Callie

I can judge, and have both BoA and BoE (Ormus version).

It'd be kind of cool if both the surface and Avernum (not Upper Avernum) were included in one game. However, that's way too much scripting, so I won't get my hopes up.

Golden Compass is good, if you haven't read it already.

I picked up Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America. I have to read for my English class come September, but it looks interesting anyways.

This is a lot of work. I think it's pretty cool that monsters can unlock doors. It's also highly practical to have eight doors sharing the same SDF. Nice work, you might want to upload it to the Blades Forge though.

I personally like the old-school look and want to keep it that way. The graphics in the post A3 games are just plain clunky anyways.

 

Agreed...la vache.

Arcane Lore is still useful. It will allow you to read spellbooks and acquire new spells that you couldn't get if you didn't have any arcane lore.

 

Edit: beat me to it

 

 

Frostbite is specifically made for a singleton, and there is no way you can avoid having the rest of your party removed. If I remember correctly; Avatar, Imagine This Scenario, and El Presidente are all singleton scenarios as well.

I played Exile III past day 160. You start getting these weird messages, and then a voice calls you to the Tower of Magi. The place gets ravaged by demons, due to one of Linda's experiments. You have to meet with one of the triad mages in the room that's usually blocked. You then have to find Linda, the source of the experiment, who you kill with a special knife.

I'm surprised I remember that much, as I haven't played Exile III in years. I'm assuming the same thing happens in Avernum 3, but I never took that long to finish it.

No, but I'm sure it wouldn't be very useful, as I can't think of any scenarios off the top of my head in which you can find mandrake root. If there were any I'd assume mandrake could be found in the Za-Khazi run (spelling?).

I think the difficulty between the two series is pretty much equal. However, I found that some encounters were harder in the Exile series than in Avernum. For example, I spent several hours getting to the slith king in Exile while in Avernum I probably spent about twenty minutes. Exile 3 in particular is quite different in my opinion. I thought the rakshasha battle in Execa, Black Halberd dungeon, the undead infested inn in the Midori province, and the final battle with Rentar-Ihrno were all harder in Exile III than in Avernum 3.

 

As for general combat, the lack of spells in Avernum makes combat in a bit harder. In Exile you could simply bombard the enemy with divine thud, firestorm, wall of blades, and summmoned basilisks.

Seconded. I love having the upper hand because I brought a basilisk into the mess, even though Ur-basilisks can't be captured.

One more thing: I want a bestiary and scry monster again, as it was pretty useful. (Yet for some reason Erika and Rentar-Ihrno never stayed in the bestiary)

Well, since I seem to like the rebels best, I'd like to think the series will end with them. I wouldn't mind the shapers though either.

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I never played anything more than the demos, so I only have a taste.

Fyoras all the way.

So you can't tell me whether or not HIM is supposed to be an acronym of anything?

Nevermind

 

 

I played through much of A5 and found that once I hit vahnatai lands, I became bored. It seemed to repeat itself in every section, and I hope this won't happen again in Avernum 6.

I like the vahnatai. I think they're an interesting race, and worthy opponents as well.

My only complaint about summoning is that the computer seems to have a mind of it's own. For example, when I fought the chitrach queen, I kept summoning chitrachs. At least killing your summoned creature doesn't lower your reputation.

My apologies.

Shafrir should be able to remove them. Talk to him and he'll eventually bring up his interest in geas.

It works on my old PowerMac just fine, and it's eleven years old. It'll play rather slow at times, and quite a few animations and other technical stuff might not work, but it's definitely playable.

Nice Iffy, I gave up on trying to create scenario over a month ago, so I lend you my congratulations.

Well, my English teacher also happens to be my French teacher. Nonetheless, she tends to assign us college level material, so...

My English class had prevented me from any leisurely reading now. Currently I'm reading endlessly through books about the middle ages, and then she's going to cram Les Miserables on top of that. If I ever have children, I'll make sure to warn them about taking an AP English class during their sophomore year.