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Undead Horde Substitutes in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl
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 written Thursday, May 12 2005 12:52 Profile Homepage #21
And most designers design toward the designing community, not the broader playing community.

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Undead Topics Need Loving Too (aka "Give Me Your First-Born") in General
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 written Thursday, May 12 2005 04:42 Profile Homepage #552
quote:
Originally written by andrew miller:

I thought "soft drink" was used to distinguish those beverages from alcoholic drinks, or "hard drinks."
You'd think it would be, but that would require the English language to make more sense than it does.

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 written Thursday, May 12 2005 02:20 Profile Homepage #3
If drug-addled hazes count as dreams, lots of great art gets thought up in dreams.

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 written Thursday, May 12 2005 01:31 Profile Homepage #1
A couple of days ago I had a dream in which a robot popped my kidney, but you don't hear me blathering about it to all and sundry, do you?

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 written Thursday, May 12 2005 00:55 Profile Homepage #550
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Originally written by saunders:

Soft drinks would be anything flat or gassy that isn't hot, water, or alcoholic.
And didn't come directly out of a plant or animal. I wouldn't call milk or juice a soft drink. But perhaps the British are odd that way.

(Personally, I don't think of anything non-carbonated as a "soft drink". I wouldn't call imitation cordial a soft drink, for example, although some might disagree.)

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Ice cream soda can have any fizzy drink in it...
I believe we call those "spiders".

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Recommended Reading in General
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 written Thursday, May 12 2005 00:46 Profile Homepage #8
It's actually Iain M. Banks, not W.

As for my own recommendations, well, I've mostly been reading textbooks lately. But if you're in the market for one of those, Pharmacology by Rang, Dale, Ritter and Moore has some amusing parts, like the anecdote about the effect of amphetamines on one medical student, or the extended rant on the lamentable failure of aphrodisiacs throughout history.

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Crystalshard dot net! in SubTerra
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 written Thursday, May 12 2005 00:20 Profile Homepage #10
I'm using Mozilla, which redirected me to the forum just fine. Here's the link to the forum page itself:

http://www.drod.net/forum/viewboard.php?BoardID=17

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G2 - Gazer Lvl 3 in Geneforge Series
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 written Thursday, May 12 2005 00:12 Profile Homepage #9
Please note that Mr. of Trinity was praising Gazers, not Eyebeasts.

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G2 - Gazer Lvl 3 in Geneforge 2
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 written Thursday, May 12 2005 00:12 Profile Homepage #9
Please note that Mr. of Trinity was praising Gazers, not Eyebeasts.

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Canopy - ARRRRRRGGGHHHHH!!!!!! in Blades of Avernum
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 written Wednesday, May 11 2005 23:53 Profile Homepage #3
There's no way to get into that secret chamber. It's a red herring.

As for beating the Dark Idol, be sure to cast Radiant Shield before the fight to increase your magic resistance; if you have it at at least level 3, it'll protect you from the idol's fire attack, too. (You can buy Radiant Shield from the priest in the tavern.)

Invulnerability obviously helps a lot -- you can buy plenty of potions in town. And Heroic Brews are great, if you have any. If you rescued Baldev and met him to get his reward, that helps too.

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Undead Topics Need Loving Too (aka "Give Me Your First-Born") in General
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 written Wednesday, May 11 2005 23:43 Profile Homepage #548
I've always used "soda" exclusively to refer to soda water. Soft drinks are soft drinks. Pop is the absence of a definable musical style.

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From AOL News 2 in General
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 written Wednesday, May 11 2005 11:58 Profile Homepage #37
Wha? Over here you can't even ride a regular bicycle without a helmet.

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Anybody here speak script? (cross-post) in General
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 written Wednesday, May 11 2005 04:29 Profile Homepage #3
Well, I suppose the first thing to do is read the documentation, as soon as you have a month or two to spare.

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Undead Horde Substitutes in Blades of Avernum
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 written Wednesday, May 11 2005 03:41 Profile Homepage #6
And there was a werewolf in it to boot.

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Music Preference in General
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 written Wednesday, May 11 2005 03:27 Profile Homepage #79
quote:
Originally written by An Upright stranger:

Hmmm yeah, it's your unique IP address (sp?) that's the problem, right? I guess the music companies have a claim to ask the ISP about users downloading their copyrighted material. Or something, I have no idea about how any of this works.
IP addresses aren't actually unique (to your computer, anyway); different computers on the same ISP can have the same IP address at different times. But I'd assume ISPs keep records of who is allocated what IP address at what time, which is still enough to identify you.

