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Naming Creations in Geneforge
Thuryl
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 written Monday, December 13 2004 20:00 Profile Homepage #58
Why was it necessary to revive a two-week-old topic for the sake of a two-sentence post?

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The Third Guardpost: A2 in The Avernum Trilogy
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 written Monday, December 13 2004 18:56 Profile Homepage #1
Trial and error is the way to go. Save every time you take a step.

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Exile 1 install in Tech Support
Thuryl
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 written Monday, December 13 2004 18:53 Profile Homepage #1
Your computer is too new. Try turning on compatibility mode. If that doesn't work, get an old second-hand computer at a swap meet.

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THE WORST MAN EVER: Worst Men List (Initial) & Discussion in General
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 written Monday, December 13 2004 05:58 Profile Homepage #13
The nominations are over, silly.

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Hire a NPC on a scenario!? in Blades of Avernum
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 written Monday, December 13 2004 02:24 Profile Homepage #15
The problem is there's no scripting call to create a character.

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A Strange Problem with a Stairway in Blades of Exile
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 written Sunday, December 12 2004 21:57 Profile Homepage #5
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Originally written by Bard of the Soul:

Yes, I have the stairways on the same squairs in the different towns. If that is the issue it is rather odd because I have the same araingment between the base town and another town that works just fine.
That almost certainly is the issue. It's a bug that shows up some but not all of the time, for reasons that aren't obvious. See if moving one of the stairways helps.

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Delivery Time in General
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Sunday, December 12 2004 21:54 Profile Homepage #1
I live in Australia. It's been a few years since I ordered anything from SW by mail, so I don't remember exactly, but you can expect to wait a month or so.

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E3--Max points in The Exile Trilogy
Thuryl
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 written Sunday, December 12 2004 18:48 Profile Homepage #11
In Exile 2 it's in the Options menu under "See Overall Stats". Exile 1 doesn't seem to have it at all.

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Exile tabletop RPG! in General
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Member # 869
 written Sunday, December 12 2004 18:41 Profile Homepage #36
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Originally written by Jacen Solo 5007:

Hardiness: It says that there's a chance of reducing the damage by 1 per level. I am interpreting that as a flat percentage chance, but the damage absorbed increases. Is that right? Also, what shoudl this chance be? I'm going with 30% as of now.
I believe hardiness in Avernum actually works the same way as armor. The damage blocked per physical attack is 1dH, where H is your hardiness level. So if you have a hardiness of 10, 1-10 damage is deducted from every hit you take.

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Assassination: The chance to assassinate is determined by both skill level and how many levels you are above the enemy. Does anyone know the percentage chance? I'm using, as of right now, 4% per skill level, as well as +/- 4% for every level you are above/below the opponent.
No idea what the actual percentages are, but that doesn't sound unreasonable. Of course, it means you'll assassinate a lot against low-level enemies even if your assassination skill is very low, but that happened in the original games too.

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Mage and Priest Spells: It says that spells get more powerful as you raise your skills; I'm thinking maybe adding +5% per skill level to the effect of the spell, if there's a percentage chance of it working(like Curing), bonuses to the damage of a spell, like +1, +2, increase die type, etc(same goes for Healing), stuff like that.
Doesn't sound unreasonable. In BoA, Intelligence, Mage/Priest Spells and Magery are all basically equivalent in terms of their effect on spell power (although of course, Mage Spells and Priest Spells only affect their respective spell groups).

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Potion Making: How's 25% + 5% per skill level?
Well, in BoA, the chance of success is 50% if your skill is exactly enough to make the potion, and seems to increase based on some weird formula after that. There's also a chance to make 2 doses of a potion from one set of ingredients if your skill is really high; don't know if you want to implement that.

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Tool Use: I'm thinking 30% + 5% per skill level.
With bonuses and penalties for easy or difficult tasks as appropriate, of course.

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First Aid: How about 30% + 4% per skill level.
First Aid isn't really very good in BoA. You'll probably need to rebalance it yourself to make it useful.

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Hire a NPC on a scenario!? in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Sunday, December 12 2004 17:53 Profile Homepage #11
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Originally written by Kelandon:

Joining NPCs in BoA work like Nethergate NPCs, not Avernum ones, so there is no way to do this directly.
Correction: they work like Nethergate NPCs, only AI-controlled, so less useful.

