early Notes in Avernum 4
Ephesos Law Bringer Member # 4153	written Friday, December 8 2006 15:35 Profile Homepage #28 Yay boats! quote: Originally written by Spidweb: "Now all that's missing is secret passages. Wall bumping plz!" Nope. Okay, fine. As long as there are secret passages in some form... Nature/Cave Lore triggers, or maybe just Luck. They definitely added to the atmosphere of previous Avernums in an amazing way. quote: Originally written by Spidweb: One of the nice things about setting a game is the underworld is, dude, there are always more caves. :-) Yay! That's what I had been hoping for. -------------------- Thuryl: "Runescape: for people who are too stupid to save their games." Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice. Posts: 4130 \| Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00
Jeff Vogel & BoA in Blades of Avernum
Ephesos Law Bringer Member # 4153	written Friday, December 8 2006 15:28 Profile Homepage #7 Top priority in my mind is bugs. I doubt he'll want to try and make new scenarios, given that he's intent on continuing Avernum and Geneforge. But yeah... bug fixes would be wonderful. -------------------- Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice. I hate undead. I really, really, really, really hate undead. With a passion. Posts: 4130 \| Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00
Avernum 5 Early, Early Notes in Avernum 4
Ephesos Law Bringer Member # 4153	written Friday, December 8 2006 08:46 Profile Homepage #6 To all that was said: Yay! I look forward to the continued speculation, and I'm glad to see that Jeff is excited about making it. That means it'll get finished that much faster. quote: Originally written by The Lurker: What about boats? I'm curious about this as well. -------------------- Thuryl: "Runescape: for people who are too stupid to save their games." Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice. Posts: 4130 \| Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00
Jeff Vogel & BoA in Blades of Avernum
Ephesos Law Bringer Member # 4153	written Friday, December 8 2006 08:36 Profile Homepage #5 quote: Originally written by Nemesis: quote: Originally written by Emperor Tullegolar: Anyone else get an image in their heads of Jeff as Professor X in some kind of huge Blades of Exile Cerebro? Jeff Vogel, the omnipresent. How… unsettling. Don't you mean omniscient? If he were omnipresent, he'd just have a lot of cameos, most likely Generic Dungeon-style. I really don't care if he plays them, I just wish he'd show the game itself a bit of love... [ Friday, December 08, 2006 08:38: Message edited by: Ephesos ] -------------------- Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice. I hate undead. I really, really, really, really hate undead. With a passion. Posts: 4130 \| Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00
Avernum 5 Ideas in Avernum 4
Ephesos Law Bringer Member # 4153	written Thursday, December 7 2006 22:52 Profile Homepage #41 quote: Originally written by MidniteNightingale: I'd like to see the clearance system return, ala Exile/Avernum 2. The whole Magi/Royal Clearance thing was pretty rewarding, it gave you more of a reason to return to previous areas, and I felt a greater sense of accomplishment when I returned to said areas. I agree... I really liked that system, and I missed it in A4. Even just something like A3's occasional uses of reputation were nice... I just want reputation back. -------------------- Thuryl: "Runescape: for people who are too stupid to save their games." Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice. Posts: 4130 \| Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00
Avernum 5 Ideas in Avernum 4
Ephesos Law Bringer Member # 4153	written Tuesday, December 5 2006 20:13 Profile Homepage #5 I'd honestly rather see JV fix BoA first... (waits for laughter to stop) Right... I'd kind of like to see elevation come back. And it might benefit the game to break out of the same section of Avernum used in 1, 2, and 4... particularly after how 4's engine change crunched most of it down. I'd also like to see an explanation for how Fort Ganrick, Grindstone, Fort Monastery, and their ilk keep messing up the continuity of the game. :P -------------------- Thuryl: "Runescape: for people who are too stupid to save their games." Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice. Posts: 4130 \| Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00
Episode 3: A New Game in General
Ephesos Law Bringer Member # 4153	written Tuesday, December 5 2006 16:33 Profile Homepage #741 Wow... using the PPP and flood control. :D I'm seriously impressed. -------------------- Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice. I hate undead. I really, really, really, really hate undead. With a passion. Posts: 4130 \| Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00
