Profile for Boots
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| Displayed name | Boots |
| Member number | 455 |
| Title | Shock Trooper |
| Postcount | 265 |
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| Registered | Saturday, December 29 2001 08:00 |
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| Jeebus I hate dealing with custom items. in Blades of Avernum | |
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Shock Trooper
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written Sunday, April 25 2004 15:18
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Already have, doesn't do much. The problem seems pretty clearly the result of operator negligence. -------------------- Forgive them, for they are young and rich and white. Posts: 265 | Registered: Saturday, December 29 2001 08:00 |
| Jeebus I hate dealing with custom items. in Blades of Avernum Editor | |
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Shock Trooper
Member # 455
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written Sunday, April 25 2004 14:22
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. . . . and a good place to find custom item scripts: look at the scenario data scripts for the prepackaged scenarios (i.e. valleydydata.txt). EDIT: By the way, spyderbytes, since you use the editor far more than I do: I've been assuming that I get the "out of memory" error because I'm doing sloppy and stupid swapping back and forth between BoA and the Editor (since quitting either usually eliminates the error), and not because there's an actual bug in the Editor. Have you run into the error? (If it happens, it does so the first time the Editor tries to load a new graphic.) [ Sunday, April 25, 2004 14:24: Message edited by: Boots ] -------------------- Forgive them, for they are young and rich and white. Posts: 265 | Registered: Saturday, December 29 2001 08:00 |
| Jeebus I hate dealing with custom items. in Blades of Avernum | |
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Shock Trooper
Member # 455
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written Sunday, April 25 2004 14:22
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. . . . and a good place to find custom item scripts: look at the scenario data scripts for the prepackaged scenarios (i.e. valleydydata.txt). EDIT: By the way, spyderbytes, since you use the editor far more than I do: I've been assuming that I get the "out of memory" error because I'm doing sloppy and stupid swapping back and forth between BoA and the Editor (since quitting either usually eliminates the error), and not because there's an actual bug in the Editor. Have you run into the error? (If it happens, it does so the first time the Editor tries to load a new graphic.) [ Sunday, April 25, 2004 14:24: Message edited by: Boots ] -------------------- Forgive them, for they are young and rich and white. Posts: 265 | Registered: Saturday, December 29 2001 08:00 |
| Jeebus I hate dealing with custom items. in Blades of Avernum Editor | |
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Shock Trooper
Member # 455
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written Sunday, April 25 2004 14:05
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To begin with, you probably need some quotation marks around the item's names. Beyond that, what exact error message do you mean by "won't recognize"? Some, such as that odd "out of memory" message, are easily fixed by quitting and restarting the Editor. -------------------- Forgive them, for they are young and rich and white. Posts: 265 | Registered: Saturday, December 29 2001 08:00 |
| Jeebus I hate dealing with custom items. in Blades of Avernum | |
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Shock Trooper
Member # 455
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written Sunday, April 25 2004 14:05
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To begin with, you probably need some quotation marks around the item's names. Beyond that, what exact error message do you mean by "won't recognize"? Some, such as that odd "out of memory" message, are easily fixed by quitting and restarting the Editor. -------------------- Forgive them, for they are young and rich and white. Posts: 265 | Registered: Saturday, December 29 2001 08:00 |
| Question: WTF is Icon Adjustment? in Blades of Avernum Editor | |
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Shock Trooper
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written Sunday, April 25 2004 08:18
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x_icon_adjust = color shift (with the prefix x = "fl," "cr," "it," etc.). See pp. 48-49 of the Editor Manual for the available color shift options you can employ. x_which_icon and x_ed_which_icon define an icon's location on the sheet defined by which_sheet or ed_which_sheet. See p. 48 for this as well. -------------------- Forgive them, for they are young and rich and white. Posts: 265 | Registered: Saturday, December 29 2001 08:00 |
| Question: WTF is Icon Adjustment? in Blades of Avernum | |
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Shock Trooper
Member # 455
