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Avernum V in Avernum 4
Guardian
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Profile Homepage #241
By Old Scratch:
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For future reference, said vessel is often referred to as a "phylactery".
I know. I avoid using the term, because it actually is something orthodox Jews put pieces of the Torah in.

By JV:
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No more Erika. No more Rentar. No more Garzahd.

- Jeff Vogel
Now, if we can just get the BoE/Aers to agree...

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I have just discovered that LAN parties where no one brings games are not fun.
Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00
Avernum V in Avernum 4
Guardian
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Profile Homepage #233
By Vlish:
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To have a mage that powerful, with that much arcane lore, that can zap her self through time and space, like she did to assist the adventurers in E/A3, and for her to not have a contingency for her own death just strikes me as being somehow wrong. Her curse was intended for the living if you get my drift. Somebody as powerful as Erika could have easily turned her self in to a Lich at the moment of her death, and would have probably gotten away with it too. Exile/Avernum would have left her alone and continue with her undead existance.
In most fantasy settings, not only is lichhood viewed as abhorrent, but is also dreadfully complicated. Usually, it involves storing your soul in a vessel (denying you of the life hereafter in return for eternal undeath), often with demonic parties involved. So... no. Besides, the whole sunlight curse was invoked by Garzahd, a mage with powers rivalling Erika's.

Human Crystal Souls... (Ahem) Arghhhhhhhhh!!!

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Merry Christmas to all!/Now you're all going to die!
- The Night Santa Went Crazy (Weird Al)
Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00
The favorite rating abominable photo game vs. return of the undead karma census poll! in General
Guardian
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Profile Homepage #21
Let's see:
- 81 days
- 291 posts
==> 3.592592592592592592592592592592592 posts/day

And to continue my trend of quotes in brag threads...

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Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00
How many people would like spiderweb software to make a game for the nintendo DS in General
Guardian
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Profile Homepage #32
If you really want to play on the go, get a labtop.

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May the one who voted 'for' be smote with fluffy turtles!
Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00
Are fantasy RPGs inherently conservative? in General
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Profile Homepage #41
By Zorro:
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I used to be a pretty big fan of RPGs, but I'm definitely not such a fan anymore. Part of it is that I'm beginning to think that video games in general are becoming more and more influential as storytelling mediums and sometimes those stories (consciously and unconsciously) are pushing an agenda of which I may not even be aware. For instance, was the game "Civilization" designed by politically conservative or politically liberal people? A lot of the basic in-game responses might change depending on the response to that question. How angry do people get if you raise their taxes? What is the cost-benefit of choosing communism or fascism as your form of government?
Alpha Centauri is a perfect example. Not an RPG, I know, but take a look at the faction choices, and the way they are portrayed.

By Scandium:
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a canadian friend of mine studied at penn state, where he had the audacity to defend universal medicare and was promptly labelled a communist. in canada he votes for conservative/reform parties and is a strong proponent of market forces. the american left wing is every other countries right wing (liberal extension of thought not to be directly applied)
So true, although this is a (relatively) recent development. Before Tommy Douglas and others, anyone in Canada thinking the same would be labelled the same. Now, anyone in Canada thinking that portions of medicare should be privatized is labelled American.

Meh. I really can't think of an RPG model that doesn't involve Baddies that either control the world, or want to take over. Unless the developer is overtly pushing a political agenda, I don't mind playing a game that has an ideological viewpoint for or against my own.

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Darth Vader was so bad/And by the way, he's Luke's dad/He kissed his sister/His hand got caught cut off/In a galaxy far, far away/Luke has had a bad day
- The Star Wars Cantina (Weird Al)
Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00
Registering (not quite a technical question) in Tech Support
Guardian
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Profile Homepage #8
By Erika Maroonmark:
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Yeah, I'm actually from New York. =D I'm not actually British, I just say stuff like "colour" and "grey". Because it is better. ^^
FYT.