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stupid question... in General
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Sunday, December 12 2004 17:39 Profile Homepage #15
The Might and Magic series of RPGs included an aging system (which gradually lowered your stats after around age 60, and randomly killed your characters off after around age 80), but also included various ways to magically rejuvenate your characters. That might be the best of both worlds, if you really expect your game to take years of game time to finish.

[ Sunday, December 12, 2004 17:40: Message edited by: Thuryl ]

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a time problem in Blades of Avernum Editor
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Sunday, December 12 2004 02:17 Profile Homepage #2
For an idea of what's meant by "obscenely high", using two SDFs allows 65536 ticks, which is just over 13 days. Using a third SDF would allow you over 3000 days, which is hopefully more than you'll ever need.

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a time problem in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Sunday, December 12 2004 02:17 Profile Homepage #2
For an idea of what's meant by "obscenely high", using two SDFs allows 65536 ticks, which is just over 13 days. Using a third SDF would allow you over 3000 days, which is hopefully more than you'll ever need.

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Beta-Call for Canopy in Blades of Avernum
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Member # 869
 written Saturday, December 11 2004 14:54 Profile Homepage #99
Darkmoor, maybe it would be more useful if you emailed or IMed TM instead of potentially spoiling up the topic.

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Continuing after Beating the Game!!! in The Avernum Trilogy
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Friday, December 10 2004 21:53 Profile Homepage #1
You cannot.

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How's my new name :) in General
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Friday, December 10 2004 16:43 Profile Homepage #18
You get used to it.

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Hire a NPC on a scenario!? in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Friday, December 10 2004 11:48 Profile Homepage #2
You can hire an NPC for use within a scenario, though.

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Exile tabletop RPG! in General
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Friday, December 10 2004 11:24 Profile Homepage #32
No; names have to be specifically registered as trademarks. It's pretty unlikely that Jeff bothered to register Nepharim or Vahnatai.

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At the Gallows in Blades of Exile
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Friday, December 10 2004 05:12 Profile Homepage #1
Level 1.

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ASR - stuck in sewers in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl
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 written Thursday, December 9 2004 16:03 Profile Homepage #1
I believe you can find them on corpses somewhere; I'm afraid I don't remember any more detail than that. But if your tool use is high enough, you don't need them anyway.

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Help with Scenario Design!!!! in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl
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 written Thursday, December 9 2004 14:25 Profile Homepage #1
quote:
Originally written by dgoodrich:

I can't find where it says how to give the pary multiple responses to a question.
There may be a misunderstanding of BoA terminology going on here; a question is the party's response. The response to a question is the response of the NPC you're talking to. Look at the dialogue scripts of existing scenario to see how it's done.

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Also I thought I had followed the instructions for making a scenario exit.
Can you call scripts? Can you make a simple dialog box? I am asking to determine whether your problem lies specifically in the call you're using or is something more basic.

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P.S. Did I just miss the link to 3D editor for WINDOWS or are they for MAC only. It would be EVER SO MUch faster if it was done in 3D.
Mac only. And keep in mind they're not supported by Jeff Vogel (although in a year or two the standard editor won't be supported either.)

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Personality Disorder Test, yes, again. in General
Thuryl
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 written Thursday, December 9 2004 13:33 Profile Homepage #46
You make a good point. In fact, a personality disorder can only be considered a disorder if it causes significant subjective distress or interferes with daily life. The aim of therapy, typically, is to turn a personality disorder into a personality style.

I read too many psychology textbooks.

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both surreal and creepy in Blades of Avernum Editor
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Thursday, December 9 2004 04:54 Profile Homepage #1
This a known and really peculiar bug that the editor's maker is unable to replicate. Apparently some people have had luck fixing the bug by downgrading to an older version of the 3D editor.

[ Thursday, December 09, 2004 04:55: Message edited by: Thuryl ]

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both surreal and creepy in Blades of Avernum
Thuryl
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Member # 869
 written Thursday, December 9 2004 04:54 Profile Homepage #1
This a known and really peculiar bug that the editor's maker is unable to replicate. Apparently some people have had luck fixing the bug by downgrading to an older version of the 3D editor.

[ Thursday, December 09, 2004 04:55: Message edited by: Thuryl ]

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TaskMaker in General
Thuryl
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 written Thursday, December 9 2004 04:53 Profile Homepage #7
Registration codes were eventually released on the web. Might take a bit of looking to find them, though.

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