shadow9d9

Just started Geneforge and have some questions. What is the yellow bar under your health bar? Stamina? Do you get less xp having 2 pets out rather than 1? Is it possible to get by without mechanics?

I have A3 already and just ordered Nethergate/Geneforge trilogy. Just trying to decide which to start first : ).

Mmm, I play everything on normal, wouldn't touch torment. I died over 500 times in Avernum 2.. it was pretty tough...Of course, I went to areas I probably shouldn't have so soon. Is it compareable?

Ah.. so Geneforge would be a nice change of pace then? I heard it was a tad on the easy side.

6 months ago I beat Avernum 1. I just beat Avernum 2 which was fantastic. It will probably be a bit before I'm ready for the next Spiderweb game, but do you think I should try Geneforge or Avernum 3? Afraid to overdose on the same game world.

How do you know that Assassination has diminishing returns? Does it say it anywhere?

Besides for some endurance, I can't see what else the mage/priests could use besides for int/mage/priest spells.

Ah, gotcha. Makes sense. Are there ever diminishing returns with skills? My int/mage spells are both 18+ and same for the priest side...

As for the post on hardiness, it says it has a chance to block 1 per level... but it doesn't sound definite from the description...

I am in the middle of Avernum 2 and had a few questions.. How does Sanctuary work? I have level 3 and have tried to use it a few times... doesn't seem to do anything. Do skills ever hit diminishing returns? Such as intelligence, mage spells, priest spells etc? For my fighters I have struggled at finding the best combination of skills for higher levels but I am really not sure what will help them at higher levels vs the abundance of spells and multi-hitting enemies... One fighter has the following skills- 11 strength 5 dexterity 1 int 11 endurance 14 pole weapons 11 hardiness 3 defense 11 assassination 10 Anatomy 8 gymnastics Would it be better to boost dex/defense or dex/end/hardiness or what else would you suggest for high level encounters? It seems to be that hardiness is very important, but in the skill description it says it just has a chance of reducing damage by 1.

I beat quest 1 and got frustrated at this point... started Avernum 2 just to check out the beginning of the game.. went back to 1, killed grah-hoth and got to the portal... but since I didn't have all the brooches, I couldn't get past... I had accomplished enough in the game to stop and prep for Av 2. I am completely new to spiderwebgames and I was very impressed with A1, despite a few ridiculous hidden, but necessary tunnels required for quests... or silly things missed like this. I refuse to look up things until I am beyond frustrated.. which I was for this and the rune "puzzle" for the scimitar hidden orb. Fantastic game. I am now taking a break from videogames, which I do after every game, and lasts for 2 days or so... Then it is on to Space Rangers 2... then probably back to A2... Also should get some more hl2 in along with Xenosaga... then kotor 2... Trying to find a balance of what I crave and how much of the more hardcore gaming(Avernums and space rangers and kotor 2) I can handle before going back to less brain using games such as the Xenosaga and HL2.

Wow, I found it now... thanks... I never would have thought to check a random area south when I had complete access to the tower... sheesh!

I created a new topic because I thought the old title wouldn't lead to many replies... Are you referring to the town of Skarragoth?

I beat the game by finding the surface... Trying to kill the demon now... I have made my way through skarragath and I have explored the prison but I cannot get into the north room. I found the portals along the north wall through a secret passage but the first portal just portals me inside and I found no way to disable the 2nd portal... I have the dagger of athame to free him from the bottle... but I just can't get to the bottle. ANy help would be greatly appreciated.

Avernum 1. trying to get to the demon stuck in a bottle.. I have the dagger from the tower of magi...got past skarragoth or whatever that place was... and I can't get into the north part, where I am guessing the demon is that I have to free and kill.

I have the blessed athame... yet I cannot get into the north part of the prison to unlock the guy. I found 2 portals.. yet one is blocking the other.. can't find anything else in the area.

Aye, thank you for the detailed description.

In another dungeon I found an orb too... I destroyed that one similarly..this was before this quest.. and I haven't found a quest linked to that orb yet : )... so maybe you found the orb I found... but not this rididculous one : ).

How did you accidentally hit the rune 4 times and go in the portal?

Had to press rune 4 times... took a notch of fun out of the game though.

Anyone have the solution here? I am still stuck...

I haven't found it yet... are "puzzles" this frustrating something that is extremely rare in the avernum series?

Well, here I was, addicted, thinking the game was brilliant... then I get up to the Scimitar quest 1... I search the gremlin cave, get the level 3 spell, kill all the soldiers.. find the rune, find the 2nd teleporter.. but WHERE IS THE ORB... I spent well over an hour searching everywhere... the ONE walkthrough at gamefaqs says something rididculously stupid like "oh, you just go in and destroy the orb"... it also suggests hitting the rune twice... just changes the teleporter location to the nw which has nothing... PLEASE HELP... This is the first quest to really be ridiculous so far...

I was webbed even without being in battle... so I would have to go back into battle and tell them to wait to undo web?

What do you mean about web being paused?