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written Sunday, April 25 2004 08:18
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x_icon_adjust = color shift (with the prefix x = "fl," "cr," "it," etc.). See pp. 48-49 of the Editor Manual for the available color shift options you can employ. x_which_icon and x_ed_which_icon define an icon's location on the sheet defined by which_sheet or ed_which_sheet. See p. 48 for this as well. -------------------- Forgive them, for they are young and rich and white. Posts: 265 | Registered: Saturday, December 29 2001 08:00 |
| Once again... in Blades of Avernum | |
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Shock Trooper
Member # 455
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written Saturday, April 24 2004 16:07
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Man, I wish I could blame my stupidity on drunkeness! Where exactly are you stuck in the Z sewers? Have you released the flood of water yet? -------------------- Forgive them, for they are young and rich and white. Posts: 265 | Registered: Saturday, December 29 2001 08:00 |
| Once again... in Blades of Avernum | |
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Shock Trooper
Member # 455
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written Saturday, April 24 2004 15:52
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[Evidence of Boots' inability to understand plain English edited out.] [ Saturday, April 24, 2004 16:08: Message edited by: Boots ] -------------------- Forgive them, for they are young and rich and white. Posts: 265 | Registered: Saturday, December 29 2001 08:00 |
| Suicide and so on in General | |
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Shock Trooper
Member # 455
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written Saturday, April 24 2004 14:40
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Avant que le Seigneur n'ait créé la mer et la terre, Il tenait toutes les étoiles dans le creux de sa main, Et ell coulèrent entre ses doigts, comme des grains de sable, Et une petite étoile tomba toute seule. Alors le Seigneur chercha dans l'air de la blanche nuit La petite étoile sombre sur le vent d'ici-bas. Et il déclara et promit Qu'il ferait bien attention De ne plus la perdre. L'homme ne s'inquiète pas Que les étoiles pâlissent Et que les nuages viennent Au-dessus de lui l'assombrir, Tant que le Seigneur veille, S'assurant que tout va bien. Mais j'ai marché jour et nuit Jusqu'à ce que mes yeux soient las Et que mes cheveux deviennent gris, Et il semble parfois Que Dieu pourrait bien être parti Oubliant la promesse Qu'on l'avait entendu faire, Et que nous sommes perdus Ici dans les étoiles. Petites étoiles, grandes étoiles, Emportées dans la nuit, Et que nous sommes perdus Ici dans les étoiles, Petites étoiles, grandes étoiles Emportées dans la nuit. Et que nous sommes perdus Ici dans les étoiles. Texte: Maxwell Anderson. -------------------- Winter comes: game over -- he's in the driveway removing snow with a flame-thrower. Posts: 265 | Registered: Saturday, December 29 2001 08:00 |
| Roses of Reckoning (BoA) is Released! in Blades of Avernum | |
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Shock Trooper
Member # 455
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written Saturday, April 24 2004 08:42
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Level 3 spell cap does not apply in BoA. -------------------- Forgive them, for they are young and rich and white. Posts: 265 | Registered: Saturday, December 29 2001 08:00 |
| Turns out.... in General | |
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Shock Trooper
Member # 455
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written Wednesday, April 21 2004 16:39
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John Milton was a derivative bureaucrat paid to gloss political killings in decorous Latin, a job for which his sole previous experience was turning the proceeds of his father's usury towards perfecting himself in the many languages of sophistry. He never wrote a decent line that wasn't lifted from Spenser, Shakespeare, Virgil or Lucan; at Cambridge, his nickname was "The Lady," and his first wife fled to her parents' home within two months of their wedding. His contemporaries denounced him for a pervert and a libertine, and he had the presumption to return the compliment by delivering them with puritanical lessons in morality justifying divorce. When more courageous partisans of the revolutionary cause he claimed to support went to jail or death rather than renounce it, he skulked into "artistic" retirement and mealy-mouthed out a poem which lacks the conviction even to admit it has abandoned revolution. That twaddling Romantics could not think their way beyond his example is all one needs to know about Romanticism, as well as about the British need to innoculate future Indian colonial functionaries with an author arbitrarily chosen to be the civilizing well of English undefiled. Furthermore, he made F.R. Leavis very sad. And above all, he'd be more likely to accept that description than he would a Telegraph reader patting him on the head for showing himself an "extremely good wordsmith." -------------------- Winter comes: game over -- he's in the driveway removing snow with a flame-thrower. Posts: 265 | Registered: Saturday, December 29 2001 08:00 |
