Dantius

I have recently been contemplating running a Torment Singleton. I've been preparing for it by recently running a Normal singleton, and sort of figuring out the ropes. I've decided that said singleton will be a mage-priest, with a little bit of bows, plus high TU and NL, for the doors, traps, and caches everywhere. I have noted that there are some definite pluses to running a singleton, namely that you can hoard potions, cherrypick the best stat-boosting items, and get all the free skill points form the Wisdom items. Plus, not having to equip 4 people means that you can sell much more loot, getting more money faster. Anyways, here are my starting stats: STR:3- I'll add to this a bit later on, when I get nicer armor. DEX:2- I'll only start investing in Bows/dex when I hit the Azure Gallery INT:3- You get a much better return out of investing in priest/mage spells early on for the energy. END:3- I find this necessary for a singleton. I should be at about 6 by Drake Pillars, and about 12 by the endgame. ALL COMBAT:0- Like I said, I'm saving bows for the Azure Gallery. MS:4- Will increase slowly as I get access to better spells, not crucial now, but I should be at about 10ish when I reach Solberg. PS:4- See above AL:1- Not so critical early on, I'll toss some points into it later. SC:2- The cheap way to get free energy. Points will be dumped, eventually. TU:4- Getting this to 20 is no longer feasible with a singleton. I should be hitting mid-teen's, with items. I miss all the infiltrator items from Geneforge with the +7 mech boost. NL:4- Shoot for 10. Not really a waste of skill points, since all those herbs make a lot of knowledge items in Muck. FA:3- Going for 5. The easy way to heal yourself and restore energy. Last runthrough I didn't find out that all that meat I lugged around would give me free health and energy until I was in the Dark River. I'm somewhat torn on traits. Natural Mage is a must, but should I also spring for Pure Spirit, or Divinely Touched? Comments appreciated. Items: I'll just pick the best one. the Mage robe in the Golem Workshop will be used until I get the Runed Plate, which is fantastic for a mage singleton, great armor, no encumbrance, and a nice Magery boost. Last singleton runthrough I had, among other things: Runed Helm Runed Plate Crystalline Aegis Silk Cord Gazerskin Sandals Talisman of Might Putrefied Gauntlets I am torn on whether I should cheat to get the Nephil items, allow another sacrificial character in, script to get them, or just play without them. Anyways, I just wanted to get any last advice before I start. Thanks!

Protip: The user with the rotating names with the dog avatar is called Slarty. The one with rotating names with the avatar of the guy with the sniper rifle is Alorael. This helps when they change their names, and people are now wondering who is You Mean Gods?, since it could be either of them.

1 is unique in that while there is a prescribed order in which you should go about the game(Awakned-Obeyer-Taker-Ancient crypt-NC lands-Mines-Geneforge), there is nothing stopping you violating that, unlike in, say, G4, where you needed to finish up a main quest before you were let into a new province. This made the fact that you could head into the Junkyard as your 10th or so area, and get a free Submission Baton that early in the game incredibly useful. G2 had this as well, but there were choke points in between the various lands, and while you could blast your way through, it would probably anger a lot of people.

Originally Posted By: Master1 [ ...] those two games can significantly increase you immersion in the next 3 games. And enjoyability. Seeing the Drakon's rise in the 2nd game, and the initial exposure of humans to canisters in the 1st, really improves your enjoyment of the long, loooooooooong descent of the morality and ethos of the worlds. My favorite moment in the entire series, plot-wise, was reading the journal in the Sealed Labs in G1, where the unnamed Agent chronicles the downslide of Zavor and Tek into power-hungry megalomaniacs, and their journals, writing about their obsession with canisters. I still remember the final words: "I am sure of one thing. The moment things go wrong, I am through the doors. I won't die sealed in here with them."

Fighting the Doomguards or Unstable Mass in A5 with a low-level singleton was fun. There would be literally hundreds of them on scree, but only nine could attack, with a low chance to hit, and they kept splitting so fast that they only had one health. I really liked that, it was difficult. In other A5 singleton news, Master of the Pit is the hardest boss in the game by a long shot, just because you can't have your priest run the circumference of the arena, purging your party, and have to keep leaving the fight, giving him time to regenerate. I burned through about four Invulnerability elixirs before I beat him.

If I understand what you are asking properly, the Pairbond Constructs in the G5 challenge area would be my choice. I found them the hardest enemy in the game. I haven't played many BoA scenarios, but I found the battles in DwtD interesting, particularly the eighteen fights against Vakhos, and the Lich secret boss in the SE corner of the Spectral Warrens. For resource management, try playing Nethack of Rogue- they will teach you to scrimp and save like no other.

Illuminati. It's the Illuminati who are orchestrating a worldwide takeover. The Priory of Scion just guards the secret that could destroy the world.

... or has the boards been down for the past several hours? When I tried to check, all I got was the UBB message along the lines of: The forums are inaccessible right now. You need to be a mod to know why. Anybody else get this?

Stealing member's sanity counts as a violation of the Geneva Convention.

No, Yoda posted it, right after obi wan posted Quote: That boy is our last hope

Engineer speak, sorry. Static means unchanging Dynamic means movement I just associate more options with movement, as opposed to game flow.

Less static. A game more static than G3 would have only one faction.

Originally Posted By: Obi-Wan you're our only hope No. There is another.

There are logs? Where?

It was closure, though. Click to reveal.. G2 ends, no matter what you do, with a sealed door with unknown contents. That's just begging for a sequel. G3 ends with the war in full swin, and Ghaldring surveying thing from his fortress, so we want know what happens to him. G4 ends with the release of the Unbound, and we just can't wait to see what devastation they wreak in a sequel. G1 brings some closure, but only because a series was never intended in the first place, so things had to be wrapped up quickly.

Oh, dear. Did I neglect to mention that the Maya prophesied that if Master1, Dantius, and Alorael post in that order, the thread must be locked, and Dantius must personally copy the contents of each post into a new thread. If I don't, then the world may end. Sorry, it must have slipped my mind.

It's the challenge area. In every Geneforge game after G1, the challenge area was placed solidly in the middle of the game, but the key to access it was found in the ultimate or penultimate zone.

Originally Posted By: SOT EDIT: The hand may be quicker than the eye ... but ask yourselves this: where did post 184775 go? Quite easy: Post numbers are given to all posts across all boards. I would guess said post is probably somewhere in the Avernum 5 forum. I could go look, if you like.

I'm sure, late at night when there are no members active, he creates threads filled with nothing but hundreds of posts of AAAAAAAAA repeated over and over, then deletes them before anyone gets wise to it.

G1 has the best plot, but the closure that G5 brings is great also. If you want a shiny engine, though, go for G5.

Originally Posted By: SOT My good man Thufir handles all that stuff for me I wonder how many people got the Dune reference.

Done. Now what?

You think using MO is a pain? Try working with AutoCAD, which manages to come out with a "new and improved" version every single year, where each new release actually REMOVES commands people use, replacing them with useless fluff.

Cthutlu didn't catch on on the mass market?

Invisibility? No. Cloaking? Yes. Remember that guy in the docks in G3 that "teleports" by making a massive cloud of black mist and the just walking out? Something like that would be acceptable.