Hecate

It's amazing how good these games are - people are still interested and actively posting on them. I've come and gone a bit; played some Avernum, and recently got the bug again when the re-release came along. I never played geneforge much, but I decided just now to try out geneforge 1. So here's how it went: ZOMG 800x600?! And no windowed option. This will suck. Perhaps I should wait for the rewrite. Could be forever, though - I'll try and see. Woah, clunky graphics. Tiny screen - at 800x600 all that real estate really should be used for the main game, not wasted on the character image. Did they not have pop up screen options way back when? Yes they did, look at the level up! I can't put things in cupboards and containers. Why!? And what is this! Everything in my inventory counts toward my burdens! Noooooo!!! Want bag of holding. JUNK BAG! JUNK BAG! Oh no, you don't see the effect of stat increments on the character screen when you are levelling up. How annoying! ... and so on and so on. Gripe moan whinge complain complain complain. ... oh wait now it's getting late, but I just want to complete this one more quest. 5 more minutes. Just one more... and there's those bandits to wipe out and I need to see what was behind that door I couldn't unlock before. Oh dear, it's after midnight and I have work in the morning. Maybe I'll just go sell off my inventory and do just ONE more little quest. Hey, why is the sky getting light?

Oooh necromancy! Yeah, I'm revisiting this game after a long time. Links to Ganduv's original seem OK at Rapidshare. Megaupload has been taken down for alleged piracy, so Halt's tweak is no longer available. It's not entirely clear in the thread what these are supposed to do, but it looks like you get mega-stats and fabulous equipment from the first one in your start locaiton, and a super magic/shaping teacher in Minallah from the "Minah" script. It's not quite what I was looking for - a small tweak to stats would be nice but I don't want to godmode my way around. Maybe I'll have to learn myself (EDIT: Sorry, I'm wrong here. There is a small increment option. Option 4 - memory(skills) modifier. These little tweaks do work.) The equipment "shaper gear" etc don't work, and give errors - as was noted in the OP. Was there ever a fix? A slight oddity that happened when I loaded in these scripts is that I had some tools in the inventory and the amount went to "X". They don't stack; I'd really like to change that aspect. Inventory management without a junk bag is not so much fun.

Thanks for the suggestion. I did email support@spiderweb, and Jeff very kindly gave me a registration code. Such friendly customer service is an unexpected pleasure. I really appreciate it and will certainly give Jeff more of my money later on!

Oh, hey, here's a tip from me: When you need to accompany a hunter or party, it's best to do it in fight mode so they don't get away from you.

Thanks. I'm now at Dhorl Stead so this one semi-spoiler is very useful.

... as in, advice for the Spiderweb-aware beginner, but no major spoilers please. I'm not very far past the demo in Avadon yet, and I'm wondering a few things: * Will there be materials quests, and if so what stuff should I save? Right now, I'm collecting ale and wine just because I can. (I think my character may be a bit of a lush in her off-hours.) * Do wands need dexterity or intelligence to hit well, and do they get less useful later? To hoard or not to hoard, that is the question. And who should carry them? * With this less open storyline, is it important to clear away quests from one region before moving on to the next? Will I get to go back, or will everything change so that I can't? I'm feeling a bit worried about not having got the dragon's library book, for instance, before going to Khemeria to look for the beast. * Any other general suggestions?

Update: if you load a save file from a licensed app, from beyond the demo cutoff, in the demo program - then it all works just fine until you want to change regions. So I've installed the sparkle lockpick and secret door cheats in the demo. I can use that for concentrating on one area. But if I'm travelling about, I can use my licensed game and just go back to the demo if I am desperately looking for a secret door. (Which happened to me quite a bit in Avernum, so I really like the sparkle cheat.)

If you buy the app store version (which I wish I didn't) is there any way to convert your registration to the regular spiderweb version? The exact registration key doesn't work across versions. But they do seem slightly interchangeable - savefiles on the appstore version work in my spiderweb demo version. Not sure if this will apply to save files past the demo cutoff, because I can't remember where that is.

Ahha! Thank you. You were correct about Demel, too. Self-kickage commencing: Argh. I thought I had checked the entire tower library, but it seems there was a trigger spot that I missed. And I walked right past Mentta before, without seeing him.

Near the end, wanting to empty the quest list, but I can't find: * Dremel of Blosk * Mentta of Dharmon (I wanted to go see if there's an option to warn him.) * The Valorim Bestiary Any hints on finding these? I've probably overlooked something terribly obvious and will kick myself, like when I found Rone's "chambers" after looking through every freaking bedroom in the castle and even the tower of the magi.

Done! It was "c" on your map that I couldn't find, but Randomiser's first hint was enough for me. Much thanks. Those undead are sooo easy when you're level 30. I hate those dark areas, so I'd put it off, but now I'm trying to finish up loose ends before going off to kill the emperor.

Thanks - I've already found the body, it's that switch for the centre that I'm missing. I'll go recheck the east walls now... I have a terrible knack for missing switches; it took me forever to find the sewer spiders under Almaria.

Is a rewrite of 2 & 3 on the cards? I'd totally buy them. My main gripe that I wish Jeff could fix up is the journal. Entry after entry titled "Special Encounter". And you can't save the really useful information like price lists for trainers. I do like Mad Genius' idea of more persistent changes. I was a bit disappointed that people were still going on about the Slith and Bandit menaces. I just need to assassinate the Emperor, and I'm done; why are they bugging me about stuff I dealt with ages ago?

I'm looking for the 5th brooch (does it really matter?) in the Mertis Spiral, and I am stuck. I can't find the switch to get out of the little western maze to the centre. I have been getting more desperate, and tried good old google, and found a map for the first version - which I guess is probably good. Seems to match in the parts I've been. I tried the showmeall cheat code and I have nice blue dots in the middle of the map waiting for me to go kill them undead properly dead. But I can't get in! Help?

Great, thanks. I haven't got the runestone tutorial, but I had guessed that they were useful. On to find Zhethron!