WOW?

[manikus]

You mean one of the famous "cursed scrolls" of Thieve's Run?

There are actually a bunch of items in the database that don't work yet, b/c we don't have all of the special abilities working/working properly.

[Uatu]

Hmm - well, I guess I just want to make some events for thieves to make them useful Maybe there are variables to grab those skill numbers?

For example, we could have:

1. Random trap events (imagine a level of random wandering kobolds, who like to set up traps and such to kill wandering PCs).
2. Treasure chest events (after a battle with monsters)

Not sure what to do with hiding in shadows/move silently/climb walls skills - since they are useless if the rest of the party is with the thief. For the latter, I can only think of treasure that is left in a high nook or something - then you can try to climb to get it, I guess.

[manikus]

For the move silently check, it could be a who tries where it is the objective of the thief to get behind a guard without an alarm going off. Some of it would need to be explained in text events - but could be quite plausible.

[Uatu]

Hmm - that is a good idea. In any case, it will have to be encapsulated in an event somehow.

[manikus]

It's too bad, and kind of ironic that mroe development is going on with FRUA than with DC, but one of the guys over there has added several new events to the FRUA line-up, including one that allows for single combat. (I forget what the other events are that he has done, but I think there three total).

FRUA has also seen the addition of even more special abilities...plus they have the OAUA world hack with completely new graphics, classes, races, fonts, spells, monsters, you-name-it, to make FRUA into the 1e Oriental Adventures. It looks very cool, stylistically speaking, b/c 99% of the art has been done by one guy, hans, who can do so much with so few pixels and colors.

[Uatu]

Doh! We can't lose to THEM, c'mon, we have got to get DC running and into 1.0+ territory!

Once that happens, we can hack into DC ourselves and make several versions to match them:

1. Oriental Adventures (I can do OA-themed graphics)
2. Dragonlance (should be fun, too)
3. 2e Forgotten Realms

So, for, uh, a reference to see how the FRUA OA thing is going, any screenshots?

[manikus]

The OAUA worldhack is available for download through Rosedragon archive. The guys working on it have even updated it with bug fixes a couple of times. They even did an OAUA manual...

I know it's a hack of FRUA, but it's higher quality than FRUA and more complete.

[Uatu]

Hmm - any screenshots of it first? (I haven't even installed FRUA itself...)

[manikus]

If you look in either UANL 37 or 38, they have lots of screenshots.

I'm not trying to blow you off, I just don't have it installed (it's saved in a nice zip). And if I were to take the time to install I would get distracted for a couple of days...which is not bad in itself, but I want to do DC stuff.

[Uatu]

No problem, I will look for it!