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Battle Disciplines <==> Feats à la d20? -------------------- Run, run, run, run away from my psychotic teammate! - Elan (OotS #125)

That's the problem. When someone says 'Plain Text Format', that means that the file doesn't contain any information about how to display the text; it just contains the text itself. What OS do you have? If you run Windows, a simple test is to try open your script with Notepad. If you see lots of weird characters, your file isn't in Plain Text Format. To be safe, write your scripts with one of the text editors listed here . -------------------- The following two statements are usually both true: There's not enough documentation. There's too much documentation. - Larry Wall

By Eph: Quote: And don't forget that each one singles out a party member. That's kind of important. I think I remember that fight... the hounds were targeting a spellcasting PC that they couldn't reach because my fighters had blocked a corridor. Since you couldn't win the fight until they had a chance at every PC, I broke the fight and had to reload. Almost as bad as the doppelgangers. -------------------- Doppelganger: Attack me! Attack me! Adventurers: No, you're an illusion. I'm attacking this one. Original: Ha ha! No damage! Adventurers: So we have to disrupt all your illusions before we can even touch you? Original: Of course! It wouldn't make sense otherwise, silly.

Logic has nothing to do with it; RPG rules are only concerned with game balance, sometimes to humourous effect. Consider a fifty-pound boulder thrown at a two and a half foot tall gnome wearing full plate armour. Boing! -------------------- Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country. - Steven Wright

By Laz: Quote: If you are having problems with the actual scripting of dialog, then Niemand's Dialog Editor is a great tool. Sadly it can't solve problems with poor writing. If you have a Windows machine, you can use my version of astring for extracting all strings from your scripts so as to run them through a word processor (find it on my site ).</shameless plug> -------------------- There: met my quota for one post this week. Back to the Central Limit Theorem!

By Randomizer: Quote: Fight the Vahnatai Lord in the end and you will see how nasty parry becomes. Area attacks work great against him because of the ridiculous high parry ability. My party didn't fight the Vahnatai Lord. They just made some popcorn and watched the two sides fight. Good Vahnatai: Swing! Bad Vahnatai: Parry! Bad Vahnatai: Swing! Good Vahnatai: Parry! Good Vahnatai: Swing! Bad Vahnatai: Parry! Bad Vahnatai: Swing! Good Vahnatai: Parry! Good Vahnatai: Swing! Bad Vahnatai: Ouch! Adventurers: Ooohhh! -------------------- A sympathetic friend can be as dear as a brother. - Homer Television - teacher, mother, secret lover! - Homer Simpson

Quote: Epic battles? Like the Zigguraut in A2 - the biggest battle in ANY Avernum game, and probably the biggest fight Jeff's coded? Cool Dungeons? Like the Halls of Choas? Or the Zigguraut again? Or any of the Empire forts where the Crystal souls were? Avernum didn't have any generic towns that I can think of, whereas maybe 75% of Valorim was packed with guys called "Merry" and cross-shaped houses. Mystery Plot? Like the whole idea of the Crystal Souls in A2? A3 might have been an okay "whodunnit"-kinda-thing, but A2 had the whole "mystery" thing down much better. And the fact you didn't win the war single-handedly was much more realistic than 4 people entirely destoying a Vahnatai war machine. What Nikki said. Don't get me wrong, I like A1 and A3 as well, and parts of A1 and A3 I like better than parts of A2. But, overall, I just had a bit more fun playing A2 than I did A1 and A3. -------------------- Meta is a Greek word meaning "I will try to impress you by using Greek words". - Peter van der Linden

It may be different out east and closer to the border, but here the country is almost always referred to as 'The US' or 'The States'. I can't remember the last time someone called it America. It probably should be the other way around, if you think about it. The provinces bicker much more that the states do. -------------------- Nothing in the world is so incontinent as a man's accursed appetite. - Homer Ahh, beer... I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer. - Homer Simpson

By Tyran: Quote: That's going in my sig, Aran. Thank goodness; I'm finally gone. -------------------- The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others. - Homer You gave both dogs away? You know how I feel about giving! - Homer Simpson

Schrodinger\'s walkthrough says 25 Nature Lore. I'd recommend investing in 23 points and leaving enough unallotted in case it is 25. -------------------- Xykon: Good work, kid. If you survive the massive internal injuries you suffered in the fall, I might have a job for you. Redcloak: I could just cast a healing spell on him, sir. Xykon: Let's not go crazy, here. (OotS #112)

By Gale: Quote: Also, since Avernum is becoming more like Geneforge, there could be an expensive Magic Craft skill that costs about 14-16 skill points, and boosts all four aspects. Well, there's already Spell Craft and Magery... -------------------- Y'know, I've destroyed entire towns, and the most I got from the surviving families were a few snarky comments. You, sir, have a serious problem with overreaction. - Xykon (OotS #112)