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Leprosy. What?
- Belkar (OotS)
Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00
Registering (not quite a technical question) in Tech Support
Guardian
Member # 6670
Profile Homepage #3
I got all the Avernum games through money order. I'm assuming you can withdraw cash from a bank, change money into American currency, and buy a stamp without your parents being involved. I think the way it works is that JV sends you an e-mail with the codes. I don't know; I chose to get the games on CDs.

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A C, an E flat, and a G walk into the Tower of the Magi.
Ambrin runs up to them and says, "Hey, look! It's the Triad!"
Kelner snorts and says "Pretty minor Triad if you ask me."
Where would we be without puns?
Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00
Is this Plot Overcliche? in Blades of Avernum Editor
Guardian
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Profile Homepage #35
Hmmm... a Nethergate-esque scenario in the distant Ermarian future, with technology versus magic, could be interesting... it would have no similarities with the rest of the canon, though.

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No more English essays! Wheeeeeeeee!!!
Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00
Is this Plot Overcliche? in Blades of Avernum
Guardian
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Profile Homepage #35
Hmmm... a Nethergate-esque scenario in the distant Ermarian future, with technology versus magic, could be interesting... it would have no similarities with the rest of the canon, though.

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No more English essays! Wheeeeeeeee!!!
Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00
Which spiderweb software game is best? in General
Guardian
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Profile Homepage #32
By TM:
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but with BoA being so diffiult to learn
Really? Out of all the other game editors I've tinkered with (non-SpidWeb), BoA is the easiest and the most flexible. If BoE is even easier, I'm beginning to see why you like it so much.

Oh well. My frugal Dutch heritage dictates that I use the game I've bought instead of shelling out money for another one.

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Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries!
- The French (Quest for the Holy Grail)
Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00
Is this Plot Overcliche? in Blades of Avernum Editor
Guardian
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Profile Homepage #30
By Ephesos:
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Undead need a very good reason to exist. Otherwise, they die. Again.
FYT (just couldn't resist this one). :P

And yeah, now that I think about it, DwtD was far more annoying than Bahs.

EDIT: No cannons. I'm having horrifying flashbacks of Dungeon Siege (a not-so-temporary moment of insanity, I know). Goblins with mini-guns and flame-throwers. Arghhhhhhhhh!!!

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What kind of person would write "Aughhhhhhhhh" as he was dying?
Maybe he was dictating!
- Quest for the Holy Grail

[ Wednesday, April 12, 2006 06:35: Message edited by: Dintiradan ]
Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00
Is this Plot Overcliche? in Blades of Avernum
Guardian
Member # 6670
Profile Homepage #30
By Ephesos:
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Undead need a very good reason to exist. Otherwise, they die. Again.
FYT (just couldn't resist this one). :P

And yeah, now that I think about it, DwtD was far more annoying than Bahs.

EDIT: No cannons. I'm having horrifying flashbacks of Dungeon Siege (a not-so-temporary moment of insanity, I know). Goblins with mini-guns and flame-throwers. Arghhhhhhhhh!!!

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What kind of person would write "Aughhhhhhhhh" as he was dying?
Maybe he was dictating!
- Quest for the Holy Grail

[ Wednesday, April 12, 2006 06:35: Message edited by: Dintiradan ]
Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00
What instruments do you play? in General
Guardian
Member # 6670
Profile Homepage #36
Actually, I'm downloading the demo as I type. Too bad it's shareware... guess I'll just have to re-install every 30 days.

I'm checking out the Sibelius site now.

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IF I EVER BECOME AN EVIL OVERLORD:
If I decide to test a lieutenant's loyalty and see if he/she should be made a trusted lieutenant, I will have a crack squad of marksmen standing by in case the answer is no.
Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00
Do we have a new moderator? in General
Guardian
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Profile Homepage #4
Yeah, I wasn't too happy when the topic closed. It's not often I have an arguement with people whose IQ is above room temperature.

Ultimately, it's a matter of who owns the forums. It's his site. If we really want to continue the debate, we could always go to another forum, or use PMs.

