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| Displayed name | The Immortal |
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| Homepage | http://www.geocities.com/terrorsmartyr/ |
| Registered | Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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| error in lockbox.txt script in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Monday, April 19 2004 18:13
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Error in lockbox.txt- ioweyou.txt could not be found? :P -------------------- * Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| Roses of Reckoning (BoA) is Released! in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Monday, April 19 2004 14:28
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The way I beat the scenario was, admittedly, fairly devious. My character was an archer with Natural Mage and Fast on Feet. He had no mage spells, but all of the priest spells up to Endurant Barrier (which I used often!). I used the make-one-monster-hostile trick to get the town's guards to massacre each other, allowing me to pick up their Crude Crossbows and Steel Bolts. Entering the encounters in combat mode helped. The four-ruby ambush was a killer for me. The method I used to keep my archer alive was summoning three shades, entering in combat mode (allowing me to skip a round of abuse) and just plain getting lucky with 5AP every so often. -------------------- * Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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written Monday, April 19 2004 12:07
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I beat RoR-BoA with a level 1 singleton. If you can't beat it with a level 1 party, it's no skin off of your nose to use a party up to level 6. That is, of course, what the scenario recommends. EDIT: And for reference, you should have enough energy potions in this scenario, if not an excess. (My singleton only used one in the entire scenario.) One of the ruby skeletons drops an energy potion, there are two energy potions in two of the crypts (which are way too easy to break into when the party gets Harold), and an energy potion in the library. Plus, each Vampire has a 15% chance to drop an energy potion. There are 20 Vampires total, meaning that you should have on average three energy potions from them. This means that you can have 4-24 energy potions in this scenario, and odds are you will have 7. (And that aside, why would a level 1 party need an elixir, anyway?) [ Monday, April 19, 2004 12:13: Message edited by: Tentacle Monster ] -------------------- * Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| A Small Rebellion: Guardian in "Stalker's" Dungeon in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Saturday, April 17 2004 21:00
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Bless your warriors and get your magi out of that room immediately. Let the guardians come to you, then run into them (and thusly attacking them.) -------------------- * Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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written Friday, April 16 2004 17:05
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You can try to port some of my scenarios if you want. Good luck, though- They're too complicated for someone who hasn't made any scenarios to port. Heck, I'm not even sure that I could port any of them anymore. -------------------- * Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| You dont have to read this Because It's just me being an Idiot in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Thursday, April 15 2004 18:41
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http://ghastly.keenspace.com/d/20020414.html ^_^ [ Thursday, April 15, 2004 18:43: Message edited by: Tentacle Monster ] -------------------- * Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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written Thursday, April 15 2004 15:46
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It's not a port, though. -_-; -------------------- * Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| Sissy teleporting punks in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Thursday, April 15 2004 09:25
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Well, let me put it this way- if you were the villain, would you die with honor if you had the chance to flee like a little girl? ;) Although you are right in some ways. A villain should be intrinsically tougher to beat, rather than become a recurring threat over and over again. -------------------- * Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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written Thursday, April 15 2004 09:22
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...wow :P Thanks bundles, Md. -------------------- * Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| More classical music and such... in General | |
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written Wednesday, April 14 2004 21:01
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I'm curious, how creative are classical composers? I won't argue for or against they're being geniuses, that's a futile exercize. What pushes me away from classical music (or at least, one of the things) is that the music is not just influenced but also restrained by the society in which it was made. Deviation would have resulted in open riot, and it did on at least one occasion, IIRC. Modern music is nothing but better for the Postmodern lack of restrictions on what is "good" or "bad", but ancient music never had the opportunity to be as truly creative (and dare I say perverse) with chord progressions as Steely Dan. Perhaps Beethoven would have been a beebop-rocker like Fagen. Perhaps not. PS- Romanticism sucks. -------------------- Rate My Scenarios! Streila Spies Unbalanced Accounts Inn of Blades Echoes Echoes: Assault Echoes: Black Horse Echoes: Pawns Bandits Echoes: Combat/Skirmish Two Strands Bandits II: Ballad of the Red Star Roses of Reckoning (BoE) Corporeus The Claim Roses of Reckoning (BoA) Nebulous Times Hence Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| It's a game in Blades of Avernum Editor | |
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written Wednesday, April 14 2004 20:10
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The editor is a word processor with graphics. -------------------- * Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| It's a game in Blades of Avernum | |
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The editor is a word processor with graphics. -------------------- * Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| Article - Designing Quality Towns in Blades of Avernum Editor | |
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written Wednesday, April 14 2004 19:34
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Stareye, rules are defined by their exceptions (everything is relative). I'd like to see how a town could advance a plot, because I haven't seen it in Blades to date. PS- Zeeqon? I'm glad to see that you're so entralled about paradigms of scenario design! Why not prove your point by putting somethign out? (Or will we only see your briliant ideas in your proffesional-grade RPG?) -------------------- * Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| Article - Designing Quality Towns in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Wednesday, April 14 2004 19:34
