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Paul Gargoyle

Member Since 06 Feb 2009
Offline Last Active Apr 13 2009 12:09 PM

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In Topic: Phare problem

17 February 2009 - 03:15 AM

SOLVED!
Thread should be closed, IMHO.

In Topic: Mod idea: Aen Aenis

14 February 2009 - 02:53 AM

I usually use Open Office for all my text editing needs: it's free, and it has spell checkers for virtually every language on this Earth (except maybe Esperanto? tongue.gif ).

Well, I do know about it. But, due to some reasons that I completely don't understand MS Office and OpenOffice do not want to run on my laptop, on which "writing and moding" work is done. Because of that to write I am using program, that is in fact overgrown notepad  (Notepad ++, if somebody would want to know) which is nice, but, sadly, lacks any spelling check.

Here is another dialogue. I spell checked it, and tried to make as non-awkward as I could. Criticisms highly welcome.

Nalia: Aen, tell me. Did aristocrats was always like that?
Aen Aen: What do you mean by "like that"? It is pretty broad expression.
Nalia: Caring only for themselves, not  for their lieges, war-like and absolutely demoralized?
Aen Aenis: That's for sure. Those who have power, abuse it sooner or later. And, as the great philosophers states, it's addicting.
Nalia: So there was no 'better times'?
Aen Aenis: No, and, as I have already told you, I doubt that any 'better times' of equality and freedom will ever come. Wealthy will always press poor, influential ones will pursue their own agendas and so on.
Nalia: You can't be right. At some point, oppressed will rebel against oppressors.
Aen Aenis: Surely. But after they will become oppressors by themselves. This is how the Faerun work.


In Topic: Mod idea: Aen Aenis

13 February 2009 - 06:59 AM

Thx for your advices Eleima. But, sadly, I have no spell checker currently.

Perhaps writing in your native tongue and then having it translated would be easier?

I don't think so. Writing in polish, I tend to use REALLY complicated grammatical structures, and translating them would be more than troublesome. Also, I treat writing those dialogues as a form of learning. And learning was not meant to be easy, so I will not take the easier road:P.

In Topic: Mod idea: Aen Aenis

13 February 2009 - 02:03 AM

I have finnaly started working on Aen (coding learninig was added to it for free;P). And here is the one of dialouges that I wrote.

Aen Aenis: So, what can you tell me of Avariels?
Aeire: A lot! What you need to know frist, is that our people value freedom above anything else...
Aen Aenis: No, I do know your customs enough, I want to hear about Avariels history.
Aerie: History? There is no book about it?
Aen Aenis: Sadly, not a single one. What is the problem, Aerie? You are not going to tell, that you don't know your kind history?
Aerie: W-Well, actually I do...
Aen Aenis: You must be joking.
Aerie: Aen, not evrybody have to share your passion! Past times never truly interested me!
Aen Aenis: I won't be mean and make comment on it. Anyway, ther must be something that you can recall... any, even tiny, fact.
Aerie: Well, I remember that Avariels was nearly extinct after a war against dragons long time ago.
Aen Aenis: That's interesting. Any more details? Maybe you remember exectly when it has happend?
Aerie: I guess that before the First Flowering... But I'm not quite sure.
Aen Aenis: Thanks! There must be some references to it in "Days before". No I only need to go and check it.
Aerie: Glad to be helpful.

Feedback really welcome!

In Topic: Mod idea: Aen Aenis

08 February 2009 - 05:03 AM

After some consideration, I must agree with you. Even if my vision about what does the wisdom describes is different than yours, I think that we all agree, that wisdom is not innate, but gained with life experience, and Aen, being rather young as for an elf do not have much of it. As such, her WIS stat should be around 13/14 to show, that she has a potential but for now, she must still grow up a bit, see more world to become truly wise.