Augmented Creatures?
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Warrior
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written Saturday, June 28 2003 03:34
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Will they be in?If someone doens't know what augmented monster is,it's a pumped up version of normal monster,but not a completely new creature. -------------------- Speed and power! Galaxies explode! And Kekkonen shall descent to punish us all! It's armageddon,it's armageddon! It's the Day of Kekkonen! "But Dirt Dragon rulz 0k.Dirt Dragon would HäX0r HAL 9000 in 10 seconds if he would get a keyboard!!!!111111YAY DITR DRAONG RULZ 0K YAY LOL OMG WTF!!!!!!11111" Join our *wonderfull* "party" at The Club of All! Join our *lovely* Cult at Dominions X! Iä, Iä my brother... Posts: 166 | Registered: Sunday, February 2 2003 08:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Saturday, June 28 2003 04:07
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I guess you can put in anything you like. That's what a scenario editor is for. ;) -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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Shaper
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written Saturday, June 28 2003 04:13
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I think he means creatures like the Fetid Zombie, which, when captured in a Soul Crystal, becomes a normal Zombie. This really doesn't matter, as Capture Soul and Simulacrum will not be in BoA. -------------------- My Myspace, with some of my audial and visual art The Lyceum - The Headquarters of the Blades designing community The Louvre - The Blades of Avernum graphics database Alexandria - The Blades of Exile Scenario database BoE Webring - Self explanatory Polaris - Free porn here Odd Todd - Fun for the unemployed (and everyone else too) They Might Be Giants - Four websites for one of the greatest bands in existance -------------------- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Posts: 2957 | Registered: Thursday, October 4 2001 07:00 |
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Warrior
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written Saturday, June 28 2003 06:25
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quote:But they would be for novelty,d'oh ;) . -------------------- Speed and power! Galaxies explode! And Kekkonen shall descent to punish us all! It's armageddon,it's armageddon! It's the Day of Kekkonen! "But Dirt Dragon rulz 0k.Dirt Dragon would HäX0r HAL 9000 in 10 seconds if he would get a keyboard!!!!111111YAY DITR DRAONG RULZ 0K YAY LOL OMG WTF!!!!!!11111" Join our *wonderfull* "party" at The Club of All! Join our *lovely* Cult at Dominions X! Iä, Iä my brother... Posts: 166 | Registered: Sunday, February 2 2003 08:00 |
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Infiltrator
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written Saturday, June 28 2003 10:09
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1) Fetid zombies aren't augmented, I believe, they are their own monster class. 2) The advantage of augmented monsters would be to eliminate the need to create a whole new monster type if you're only using it once or twice. examples: Unholy Wyrm (Pit of the Wyrm), Wretched Demon (forgot where), Experimental something-or-other, etc. Whether an "augmented" creature reverts to its original type in a soul crystal isn't the only way of defining how it would be useful. If they could be made through scripting, it would also allow random monsters to be made: random stats, attack styles, even graphics. The possibilities are endless. You could make, say, a fetid zombie that had a 50% chance of spitting huge gobs of acid around the room every 2 turns, or Unholy Wyrms that had a 1 in 5 chance of spontaneously combusting and bringing the ceiling down. If you only wanted to use these once in the scenario, it would be more efficient to create a special instance of the monster than to create a whole new type for it. -------------------- 5.0.1.0.0.0.0.1.0... Posts: 508 | Registered: Thursday, May 29 2003 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Saturday, June 28 2003 10:14
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In Avernum 3, there was IMHO a special feature that obviously allowed monsters to display a special name other than the monster class. If all those named tavern owners and priests were added up, that'd be quite a lot. They can't all be separate monster classes. I remember that you saw the name of all the townspersons. I assume you're talking of Avernum 3 at least (because of the pit of the wyrm, which afaik is in A3). Would be really embarassing if I'm wrong... ;) -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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Warrior
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written Saturday, June 28 2003 11:05
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Wizard6 has a good point i forgot to mention.It would indeed be handy if you woulnd't have to create totaly new monster type,if the new monster would just be beefed up goblin.Or Imp.Or Dark Wyrm. -------------------- Speed and power! Galaxies explode! And Kekkonen shall descent to punish us all! It's armageddon,it's armageddon! It's the Day of Kekkonen! "But Dirt Dragon rulz 0k.Dirt Dragon would HäX0r HAL 9000 in 10 seconds if he would get a keyboard!!!!111111YAY DITR DRAONG RULZ 0K YAY LOL OMG WTF!!!!!!11111" Join our *wonderfull* "party" at The Club of All! Join our *lovely* Cult at Dominions X! Iä, Iä my brother... Posts: 166 | Registered: Sunday, February 2 2003 08:00 |
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Infiltrator
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written Sunday, June 29 2003 07:41
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Isn't that what you were talking about in the first place? -------------------- Riot Shields Voodoo Economics It's just business Cattle prods And the IMF I trust I can rely on your vote Posts: 530 | Registered: Sunday, September 1 2002 07:00 |