Mea Tulpa

Slar thinks that Nebulan's gimmicks are past their due. That is all.

So what about creations? What is the shaper/sorceress route like? Presumably it is different given all the talk about battle creations.

Interesting! Lots of nerfing, and it's stuff that probably needed to be nerfed. Haste in particular. Lack of super-Haste seems like it makes playing without creations very, very dicey on higher difficulty. You can't heal and attack in the same turn -- usually -- without using up items. You also can't hit-and-run effectively. Combined, this makes having super-strong defenses a necessity. Meanwhile, weaker Parry is bad news for Serviles. I think the days of the Insidious Infiltrator may be gloomier as well. Unless regeneration aura is enough on the HP recovery front, but I am skeptical. Sorceress FTW... right? Beta testers, what am I missing?

Goodbye, spambot.

Learning by practice is even more of a grind though, isn't it?

If it's an even number, you can take cost = (s + x/4 - 0.5) * x where s is the starting cost at 0 and x is the number you are trying to reach.

It's really just simpler to add. 4 + 4 + 5 + 5 + 6 + 6 + 7 + 7 + 8 + 8 or doubling up, 8 + 10 + 12 + 14 + 16 = 60

It's been a long time since we've had an interesting and relevant poll. *applause*

Where is TM when you need him. Sheesh

*facepalm*

320x240x8bit? I'm not sure what that's supposed to describe, but it certainly doesn't describe any Exile or Avernum game.

Goodbye, cruel thread.

Rest in peace, Amina Blade.

Actually, we know that Drypeak is nestled in the mountains just west of the lower portion of the G4 map. So it isn't NW of Terrestia.

The real question here is how you managed to thoroughly enjoy Final Fantasy 8 in any capacity.

I thought something smelled funny. Amena Blade is a HE, as I remembered. In all the games. I just checked the dumps.

The real question is how many ways we can misspell her name before she dies.

Step two, put your vlish in the box?

Xelgion and Ackrovan: this is transparently not true, and you know it. Please stop. If you really have a problem, you can send a private message to *i about it. I'm not locking this thread, because most of the thread has been productive. But if you're gonna keep spreading your negativity, locks will start appearing.

Cracked Lobster went far beyond the limits of the code of conduct. That's why the first topic was locked. Some of what he posted has been removed from the boards, because it was so over the top. Please remember that the most offensive posts are removed quickly, before you complain that the mods took unnecessary action. If you disagree with the way the forums are moderated, you can certainly tell us. A respectful private message is pretty much guaranteed to get a respectful response. Feo's post was pretty reasonable as well. However, trying to stir up bogeyman fears about the "mod team", rather than giving us feedback directly, is not welcome. Particularly when it is done transparently out of bitterness, by a member who is just annoyed that he was banned for violating the code of conduct after having been repeatedly warned about it. This thread is done. If you have further questions or comments, I would be happy to hear them; send me a PM (or send it to any other mod).

Were you guys as surprised to see Gazerzahd as I was?

Nephil's Gambit did have a Chicken Drake.

I found the proto-vlish far less scary than the postmodern vlish.

Hmm. Well, I did a quick grep and it doesn't look like it's stated explicitly. Amena Blade mentions that Zakary and Barzahl are "gone now" in several paragraphs of text that he repeats word for word in both G3 and G4 -- hah. That's vague, though. Circumstantial evidence certainly suggests that the canonical G2 ending was the loyalist/non-aligned ending, since we know that the PC did kill at least Easss, and neither the Barzites nor the Awakened had their plans come to fruition. While I suppose it's possible that Barzahl somehow slipped away, went into hiding for years while becoming even crazier, and then turned into Monarch, it seems exceedingly unlikely -- and perhaps a bit implausible given Barzahl's abhorrence of rogues.

I thought it was specified that Barzahl was destroyed in the G2 canonical ending? Or was it not?