Randomizer

There are two quests in the Memorial Grounds. The first is to kill robbers in a crypt on the east side. The second is the crypt wight in a crypt on the southwest side in an area that doesn't open until you get the quest. The ruby skeletons in the northwest crypt are not the undead that you are looking for the Castle quest. Avernum 6 is much better about giving you credit for quest that you have done before you knew about them.

I remember someone mentioning a bug where when you adjusted the difficulty it would keep some settings at the older difficulty level. But I don't know if that was Avernum 5.

It depends upon your school. Most serve as a place for professors to work at bringing in research grant money which the school gets a share for the overhead costs of maintaining the school. Teaching is secondary and partially to get a supply of cheap labor for the professors. Stanford got caught back in the 90s spending government research money for the school's boat, wood paneling for the administration, and other questionable expenses. They forgot to reallocate money to keep the books "clean."

Originally Posted By: Tirien We're all homicidal maniacs here on the forums! Just look at how most of us play RPGs. (Kill everything that moves.) You forget it might be a pylon, so don't wait for it to move.

A classmate of mine double majored in physics and music. He became a science consultant for Star Trek: The Next Generation and the later series. Then they let him write and promoted him to an executive producer position. He's spending his life in television.

Geneforge is Jeff's moral dilemma game. All you have are shades of grey. Avernum is more clear cut since you are the underdogs wrongly dumped into the Pit by the evil Empire. There are some moral dilemmas about helping individuals that seem insane, but you can skip them to do the main quest lines.

Originally Posted By: The Voice of Atalantë What ever will happen to those quaint little archaeology departments with their special brushes and plaster casts? What good will they be in a pair of centuries? Dusting off old computers found in junkyards across the land.

I'm not sure if that was an intentional typo. If it wasn't then your vegetarian member of your choice.

Originally Posted By: Shaper Tristan PS: yay, we can actually challenge redbeard for ultimate power. Finally you can be in charge as an ending.

Raise mental magic you so you can use the higher level spells and put most to spellcraft to increase damage. If the creations are still alive after the first round than you aren't doing enough.

You have to do enough damage to trigger the subdual dialog box. The trick is to reduce the amount after the first few rounds and just heal your characters so you don't kill it instead. Some things take a few tries.

Originally Posted By: Seiðmaðr Eld What a personal failure. What other people have, whereas I have a difference of opinion that hasn't yet been resolved in my favor.

Originally Posted By: Dikiyoba Conservation biology major plus creative writing minor. Dikiyoba. Drat, I was going to say ecoterrorist out to write a truly stirring manifesto.

No, Jeff went with a modified Geneforge game engine and that one doesn't have dual wielding. *sigh*

One door is for the Romans (nightmares of the dead), one is impassable, and the other is for the Celts (grove and the hunt). For the Celt door you need to cast a spell to unlock it.

Sudden bouts of insomnia usually have a cause. You can probably go for a few more days at that rate, but you will have mental fatigue and make mistakes without noticing them. I've had insomnia most of my life and consider 5 or more hours great. But I also know better than to drive or do something important if I can avoid it. Most of the medications to make you sleep work fine if you only use them a few times, After too many uses the meds will make it harder to sleep..

Originally Posted By: Dintiradan (Great. Now I'm wondering how Tolkien would have organized the Pentateuch.) He would probably dump the laws and genealogical information into an appendix since they slow down the story development.

There was snow up in the mountains when you get near the end.

Jeff lives in Seattle, that meant that his games now have weather. It snows and rains.

Originally Posted By: CRISIS on INFINITE SLARTIES Forget family friendliness, whatever happened to friendliness? This is the internet. Anonymity breeds contempt.

Jeff only started Carbonizing his code a few years ago after Avernum 4 was released so some of the games would run natively on Intel based Macs.

Maybe Vorb damaged you instead of the target. I haven't played Exile in years.

Originally Posted By: Dantius Originally Posted By: Randomizer Originally Posted By: Nikki. - but the insane queues and lack of organisation by pretty much everybody. I've often said the only thing college taught me was how to stand in line. Not, say, how to poison your liver? You must have had a boring college experience... I drank religiously. The drinking age was 19 back then, but I never got carded until I was well past that and the guy checking my ID knew me from school.

I think Jeff's drinking contributes to the large number of wine and ale bottles lying around in his worlds. He mentions in his blog doing that while on his last vacation.

Most of those items tend to have effects that you really don't like. The Wand of Vorb increases monster's health is one example. Jeff does mention it in Patrick's Tower.