14-10-2004 01:22									#361
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quote: Originally posted by Tuberski Turns out I'm an idiot. Apparently my heatsink wasn't reinstalled properly. My computer was smart enough to stop working, apparently, when it wamred up too fast. Wife found the problem. ACK!

you readily admit your wife solved a computer problem for you?

	14-10-2004 01:45									#362
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It's under social, when it appears.

	14-10-2004 20:39									#363
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quote: Originally posted by Dissident you readily admit your wife solved a computer problem for you?

Hell ya, she's smarter than I am.


ACK!

	18-10-2004 16:22									#364
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I am now mid-way through the castle in Charwood village, and it's fun, but I was disappointed to find so many fire monsters and to have to put my flaming sword away.

I enjoyed the fight with the mummy lord in Charwood itself(), but it was slightly spoiled by the fact that I defeated some pretty powerful monsters by just standing around and waiting for Tomi to shoot them through the bars of the portcullis they couldn't open. Still, the mummy lord made up for it, and I got some especially tasty loot out of it too!

	18-10-2004 23:14									#365
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Shame the OC didn't have Jamski superduper baddies opening doors feature.

	19-10-2004 00:01									#366
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Yeah, the default OnBlocked script does leave something to be desired

-Jam

	19-10-2004 00:04									#367
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Hmm, where are my kukuries?

	19-10-2004 00:10									#368
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Update e-mailed THIS EVENING

It will be at least 24 hours to be imported, then it has to be uploaded, and it can be another 24 hours untill the mod reloads again.

So - you'll start seeing a bunch of new bits from perhaps Wednesday onwards. It will probably trickle in bits at a time depending how busy the server monkeys are

But the stuff is all built and mailed off to my "boss"

-Jam

	19-10-2004 01:14									#369
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* DrSpike wants cackuris NOW!

Hehe, where would new kukris be, roughly?

	19-10-2004 02:55									#370
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Erm... you know Kensai Ryu's Exotic Weapons shop in Hidden Vale currently has a sealed -up entrance. That should become unsealed

He'll be a good place to sell METAL INGOT to as well. Ingots you have SMELTED in Dwar Proper from the ORE that you so carefully MINED

I said its a good update

-Jam

	19-10-2004 03:57									#371
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Cool.

Question: how does the lame-o-cap work on stats. Is it +10 bonus from items, or is it a straight overall numerical cap?

	19-10-2004 05:25									#372
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I'm pretty sure that the cap is +12 in HOTU.

	19-10-2004 14:10									#373
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I have some questions about Folderol.

1. What is the general difficulty?
2. Would a sun/healing cleric prosper?
3. Does it use default magic, or have changes been made to the magic system?
4. How plentiful are magic items and gold?

I'm asking here because the web site's forum is on ezboard (ewww).

	19-10-2004 16:10									#374
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Ooh! I'll answer this one.

1. Didn't seem too tough when Spikey was playing, but he is a master of course. The emphasis is on fun (), not on making an exceptionally tough game, although if you want that then you can wander about in areas where you're just not ready for the monsters in terms of levels.

2. Yes, but I admit to having no idea what the numbers on-line are like in Australian time. It's always more fun with more people.

3. I'm not too sure about that either. I'd guess that the magic is the same as the ordinary game (well, with epic spells, etc) because Spikey's playing with a fighter and I didn't get a chance to see. The potions are pretty much as was, but I'm sure that with minds as inventive (and lunatic) as Jam's behind it, then there will always be a few brand-new combinations in potions.

4. For all other kinds of loot, see potions above. The loot is there, and the items to be er, invested in, are there too, but it's not just handed about willy-nilly. From what I saw, they have cut down on the "Oh look, a barrel in the middle of a forest track! And it has got 23 gold in it. Who'der thunk it?" from the original games, so you have to work for your loot. Er, mainly by killing stuff.

Pop down and try it! Oh, but download the latest patch first.

	19-10-2004 22:58									#375
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Qilue:

1) It's not that hard, but it is very group oriented (which is good because groups are more fun). Even at high levels if you go around solo you will die a bit. The penalty for dying is 50*level which is pretty painful. Of course if you are in a group you can get raised for no xp penalty.

Levelling speed is also fast as the way NWN calculates group XP works poorly and is easy to take advantage of.

2) Groups can always use a good healer/buffer.

3) Same as HotU

4) Lots of custom items. Gold is hard to come by at first but soon you'll have way more than you can spend.

	20-10-2004 02:02									#376
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quote: 1. What is the general difficulty?

