Aceron A

If you've got a hex editor (or UGE) and you don't mind opening up the BoE exe, here's some stuff you can mess with: Byte # (Hex Value): What's there: 24576 (6000): Mage spell ranges, 2 bytes each. 24758 (60B6): Priest spell ranges, 2 bytes each. 475426 (74122): Skill costs in Skill Points, 2 bytes each. 475466 (7414A): Skill costs in cash, 2 bytes each. 475508 (74174): Bonuses applies for Str, Dex and Int, from 1 to 20. 1 byte each. 479956 (752D4): Max skill levels, 2 bytes each. 488740 (77524): Trait exp-needed-for-level-up modifiers. 2 bytes each. 13910 (3656): Name of the font used for dialog and such (originally MaidenWord) I usually change this to "Tahoma". 13921 (3661): Name of the font used for everything else (originally MS Sans Serif) They should be arranged in the same order that they're listed in the helpfile. I also have the mage/priest spell costs listed, but they're seperate values for the actual MP used and the amount listed in the menu, and I'm not sure which is which, but you can search by 2-byte values according to the costs listed in the helpfiles if you want to find them. Although I should mention that if you do bother to find them, they apparently don't effect monster's usage of them. Once upon a time I had the bytes that changed the max MP and MP values too, but I don't have it anymore. I never did find any way to stop it from resetting your health to 250 when you gained a level if you went over that though. But I used to be able to let my characters train extra health once they hit level 50. It was fun having a character with 380 HP once. But I don't have those bytes anymore, and there are a whole lot of 150 and 250's in the file to search through.

I was talking about conscience, not religion. And whatsmore, I was talking about my conscience, not yours. But if you want to get into religion, here's all I have to say about that: Deuteronomy 18:10-12 Psalms 11:5 If you think its okay because its "just a game", well, that's your problem. Bye.

(Never change your e-mail on an ironycentral board to a nonexistant address.) Anyway, BoE bothers my conscience too much to play it for long. But every once in a while the combination of grid-based castles, statistics, fantasy worlds, custom graphics (I draw my own PCs), exploration and artifact hunting gets the better of me. This week's party consisted of Laen, Fen, Prout, Gamina, Eris and Astire. They went through about 10 scenarios, concluding with another failed attempt to finish The Lost Expedition, for the 4th freakin' time. Of course, at level 50, they were serously uber, with Laen and Fen doing around 150-200 damage per attack and Astire doing anywhere from 120 to 300, the rest doing 100-150 except for Eris. With attacks like that, who needs magic? I'd go without it if the darn game (and darn scenario designers) didn't require you to have Unlock and Move Mountains all the time. They also had anywhere from 60 to 140 armor each, which is pretty ridiculous. I advise everyone to avoid Bandits 2. I still never found any items of infinite light. I fought the urge to make my own scenario, just so I could include one. Anyway, last night the overwhelming references to demonic stuff got to me and I deleted it again. Byebye BoE. At least for now. I've discovered that you can practiacally play it registered with a few minor adjustments to the download from Spiderweb's site, so deleting it doesn't always help much. Maybe Jeff should just release the source code. It'd be fun to mess around with. Oh yeah, things I hate: Special item NPCs, Scenarios that give you tons of overpowered weapons and armor, but no "useful" items, Bookshelves with specials that teach everyone spells, scenarios that kill the party in an effort to remove their inventory (which deletes items, is handled ungracefully, and doesn't take multi-charge Life Saving items into consideration), and scenarios that REQUIRE the Unlock, Move Mountains, or Word of Recall spells to be completed, since I much prefer parties with no magic users whatsoever. The items they find along the way provide all the strategic advantage I need. I still have no idea how to get out of the cell in Shadow of the Stanger. I cheated. I hacked my party's coordinates and landed on the other side of the bars. I also hacked a number of scenarios with custom item graphics, so that I'd get to keep the items afterwards. I can't stand losing my hard-won items when the scenario ends. So, that's about it. The only people here who I remember are Drakefyre, Dragyn Bob, and Stareye. Don't know who the rest of you people are. Byebye. And Luz is my new favorite BoE artist.