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lockpicks at the beginning in Blades of Avernum
Randomizer
Law Bringer
Member # 6785
 written Monday, July 30 2007 11:40 Profile #3
There are also a few places in the Mage School where you can find some.

Don't forget the mage's unlock spell.

It doesn't hurt to save before trying and reload if you break a pick. This can slow the rate at which you go through them.

[ Monday, July 30, 2007 11:41: Message edited by: Randomizer ]
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Social Degradation and Religious Decay (Split from "Life on Europa") in General
Randomizer
Law Bringer
Member # 6785
 written Monday, July 30 2007 07:55 Profile #369
quote:
Originally written by Drew:

What's the incentive to be Christian and perky? All the "good things" come when you die.
The idea of a good afterlife was a medival church concept to make the peasants more obedient. Their reward for hard work and suffering in this life for the church and nobles would be a better afterlife. After all no one came back to contradict the church.
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im sorry spidweb team but.... in Avernum 4
Randomizer
Law Bringer
Member # 6785
 written Sunday, July 29 2007 18:21 Profile #11
Jeff said we only get more actions points because we have to run further to attack. He upped the number of APs used for attacks and spells to compensate.
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Avernum 5, July Update in Avernum 4
Randomizer
Law Bringer
Member # 6785
 written Sunday, July 29 2007 10:41 Profile #13
quote:
Originally written by Delicious Vlish:

Avernum has Smite, Wyrmslayer, Ghoulbane, all these weapons for killing certain known foes of Avernum, we NEED Bugsbane.
Potion of Raid that can be hurled at chitrachs. Similar to the frost grenade in Lazarus' BoA scenario Frostbite. Makes an aerosol hissing noise.
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Avernum 5, July Update in Avernum 4
Randomizer
Law Bringer
Member # 6785
 written Saturday, July 28 2007 16:38 Profile #9
quote:
Originally written by Yama:

I wonder what Cheeseball was doing during A4?
Trying to find a place without demons. Of course with all those demons under Patrick's Tower he was probably grumbling in a corner.
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Abilities List in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Randomizer
Law Bringer
Member # 6785
 written Saturday, July 28 2007 09:46 Profile #4
Aura of flames for the ur-drakon.
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Social Degradation and Religious Decay (Split from "Life on Europa") in General
Randomizer
Law Bringer
Member # 6785
 written Friday, July 27 2007 19:52 Profile #357
Delphic prophesies were known for being deliberately obscure with multiple meanings so that later it could be shown that they were right but just misinterpreted by the person asking. Like "if you go to war you will destroy a great empire," where the war destroyed the empire of the king asking and not his opponent.

The Gordian knot was supposed to give a great empire to whoever could untie it. Alexander the Great used his sword to cut it and went on to create his empire.

I don't remember others off hand.
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Dragon Lair in Avernum 4
Randomizer
Law Bringer
Member # 6785
 written Friday, July 27 2007 14:45 Profile #2
That's because Avernum 4 was the first game to combine tool use into the mage spell unlock. Before you used whichever would work, usually using a save and reload to protect picks.
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Avernum 5, July Update in Avernum 4
Randomizer
Law Bringer
Member # 6785
 written Friday, July 27 2007 14:44 Profile #1
Slarty will just love the how many chitrachs were there in each area.

Glad to hear that the game is progressing. The Anama section will make for interesting replayability.
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The Future in General
Randomizer
Law Bringer
Member # 6785
 written Friday, July 27 2007 11:56 Profile #33
From what I've read that is the explanation for the Biblical Flood. There was a sudden influx of water from the Mediterrean Sea in a matter of days that raised the water level and sent the survivors fleeing.
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The Future in General
Randomizer
Law Bringer
Member # 6785
 written Friday, July 27 2007 09:38 Profile #31
Plato claimed that he got the legend of Atlantis from the Egyptians. There have been attempts to place it as a distorted account of the Cretean civilization. Locations for Atlantis include the island of Thera in the Aegean Sea that suffered a volcanic eruption and out in the Atlantic Ocean in the Bahamas and Cuba.
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Replayability / Expandability? in Nethergate
Randomizer
Law Bringer
Member # 6785
 written Thursday, July 26 2007 22:10 Profile #7
Until Avernun 4, most of the older games are hard coded so you can't access the needed data. The games aren't designed to be transferred.

