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geography of avernum in Blades of Avernum Editor
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Saturday, December 17 2005 15:00 Profile Homepage #11 I don't recall it ever being established that it literally rose from the seas. We just decided that it hadn't been discovered at the time in which the Avernum series took place. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
geography of avernum in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Saturday, December 17 2005 15:00 Profile Homepage #11 I don't recall it ever being established that it literally rose from the seas. We just decided that it hadn't been discovered at the time in which the Avernum series took place. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Is this game nothing but combat? in Avernum 4
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Saturday, December 17 2005 14:54 Profile Homepage #9 quote: Originally written by Abraxx: Enemys selectable via letters. Gone. On a related note, I really miss the Look command. It'd be nice to have a way of knowing if the monster I'm fighting is the sort that sprays acid when hit before I attack it. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
The Worst Game Ever in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Saturday, December 17 2005 14:44 Profile Homepage #67 quote: Originally written by BainIhrno: I'm guessing Lost & Found was one of those three games. I enjoyed it quite a bit. Haven't heard of that one; I'll try to track it down. Two of the games I was thinking of were the Fawn series, available here . I mean, they're HyperCard games so they don't exactly run lightning-fast, but apart from that they're pretty neat. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Formello's Shade in Avernum 4
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Saturday, December 17 2005 06:08 Profile Homepage #7 Also, sometimes it's in Silvar instead. So if you can't find it in Formello, check Silvar. Why do you want it to attack you, anyway? Pea Eye's quest? [ Saturday, December 17, 2005 06:08: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Exile 2: Crystal Souls Questions in The Exile Trilogy
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Saturday, December 17 2005 04:27 Profile Homepage #5 quote: Originally written by SirNick: What is this A2 Template you speak of? He's recreating the towns and outdoors of Avernum 2 in the form of a BoA scenario. Kelandon's hosting it here: http://home.sanbrunocable.com/~tommywatts03/A2Template.html -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
training and creation question in Geneforge Series
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Friday, December 16 2005 23:43 Profile Homepage #5 Yes. Skill points you spend during character creation are treated the same way as ones you spend later on, so it'll still prevent you from purchasing training. [ Friday, December 16, 2005 23:44: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Report Your Stats Here (Uncle Spam Needs YOU!) in Avernum 4
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Friday, December 16 2005 23:36 Profile Homepage #1 Location: most of the way through the Eastern Gallery (visited every town and done most of the major quests) 4 PCs, levels 15-16 XP Penalties: 23-27% Average XP earned per kill: 2-3 off chitrachs The major variable determining my PCs' experience seems to be how often they die -- my fighter and mage, who are almost always alive at the end of a battle, have a little over half a level's worth of XP advantage over my priests, who are a little more fragile. [ Friday, December 16, 2005 23:38: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Athron's lair key in Avernum 4
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Friday, December 16 2005 23:31 Profile Homepage #14 I'm pretty sure that Curing can cure acid at level 2, and it may even be able to do so at level 1. It just does so rather poorly. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Is this game nothing but combat? in Avernum 4
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Friday, December 16 2005 23:25 Profile Homepage #1 Personally, I can't honestly say I was ever a big fan of beam and conveyor belt puzzles in the first place, so I'm not sorry to see them go. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
The Worst Game Ever in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Friday, December 16 2005 23:15 Profile Homepage #63 To be fair, I can think of at least three HyperCard games which didn't suck. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
We Live on Ermarian in General
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Friday, December 16 2005 23:10 Profile Homepage #4 I think 3rd is the lowest I've ever been in the rankings. I'm not sure whether to be impressed or depressed by this fact. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Canopy...need help in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Friday, December 16 2005 16:18 Profile Homepage #27 They're vampires. Presumably they're killing someone at regular intervals, even if in RoR-BoA we don't see them doing so on camera. :P -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Training with high levels. in Blades of Exile
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Friday, December 16 2005 15:27 Profile Homepage #2 By the way, I really hope you went through Nephil's Gambit or something to get that Poison Use skill rather than actually spending skill points on it. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
training and creation question in Geneforge Series