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IF I EVER BECOME AN EVIL OVERLORD:
When my guards split up to search for intruders, they will always travel in groups of at least two. They will be trained so that if one of them disappears mysteriously while on patrol, the other will immediately initiate an alert and call for backup, instead of quizzically peering around a corner.
Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00
OoC Thread for "An RP in the World of Avernum... *Reloaded*" in General
Guardian
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Profile Homepage #322
By Slarty:
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Uh, Infernal, "Avernum RP • RP OoC Posts • RP IC Post Summaries • RP IC Synopsis" is hardly memorable. At first glance it looks remarkable similar to Dintiradan's sig and to mine, and maybe someone else's as well.
Ah, but note that my links are much more sexy. :P

EDIT: With all the language pendants out there, I had to make sure I had the correct form.

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Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.
Reminds me of a Monty Python script:
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I think that all right thinking people in this country are sick and tired of being told that ordinary decent people in this country are fed up with being sick and tired. I am certainly not. And I'm sick and tired of being told that I am.
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</tag>Throwing the world into chaos...<tag>

[ Monday, April 10, 2006 14:04: Message edited by: Dintiradan ]
Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00
Is this Plot Overcliche? in Blades of Avernum Editor
Guardian
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Profile Homepage #5
By Dikiyoba:
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However, Dikiyoba will grumble to Dikiyoba's self if it features mainly demons/undead built for a middle-to-high level party. Dikiyoba does have four priests (well, three priests and a priestess) and they will use repel spirit mindlessly and Dikiyoba will be very bored. (FYT)
Bahssikava, anyone? :)

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IF I EVER BECOME AN EVIL OVERLORD:
All midwives will be banned from the realm. All babies will be delivered at state-approved hospitals. Orphans will be placed in foster-homes, not abandoned in the woods to be raised by creatures of the wild.
Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00
Is this Plot Overcliche? in Blades of Avernum
Guardian
Member # 6670
Profile Homepage #5
By Dikiyoba:
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However, Dikiyoba will grumble to Dikiyoba's self if it features mainly demons/undead built for a middle-to-high level party. Dikiyoba does have four priests (well, three priests and a priestess) and they will use repel spirit mindlessly and Dikiyoba will be very bored. (FYT)
Bahssikava, anyone? :)

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IF I EVER BECOME AN EVIL OVERLORD:
All midwives will be banned from the realm. All babies will be delivered at state-approved hospitals. Orphans will be placed in foster-homes, not abandoned in the woods to be raised by creatures of the wild.
Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00
OoC Thread for "An RP in the World of Avernum... *Reloaded*" in General
Guardian
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Profile Homepage #315
Very important notice about homing pigeons: you can't train the stupid birds! The way they work is this: you raise the critters at your main base. Then, you send a few pigeons along with your spies/army/whatever. Whenever a message needs to be sent to your main base, you tie a message to the bird's leg and let it go.

You CAN'T have birds fly to a new destination. You CAN'T use birds reliably if they were raised while moving (say, your base of power is a ship or an army). When in doubt, use a courier.

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IF I EVER BECOME AN EVIL OVERLORD:
I will spare someone who saved my life sometime in the past. This is only reasonable as it encourages others to do so. However, the offer is good one time only. If they want me to spare them again, they'd better save my life again.
Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00
Twelve Pills in General
Guardian
Member # 6670
Profile Homepage #15
I was about to disagree with you, but then I when over my method again. Oops.

Got it now:
THE TRICK
THE TRICK CON'T

I used to have a book full of brainteasers like this. When I get home, I'll look for it.

EDIT: Zeviz has most of the solution, look at his post. Mine are even more general hints.

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IF I EVER BECOME AN EVIL OVERLORD:
No matter how many shorts we have in the system, my guards will be instructed to treat every surveillance camera malfunction as a full-scale emergency.

[ Monday, April 10, 2006 09:06: Message edited by: Dintiradan ]
Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00
Are fantasy RPGs inherently conservative? in General
Guardian
Member # 6670
Profile Homepage #10
Chalk up another heartless young person!

(Looks at the other posts, one of which took place in the time it took to press the reply button). Wow. There goes that theory.