By Quickfire: Quote: Also, can you augment weapons in Avernum? Because you should do that if you can. Not the way you can in Avernum 3. You are able to give certain people raw materials to convert into items, though. -------------------- I suppose I'll put that on my list of reasons I'm glad I'm not a dwarf, right after "unfashionable facial hair" and right before "miscellaneous odour offenses." - Belkar (OotS #111)

By Quickfire: Quote: Also, can you augment weapons in Avernum? Because you should do that if you can. Not the way you can in Avernum 3. You are able to give certain people raw materials to convert into items, though. -------------------- I suppose I'll put that on my list of reasons I'm glad I'm not a dwarf, right after "unfashionable facial hair" and right before "miscellaneous odour offenses." - Belkar (OotS #111)

Anyway... back to the question. Which specific chamber are you talking about? which specific dungeon? EDIT: Fixed my punctuation? -------------------- Elan: So... wanna kill some goblins? Haley: Thought you'd never ask! (OotS #109)

By Alo: Quote: Since you seem to remember, is the small pit with Terella's body also where you eventuall end up after fighting Nociduas? No, Terella's body is underneath a patch of snapstone northwest of Grindstone, south of the goblin dungeon, and north of the first adventurer challenge. I remember this because that quest was the last one I did before the last dungeon. A certain priestess could have given better directions. -------------------- After they make styrofoam, what do they ship it in? - Steven Wright

By Nioca: Quote: Yes. Jeff actually wanted to do that in GF3, but by the time he realized it, it was a bit too late to reverse it. That was my biggest turn-off when I was considering buying the Geneforge series. The description for each game read exactly the same. -------------------- "Did you sleep good?" "No, I made a couple of mistakes." - Steven Wright

By Thuryl: Quote: The problem is not that monsters can't be made into joinable NPCs. The problem is that custom creature scripts seem to not work properly when applied to joinable NPCs, so their only AI is shounen-ai. I think that putting conditionals into basicnpc could work. I haven't gotten around to testing it yet, though. -------------------- Listen to me, young man, you will drink the blood of the innocent and you will LIKE IT. - Goblin (OotS #93)

Becca's pretty powerful, if I recall correctly, so if you are playing with four PCs already, you can ditch a weaker one (if one exists) in favour of Becca. Mostly a matter of personal preference. -------------------- I prepared Explosive Runes this morning. - Vaarsuvius (OotS #92)

It's all so clear now: the only reason Alorael changes his name is because every twenty-four hours he attempts to return his PDN to 'Alorael'. When this fails, he bangs out a random string of characters in frustration. -------------------- OK, gang, goblins up ahead. Everyone make your Move Silently check. Right. Got it! I got a 17. I got a 24. I got a 19. I GOT A 4! DID YOU HEAR ME? I GOT - (OotS #90)

I remember having a similar problem. I smashed all the control panels, and yet the last golem generator just before Rentar's chamber kept working. No biggie, though. -------------------- And I was all, "Uh Ted, we have a listed Intelligence score of 10, there's only so much I can do with that." - Goblin (OotS #90)

Yes! Especially happy about 1, 5, and 8; probably 7 as well after I try the G4 demo. The only thing the seamless world is missing is continuous loading of nearby sectors. I don't remember what the term is; it's not the frustrum, but the loading of the area outside of the player's view. Be a lot harder to implement, though. --------------------

Yeah, I'm curious why JV didn't put the multiple destination option on every pylon instead of just the Grand Central Station one. The IC explaination of how the pylons work would have to be altered, but other than that it would just be a scripting thing as far as I can tell. -------------------- This Hour Has 22 Minutes is a satirical examination of daily events. Some viewers may not share this sense of humour. Warning! To Nazi war criminals in Canada! Your decades are numbered. - This Hour Has 22 Minutes Opening

By Niemand: Quote: However, I realized that there is a very standard and obvious solution to the quotes-within-a-string problem: escape sequences. (There was much forehead smacking for not thinking of this sooner.) Heh. Don't you just love days like that? I find thinking out loud helps. Especially in the vincinity of people who can help you. -------------------- Talking to your computer is not a sign of insanity. Hearing your computer respond, however, is.

You forgot their comfy pillows and their ability to destroy an entire town in one post. I mean, in one day. -------------------- I wouldn't call it an accident. I'd call it a malfunction. - Edward Teller on Three Mile Island

Sorry, Diki, that post was poorly written. I was disagreeing with your statement that dinosaurs in a fantasy setting would be tempting in the least. The crocolisk is a relative of the basilisk? Come to think of it, I don't recall ever getting hit by one in A4. Does it freeze you too? -------------------- So, um, Vaarsuvius, you don't happend to have any of those really nifty spells ready right now? Like, say, "Hold Half-Orc" for example? - Elan (OotS #66)