"The Order of Operations" in Blades of Avernum Editor
Ephesos Law Bringer Member # 4153	written Tuesday, December 5 2006 16:28 Profile Homepage #1 Well, it depends on what kind of story you're shooting for. For something fairly linear, like DoK was, I like to just work on towns in the order that they appear in the plot. EoR was a bit different for me, because I knew the plot was going to be a bit twisty. In that, I just kept flipping between scripts as they were called upon in the plot, occasionally going back to ones I'd believed to be finished to work on a new element of the plot. However, for something like what I'm working on now, I don't have a plot yet. So I'm making skeletons of all the outdoors and friendly towns first, and worrying about what happens later. I don't recommend this... I have no idea where I'm going with it yet. If nothing else, it'll look cool, and then I could give it to someone else to do something with. -------------------- Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice. I hate undead. I really, really, really, really hate undead. With a passion. Posts: 4130 \| Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00
OoC Thread for "An RP in the World of Avernum... Reloaded" in General
Ephesos Law Bringer Member # 4153	written Monday, December 4 2006 08:52 Profile Homepage #433 sigh... TM's out? Okay, right... I'll try to think up a way to dispose of the rakshasi without any deus ex machina nonsense... -------------------- Thuryl: "Runescape: for people who are too stupid to save their games." Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice. Posts: 4130 \| Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00
The abominable winter photo thread! in General
Ephesos Law Bringer Member # 4153	written Monday, December 4 2006 08:45 Profile Homepage #39 That black furry hat... it looks like you took one of these: ...and glued it to a regular hat after spray-painting it black. -------------------- Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice. I hate undead. I really, really, really, really hate undead. With a passion. Posts: 4130 \| Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00
ItSoD in Blades of Avernum
Ephesos Law Bringer Member # 4153	written Monday, December 4 2006 08:41 Profile Homepage #4 First off, it looks fairly good so far, Nemesis. I look forward to beta-testing it, though I could probably suggest a few things about terrain that I noticed in the screenshots. Nioca, no need for the condescending attitude... not sure if you meant it that way, but that's what I saw. Either way, the sparkles would be fairly easy. You'd just have to make a creature script identical to basicnpc, just putting a put_sparkles_on_char(ME, which_sfx, num_sparkles) in the start_state. Then, you'd probably want to add a counter, just so that the sparkles every turn didn't get distracting. Hm... just so you know, the title on your page isn't working correctly... I see <FONT FACE> tags in it. -------------------- Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice. I hate undead. I really, really, really, really hate undead. With a passion. Posts: 4130 \| Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00
Item Question in Blades of Avernum
Ephesos Law Bringer Member # 4153	written Sunday, December 3 2006 14:46 Profile Homepage #1 Okay, here's what you do, because I can't remember and it seems like you're being lazy: -In each scenario folder, there will be a text file that ends in data.txt. -Open the file, and search for "Crystal Wand" -Repeat until you find it. -------------------- Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice. I hate undead. I really, really, really, really hate undead. With a passion. Posts: 4130 \| Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00
OoC Thread for "An RP in the World of Avernum... Reloaded" in General
Ephesos Law Bringer Member # 4153	written Sunday, December 3 2006 13:52 Profile Homepage #424 Um... I have a slight objection. TM's rakshasi are the current force for eliminating dead factions, and it's much easier to use what we've already got on the table instead of introducing yet another alien invader. That, and the Parasites feel even farther from canon than TM's conception of rakshasi, and at least they have a sort of momentum behind them. Besides, we can't just forget about the rakshasi. -------------------- Thuryl: "Runescape: for people who are too stupid to save their games." Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice. Posts: 4130 \| Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00
The abominable winter photo thread! in General