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IF I EVER BECOME AN EVIL OVERLORD:
My security keypad will actually be a fingerprint scanner. Anyone who watches someone press a sequence of buttons or dusts the pad for fingerprints then subsequently tries to enter by repeating that sequence will trigger the alarm system.
Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00
Is this Plot Overcliche? in Blades of Avernum Editor
Guardian
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Dastal, sounds good so far (though it still needs a lot more plot work before you even think of sitting down in front of the editor). I'm a little afraid BoA is going to get swamped with demon scenarios soon (mine one of them).

My advice is to treat the demons like any other baddie. Don't make them evil just because they are demons. Give them personalities. The fact that you are devoting time creating a political structure is very good.

Oops. I just realized that I'm repeating everything that the people before me have said. Anyway, my two-bit is: focus on the power balance for the demons. There are some good slith and nephil scenarios, but not a definitive demon one yet.

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Why don't smileys have noses?
Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00
Is this Plot Overcliche? in Blades of Avernum
Guardian
Member # 6670
Profile Homepage #3
Dastal, sounds good so far (though it still needs a lot more plot work before you even think of sitting down in front of the editor). I'm a little afraid BoA is going to get swamped with demon scenarios soon (mine one of them).

My advice is to treat the demons like any other baddie. Don't make them evil just because they are demons. Give them personalities. The fact that you are devoting time creating a political structure is very good.

Oops. I just realized that I'm repeating everything that the people before me have said. Anyway, my two-bit is: focus on the power balance for the demons. There are some good slith and nephil scenarios, but not a definitive demon one yet.

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Why don't smileys have noses?
Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00
Twelve Pills in General
Guardian
Member # 6670
Profile Homepage #12
I've done something similar before.

The spoiler, if anyone wants it, in incremental steps:
(If you feel tempted to look, blame yourself, not me.)

SPOILER1
SPOILER2
SPOILER3
SPOILER4
SPOILER5

Does anyone remember the "water-from-the-well" one? (Get one litre when you have two buckets of size...")

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IF I EVER BECOME AN EVIL OVERLORD:
If I must have computer systems with publically available terminals, the maps they display of my complex will have a room clearly marked as the Main Control Room. That room will be the Execution Chamber. The actual main control room will be marked as Sewage Overflow Containment.
Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00
Which spiderweb software game is best? in General
Guardian
Member # 6670
Profile Homepage #21
Sigh. TM, BoA isn't a game. Neither is BoE. As you said, they are both mediums. BoE may have better scenarios made for it, true. But if you took those scenarios and put them into BoA, they would be just the same, or better. That's not considering all the extra potential BoA has. (Of course, this is all assuming that the import function actually worked...)

I don't know why we're disagreeing. We both think BoA has more potential and BoE has a better and larger pool of scenarios.
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Wait, what? My reluctance to change? And what percent of BoA scenarios have you made?
Aww, be nice, I just started. To clarify, I was talking about everyone's reluctance to change to a newer but unestablished system of any type.
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I wouldn't buy it either, but that's because the geneforge engine is well and truly awful.
Let's agree to disagree. Some things I miss, but overall I think it's better.

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IF I EVER BECOME AN EVIL OVERLORD:
I will see a competent psychiatrist and get cured of all extremely unusual phobias and bizarre compulsive habits which could prove to be a disadvantage.
Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00
Are fantasy RPGs inherently conservative? in General
Guardian
Member # 6670
Profile Homepage #1
Ugh. Too early in the morning for a full treatment.

I've also noticed that in SpidWeb games you can have a lot more empathy with the 'baddies'. Think of Nethergate, where you can play both sides, or Geneforge with its factions.

As for the same plotline for nearly all RPGs, I think that's mostly laziness. In fact, most of the mainstream games lately do nothing to challenge the genre.

'Cause hey, if it sold before, why not rest on your laurels?

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IF I EVER BECOME AN EVIL OVERLORD:
Bulk trash will be disposed of in incinerators, not compactors. And they will be kept hot, with none of that nonsense about flames going through accessible tunnels at predictable intervals.
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