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Stareye, rules are defined by their exceptions (everything is relative). I'd like to see how a town could advance a plot, because I haven't seen it in Blades to date. PS- Zeeqon? I'm glad to see that you're so entralled about paradigms of scenario design! Why not prove your point by putting somethign out? (Or will we only see your briliant ideas in your proffesional-grade RPG?) -------------------- * Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, April 14 2004 17:42
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omg!!!! 8yrolds are hott -------------------- Rate My Scenarios! Streila Spies Unbalanced Accounts Inn of Blades Echoes Echoes: Assault Echoes: Black Horse Echoes: Pawns Bandits Echoes: Combat/Skirmish Two Strands Bandits II: Ballad of the Red Star Roses of Reckoning (BoE) Corporeus The Claim Roses of Reckoning (BoA) Nebulous Times Hence Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, April 14 2004 17:20
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Listening to classical music isn't an intellectual exercize. Trying to figure out Steely Dan is sheer torture if you aren't ready to spend hours on it. -------------------- Rate My Scenarios! Streila Spies Unbalanced Accounts Inn of Blades Echoes Echoes: Assault Echoes: Black Horse Echoes: Pawns Bandits Echoes: Combat/Skirmish Two Strands Bandits II: Ballad of the Red Star Roses of Reckoning (BoE) Corporeus The Claim Roses of Reckoning (BoA) Nebulous Times Hence Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
| Article - Designing Quality Towns in Blades of Avernum Editor | |
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written Wednesday, April 14 2004 13:03
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I still disagree with you: A town should be transient, much like a 5-minute quickie. Go in, get what you need, get out. Plots don't need towns, the notion of them is mostly superfluous. -------------------- * Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, April 14 2004 13:03
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I still disagree with you: A town should be transient, much like a 5-minute quickie. Go in, get what you need, get out. Plots don't need towns, the notion of them is mostly superfluous. -------------------- * Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, April 14 2004 11:16
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To put it simply, I disagree. What does a town do? It provides a hub for the rest of the adventure. An adventure doesn't need a town- see, for example, Bandits II. The amount of work I put into Birmington was, admittedly, pretty large, although only for porting a 48x48 town into the corner of a 64x64 one. Falling Stars' central city, Xabungle, has almost nothing to do with enhancing the plot. Only the important NPCs and events drive the plot, and rightfully so. A scenario isn't harmed by people commenting on what's going on, but it's not a prerequisite. In fact, I'd argue that if you spend too much time on town design, then you lose focus of the rest of the scenario. See, for example, A Gathering Storm. Nobody will dispute it- this scenario has some of the best town design to date. Essentially, that is the scenario's biggest flaw. It has been cited that even in Drizzt's Shadow of the Stranger, people lose track of the scenario when strolling about town. These are admittedly stretches, but each of those examples have towns that definitely contribute to the plot and are attached to it, but they themselves become too much of the plot. Mendor's tremendously large town was the reason why I have played it and probably never will- towns are not the point of a scenario. Make them, make them make sense, and then leave them. Plot advancement is the point of the scenario, not towns. I don't care if a town is nothing but people giving manufactured responses- Unless an important NPC is in a town, then I want nothing more out of a town than vital services (training, inns, et cetera) and maybe a small flash of life (ie. what the town is made mildly unique by). That's it. Now, have you ever wondered why Rhapsody In Blue will never get done? Hm? -------------------- * Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, April 14 2004 11:16
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To put it simply, I disagree. What does a town do? It provides a hub for the rest of the adventure. An adventure doesn't need a town- see, for example, Bandits II. The amount of work I put into Birmington was, admittedly, pretty large, although only for porting a 48x48 town into the corner of a 64x64 one. Falling Stars' central city, Xabungle, has almost nothing to do with enhancing the plot. Only the important NPCs and events drive the plot, and rightfully so. A scenario isn't harmed by people commenting on what's going on, but it's not a prerequisite. In fact, I'd argue that if you spend too much time on town design, then you lose focus of the rest of the scenario. See, for example, A Gathering Storm. Nobody will dispute it- this scenario has some of the best town design to date. Essentially, that is the scenario's biggest flaw. It has been cited that even in Drizzt's Shadow of the Stranger, people lose track of the scenario when strolling about town. These are admittedly stretches, but each of those examples have towns that definitely contribute to the plot and are attached to it, but they themselves become too much of the plot. Mendor's tremendously large town was the reason why I have played it and probably never will- towns are not the point of a scenario. Make them, make them make sense, and then leave them. Plot advancement is the point of the scenario, not towns. I don't care if a town is nothing but people giving manufactured responses- Unless an important NPC is in a town, then I want nothing more out of a town than vital services (training, inns, et cetera) and maybe a small flash of life (ie. what the town is made mildly unique by). That's it. Now, have you ever wondered why Rhapsody In Blue will never get done? Hm? -------------------- * Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, April 14 2004 10:54
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quote:Stop destroying Alec's fantasy world...! That said, I'm a huge proponent of Avernum's dialogue system. You couldn't possibly realize just how much control it offers us designers! I can control EVERYTHING about a conversation, it's insane! -------------------- * Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, April 13 2004 19:34
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oh no i found nephilim in the bible thats breaking jeffs copyrights SUE GOD! -------------------- Rate My Scenarios! Streila Spies Unbalanced Accounts Inn of Blades Echoes Echoes: Assault Echoes: Black Horse Echoes: Pawns Bandits Echoes: Combat/Skirmish Two Strands Bandits II: Ballad of the Red Star Roses of Reckoning (BoE) Corporeus The Claim Roses of Reckoning (BoA) Nebulous Times Hence Emerald Mountain Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, April 13 2004 19:26
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Beethozart ain't got nothin' on Fagen, Becker et al.  -------------------- Rate My Scenarios! Streila Spies Unbalanced Accounts Inn of Blades Echoes Echoes: Assault Echoes: Black Horse Echoes: Pawns Bandits Echoes: Combat/Skirmish Two Strands Bandits II: Ballad of the Red Star Roses of Reckoning (BoE) Corporeus The Claim Roses of Reckoning (BoA) Nebulous Times Hence Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, April 13 2004 17:05
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I still insist that Deacon was a minimally functional and sensical villain. :P -------------------- * Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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I still insist that Deacon was a minimally functional and sensical villain. :P -------------------- * Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |