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BUGS! in Blades of Avernum
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Attention Criminals! in General
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The second weekly international spiderweb contest will now begin in General
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 written Sunday, April 17 2005 12:23 Profile Homepage #6
Galactic Core is probably the worst thing they have (tied closely with that island thingie and Homeland, although I use a Mac), although I'd rather see Geneforge undone the most.

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The International Contest of Spider Games shall now commence! in General
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 written Saturday, April 16 2005 13:15 Profile Homepage #5
Blades of Avernum has ~10 scenarios. Blades of Exile has over 300 scenarios, and over five times as many quality scenarios than exist for BoA period.

(And don't even TRY to argue that BoA reviewers are harsher than BoE ones.)

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The International Contest of Spider Games shall now commence! in General
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 written Saturday, April 16 2005 11:40 Profile Homepage #2
Blades of Exile.

No contest, even though the GF series has an odd habit of attracting a wide swath the internet's special education population. +300 scenarios, many of which are large, above the quality of anything done by JV, and also very fun. Extreme technical devotion, nitpicking amongst community members and innovative gameplay make BoE the best buy ever.

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Most Notorious Weapons in Blades of Avernum
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 written Saturday, April 16 2005 08:20 Profile Homepage #19
I figured out the error- you said that you DIDN'T want the sword first, and THEN bought two for the price of one thereafter.

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Moderator Board - What are they up to? in General
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 written Saturday, April 16 2005 07:00 Profile Homepage #15
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Originally written by Tierra, humo, polvo, sombra, nada:

TM's Krazy Kwilting Korner lives on!
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Most Notorious Weapons in Blades of Avernum
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 written Saturday, April 16 2005 06:58 Profile Homepage #17
I call your bluff. Getting both swords is impossible without dicking around with the scripts.

[ Monday, April 18, 2005 03:23: Message edited by: Le Martyre de la Terreur ]

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canopy (this is weird)(and funny) in Blades of Avernum
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 written Saturday, April 16 2005 06:49 Profile Homepage #27
I disagree with this- thus my making the Artifacts Hall.

Honestly, the HLPM makes pitifully weak parties. Bahssikava, for instance, cannot be realistically (or at least *enjoyably*) beaten by a level 30-40 party without being artifact-blessed. Furthermore, EM was designed exclusively to bypass ZKR- which is why its artifacts are so incredibly out of line by comparison.

There are "curves" of items and spell levels in BoA which is made by JV's scenarios. (And even though JV has problems with his scenarios, balance of artifacts is not one of 'em.) EM is purposefully above this curve for its level, whereas Canopy is actually much closer than it appears. (Well, save for Adler and Maxim.) Bahssikava is good and well below this curve, especially for the crazy-deprived magi in a player's arsenal. Calindor is at the correct place on the curve. Magic Plate Mail, however, is not.

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Most Notorious Weapons in Blades of Avernum
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 written Friday, April 15 2005 12:20 Profile Homepage #15
Maximilian is 12-120, +50% to hit and +75 damage to attacker.

Saljuq is 8-64, +4 Quick Strike, +2 AP, +30 to humanoids.

The choice is pretty well oriented towards Maximilian, although if your main bruiser is a pole user and you want to give a weapon to an archer...

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Most Notorious Weapons in Blades of Avernum
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 written Friday, April 15 2005 07:26 Profile Homepage #10
So far...

1) Adlerauge
2) Maximilian
3) Morog's Sceptre
4) Haakai Blade
5) Halberd of Calindor
6) Bahssikavan Spear
7) Daemonzerstoerer
8) Saljuq
9) Klinger's Bow
10) Baltimore Imperial
10) Dagger of Defense
12) Hendrickson's Crossbow
14) Manslaughter
14) Spear of Kalthas

Remember- power helps a weapon's notoriety, but isn't the only part. (Although since Saljuq is so close to the bottom, I think that everyone here realizes this.)

I didn't include default items also.

[ Monday, April 18, 2005 03:24: Message edited by: Le Martyre de la Terreur ]

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canopy (this is weird)(and funny) in Blades of Avernum
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 written Friday, April 15 2005 07:10 Profile Homepage #23
Kel, Canopy "levels" you up. When you leave it, if you have one of the two swords, Adlerauge, the Miracle items, some of the Illusory items, etc... You're FAR more than +10-20 levels higher than you would have been. Canopy doesn't pimp you, it pimps your ride.

Thuryl- email me with the specs.

EDIT: And as an aside, NONE of my scenarios have ever had leveling up as a possible, recommended and effective tactic.