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Thursday, December 15 2005 22:45 Profile Homepage #1 The answer to this question depends on whether you're playing Geneforge 1, 2 or 3. Trainers work differently in each. [ Thursday, December 15, 2005 23:04: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Canopy...need help in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Thursday, December 15 2005 22:08 Profile Homepage #20 Technically, Harold was already dead. It's kind of a prerequisite for being a zombie. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Cheats ? in Avernum 4
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Thursday, December 15 2005 22:00 Profile Homepage #23 Yeah. Normally I sell or drop food, but that time I had to eat it in front of her so I wouldn't feel guilty. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Cheats ? in Avernum 4
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Thursday, December 15 2005 19:56 Profile Homepage #21 quote: Originally written by kuc: When A4 comes out for windows, I will endeavour to have birthdates for my characters, and ensure I use giveasnack on the appropriate occasions. You're in for a disappointment -- A4 doesn't have a calendar. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
So What Makes a Torment Capable Party? in Avernum 4
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Thursday, December 15 2005 19:54 Profile Homepage #31 quote: Originally written by kuc: When the game seems to be so starved for skill points, requiring choices and sacrifices - wouldn't you want to build specifically for the latter part of the game, which in theory should be the hardest and most important part? I'm not convinced that the endgame will be hardest. For one thing, by keeping the early to midgame easy for myself, I'm likely to end up accumulating a massive supply of usable items (energy potions, invulnerability potions, etc) which I can lean on later if all else fails. Moreover, I've been doing some planning for later on stat-wise; I've already got 12 Arcane Lore and 16 Nature Lore spread out among my party, so I'm not going to need to throw too many more skill points into those for a while. I also try to keep at least 10 unspent skill points in reserve on every character at all times, so that if I urgently need to boost a particular skill I can do so. I'm a short way into the Eastern Gallery now and so far this strategy is working well for me. So far the only things that have given me real trouble were Hrickis (who I managed to bump off after a few reloads) and the testing shade north of Formello (and there's a trick to surviving that fight). [ Thursday, December 15, 2005 19:58: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
No tool ? in Avernum 4
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Thursday, December 15 2005 16:43 Profile Homepage #15 By the same argument, reloading a saved game when you die lets you off too easily. And if you believe that, go and play Angband until you can't stand it any more. :P Seriously, though, the tradeoff for death being softened is that you can't be taken down to 0 HP and not die any more. Which is quite annoying when enemies cast Icy Rain for more damage than my characters' maximum HP... -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
So What Makes a Torment Capable Party? in Avernum 4
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Thursday, December 15 2005 15:04 Profile Homepage #26 By the way, just as another little tip, don't underestimate the value of First Aid. It's very cheap to put 2 points on each character, and that's enough to get an automatic heal of about 20 HP and 5 energy after a medium to large-sized fight. It's certainly a better defensive investment than Endurance, which is almost useless at low levels (although it improves later on). [ Thursday, December 15, 2005 15:07: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
So What Makes a Torment Capable Party? in Avernum 4
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Thursday, December 15 2005 13:11 Profile Homepage #23 What's wrong with throwing weapons? One of my priests has Bows skill and the other has Throwing skill, because I wanted to make them different in some way. It's working out pretty well for me so far; right now, with equivalent amounts of skill, my thrower does about 50% more damage with a plain javelin than my archer does with a yew bow (45ish compared to 30ish). The only drawback is that javelins are really heavy. Incidentally, I highly recommend giving all priests 3 levels of Mage Spells, so they can cast Haste (and Bolt of Fire, which comes in handy more often than you'd think). This means limiting them to a 5% armor penalty so they can actually cast mage spells, but that's not as bad as it sounds, since there are plenty of good items with no penalty. (Shields, for example. I don't know what Jeff was thinking when he decided to give shields no penalty, but I'm not complaining.) [ Thursday, December 15, 2005 13:18: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
No tool ? in Avernum 4
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Thursday, December 15 2005 13:05 Profile Homepage #13 The only long-term penalty to dying is that dead characters don't gain experience until you revive them. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Hellhound in Avernum 4
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Thursday, December 15 2005 13:04 Profile Homepage #2 When does he decide you're strong enough, anyway? My party's at level 7-8 and he still tells me to go away. EDIT: Apparently the requirement is an average party level of 8, as that's when he finally relented. [ Thursday, December 15, 2005 13:35: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
No tool ? in Avernum 4
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Thursday, December 15 2005 00:17 Profile Homepage #10 Also, "ameliorate" carries the connotation of improving something bad to make it less bad, rather than improving something good to make it better. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00

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