Celtic Minstrel

Making it tablet-friendly would require a virtual keyboard, yes, but if you're using a controller on your computer, you still have a keyboard.

Not gonna happen as described, tho I do have vague ideas of making the UI mutable so you can move the various components around. It's not a priority, though. I'm not sure what you mean by directional buttons and the second point. I don't think controller support is likely - the controller probably won't have enough buttons.

You can just open those files with the scenario editor to read the values out. Of course, your point about them possibly changing since Exile 1 is still valid.

I think that item data list isn't actually used by the game. It might be used by the character editor if you add items to the party, but the game loads the item list from the scenario that you're playing. There are a few hard-coded items as exceptions though (mainly the starter items that a new party gets).

Huh, that sure is weird that town 13 is just gibberish. I could understand if it was blank or something but being filled with random stuff? Even if it's something other than town data, why would it be dropped in the middle of the town data?

Above-ground frills are handled that way, but underground places an overlay on top of water, lava, and pit tiles.

That's interesting… does attempting to interpret it as a town just produce gibberish or something? The Blades of Exile source code might give some insights into the file format. You can get it straight from SpiderWeb Software's website. (The open source project is probably inappropriate for this purpose since many things have changed.) The format probably isn't identical, but I believe the series is an evolution of a single code-base, so there may be enough similarities to help you figure out the format.

Yeah, I'm not sure what's up with that… I poked around and found what seems to be another version of the same page but all the links there are broken too. I'm not even sure if that page you did find is actually correctly credited to Dahak, as the page itself is called "splash.html". There's a few graphics here though.

Some of these might still be available from my TrueSite for Blades mirror (you can also try the older home page). I haven't fully updated all the internal links to be host-agnostic, so you can let me know if you find broken links. TrueSite also contains mirrors of some older GeoCities sites, so even if the link is an external link you can feel free to report it. I think there's a BoA graphics archive somewhere on there, no idea how complete it is though.

Here's the link to Libera's webchat interface, for anyone who doesn't have an IRC client. I've also added it to the forum header.

Small update: The FreeNode channel is now officially shut down… or, more precisely, it has been stolen by the FreeNode administrators. Do not under any circumstances join either #openboe or ##openboe on the FreeNode network. The official IRC channel from now on is on Libera.

The FreeNode IRC network where the #openboe discussion channel was hosted recently underwent a meltdown of sorts. Because of this, I'm moving the channel to a new network, Libera.Chat, which is the spiritual successor of FreeNode. You can join the channel by clicking here if you have an IRC client. I've also updated the links in the forum header and on OpenBoE.com to point to the new location. Unfortunately, Libera does not (yet) have a webchat client on their website like FreeNode did. If I find they've added one though, I'll include a link to it as well. I will be leaving the FreeNode channel open for awhile longer (perhaps a month or two) in case of people showing up who missed this announcement, but after that, the FreeNode channel will cease to exist.

It might be true that it'll never be invoked and is definitely true that it doesn't do what it's supposed to, but that's not the reason for it. Comparing a boolean to an integer will convert the boolean to an integer value of 0 for false or 1 for true, then do the comparison. It looks like that error is already fixed in OpenBoE, by the way.

I don't know where you got 95% from, but I do remember noticing that a lot of percentile rolls end up being out of 101 instead of 100 – it generates a random number from 0 to 100, inclusive, and it probably matches if the random number is less than the reference value… so if you try to set a 100% change, there's a 1 in 101 chance that it will roll a 100 and fail. That means 100 is actually a 99% chance, not 95%.

Regarding webs, I believe only NPCs of the "bug" type are immune to their effects. This immunity applies to the barrier (they simply pass through without affecting it), so if something were to directly apply the status effect, I think they would be affected. There's most likely no way to actually do that though.