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Need help with canopy (spoilers) in Blades of Avernum
The Immortal
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 written Tuesday, March 1 2005 12:46 Profile Homepage #4
Update to v1.0.3. In that version, you can be told about it at the bar AND find it thereafter.
(Normally, you'd have to find it from the basement first.)

EDIT: Also, a quip can be an oddity.

[ Tuesday, March 01, 2005 13:04: Message edited by: Solomon Strokes ]

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Archmage Ascension progress in Blades of Avernum Editor
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 written Monday, February 28 2005 17:06 Profile Homepage #1
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Originally written by Solodric:

Goes from level 1 to truly epic levels (It should cap off somewhere in the 150-175 range) with really high-level spells as well......if I can make it that big. Trying not to get too ambitious :P
...you WILL NOT make a scenario this large, I guarantee you. (Unless I'm misinterpreting you, and you're just going to have award_party_xp(); calls littering your scenario, altough I doubt it.)

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Archmage Ascension progress in Blades of Avernum
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 written Monday, February 28 2005 17:06 Profile Homepage #1
quote:
Originally written by Solodric:

Goes from level 1 to truly epic levels (It should cap off somewhere in the 150-175 range) with really high-level spells as well......if I can make it that big. Trying not to get too ambitious :P
...you WILL NOT make a scenario this large, I guarantee you. (Unless I'm misinterpreting you, and you're just going to have award_party_xp(); calls littering your scenario, altough I doubt it.)

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Article - Party vs. Designer in Blades of Avernum
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 written Monday, February 28 2005 13:34 Profile Homepage #28
"The removal of Cloud of Blades struck me as artificial. I do not even use the spell much normally but it seems to me that if a particular spell would have unbalanced your combats then there are other ways to deal with this as a designer(don't get me wrong. Canopy is easily better than anything I could have done.) but this is probably a minor quibble."

I took away Cloud of Blades for a very good reason- it does damage depending on the creature's HP total. So a boss like Shroud would take tremendous amounts of HP damage from the spell, making it unbalanced. I'm quite sure that taking the spell away was a wise choice on my behalf for the tactics of the scenario.

"I was much more put off by the attempt at inserting new "spells" via wands like Natureshand and so on. I think we all would like to see Jeff take a different stance on allowing designers to create new spells but this is not the way to do it IMO. I realize most disagree with me on this but I can't stand it."
I want tactical situations that aren't hingent on Divine Aid, War Blessing, Fireblast, etc. This is the BEST way for me to create more interesting situations for the party that I can see- if you can make combat more interesting without resorting to something similar, you are a better man than I am.

"Just create new items and give your baddies susceptibilities to those items, ala LoTR. . . but don't try and pass the wands off as 'new spells' that take up an inventory slot and read as "wand" and don't show up in my list of spells when I go to cast."
Then tell me how to do it by any other means. Again, I do not do this because I cannot.

"Reminds of when certain BoE - kiddies try to create new PC races by suggesting we use a custom graphic and pretend our Nephils are "elves" or somesuch nonsense.

Get over it. The Avernum universe does not have other spells or races or skills beyond what is allowed in BoA and calling a wand you have created a "new spell" in your readme file does not make it so. THat's the sort of "r0L3Pl4y1nG" crap that can ruin a scenario for me."

But if you want elves, who's there to stop you? Seems to me as if you think that scenarios become better when they adhere to the Avernum engine and plot- which I, of course, think is utter bollocks. As a designer, I'm offended; as a player, I feel mocked. "Clearly, the amount of suffering you have suffered under while fighting monotonous Vogel combat isn't enough; so designers, please do make combat less interesting for the sake of gaming clichés."

So yeah- things are becoming less connected to Jeff's "pristine vision of BoA." So what? BoA, despite what you may think, is NOT A BoA FANFICTION. Even the designers that work in its universe will agree that your proposal is outrageous, and this has been reflected in BoX designing since 1997.

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Missing Sounds Petition in Blades of Avernum Editor
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 written Sunday, February 27 2005 14:02 Profile Homepage #23
EDIT: Okay, I managed to get background music. Thanks alot!

[ Sunday, February 27, 2005 14:30: Message edited by: Solomon Strokes ]

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Missing Sounds Petition in Blades of Avernum
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 written Sunday, February 27 2005 14:02 Profile Homepage #23
EDIT: Okay, I managed to get background music. Thanks alot!