There are some scenarios like Baksshiva and Exodus that are quite large and comparable to the Avernum games in number of hours to play. They don't have the huge numbers of minor quests. Basically you start with a beginning party and play the scenarios in order of party level.

Since you have an iBook you can go to Khoth's site and download the OS X version of Blades of Exile for free. This will let you play the many scenarios from the Blades of Exile forum.
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Any robot games in the future? in General
Randomizer
Law Bringer
Member # 6785
 written Thursday, July 26 2007 19:20 Profile #2
All Jeff's said is that there will be a new game in a different world after he does Avernum 6. No hints about what genre it will be.
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im sorry spidweb team but.... in Avernum 4
Randomizer
Law Bringer
Member # 6785
 written Thursday, July 26 2007 19:11 Profile #5
Avernum 5 is supposed to be closer to the older Avernum games than Avernum 4, but the combat still will be somewhat Geneforgish. Actually Jeff has been only giving out hints about the new combat system with battle disciplines so we don't really know.
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Replayability / Expandability? in Nethergate
Randomizer
Law Bringer
Member # 6785
 written Thursday, July 26 2007 19:07 Profile #4
If you are looking for playability beyond the first time then Blades of Exile, which is now open sourced, and Blades of Avernum are the way to go. There are always new scenarios being made or you can make your own. The quality will vary, but at least there will be new material every year. Depending on the scenario you can spend a few hours or a few days on each one.

If you just want to play for 100+ hours in one game then any of the Avernum, Exile, Geneforge, or Nethergate games will do. There is no way to expand them, but you can go to the Geneforge 4 forum to see how players have found challenges to extend replayability.

The older games are fun and cheaper than the newer games if money is a problem. You can get the Avernum Trilogy of the first three games for a reasonable price.
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Social Degradation and Religious Decay (Split from "Life on Europa") in General
Randomizer
Law Bringer
Member # 6785
 written Thursday, July 26 2007 11:05 Profile #314
quote:
Originally written by jg.faust:

Seriously? Christians are persecuted in the US? How come that didn't make the news?
Sure the ATF and FBI blew up a whole compound of David Koresh and his followers in Waco, Texas. Oh, you meant real Christians and not cults.
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Beta: Blades of Rogue in Blades of Avernum
Randomizer
Law Bringer
Member # 6785
 written Thursday, July 26 2007 10:59 Profile #17
I'm starting a contest for the most useless randomly placed treasure item in Blades of Rogue. The winner gets a free copy of the scenario.

Dispel barrier scroll (I've found 2 so far)
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Iffy in General
Randomizer
Law Bringer
Member # 6785
 written Wednesday, July 25 2007 13:51 Profile #17
quote:
Originally written by Scallopman:

Now, a question comes to mind, who here as actually bothered to read the CoC?
I read it long ago in a galaxy far, far away. The CoC is observed more in the breach, but is dragged out to justify decisions retroactively.
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Harry Potter in General
Randomizer
Law Bringer
Member # 6785
 written Wednesday, July 25 2007 13:49 Profile #78
quote:
Originally written by Lenar:

EDIT: Crap... I was hoping to save this little milestone for the Morality thread. Oh well.
Maybe it's a sign?
No Satanic verse to celebrate? Some people do think that Harry Potter encourages devil worship with all those wizards and such.
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Message Board in General
Randomizer
Law Bringer
Member # 6785
 written Tuesday, July 24 2007 16:20 Profile #88
quote:
Originally written by Drythentor:

Before my time?
Not by much and you didn't miss anything.
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