Ephesos Law Bringer Member # 4153	written Sunday, December 3 2006 12:39 Profile Homepage #18 quote: Originally written by Thuryl: It's summer here. This would be nicer if I didn't have to be outside cutting down trees in the middle of the day. Heh... here they just seem to fall over. But seriously, we've had trees falling and dropping branches here for a few days, and I'm sick of it. It ruins the amazingly awesome beauty of the ice. Anyway, now it's just cold. -------------------- Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice. I hate undead. I really, really, really, really hate undead. With a passion. Posts: 4130 \| Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00
All good things must come to an end... in General
Ephesos Law Bringer Member # 4153	written Sunday, December 3 2006 12:34 Profile Homepage #67 Imagine what the world would be like if we all stuck to our resolutions... everybody would stop smoking, lose a hundred pounds, give more money to charity... and the economy would collapse. :P Welcome back, then. (The shark line was the funniest part of this thread) -------------------- Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice. I hate undead. I really, really, really, really hate undead. With a passion. Posts: 4130 \| Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00
An RP in the World of Avernum Reloaded in General
Ephesos Law Bringer Member # 4153	written Saturday, December 2 2006 23:14 Profile Homepage #345 I am also willing to continue, though it will require a bit of conferring with Infernal and TM, since a lot of our plotlines overlapped... For future Out of Context posts, please see this thread, which was set aside to keep this one from getting needlessly cluttered, just like it is now. :D Aran-Edit: Please also check in the OOC before making any new IC posts here or (heavens beware) entering with a new faction. [ Sunday, December 03, 2006 04:07: Message edited by: Arancaytar ] -------------------- Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice. I hate undead. I really, really, really, really hate undead. With a passion. Posts: 4130 \| Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00
All good things must come to an end... in General
Ephesos Law Bringer Member # 4153	written Saturday, December 2 2006 23:11 Profile Homepage #58 Right, since I didn't quite say it before, I shall miss you as well, Alo. The boards just won't be the same without the imminent threat of being sniped. -------------------- Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice. I hate undead. I really, really, really, really hate undead. With a passion. Posts: 4130 \| Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00
New Bond Movie in General
Ephesos Law Bringer Member # 4153	written Saturday, December 2 2006 23:08 Profile Homepage #30 quote: Originally written by Tyranicus: I actually enjoyed 'The World is not Enough,' but I agree with you on 'Die Another Day'. 'The World Is Not Enough' gets way too much airtime on the holiday Bond marathons... and it's just not that good. 'For Your Eyes Only' is just the best. -------------------- Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice. I hate undead. I really, really, really, really hate undead. With a passion. Posts: 4130 \| Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00
Episode 3: A New Game in General
Ephesos Law Bringer Member # 4153	written Saturday, December 2 2006 23:05 Profile Homepage #718 Hm... I see a huge horde of crickets and roaches swarming over an open field full of rats. :D Filth Filcher and Muck Mover! -------------------- Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice. I hate undead. I really, really, really, really hate undead. With a passion. Posts: 4130 \| Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00
For Judges in Blades of Avernum
Ephesos Law Bringer Member # 4153	written Saturday, December 2 2006 22:58 Profile Homepage #6 Eh, as long as somebody else works out all the math, I'm fine with it. Personally, I plan on just doing the ones I was assigned... and I'd suggest that everyone do the same. -------------------- Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice. I hate undead. I really, really, really, really hate undead. With a passion. Posts: 4130 \| Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00
The abominable winter photo thread! in General
Ephesos Law Bringer Member # 4153	written Friday, December 1 2006 19:25 Profile Homepage #6 Hey, that's our weather front! We had it first! :P Yeah, I'm not sure what's up with nasty storms and StL lately... haven't seen anything like that storm in years. I mean, except the thunderstorms we had over the summer... but nothing with ice. -------------------- Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice. I hate undead. I really, really, really, really hate undead. With a passion. Posts: 4130 \| Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00

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