[ Friday, April 15, 2005 07:11: Message edited by: Le Martyre de la Terreur ]

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canopy (this is weird)(and funny) in Blades of Avernum
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 written Friday, April 15 2005 03:21 Profile Homepage #18
When I say "you suck at combat," I'm not being caustic, innacurate or hyperbolic.

But really- you suck at combat. Badly.

(The tigers are easy- not being able to beat them with a level 45 party is inexcusable.)

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Most Notorious Weapons in Blades of Avernum
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 written Thursday, April 14 2005 16:51 Profile Homepage #8
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Originally written by Ephesos:

Also, the Miracle items from CANOPY are very nice...
Fixed your typo. :P

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 written Thursday, April 14 2005 16:14 Profile Homepage #57
This issue is too superfluous to be flinging insults about. Apologies.

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 written Thursday, April 14 2005 12:31 Profile Homepage #50
1) Two spelling mistakes- mediocrity and desist.

2) Mozart did Figaro? More shame on Whackoff Wille, then.

3) If I'm "guilty" of bemoaning capitalism, it's a better crime than being an irredemable jerkoff whose sole purpose is to glorify anything mummified.

4) Part 2. With Falstaff leading the army and all.

5) No, you insufferable rantallion, metaphor is use of relation between concrete item and abstract idea. (For instance, the two eggs represent the meritocratic and classist rich.) Allegory is the Aristotlian rubbish, wherein the symbolism is not divorced from any member of the audience due to its opacity. Its other definition is emblem, a signifier of unquestionable (and pray that Derrida doesn't enter this discussion) meaning.

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Most Notorious Weapons in Blades of Avernum
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Which weapons impart to you the most amount of fame? Infamy? Fear? Admiration?

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I personally think that poetry lost a lot when most poets decided to give up meter. Poetry lost its music and auditory beauty at that point.
It takes a pretty vain individual to posit that art exists to be pretty- But thanks anyway, Lord Byron.

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You have to hear meter spoken (and spoken well) in order to know why the rules were in place. Most people in this era haven't ever heard good meter spoken.
Tool.

Rhythm at the expense of empathy and rhyme at the expense of affect is masochistic at best and toolish on average.

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[This comment on Shakespeare's metaphors], again, is spoken out of ignorance.
Fine. Call me when Shakespeare begins to write in ways that permanently rearrange the dynamics of the market economy's interactions with its subjects. (Now this isn't all or even mostly Fitzgerald's movement, but he was a key player towards said movement's inception.)
Now don't get me wrong, I like what Shakespeare does in Marriage of Figaro with regards to class. Doesn't make for as skillful weaving as Eckleburg, the Eggs, usw., though. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that Fitzgerald's point-blank characterizations top Shakespeare's as well. Part of this can be chalked up to temporal discrepancies, but that doesn't forgive the romantic assininity (intentional) of the bard's early works, nor do the later works match up half as well.

(And so Shakespeare has to be acted- but then we aren't talking about literature, we're talking about theatre. And then you have to compete with Brecht and face loss.)

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Many of the ancient Greek and Latin tragedies had been translated at that point. That happened in the mid-16th century. Shakespeare wrote plays partly because many people wanted more than what was available in the classical tradition.
I'm well aware that they actually were translating- I'm just saying that for all their progression thereafter got 'em, they were essentially done at that point (and would remain so on all fronts until anything written after Hegel's Phänomolegie des Geistes, Durkheim's Suicide or Joyce's Dubliners).
So yeah- actors didn't wear red to represent evil and weren't tossed into a pit at play's end, but getting past that wasn't Shakespeare's doing. Not sure what makes Shakespeare anything other than linguistically clever and a comparatively good writer in an age of mediocracy. (Maybe he was comparatively great- how the hell should I know? I haven't read anything else from the era to compare it to.)

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I'm not sure how much it was revolutionary, but it was head-and-shoulders above anything that came before and most things that have come since.
Depends on how you define "things." If you mean Goosebumps, no duh. If you mean the modernist classics, then decist with the manure. If I'm "woefully undereducated" in your forté, might I remind you that you too are uninformed in non-raunchy literary fetishes as well.

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For the record, Elizabethan drama was far from "fallen," at least in comparison with any previous era since the fall of the Roman Empire.
I contextualize my statements to the here and now. I do not have posters of Hellen of Troy in my room. I do not play ultimate discus. I am not divorced from a sense of artistic perspective by a few centuries.

