The Drunken Lizard Pub

Obviously what we need is a game for which Spiderweb does the story and Basilisk does the game engine.
Have you played Avernum 6? I think the game engine is as good as Book II, better actually. The graphics are not as good but much better than the old Avernum graphics. I think the game engine is ...

Has all the whining stopped yet?

Yes, trinko, we get the idea you think the plot sucks (and that you think sci-fi and fantasy are oil-and-water genres). Nobody's forced you to play the damned game, and nobody's going to force you to to buy Book III either. If I were BW, I'm not sure I'd consider ...

You mention playing D&D: do you remember Expedition to the Barrier Peaks ? That blended fantasy and sci-fi. In fact, that's what the main point of the module was.

Admittedly, that wasn't one of my favorite modules, and I don't generally like mixing the two genres, but as noted many times before ...

It's not the blending of genres that I'm objecting to. It's the way it was done. 100hrs of game play Book I and most of Book II pure fantasy RPG. Out of left field with no warning--other than the plasma gun which also shows up late--ET beams aboard. As I said if it was done right with lots of early ...

The game's plot is very very very very very very bad for this genre. Think about it. We go from fantasy to sci-fi nearly 2/3rds of the way through the plot? That's just bad. It'd be like running into Luke Skywalker 2/3 of the way through Lord of the Rings. I mean plasma guns and computer terminals ...

Space aliens showing up in the last two areas of the second game in a 3 game series? Give me a break. No indication of scifi vs fantasy--except for the plasma wand which I thought was just poor taste. I've played mixed universes before nazi's vs wizards etc but this is just so out of left field. It ...

Misc responses:

Thanks for the tip about foraging. That should have been obvious. However it may be a problem in some areas where you have to rest awhile, hence inviting attacks, in order for the forage bag to show up. Also won't work in cities.

Actually if you check out Avernum 6's graphics you ...

4) Day night is horrible
My monitor faces and open window. Until I figured out how to brighten the screen the game was unplayable during the game night so more "playing" time I spent staring at the screen while my character camped hoping to not be devoured in the night. Even now playing at night or ...

First off even with all of my complaints I'm glad I bought Book II but that's because there's not much choice in Mac RPG games. But my real frustration is that the game could be so much better with just a little work. All of the recommendations I have could be implemented as options so folks who ...

i agree a mage can do anything. however it takes too much boring work. i only had 180 mana points. so to fight tough monsters i did the following

1) lured them to the edge between maps. did as much damage as i could. jumped to next map. rested. repeat as needed. boring.

2) as above but instead ...

how do you reset the map to get multiple pure waters?

i did a brute force attack and i believe the following is true
spoiler
it's 99 or some number close but less than 100


after drinking and making about 3~4 dozen pure waters by resetting map... i found out i can no longer talk to "da" tree in ...

yeah i figured that out after i posted the question still wondering about the switches though

where is camp thorndike where the skull is located?

the switches in the hive queen cave. what do they do and how should they be set?

thanks.

to me the issue is that if you play a mage character, ie one whose primary way of causing damage is magic, the game becomes a pretty boring series of kill a couple monsters and then rest, or run back to the well that regenerates mana points. i like playing mages and it would be nice if this game ...

i created a new admin account which means none of the various customization apps i normally run, such as fruit menu, were in place. on that account the game runs fine. this means the data files aren't corrupt. it also means that the problem is a conflict with something else running on my system.