If you mean the general difficulty slider its currently set to "Easy", but there are rare "Manic Mondays" where it goes to Hard for an hour or so of death

quote: 2. Would a sun/healing cleric prosper?

Yep. Any class will really. Even Harper Scout

quote: 3. Does it use default magic, or have changes been made to the magic system?

At the moment all the spells work as advertised, but I'm working on an insane script to allow mages to specialise in one element (e.g. Fire spells do 25% more damage) at the cost of another (Cold spells cost 10 Exp/level)

quote: 4. How plentiful are magic items and gold?

About average, I'd say. All the shop items are custom built and there is in-game potion brewing, while monsters and chests contain the whole range of NWN, SoU & HotU items randomly... erm mostly, but this is always being tinkered with.

New areas, monsters and items are generally demand based - that means whoever moans to me the loudest eventually gets whatever it was they wanted built. Eventually

-Jam

	20-10-2004 02:59									#377
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Like kukris.

	20-10-2004 07:51									#378
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quote: Originally posted by Qilue I have some questions about Folderol. 1. What is the general difficulty? 2. Would a sun/healing cleric prosper? 3. Does it use default magic, or have changes been made to the magic system? 4. How plentiful are magic items and gold? I'm asking here because the web site's forum is on ezboard (ewww).

funny you should mention a sun/healing cleric. I am one of those (I think- I know I am healing, I forget my other domain)

I'm an elven cleric who usese longbows as her primary weapon.

I haven't been playing Folderol recently. But I got her up to level 6 with little problem. All solo play. I haven't found anybody else my level to play with. But it shows that even solo play, my cleric can succeed. And I play with no summons either. Although I am thining about using animate dead now I have that spell.

	20-10-2004 16:35									#379
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I'm impressed that my pally (see Jam's build on page 2) can now just kill skellingtons outright with turn undead. I haven't played a paladin since 2nd edition AD&D, and had forgotten how good they can get.

	21-10-2004 01:08									#380
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Yeah... try a high CHA, high WIS caster cleric. Make sure you take one of the elemental domains, and take Turn Outsiders at high levels.

Hehehe - you can zap Balors, Huge Elementals, Liches... all the dead powerful stuff is fodder

-Jam

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I always forget to take turn outsider. I was going to do that this time around.

Imagine turning a balor.

	21-10-2004 11:35									#382
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Thank-you for the answers.

The reason I asked about magic is that the PW I'm playing on at present (Dreu Noctum, action PW) has a revamped magic system which complies with 3.5E rules.

	21-10-2004 21:55									#383
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I logged on and had a bit of a look round and seems quite good. While I've played melee clerics, I've never played a caster type.

With that in mind -

Nymph.
(How exactly do the sub race stat modifiers get applied?)(eg, would elf mods + nymph mods = -2 con, +2 cha?)

Str (10)10
Dex (8)10
Con (12)10
Wis 16
Int 12
Cha 16

Starting skills
Concentration
Heal
Spellcraft

Feat
Combat casting or toughness.

Domains
Sun and Earth (or Air depending on answer to Q2 below )

Further questions.
1. Anyone have any opinions?
2. What is the availability of items that cast stoneskin? (I'm kind of enamoured with this spell )
3. Isn't Turn Outsider a special ability for good and evil domains?

	21-10-2004 23:20									#384
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Not seen a stoneskin item. You could always ask Jamski nicely.

	21-10-2004 23:50									#385
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I'm kinda having problems with connecting to the Gamespy and whatnot. I am guessing it is my college's firewall, but I don't know.

	22-10-2004 00:11									#386
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Basically when I click on Internet Game on the thing, it says that it can't connect or whatnot and the nick may be invalid.

	22-10-2004 00:56									#387
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Nevermind...got it to work.

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Eh? I typed a great long answer and it disappeared?

Oh... well, I laughed at somethings and then explained why.

Expect the next Folderol update to come online Saturday/Sunday night Pacific Time

-Jam

	22-10-2004 12:35									#389
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Nobody seems to have an opinion.

	22-10-2004 16:12									#390
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That character looks like it could do well, but you might struggle early on with what might otherwise be easy fights. Still, I suppose that that's going to be the case whenever you play with a "second rank" character, and I'm sure that Spikey will show you the way to the place where he sprang from 2nd to 6th level or something by just wandering round and cheesing it by fighting nettles. (this will make sense when you explore, and when you see how many XP nettles give you. )

By second rank I don't just mean that these characters would find themselves away from the fighting, necessarily, but also that they're mainly based on the bottom half of the attributes.

Good luck Qilue, and if you meet a cookery monster then don't hesitate to stab him in the back.