| What movies made a big impression on you? in General | |
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Shock Trooper
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written Wednesday, April 21 2004 12:15
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Lugubrious Campion flick Hollywood's favorite statuatory rapist makes himself safe for the drawing room Something else entirely [ Wednesday, April 21, 2004 12:17: Message edited by: Boots ] -------------------- Winter comes: game over -- he's in the driveway removing snow with a flame-thrower. Posts: 265 | Registered: Saturday, December 29 2001 08:00 |
| What movies made a big impression on you? in General | |
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Shock Trooper
Member # 455
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written Wednesday, April 21 2004 11:28
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Then there's always The Piano Teacher (La Pianiste) . . . . [ Wednesday, April 21, 2004 12:18: Message edited by: Boots ] -------------------- Winter comes: game over -- he's in the driveway removing snow with a flame-thrower. Posts: 265 | Registered: Saturday, December 29 2001 08:00 |
| Roses of Reckoning (BoA) is Released! in Blades of Avernum | |
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Shock Trooper
Member # 455
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written Wednesday, April 21 2004 08:30
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I might be able to defeat a wet paper bag. On points. If you gave me twelve rounds. And, in the interests of testing RoR for "balance," I took those combat stupids and applied them to the weakest party of four that I -- or rather, the pre-packaged character types -- could design (didn't have Enduring Barrier, among other things). Even with all that against me, I only had trouble in one fight, and that trouble arose because outdoor fights in Blades are badly conceived in a number of ways, so the fault, if it is one, is not entirely TM's. And I'm not sure TM plays singletons to test for balance. I believe he plays them to confirm Alcritas' suggestions about his parentage. -------------------- Forgive them, for they are young and rich and white. Posts: 265 | Registered: Saturday, December 29 2001 08:00 |
| Calls that we wish existed in Blades of Avernum Editor | |
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Shock Trooper
Member # 455
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written Tuesday, April 20 2004 08:51
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The point is that an item given it_variety = 9 should NEVER combine with anything of the same type, at least according to the Editor docs, p. 61, so it_variety = 9 does not seem to work as advertised. [ Tuesday, April 20, 2004 08:52: Message edited by: Boots ] -------------------- Forgive them, for they are young and rich and white. Posts: 265 | Registered: Saturday, December 29 2001 08:00 |
| Calls that we wish existed in Blades of Avernum | |
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Shock Trooper
Member # 455
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written Tuesday, April 20 2004 08:51
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The point is that an item given it_variety = 9 should NEVER combine with anything of the same type, at least according to the Editor docs, p. 61, so it_variety = 9 does not seem to work as advertised. [ Tuesday, April 20, 2004 08:52: Message edited by: Boots ] -------------------- Forgive them, for they are young and rich and white. Posts: 265 | Registered: Saturday, December 29 2001 08:00 |
| VoDT: Steal the waveblade? in Blades of Avernum | |
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Shock Trooper
Member # 455
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written Friday, April 16 2004 13:11
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Sorry -- we're talking at cross purposes -- I meant only the flaming sword, which Alorael was discussing in the post before my first. Fine waveblade is a fine thing. I've found it about equal to the dagger (provided I'm not playing with the fighter who dumped everything that should've gone into assassination into strength and other bonus-producing skills), but I feel much cleaner using the waveblade or the blessed longsword. EDIT: I'm fairly sure the assassin's dagger doesn't increase your chances of assassinating at all. But in a high level Vogel scenario, where battles are typically by volume or attrition, you're likely to assassinate everything -- sometimes including major NPCs -- so the damage bonus proves almost automatic. [ Friday, April 16, 2004 13:34: Message edited by: Boots ] -------------------- Forgive them, for they are young and rich and white. Posts: 265 | Registered: Saturday, December 29 2001 08:00 |
| VoDT: Steal the waveblade? in Blades of Avernum | |
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Shock Trooper
Member # 455
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written Friday, April 16 2004 12:53
