Edgwyn

I like in concept various variations of "dying with my boots on", but many of those possibilities leave messiness and/or psychological trauma to those around, if someone could suggest a good "dying with my boots on" that avoids the messiness issues, I would be very interested in keeping it in the back of my mind for hopefully 40 years or so.

I am thankful for my family and I am thankful for my circumstances

I wouldn't say that the forums are, but if you said that the games were, I would not disagree with you. Of course you could just ring a bell, pretend to shock me, etc instead and see how that works.

It does, maybe you should change it to recommending a pre-spiderweb sanity baseline and a post-spiderweb sanity check by providing a link to a group of providers and charging them a referral fee.

The messiness rule is Alorael's. You don't have to adhere to it if you don't want to. Bear in mind that rules regarding how explicitly messy it is, is still his jurisdiction as forum administrator.

 

(Unrelated note: I just noticed the silliness of a forum that proudly tells people "Leave your sanity at the door" having a psychiatrist for an administrator. >_< )

I happen to agree with Alorael on the messy thing. As to having the psychiatrist for an administrator, I have worked with a few who I thought were not that far removed on the scale from their patients, so maybe it is very appropriate.

Getting killed via meteor strike would be fairly painless and nearly instantaneous, but also violates the messiness rule. Of course I am assuming a large enough meteor to survive entry into and travel through the atmosphere and then impact at with me at 11.2 km/s or greater.

He is the blue crystal in the upper right corner of the room, on the other side of a moat with two bridges.

I think Jeff eliminated the conflict over 3 people wanting the Black Drake Fang by adding another in a hard to get to place.

He did, there are three black drake fangs and there are enough passes for everyone who wants a pass. I think the Iron bars quest you mentioned is the only one that disappears, and of course you only have one chance to explore the Dark Waters area.

I think that cooperative multi-player could work well (essentially like a traditional RPG), but I do not see it happening.

Which them either made it harder for you to hit your opponent or made it easier for you to get hit, it has been too long for me to remember which.

From what I remember, it is the scrolls. Having a character who is knocked unconscious return after a battle does not stop you from earning the medal.

I also think that the Vahnatai looks better with the coif

I am doing a second play through and I did get the medal this time. So in my first play through I rescued all three crystal souls and no medal. This time it worked fine. I rescued Jekknol first and took him to the Crystal Shrine without triggering the reward in Olgai. Both play throughs were on a mac on normal.

I think Slartibus was right in his speculation that the order of Shrine vs Olgai matters.

Oh, and a "it really doesn't matter" question: can one get the shadow beast to talk and perhaps understand/help it?

That would be fun, but the story line has other plans

Congrats Goldengirl and Lobita, this was a great gift that you provided to the community

I would not advocate Jeff turn over his IP, but that is the only way that I see a development team happening.

Gygax's issues included the fact that he never truly owned TSR, but had to bring in outsiders to get enough capital to publish the first set of rules. TSR then expanded beyond his and the other founders ability to manage it and produced a lot of products that did not make a profit. He then was forced off to Hollywood leaving TSR to further flounder.

By never expanding his business, Jeff has avoided a lot of pitfalls.

Harehunter was very active in the community for a long time. He did a lot of work creating map info which is published at www.harehunter.info. He has been a lot less active in the past couple or so years due to changing interests and health issues. About a year of so ago he asked if anyone would take over his website which has extensive files on Exile I-III and A1-6 and none of us said yes. This post appears to have been a farewell post.

I am not sure that Jeff is all that comfortable having employees. I think Alorael is right that he would be comfortable with outsourcing graphics. I do not think that he would be comfortable outsourcing the engine based on what he has said about his programming skills. The only way that I could see a major change would be for Jeff to license some of his work to a team to execute where Jeff would be removed from the day to day operations.

I just opened A3 on my laptop with OS X Yosemite (10.10.5) and it seemed to be working fine. I think that the problem may be with your copy

The GIFTS are essentially the company mascot. I am disappointed that they are not in Avadon.

If you didn't include Spider, Spider or Spider than you really wouldn't be cute.

Kelner appears in multiple games

Add Sylae Bot to the members of your firm and then I will really be scared.

I can confirm that tool use is capped at 10 in A:CS. Unfortunately none of the trainers train tool use.

Does she have her own bank account at all? If she were to decide to leave the situation she is in, that would be quite useful.