Randomizer

Except for advice on specific parts of the game like locating items, there is no right answer for creating a party and playing. Do try to use proper spelling since you will get picked on about it.

This is going to make my new singleton game more fun. I have to check if I still have some of the stat enhancing weapons left. I can't wait to see how it works with leaving the +1 AP Cryos spear in the quick action slot so I can keep my shield for combat.

Since Jeff posted there's no point in posting odds for starting out as a surface tourist cut off from the touring group. I'm guessing that we start out as adventurers and can join up with the Anama (like in A3) and one other like the Darkside Loyalists since Jeff mentions political intrigue.

Bring plenty of living tools (over 10). There are some nice items in the area.

The west side of Sandros Mine is an expert area to be done after you started in the second map section. Stockpile healing items because it is hard to do as a single character. The trick with the soul twins is to stay along the north edge and move up after buffing (haste, protection, blessing, etc.) just enough to attack them. Use essence shackles to slow them down. Wrack helps to increase your damage. I found spray crystals and the like are great since you can attack both at once. Melee doesn't work as well since one will retreat. The golem is harder to do. That one really helps to have a friend.

You start out as a group of peasants being robbed by a band of adventurers. You kill the adventurers and decide that their life beats what you've been doing. So following a note with a map that their leader was carrying, you go off to seek fame and fortune with the Darkside Loyalists.

No, it's just an intelligent seal acting for its own reasons.

Here's a different beginning. You start out as Anama missionaries sent by to convert that evil mage ridden land of Avernum. Do you keep the faith or turn to the dark side and learn magic?

Jeff's got two little children. Excerise is the least of his problems. He gets plenty keeping track of them.

Mung demons are the worst thing for spellcasters because besides the dumbfounding they deplete spell points. I found the best way to deal with them is arrows and potions until they are dead. Then you can restore spell ability and devaste the rest.

Probably a resource conflict over the sound system.

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It sounds like there will be enough changes so having some tutorial messages will be useful the first time. Besides after a while you get good at hitting the return key to remove the message before you have to read it. I think the idea for more action will either be like Avernum 2 where there is an attack on the starting point or Geneforge 4 where there is a real event to get you into the game.

It depends upon what you do with your shaper. Captain's shiv is nice for the blessing magic boost until you have it naturally and you can always swap it. Guardian claymore is nice for the strength +2 for you since it allows for more equipment without becoming encumbered.

The maps are upstairs, I think in the northwest corner. Just watch that the shade doesn't attack by getting too close, so save before exploring. The southwest corner upstairs has a monster to kill for another reward.

The lower level of that keep is a pain. You need to go south and then east a little fighting lots of Vahnatai. Beyond the room with an altar is a passageway that looks out through a window at the 2 Vahnatai that guard a door. This is hard to see, but there is a lever near the window that unlocks the door. Then you and the Vahnatai allies can get through that guarded door to see Rentar-Ihrno. You have to go back around to the stairs and head north since there isn't a short cut. If they aren't inside the keep, then you have to go back to the upper level and use a wheel to unlock the main entrance. It helps to have lots of health and energy for this area. You might want to go back to Fort Remote and recharge. That's why I always destroy all the pylons to give me a quick and cleared path back to the Fort.

You can always get a character raised from one of the healers in Fort Dunvo or any of the other places. It'll cost some money if you don't have a save from before the death and don't want to replay the fight. There should be a key that you get in the Giant Castle that will unlock a smaller gate to the east of the main entrance. I think there are two keys available (off a giant and I think the other is in a chest). You can't leave out of the main entrance.

One drakon is enough if you have some fire shaping items. You just need something with over 600 health.

Jeff could probably make a Blades of Geneforge, but he will need a lot of convincing that there is a market to make it worth his time. Poor Blades of Avernum sales pretty much have eliminated any chance of seeing it for the next few years.

I think I remember the same problem. I think it was a bad square in the storeroom that causes the problem. Try moving your party differently when you do that room and see if it makes a difference.

The easiest way to beat that unbound is to have a high health creation attack it and hang back out of range and heal your creation. Drakons, gazers, and kyshakks work best. Did you use all the protection spells that you could on your drayks? You need to also try to get close enough to use essence shackles to slow it down so you have more time. It does more damage the longer you fight it. The machinery to the south puts up an extremely tempoary damping field to help keep it from fighting you, but I never found it that useful.

Killing the swamp goblins to collect trophies takes time. Keep circling through the swamp until new ones appear. The best spots are in the southwest below Fort Dranlon and along the water further south..

The A4 header is the area of text above the topics list. The link of interest is Hawk King's A4 Editor. When you look at the text near the end of the file you will see the extra lines of code that alter the characters and give you items. Copy the file and remove the features that you don't want. Then you can copy this file to the Avernum 4 files to replace a hopefully backupped file for the start point of the game. There is another editor or trainer that gives different results, but I don't remember the topic it's in.

Jeff said that there would be more character sprites in A5 including at least 2 more for nephils and 2 more for sliths.

Jeff's working on getting a new Nethergate: Resurrection beta ready for Monday. He wants to get this game out as soon as possible. He'll respond to this thread when he feels like it.