Fortunately, the ends of major copyright holders are served better by making examples of a few cases rather than spending vast amounts of time and money following up every act of piracy they see.

[ Wednesday, May 11, 2005 03:30: Message edited by: Thuryl ]

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 written Wednesday, May 11 2005 02:42 Profile Homepage #19
No blunder. Orders from on high say it's now A-OK to double post when replying to two separate posts in the same thread.

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Undead Horde Substitutes in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl
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 written Wednesday, May 11 2005 02:40 Profile Homepage #4
quote:
Originally written by Duke of Toast:

1) Giant insects-- null bugs, chitrach and giant spiders-- aranea.
Seen it. (AC1, Bahssikava)

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2) Troll hordes.
Seen it. (AC3)

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3) Goblin hordes.
You better believe I've seen it. (Every scenario with some permutation of the word "Goblin" in its title, and then some)

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4) Alien beast hordes.
Seen it. (E3, VoDT)

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5) Demons.
Seen it probably more times than undead. (See #3, but replace "Goblin" with "Demon")

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6) Nephil and slith barbarians.
Seen it. (ZKR, Nephil's Gambit)

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7) Bandits.
Oh, please. There's even a scenario by that name.

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8) Evil forests-- evil treants, giant wolves, slithering bushes, etc. :P
Well, Tatterdemalion came sort of close to this. A couple of other scenarios had plant monsters as well.

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9) The unseely court.
What the hell is this? Blades of Nethergate?

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10) Golem armies.
Seen it. (E3, AtG)

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11) Conquerors from another world.
Well, er, I suppose that's fairly new to BoA. Unless you count demons.

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12) Mutant or mind controlled hordes of creatures. Controlled by the evil slime lord or mind beasts.
Seen it. (Echoes: *)

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Sorry, just felt like doing a bit of ritualised deflation there. Having said all of the above, just because something's been done before doesn't make it bad. What it does mean is that there has to be something to the scenario beyond "big monster plague" to add interest. This is true even if your big monster plague really is something new and interesting.

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Star Wars! in General
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Wednesday, May 11 2005 01:56 Profile Homepage #16
And cease to be such an easy source of amusement? Perish the thought, boy.

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Music Preference in General
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 written Wednesday, May 11 2005 01:47 Profile Homepage #77
It's not all that hard to see if someone's been downloading a lot of music. I've heard the security of an unencrypted transmission over the Internet being compared to a conversation in a crowded restaurant; anyone who happens to be in the right place at the right time can listen in if they particularly want to. Tracing back the download to your computer and finding out your identity is less trivial, but perfectly achievable with the cooperation of your ISP.

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Star Wars! in General
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 written Tuesday, May 10 2005 23:49 Profile Homepage #14
quote:
Originally written by Sprung Spring:

I like the HP books better than the movies, and they are some of the only books I have seen at the movies, so my judgement is severely limited.
And yet you felt comfortable saying that books were better than their corresponding films in every case. Reminds me of Ayn Rand talking about psychology.

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Geneforge 2 Trainer in Geneforge Series
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 written Tuesday, May 10 2005 19:33 Profile Homepage #171
You didn't happen to get your copy of the game from RealOne Arcade, did you? If you did, the trainer won't work.

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Geneforge 2 Trainer in Geneforge 2
Thuryl
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 written Tuesday, May 10 2005 19:33 Profile Homepage #171
You didn't happen to get your copy of the game from RealOne Arcade, did you? If you did, the trainer won't work.

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Undead Horde Substitutes in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl
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 written Tuesday, May 10 2005 19:03 Profile Homepage #2
Make the combat appropriate to the plot of your scenario. A dungeon full of monsters for the sake of having a dungeon full of monsters will seldom constitute a positive contribution to your scenario. Your scenario doesn't really have to have combat in it at all, if it wouldn't fit in.

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 written Tuesday, May 10 2005 00:40 Profile Homepage #11
What good is a ferret? What good is a sunrise?

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Combat in Canopy Poll in Blades of Avernum
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 written Tuesday, May 10 2005 00:29 Profile Homepage #33
The trouble with Cloud of Blades is that it inflicts damage as a percentage of the target's HP. Against very high-level enemies it can do 600 damage or more. The solution is to lower the monster's HP and raise its resistances instead -- a monster with 1/4 of normal HP and 75% resistance to everything will take 1/4 of the damage it otherwise would from normal attacks, but only 1/16 of the damage from Cloud of Blades.

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