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I do suspect that you aren't familiar enough with Shakespeare's body of work to judge one way or another. He wrote thirty-six plays (excluding those with mixed authorship); how many have you actually read/seen?
Romeo (patently bad), HIV, Much Ado, Hamlet, and I may have also seen Marriage of Figaro performed, although my memory on that one's a bit hazy.

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 written Thursday, April 14 2005 11:39 Profile Homepage #20
Maximilian is gotten if one takes 10 pieces of Mithril Ore, makes it into Mithril, and then buys a sword. All of this is done by way of Schwertschrein's basement, and the whole thing costs roughly 11,500 gold. (9k + 2.5k for the ore.)

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 written Thursday, April 14 2005 04:45 Profile Homepage #40
I'm not saying that Fitzgerald wouldn't have been thrilled to have been shot by Shakespeare- simultaneously, I doubt he'd mind being shot by anyone.

Closed form, as far as I can tell, is any sort of rigid poetic system, be it rhythmic, rhyme-based, syllabic, etc. (Thus my comment- or Tennyson's, rather- about the amphibrac.)

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Phaedra in Blades of Avernum
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 written Thursday, April 14 2005 04:43 Profile Homepage #116
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Originally written by Abu Dhabi:

it was not against the rules
1) It is. Saying "I agree" and nothing else constitutes spam. (Nevermind that it's flaming, but nevertheless.)
2) Stop being a sphyncter-licker already. Believe this as you may, it doesn't make you popular.

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Phaedra in Blades of Avernum
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 written Thursday, April 14 2005 04:24 Profile Homepage #114
I'm not sure from whence you think it's your duty much less your prerogative to comment.

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Phaedra in Blades of Avernum
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 written Thursday, April 14 2005 03:41 Profile Homepage #111
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Originally written by Thuryl:

(Well, okay, I'd probably be wearing something most of the time, just so I'd have pockets to keep things in.)
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adult women choose to wear bikinis in places where it is warm or hot. many would opt to wear less were it legal. for the same reason men go about shirtless. to say they are trying to provoke men is to say they have no right to be comfortable in the heat. it is also to put words in their mouth. and to pretend they are weak, helpless playthings of whatever strings society pulls.
Their intent can be genuine- although admittedly, it isn't always- but saying that they have no right to be comfortable in the heat isn't what anyone here has said. (Although I must admit that up here, I'm sorta looking forward to rising temperatures...) There are craploads of comfortable yet loose-fitting garments which both don't insulate the wearer and don't put undue exposure on parts that sure as hell don't need it.

And really- are you telling me that the direction fashion is going in doesn't stress that women are weak? When women wear less and less, that's not "empowerment." And yes, believe it or not, they did not always wear as much as they currently do. (Well, no duh, but for sake of emphasis...) I am quite sure that this is most definitely related to the greater openness about sexuality. Which, as I have stated before, is more to me a matter of selling dignity for hedonism, money or both.

What? Not all women do everything for the same reasons? No duh. But then again, when they wear things that can and will be read as such, they do not make life easier on men who genuinely want to treat them with dignity.

Honestly, I'm not "against sex". I just think that, moreso than anything else, America needed an emotive revolution and an intellectual one before diving into a sexual one.

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 written Thursday, April 14 2005 03:27 Profile Homepage #38
Closed form- ie, adherence to ridiculous poetic standards that took us up until the advent of modernism to do away with. You know, the stuff that made Poet Laureate Tennyson et al twitch with horror- "That noun is inflected! Why, this clause is nothing but an amphibrac!"

I'm not sure how it applies to his plays, but it applies to cockwiggler's sonnets very well.

See, I dunno. It's not that I deny Shakespeare's influence on the English language- I also don't deny the influence of the Burgundians, and it doesn't mean that either of them are particularly good writers.

Shakespeare, to wit, did relatively little (if anything at all) to extend the art of skillful* metaphor, his dramatacism could have been replicated just as easily as if Aristotlian epics had been translated (although I will profess an admiration of Verfremdung), and his work wasn't revolutionary insomuch as it was mediocre in a fallen era- which deserves respect in a historical viewpoint, yeah, but doesn't make him a literary superior.
(* operative word)

Fitzgerald, on the other hand, wrote four novels (And a bunch of short stories, albeit most of which were generated by debt alone) that were great contributions to modern style, realistic metaphor, broader subjects and a general lack of melodramatic fappery. (No "shakespearean monologue," for instance, when Gatsby is gunned down...) Moreover, he was good.

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Wishing Well:Exile II in The Exile Trilogy
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 written Wednesday, April 13 2005 16:23 Profile Homepage #1
If you wish for Revenge, then Sage gives you some assistance in the final fight.

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