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I think it covers all debuffs other than poison, acid, or mental effects. In other words, things like weakening or immobility.

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Hit penalties apply to all types of attack.

I mean, you were given a warning in advance that using only 4 brooches might be a problem. What exactly is the obstacle to you getting back to Spire, though?

Nethergate and original Avernum would still count as isometric, so it may or may not look anything like Exile but it won't look quite like those either.

Oh, right, I forgot that A3:RW reportedly doesn't do the splitting thing any more. But yeah, it's still not a big deal and almost certainly won't make a difference by the endgame.

Well, A3:RW also uses a whole bunch of scripting, so even if Jeff did somehow against all odds change his mind and follow your idea to just repackage a slightly modified version of A3:RW's engine as a new Blades, it would still require the player to learn scripting. Also, it's not gonna happen.

They don't get XP while dead, but the XP they would have received is divided among the rest of the party instead, so overall there isn't any real loss of XP from letting characters die. I mean, if you were always letting the same party member die, they'd eventually fall behind the rest of the party a bit, but outside of extreme cases it's not worth worrying about.

I mean, if you already own both and are playing both, that's really up to you to decide based on your own preferences. The overall story is still the same in both games, although Escape from the Pit has a small amount of extra content in the form of one new town and a few sidequests.

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Oh, I should add one more note to that: Exile 1 gives you a chance to escape to the surface at one point. If you choose to go through with it, the game ends. But you could probably guess that for yourself.

Exile 1 and 2 let you continue playing even after completing any or all of the three game-winning quests. The third game actually ends once you finish the final quest of the main story, though.

Jeff has mentioned in the past that creating usable documentation was one of the biggest obstacles in the way of ever making another Blades, and that just writing the documentation for Blades of Avernum so that it could be understood by other people took as long as writing an entire game normally does. Considering that he's also mentioned that Blades of Avernum ended up being financially catastrophic for Spiderweb (like, "if Avernum 4 hadn't been a massive hit we'd have gone out of business" catastrophic), a repeat performance is not likely to happen any time soon.

Yeah, having just read the post you're referring to in his AMA, my understanding was that he was using "icon-based" to include everything he's ever done, and that "top-down" (as opposed to isometric) was the point of distinction from his other recent games.

There are significant exceptions to this. For example, Intelligence and Endurance in Geneforge have a multiplicative effect on your spell energy and health respectively, whereas in the new Avernum trilogy they have an additive effect.

There's no actual day-night cycle in Avadon or Geneforge, but NPCs will walk around on their own in real time outside of combat. You can check out the free demos and see for yourself if you want a clearer idea.

Resistance is a percentage rather than a flat subtraction. So if you're fighting an enemy with 90% physical resistance, 90% of your lethal blow hit will be blocked just the same as 90% of your regular hit would have been. In other words, there isn't really a difference between one 200-damage hit and two 100-damage hits as far as resistance goes, and in practice it's way easier to get two 100-damage hits.

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They once existed in real life! Probably less practical for something that needs to move around on land a lot, though.

Yes, Humble Store is the most direct way to buy the game while maximizing SW's share of your payment. There are always middlemen in this world we live in: if Spiderweb weren't using Humble, they'd have to make their own deal with a payment processor instead.

I think this was investigated and found to be a misunderstanding: Torment actually doubles all damage received before resistances are applied, which caused some glitches in how resistance calculations were displayed. In any case, though, the end result is that on Torment you can expect to take a lot more damage.

Your saves from the demo should load seamlessly in the full version without you having to do anything.