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Thruyl: That was one of them. What are you counting as base damage? The raw base of the assassin's dagger is higher, isn't it?. I found the difference in "base" bonuses consistently significant only at higher levels. But since JV tends to juice up combat difficulty with quantity rather than quality, the dagger's skill bonuses were ultimately of even greater significance in actual play at those levels, resulting in 40-70 more damage from the dagger, depending on the opponent. (So obviously, scenario design skews the comparison: that figure is from Z-K Run; I sold the flaming sword, so I can't quickly test, say, DwD.) The sword's flame bonus is meaningless. Not that I think that dagger is a good idea -- handing a growing party that many free skill points is a disaster for balance. -------------------- Forgive them, for they are young and rich and white. Posts: 265 | Registered: Saturday, December 29 2001 08:00 |
| VoDT: Steal the waveblade? in Blades of Avernum | |
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Shock Trooper
Member # 455
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written Friday, April 16 2004 11:11
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There are daggers that are better than that flaming sword. -------------------- Forgive them, for they are young and rich and white. Posts: 265 | Registered: Saturday, December 29 2001 08:00 |
| DwtD: Spectral Warrens level in Blades of Avernum | |
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Shock Trooper
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written Thursday, April 15 2004 12:06
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They do keep coming as long as you're near one of the spawn points. Just continue to move. Once you find the big V, who hangs out along the west-south-western wall, your spawning problems will be at an end (there may another way of accomplishing this, too: I was too impatient by this point in the scen. to deal with everything in the SE corner of the map). -------------------- Forgive them, for they are young and rich and white. Posts: 265 | Registered: Saturday, December 29 2001 08:00 |
| Celts in Annwn in Nethergate | |
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Shock Trooper
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written Thursday, April 15 2004 12:01
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Again, my memory is hazy, but I believe you need only make it to the Hall of Judgment and stand at the dock. So don't try to kill off the hordes, just keep moving forward in each combat round and hack a way through them. -------------------- Forgive them, for they are young and rich and white. Posts: 265 | Registered: Saturday, December 29 2001 08:00 |
| Celts in Annwn in Nethergate | |
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Shock Trooper
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written Thursday, April 15 2004 01:49
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This is happening on the battlefield itself? If so, stick to the north or south wall, particularly as you approach the middle (there are little bypasses there). If it's not happening there, you'll have to wait for somebody with a better memory to post. -------------------- Forgive them, for they are young and rich and white. Posts: 265 | Registered: Saturday, December 29 2001 08:00 |
| Really Minor Bugs in Blades of Avernum | |
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Shock Trooper
Member # 455
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written Thursday, April 15 2004 00:58
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I wouldn't oppose fixing a corollary of this "feature": fields left over after their generating monsters are dead (say the ice walls left by ice puddings in ASR's drake lair) are not blocked for the purposes of determining a party's placement upon leaving combat. So in cramped layouts, long retreats are often required to prevent your PCs taking more damage exiting a fight than fighting it. I suppose a DEAD_STATE could be used to pull of an ugly solution. -------------------- Forgive them, for they are young and rich and white. Posts: 265 | Registered: Saturday, December 29 2001 08:00 |
| More classical music and such... in General | |
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Shock Trooper
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written Thursday, April 15 2004 00:27
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Alec, do you ever listen to the baroque violinist Rachel Podger? Her performances -- esp. unaccompanied Bach and Telemann -- got me liking what never did much for me before, but I'm a strategically-shaved chimp on these subjects. Speaking of which, TM, though your virtues are many and estimable, you have the musical sense of a divorced 55-year-old school psychologist whom no amount of baldness will make abandon his pony tail. Why not dabble in the early works of Genesis while you're at it? Or Magma? -------------------- Winter comes: game over -- he's in the driveway removing snow with a flame-thrower. Posts: 265 | Registered: Saturday, December 29 2001 08:00 |