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On the original topic, it think that blades is still alive. This topic alone has 90 posts on it, proving that people still want to play it, or are at least still interested in it. At the least BoA is still active, with 19348 posts, compared with 10500 in general.

D. Vlish, that sounds good. Maybe thats how you join the mysterious 3rd team (sick of shapers/rebels and their twisted creations/canisters which have screwed up your life). I reckon you should be able to make fading creations. They would have low HP, die after a set amount of turns, and be cheap on essence (so that you could make several of them. I also think that creation slots should be gained every, say, 6 levels. This means you don't have armies of fyora's at the start. Because, according to the storyline, they would probably go rogue. I like the idea of variations on creations. Give them acid claws for 40 essence, uses up skill points, done in towns like upgrading Alwans blade (by a shaper), etc. Long live GIFTS!

You should probably ask some of the older members of the community, such as Stareye, Aloreal, Kelandon, etc...

I was looking at peoples profiles, and I saw lots of people had different ideas about which one they liked best. So, I made a poll.

The only problem ive had with the automap is if im moving it while I enter combat. Then it keeps on moving until my main characters move. Maybe try resetting your computer? Or if you have it on disc, re-installing it?

Haha, no. It mustve stuffed up when i posted my original blank message by accident.

Aaaaggghhh! How!?!

Aaaaaagh! How did I triple post!

Awww... Just deleted my post. Better start again. Quote: Set it on the surface... we need more good scenarios on the surface. More specifically, some dry canyon kind of place would probably work well. And it'd save you work on graphics, since you could just use the dry ground floors/cliffs/walls. Quote: More specifically, some dry canyon kind of place would probably work well. I think I will make the island of Crete a prosperous place. They are the dominating nation of the time. But, the area around the minotaurs lair will be lifeless. Yes, I will put it in a dry canyony place. I was thinking that I could put the Minotaur at some ruins on the verge of collapse (after the maze). When the Minotaur dies, he knocks a pillar, and the place collapses. This means I wouldn't need to have to follow the magic thread out again. Also, could someone sort out the Minotaur animation for me? Learning to script and making scenarios is enough for me.

A minotaur is a (top) halp bull, (bottom) half man. A centaur is a (top) half man, (bottom) half horse or other equestrian. I think. Whos the guy who was preaching monotaurs a week ago on the Geneforge boards?

About the time of Avernums release, it was about 50% Mac, 30% windows, and 20% other, i think.

I suppose. I was just thinking that there wouldn't be much fighting in it. Another problem would be finding a minotaur animation and/or a magic sword which is good against it. I guess I could make a custom item for the sword, and make it like Demonslayer with different wording. But I don't know about the minotaur. Any ideas? Also, im not sure whether to make this story set in avernum, and just make it a demon. Im not sure on many things actually.

Well I think that it is most likeley to be: 1. Human 2. Sholai 3. Drakon 4. Servile 5. Ornk 6. Me

Look at some of the older discussions. There is many valid arguments there.

Well, I had a look and I have am getting ideas already. Ariadne and the Minotaur In those days, Athens was required to pay tribute to Crete, the controlling power in the region, a situation that sets the myth in the mid-second millennium BCE: each year, seven young men and seven young women were to be sent to Crete as sacrifices to the Minotaur, a bull-headed monster in the Labyrinth constructed by Daedalus. Theseus, determined to end this horror, volunteered to be one of the sacrifices, and the fourteen chosen sailed to Crete on a ship with black sails, for mourning. In an episode recounted in Pausanias and Plutarch's vita of Theseus, soon after the Athenians arrived in Crete, Theseus boasted of his parentage, as a son of Poseidon. King Minos, a son of Zeus, demanded he prove his claim by bringing up a golden ring he threw into the ocean, and Theseus descended to the Palace of the Sea, a motif used by the 5th-century Attic vase-painters. In the outcome, Theseus was more than successful: he not only recovered the ring, but also brought up a crown of Thetis that Ariadne was to wear. Ariadne was a consort of Dionysus. However, she betrayed the old order when she fell in love with Theseus and gave him a magic sword with which to kill the Minotaur, and a spool of thread. Theseus unwound the thread as he made his way to the center of the Labyrinth searching for the Minotaur, so that he could find his way out of the maze again. In some versions, Theseus found and killed the monster while it slept, but later versions have him taking on the creature in battle, and other versions simply have Theseus beat the creature to death. After killing the Minotaur with the magic sword, Theseus married and fled Crete with Ariadne, but then abandoned her, at Athena's demand, on the island of Dia, or possibly Naxos. I think I could try something small along these lines instead. Immediate problems I noticed were: - I would need to add some fighting in to start with, perhaps the local militia wanting to stop me. - I don't know if I could animate the thread. i would have to mention it in the storyline instead. *cringes in corner, waits for more stuff to be thrown at him*

Quote: I suggest that you incorporate a maze into a true scenario, and make the maze, how shall I put this... less of a maze. By which I mean, make it less intentionally infuriating to the player, and make it fit into the story. (the Deep Crawler mission in ZKR is a good example of a justified maze... and it doesn't even look like a maze, now does it?) Hmmmm... Come to think of it, I could make it a bit like the minotaur legend. you know, where you travel to an island (correct me if im wrong) and fight a minotaur in a maze, and it has a king and other things...

I am just about to embark on a rather small scenario I hope to start in a day or to. It will not have a storyline, and will just be a series of different mazes on two mingling paths. I know that I will make one of the mazes pitch black like the Deep crawler cavern in the Zha khazi run. Another one will be an entire area boxed into little squares with lots of scret passages. I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions or ideas for this?

Quote: If they could modify themselves to use magic, shaping doesn't seem like it would be so out of the question. I disagree. one of the things which 'was' the Geneforge trilogy was the fact that you could join any of the sides. As a magical Servile with an army of creations, I wonder how many Shapers are going to let you join them...

Human or minotaur. Not a servile. A servile's plot would go some thing like this: Servile born. Servile plant crops. Servile gain intelligence (somehow) Then: Servile get killed by scared humans/sholai/shapers Or: Servile wins war after many unbelievable plot twists.

I started off with Nethergate and slowly chewed my way up through the games. My favourite would be the Avernum series, because of GIFTS. I don't like Exile though, and I don't know why... Probably due to the fact it crashes my computer every time I start it.

I have started on Scenario #1. It might take a while because I cannot leave anything unfinished. (This means I spend hours trying to do one special event, then changing it) Also, I was wondering if anyone was going to port ova the scenarios from BoE (other than 9 variations on point ? Edit: Sorry about the abbreviations. I was having a problem writing where when i went back to edit the text, it overwrote anything in front of it. If that makes sense.

I have noticed that. On many occasions. the almighty dragon Khoth, who snorts fireballs of doom at me, is confounded by the door which he must have made himself... Makes me wonder how he got there...