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That's mostly due to not enough beta testers. There are only so many things that you exploit in each play through. Some of them got caught.

Originally Posted By: Excalibur Having conversations with your own party members will be interesting, especially if party member x does not want to do mission y because of his or her own opinions...or maybe I'm reading something wrong. Worst part about this game is having to put up with the NPCs and their demands. One of the better parts is what Jeff has them say. You do have to play the game at least twice so you have a chance to hear what all 4 NPCs have to say. Shadowwalkers are cool to play. Too bad you can't play with more than two at a time.

Eschalon games require doing the quests to get major experience. Book 2 fixed most of your complaints except experience. It's a much better game engine.

Jeff reduced the number of spells and they didn't make the cut. Also until Avernum 6, the area effect spells were removed or changed to targeted spells.

Yes, the Trakovites will get you in there to sabotage the place. It's the opposite version of the fight from Alwan's faction.

Canisters don't cause as many problems as in the earlier games. I think you are past the last canister check until the final screens.

Originally Posted By: CRISIS on INFINITE SLARTIES The CRAZIEST thing about this election was the Alaska senate race. Bureaucratic mix-ups and an intra-party feud led to two Republican candidates running, with the _incumbent_ as a write-in candidate. She raised massive amounts of money from corporations, plasted the airwaves with the spelling of her name, and after several legal battles in the last week and some behind-the-scenes manuevering by said incumbent's senator father, won the right to have people hand out extra sheets of paper listing the names of all write-in candidates. This seems unlikely to influence anyone's vote until you consider the environment: you walk into a polling place, where all political paraphernalia is banned, register, pick up a ballot... and an extra sheet of paper advertising the spelling of one candidate's name! A little suggestive if you ask me. That resulted from a legal ruling over whether write-ins would be accepted with a misspelled candidate's name. When you have an uncommon name, they were asking how wrong it could be and still be counted.

Also traits give skills, for example: Natural Mage gives magery and magical efficiency. Elite warrior gives blademaster and parry. Divine touch gives blademaster, magery, and sharpshooter.

Originally Posted By: Dantius Well, according to Hamilton and Madison, democracy gets better the more people that participate, so clearly the best thing we can do to insure democracy is to invade other large countries, annex them, and force them to vote. I expect perfect democracy to be attained once all seven billion people on the planet are ruled by one government And no, I see no way this could possibly go wrong. Annex China and India, more people for less work, and then we can be a minority in our own country.

I stayed home and played some Eschalon: Book 2 and wandered through Fathamurk.

Originally Posted By: The Mystic Yeah, that's the point of Jeff's games: Kill some poor, defenseless goblin tribe, get a reward, and then go back to collect their stuff and sell it. Life is good. You don't grab the loot as soon as it drops? Well in the older games where you can get encumbered it makes sense to wait until you have killed everything, but why make an extra trip unless you ran out of room.

+1 levels damage in combat does one more die of damage. If you read the instruction manual, there is a section giving spells and mentioned in each attack spell is the damage it does.

So far from beta testing, the higher difficulty is really only noticeable with some mini boss fights. That difference is mostly on how fast you can die.

There is one raised area that is reached by a portal hidden by a lever in the other tunnel to the west.

I know it worked in Geneforge 4, but I wasn't sure for Geneforge 5. I think you are right.

Stealth means you can sneak around better (get closer to them) especially mine triggers.

Jeff confirmed that luck has never affected item drops.

You are supposed to see colored dots and other shapes swirl around a monster to denote what is affecting it.

Sorengard has a chance to drop a dagger.

Eamon and if you have to ask what it was then you are way too young,

Avadon is more of a multi character game than Geneforge. The NPCs are much closer to your character than Alwan and Greta, it's similar to the early Avernum games where you could recruit NPCs for your party. Enjoy Genevernum Gate.

Originally Posted By: CRISIS on INFINITE SLARTIES Is that any less true of the American system, at least up to the level of a BA/BS? You can get a bachelor's degree with remarkably low grades and minimal effort, particularly if you're at a private university. In some departments you don't even need to take the upper division classes (for junior and senior students), at least that happened until the University of Arizona tightened degree standards. Still you can graduate without learning anything useful.

Originally Posted By: Master1 Right, that's what I thought would happen. He wrote the questions in ten minutes as we were reading the into to force, so he probably wrote his question wrong. Or answered it wrong. It's funny because we went over Newton's Laws right before he answered this question. Wait until you get into graduate school. I've had exams where the students find that the professors made mistakes on the questions. Written prelims are especially bad when we recognize the question from a text book and can tell exactly what was copied wrong.

There is enough decent armor out there that not having NM for a backup mage isn't as big a handicap. Especially since you don't have the strength in the early part of the game for armor. There is runed plate near the end and a few other that aren't bulky armor that blocks mage spells. Having both spell casters with low level spells in each other's primary area really helps. There are plenty of places where you want more choices for damage types. I have a DT/EW singleton that is using both spell groups so it is possible.

No, that secretary that leaves to go back to her desk.