aka Ravenwing

oh n0ez!!!11! teh lozer iz me!1!!

Eph, don't you have the CD? Or did you just get it digitally? Because if you have the CD (or anything with a BoA demo on it), it should be in there. Or you could download it again.

A bit irrelevant right now, but I'm just sayin'.

Oooh… ninja-druid…

Truthfully, I had already pretty much dissected the BoA Docs before even knowing about Westra's Cookbook. When I looked at that, I'd hoped to find something new. When I didn't, I sort of just didn't look at it anymore. I imagine there are things in it that could be updated though, right?

Nik: I don't recall the Xian Skull doing anything useful. Just exceedingly annoying. I picked it up and, upon realizing what it did, carried it long enough to transport it back to the guest quarters in Ft. Emergence. There it stayed for the remainder of the game, along with most of the Xian items I found, and all manner of other useless novelties.

Velius: No, having been curious about this myself a while back, I looked at the code (I know, I know; bad BoA player). It doesn't do anything at all. I'd guess it was the kobolds that put it there, for reasons of their own. Curious little devils.

Illegality aside, I can't honestly picture anyone actually buying a BoA scenario. There are already dozens, tried and reviewed, that are free. Call me cheap, but I'd hit those first anyway.

Hoo-rah! *is fan*

And I want to thank Toby-Linn for making this easy for me earlier today. Way to be an awesome community member!

Count me in as tentative, most likely. I'm still in school that week I think, but there are a couple of days I don't have class, and hopefully I won't have work on those.

If you're looking to get better at BoA graphics design, I would suggest taking parts of already existing graphics and blending them together. I mostly use Photoshop for that sort of thing, as it allows for easy color changes. It's expensive, but I'm sure there is some open source stuff out there that's comparable.

For the Jedi thing, I'd take a PC graphic with a sword, then just add some color to the sword, and maybe an aura if the color alone doesn't do the trick.

For the angelic PC, try taking the wings from the griffin monster graphic in Diplomacy with the Dead and applying them to a human. As Lazarus said, I've done this already and posted it here (although I do hope to do some editing soon). Unfortunately, that's just a small template NPC graphic, not a PC graphic. It'll take some time to make it yourself, but it shouldn't be too difficult.

What I've found is that no one knows what you need quite like you do anyway. It'll just take a bit of practice, like anything.

Rule #1: Don't take it too seriously. I did it mainly for fun and practice.

Rule #2: Play it anyway. It is still playable, and it does still have a plot, however weak it is.

Anyway, download it here.

Or go to my website, conveniently located in my sig.

I personally think it would have made more sense to feature DWtD, since of the four default scenarios, it was the new one. Making it the playable one in the demo might have made more sense, since many people would have played VoDT in BoE.

I'm not one of those, and I found VoDT to be a lot of fun as a first scenario. And it worked well enough for me to want to keep playing and buy the full version.

Sure, send away. I've been needing something to kick-start my incentive to continue BoA work.

Actually, I beta-tested this scenario, and I remember having trouble finding him again the second time I played it. In fact… I'm not sure I ever figured it out. I may have just ended the scenario.

I know you can't get into Erika's inner sanctum. I think you can get into the northernmost room though, if I remember correctly. Enter the town from the back, I believe there's some kind of trash heap, and there might be a secret passage somewhere back there.

Laser puzzles, in general, are kind of a pain when you have to push the mirrors around. Often times they don't go the direction you want them to go (part of the reason I loathe doing those kinds of puzzles; it's sometimes less about skill and more about luck).

As I recall, he also tried making an outdoor section connect to a non-adjacent one (unless it was just some kind of bug). Yeah, I never finished the deuced thing.

It isn't what you're hoping. ItSoD hasn't been entered into a competition yet.

Taskmaker is a loose thread I've yet to pick up again. But fear not! It'll get done some day!

Hey, I actually have something to submit this time!

One of the best ones I can give is to not try to jump in head first and make the world-changing scenario, because you'll look at it and it'll be way too daunting. Before even releasing my first (and only) complete scenario, I did a ton of experimenting and studying of other scenarios. And then when I did finish, it was pretty simple and very short, and still needed improvement.

So yeah… start small.

EDIT: I suppose I can extend the same welcome to you too, Ghost.

Completely and absolutely.

Or just 'yes', if that'll suffice.

(By the way, sorry it took so long to get back to you. I've been preoccupied.)