[ Sunday, February 27, 2005 14:30: Message edited by: Solomon Strokes ]

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how to develop a scenario? in Blades of Avernum Editor
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 written Sunday, February 27 2005 13:45 Profile Homepage #3
1) The BoA Editor Appendices are a much better tool once you know basic syntax
2) Playing around- that is, making a scenario that exists just so you can test what you know- is a terrific way to learn

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how to develop a scenario? in Blades of Avernum
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 written Sunday, February 27 2005 13:45 Profile Homepage #3
1) The BoA Editor Appendices are a much better tool once you know basic syntax
2) Playing around- that is, making a scenario that exists just so you can test what you know- is a terrific way to learn

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Missing Sounds Petition in Blades of Avernum Editor
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 written Saturday, February 26 2005 16:56 Profile Homepage #19
How?

And is there any way to turn MP3/WAV files into BoA sounds?

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Missing Sounds Petition in Blades of Avernum
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 written Saturday, February 26 2005 16:56 Profile Homepage #19
How?

And is there any way to turn MP3/WAV files into BoA sounds?

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Canopy v1.0.3 in Blades of Avernum
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 written Saturday, February 26 2005 14:44 Profile Homepage #10
Silver- fixed! The spells should indeed be restored.

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Where are all the shards? in Geneforge Series
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 written Saturday, February 26 2005 08:51 Profile Homepage #1
Check the FAQ linked to at the top of this forum.

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Where are all the shards? in Geneforge 2
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 written Saturday, February 26 2005 08:51 Profile Homepage #1
Check the FAQ linked to at the top of this forum.

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Canopy v1.0.3 in Blades of Avernum
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 written Saturday, February 26 2005 08:31 Profile Homepage #2
Wh-how? I'll re-upload it, but...

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Canopy v1.0.3 in Blades of Avernum
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 written Friday, February 25 2005 22:29 Profile Homepage #0
http://tm.desperance.net/Canopy.html

Lots of bug fixes. LOTS of 'em. (Including some which have ruinated games.)

I'm sending the update to spidweb as we speak...

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Check Race? in Blades of Avernum Editor
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 written Friday, February 25 2005 20:14 Profile Homepage #1
short get_species(which_char)

Or alternatively...

species_in_party(which_species)

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Check Race? in Blades of Avernum
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 written Friday, February 25 2005 20:14 Profile Homepage #1
short get_species(which_char)

Or alternatively...

species_in_party(which_species)

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The Dingoes Ate My Baby! in General
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 written Friday, February 25 2005 20:03 Profile Homepage #59
I always pronounsed it entirely with long As.

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I Am The Lac Insect in General
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 written Friday, February 25 2005 15:58 Profile Homepage #13
watakushi wa kono kotoba o wakaranakute ;_;

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Missing Sounds Petition in Blades of Avernum Editor
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 written Friday, February 25 2005 15:56 Profile Homepage #9
I'm in. That aside...
Would it be possible to allow for CUSTOM sounds? Ya know, like .wav files taking their own sound slots?

(I really want to make music as town incidental noises!)

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Missing Sounds Petition in Blades of Avernum
The Immortal
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 written Friday, February 25 2005 15:56 Profile Homepage #9
I'm in. That aside...
Would it be possible to allow for CUSTOM sounds? Ya know, like .wav files taking their own sound slots?

(I really want to make music as town incidental noises!)

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Who are you??? in General
The Immortal
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 written Friday, February 25 2005 15:31 Profile Homepage #43
quote:
Originally written by Saunders:

It's not the nipples: TM has a thing for imaginary women. ^^
Hey- Morning Musume is perfectly real. :P

PS-
2 : FASCINATE 2b -- usually used in the passive with of or with

I like your artwork (Cav) in a perfectly platonic way. That ain't in no way hentai.

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Graphic Requests... in Blades of Avernum
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 written Friday, February 25 2005 08:57 Profile Homepage #37
Since I don't care about the legal grounds for 64x64 images (and other people are doing more than my fair share), to wit:

* Overwhelming refused to take down the offensive material when questioned about it
* The material was within the community against a member thereof, and this sort of offense just tends to piss all of us off.
* Graphics do not require updates periodically, whereas scenarios do. Canopy can and will be updated frequently, so I requested that he link to my site rather than host it himself.
* I did not tell him to "take it down," I told him to link to the scenario. Good news for him, since he doesn't have to waste his webspace or his bandwidth- this is obviously not an option with pictures, though.

Don't claim that this has anything to do with Overwhelming. It does not.

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Pervasive Duality in General
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 written Thursday, February 24 2005 19:24 Profile Homepage #0
an illustrated novella by yours truly

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Who are you??? in General
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 written Thursday, February 24 2005 18:10 Profile Homepage #38
Try not to be more offended, but I'm more enamored with the art on your wall than you yourself.
(Hey! Watch where you swing that sword~ >_>)

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