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AD&D Humor

Heheh, not something I usually post, but since we have a pretty good thing going with our AD&D pages and I was doing a little surfing, thought some of you might enjoy these. Download ’em if you feel like laughing.…

AD&D Humor

Heheh, not something I usually post, but since we have a pretty good thing going with our AD&D pages and I was doing a little surfing, thought some of you might enjoy these. Download ’em if you feel like laughing.…

AD&D Humor

Heheh, not something I usually post, but since we have a pretty good thing going with our AD&D pages and I was doing a little surfing, thought some of you might enjoy these. Download ’em if you feel like laughing.…

Baldur’s Gate II Exp. Pack Preview

The award for very first preview of the Throne of Bhaal, expansion pack to Baldur’s Gate II, is up at Computer Games Online. It mainly deals with the storyline and a few of the new locations. Here’s a brief: There…

Casting Animations

CJ, the co-art director for DAoC, made an appearance on the Developer’s Round Table today and posted a response to a question posed about caster animations: Q: I hope that different spells will have different motions when casting them. All…

Area Limitations: Indoor and Outdoor seperate?

Gamer asks if the indoor areas of large outdoor areas count as separate when calculating the recommended area limits: In my considerations for how many areas I need to be able to support, do I count building interiors as separate…

Random Encounters

Gamer stresses the importance of easily implemented random encounters: …please make it so a DM can flag certain areas for random monster respawning that will load a selection of monsters with a selection of different items on them. Setting up…

Persistent World?

Gamer asks, is a truely persistent world even possible? It seems to me this game is designed for small groups to go through adventures and that what I plan to use it for. Everyone keeps talking as if this is…

Script Limitations

Gamer asks about script limitations: What kinds of triggers will be available? PC presence – anyone nearbySpecific PC presence – specific person nearbyPC-type presence – evil, good, elf, hafling, wizard, etcObject presence – Specific item or item type equipped by…

New Patch

A new patch has finally been released to fix the multiplayer problems with DirectX 7 and 8. You can download the new patches over at File Planet by clicking on the appropriate link below: Baldur’s Gate DirectX 8 Patch (English)Baldur’s…