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Originally Posted By: FnordCola This would run up against problems of in-story consistency, since even the 7 creation limit in the Geneforge series is clearly far fewer than an experienced Shaper can create and maintain under direct control. This has nothing to do with D&D, but I assumed that the limit of 7 was because you were an adventurer. A sedentary Shaper with vast reserves of essence, too much to travel with, could make more.

First piece of advice: spend those skill points. Your stats are outdated, if, as you say, you are killing drakons.

How about bows and arrows? There won't be any batons anymore... (Sorry, I have no Avernum experience to draw upon)

Well, for one thing, Shaping just can't be accounted for. How do you add a Vlish to your party? Can you play as a Battle Beta? If so, what stat changes would that make? How do attack techniques tie into Shaping? How do you handle Serviles as a new race? how about Drayks? Drayks are sentient and ought to be viable PCs, but how would you arm or armor a Drayk character? Etc.

I've got something to add: Phariton's dialogue sounds a lot like Gollum.

I agree. Spiderweb is awesome because Jeff has managed to maintain true traditional style without falling too short of today's standards of lunacy.

Yeah, but at that point, the game doesn't even claim the Rebels possessed a third of the land.

Of course you failed. I don't see how it's possible.

Originally Posted By: Locmaar Unless you don't believe the deeds and events related in those epics actually ever happened like they have been written down. I've also read novels based on real people so, no, I don't think the way you're distinguishing between novels and epics makes any sense. It does. A novel is an individual act of creation. No one would have heard of, say, Arrakis, were it not for one individual--the author. Things like Beowulf, despite the fact that we are reputed to have only one original text, were the product of a collective imagination, whether or not ne individual did the compiling. Make sense now?

And what is it?

A novel is a product of the imagination. An act of creation on the part of the author. In this sense, NO ancient epic is a novel.

It said the Shapers were taken by surprise and lost a third of Terrestia. Then their armies rallied, and drove back the Rebels.

Pixelhunting, eh?

Yeah, I noticed the rain in G4. They never seemed to get any other weather, did they?

Graphics have nothing to do with it. It's how they're used. Some of today's best animated arcade-style games can't hold a candle to the game-play of Loderunner Master by Broderbund. And many if not all of the best puzzle games ever were made before the new millennium. And if this threshold you speak of is REALLY outdated, then let me say, there were OK games back then, too.

No, they captured it, and then lost it again.

Found anything good?

Originally Posted By: Txgangsta Personally, I think Jeff never thought of any correlation between these people, but we are simply creating them. I think it is much more likely we are all just fanatics. The characters that are used from previous games are made quite obvious. In G2 (which I'm playing now), the servile which guards Belik's bridge is named Mekkan. This servile has no correlation with the G5 Mekkan. No Mekkan was in G3 or G4. Jeff just kinda reuses stuff from time to time. Oh, how could you?! Have you no respect for the spirit of post hoc gaming archaeology? (that's what it's called, you know)

There are also a lot of broken pots. Does that mean he likes to break pots?

The intro specifically says that the rebels captured a THIRD of Terrestia. So there's another unmapped section in between G4 and G5.

Originally Posted By: Lord Safey You attack him till he is dead. Thanks, Safey. As for my other response, thanks, that helps. But after releasing the wingbolts and kyshakk, i only had enough living tools for one of the pylons, which killed me five times since I last wrote.

Well that makes things easier.

I'm pretty sure the Tribal Woods people only attack you if you are a Taker. Or was that a different area?

Originally Posted By: FnordCola On a related note, I find it an entertaining (and realistic) bit of historical garbling that the residents of Penta, who are basically Awakened 2.0, named their town after an Obeyer community in G1. What of Kaz? In fact, the one that got left out was Vakkiri. How odd.

COMPLETELY covered by trees?