Dire Hobbit

"... I don't want a game where you are an adventurer. I want a game where you train adventurers, and then send them out to do stuff."

 

That's the premise of Majesty except that games possible even more 'hands off'. It's an RTS: you build the stereotypical rpg town and post the bounties/rewards.

 

Probably not what you're looking for as there's no character building input from the player but it's one of the all time classic games so I thought I'd mention in case you weren't aware of it.

 

Can find the HD edition on GoG https://www.gog.com/game/majesty_gold_hd and it's often on sale on steam.

Thanks for the reply.

 

As an aside: I tried the font size option and it didn't seem to change anything. Is that just for uhd 'retina' resolutions?

Hi

 

Avadon 3 is always running at my monitors native resolution no matter what I pick in the launcher.

 

I checked some of your previous titles (e.g. avadon 1,2) and they behave correctly.

 

This is with the steam version and windows 10.

I had no idea steam censored anything. Games are rated and if a game is gratuitously offensive they could just make the decision on an ad-hoc basis.

Inspired by Crusader Kings 2 I've been reading books on medieval history; either by recommendation or what I discover in 2nd-hand bookshops. Just finished Byzantium & the Crusades by Jonathan Harris, before that Early Medieval Europe By Roger Collins. Also rediscovered those Penguin historical atlases.

 

For novels I picked up Robin Hobb's newest. I was disappointed by her last few but this seems a return to form.

I wish I had known this before I bought the game on Steam.

 

Same here

Thanks. The last time I ordered from Spiderweb itself was blades of exile in the 90s.

 

Anyway - apologies - now I reread this isn't aimed at someone like me who isn't purchasing via spiderweb's own store. I'm not an "individual buyer".

Give the name and address you ordered the game from and say where you purchased it (Spiderweb, Steam, Humble Bundle, etc).

 

I'm not sure what this means. Does it mean my geographical/mail address? I'm probably being dense.

 

I became reacquainted with Spiderweb rpgs when they were first released on steam and then the original Avernum trilogy via the humblebundle. Since then (post Avadon) I've bought them on day of release.

http://www.spiderwebforums.com/forum/ubb...itch#Post269461

 

It's a "known problem" but not stickied

Might and Magic and SSI DnD 'Gold Box' games had that: hirelings to make-up or supplement your party.

Voted for - Create a Single Character (With party members or others who join along the way).

 

Proviso that there is a respectable number of prospective party members as per classic Ultima and Magic Candle.

If I remember right the two missing wizards didn't die, they just went off the map to other lands?

 

 

And hope I don't get banned we are quoting Tolkien after all!

Faggots were bundles of sticks for starting a fire. I guess they could "reek" because they'd be resinous new wood?

 

From there the eytmology is that in elite private schools it was the job (called "fagging") of a junior boy to do this kind of thing for a senior.

 

In the 19th C boarding schools were supposed to foster "manly virtues" which led to worries about homosexuality.

 

Hence fag as an insult.

 

Why did it start being used that way in America but not England (which was the original root of the word)?

Probably because America today has a more homosexual culture (big emphasis on male body and anxiety about sexuality).

Word is back imported over the last decade with the rise of the internet.

I could see the wheel of time as a trilogy of movies: At least with Jordan we know there's a story he had to tell.
It would need the right scriptwriter to handle the abridgement of course.

With Martin I'm not so sure. His background is in TV writing and I have a strong suspicion that he doesn't know where his fantasy epic is going. Most likely like Jordan he is going to pop his clogs before the thing is done, but with no chance of anyone else completing the thing since Martin himself has no idea.

"Winter is coming" is never going to be more than fluff (Martin is not an ideas man)... so in the end all we'll have is a (well written) historical pastiche.

Did you try:

 

c:\users\[your user name]\AppData\Local\VirtualStore

 

GoG insists on installing to programfilesx86 so whatever a game can't save there will be stashed in virutalstore.

 

 

With the Steam version (if this helps) I notice one weird behaviour:

 

Spiderweb saves are in public documents not just my documents.

Seems I* have common ground with all of them except Romney and some guy called Virgil.

 

http://www.isidewith.com/results/29082842

 

 

 

 

*not American

 

Me either. But at least it's not as irretrievably wrong-headed as Freud himself.

God no. Please.

 

FO3/Oblivion were a very retrograde step after Morrowind which has a non-linear/multifaction main quest.

 

The absolute last thing I'd want to see is the faux-urgency of Oblivion/FO3 main quest which doesn't integrate at all with the open world design.

We can't deal with the drug issues (and others) because we've bought into the idea that if something isn't illegal we should be able to make a 'business' out of it.

 

Same with prostitution (even more controversial). The obvious solution is to decriminalize but not enforce contracts.

But we've had 30 years of neoliberalism so the moment we decriminalize we'd get some [censored] heal instituting de facto sex slavery and calling it freedom.

 

 

Back on topic.

 

I haven't been reading much since I began my catch-up on a decade of Spiderweb games.

 

In another life I'm sure Jeff would have been a successful scifi/fantasy writer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Study_in_Scarlet

Have you checked GoG forums?

It's kinda cool that all Spiderweb games will fit on a flash memory stick.

 

No matter where in the world you go, you can take them with you.