Good Blades of Exile Scenarios

[chaedwards]

I picked up Blades of Exile cheap with Geneforge 2, and was wondering if anyone here had any particular favourite scenarios that they'd recommend to me. I know about the various review sites and databases that are out there, so I'm interested in people's personal favourite scenarios, so that I can get to the good stuff rather than wade through a lot of dross.

Thanks in advance

 

[Excidium II]

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[Darth Roxor]

It boggles my mind that nobody participates in this discussion!

 

[Excidium II]

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[Lhynn]

Wasnt even aware blades of exile ran on newer systems.

 

[Fenix]

Only played Blades of Avernum.

 

[TOME]

I played only BoA too so can't recommend any scenarios.

 

[Andhaira]

Best place to ask is the Spidweb forums. I played BoE back in the day, and I would heartily recommend it over BoA. But I don't really remember much; I think one of the three official scenarios was pretty good though, you had to deliver supplies somewhere fast with limited resources.

 

[TOME]

That sounds like one of the BoA scenarios, except I don't remember it having an actual time limit.

 

[Fenix]

Za-Khazi Run have such limit, and this is exactly the same scenario.
You are delivering pack of magic wands to fort under siege.

 

[Andhaira]

That sounds like one of the BoA scenarios, except I don't remember it having an actual time limit.

BoA is a remake of BoE, and as such contains the same official scenarios in the starter pack.

Fenix Yeah that's the one. It was fun as I recall :D

 

[Fenix]

It was best, yeah. You need to strain the brain to win every fight.

 

[Johannes]

BoA is a remake of BoE, and as such contains the same official scenarios in the starter pack.

IIRC BoA also contains a 4th official scenario not included in BoE.


I remember loving BoA, the combat is not very good but the official scenarios overall were all enjoyable. Good part of them also included C&C with very meaningful differences to the endings. The unofficial ones I tried though were all disappointing iirc. BoE might be better in that regard, to my understanding it has a lot more scenarios made.

Also Realmz is a game to check for similarly structured scenario-content.
http://rlmz.org/realmzdivinity.html

 

[Dorateen]

Also Realmz is a game to check for similarly structured scenario-content.
http://rlmz.org/realmzdivinity.html

This looks great.

 

[Grape_You_In_the_Mouth]

for Blades of Exile I played a few. The ones I remember as good were all made by the same person---the "star" of the modding community (name began with an "a" and he ran the fan-forum Lycaeum). He was a law student who loved Socrates, as I do. The one everyone raved about the most (Starfall?) broke on me so I stopped there, after about 4 or 5 scenarios. I do remember them all being a bit underwhelming at the time but I could have been over-critical.

Realmz has some good scenarios that also bugged out on me in the Windows version, although the Mac versions were fine but I was too young to beat many of them.
Castle in the Clouds is the most-loved (bugged on me, couldn't finish) and I tried one that started with an awesome premise about a Lich trapped by his own machinations---which bugged on me so I stopped there. The original scenario and Assault on blah Mountain were good ol' adventures too.

 

[Fowyr]

I liked Roots. It's storyfag module, though.

More storyfaggy: Emulations (good one!), Chains.

I remember liking At the Gallows too.

Back to Normal for shits and giggles.

Heh, I have 300 scenarios downloaded from home.comcast.net user pages back in the times. Pretty sure that these pages are long dead.

I even tinkered with BoE, made module or two. They were broken, though, because my BoE was cracked one.

 

[Severian Silk]

Is there a way to double the scale of the game window? It is 640x480px by default. I think doubling that to 1280x960px would be easy with no loss in graphical fidelity.