just an update

[cowsmanaut]

Well, I've only done one new thing since my last upload so I'm not yet ready to update the files I had found a glich in the HTML though that linked the 'doors' link to the wallitems.zip or something.. so I returned it back to door.zip. So I imagine no one has seen the doors yet.

I only have the skeleton done but I've started the giant rats at someones request. once I'm done the rats I'll complete those that have not yet been completed. (spider, vexirk, and knight) then I'll update that download.

I might take a break at that point and complete Daroou. A hidden advantage to doing the larger images of these characters is that I can use it for the mirror images in the game.

anyway, that's all for now..

[Zyx]

I noticed your deth knights have the SAR symbol.
I don't understand it very well. Maybe the KU symbol would be more appropriate?

[cowsmanaut]

You'll notice that the scorpions have it too .. The sar symbol is for Darkness and depicts the demon. You'll see it on those creatures who are cursed and do not occur normally.

While KU is a symbol of strength and also bears a sword.. it is not inherently bad and as such doesn't make as much sense to me for something evil.

[+Francis]

Keep in mind that the authors understood duality like this: neither Order (yang) nor Chaos (yin) brings "good" to the world unless fused with the other. Yin is dark; yang is light. Sar, darkness, and Ra, light, have exactly the same polarity and exactly the same co-dependence in order to avoid "evil". It's therefore not in harmony with this view to call one or the other "evil" except inasmuch as it's separated from its counterpart, which would make Ra an equally applicable symbol.

Of course this doesn't mean that it doesn't make sense to give Deth Knights the Sar symbol; if they're minions of Chaos, then of course it makes sense. But let's not forget the principle at the core of the game, as evidenced by what you need to do in order to win.

(Btw, I haven't died; I just haven't had time for message boards for the past few months. It's amazing how big the online presence of DM has become! This site is cool.)

[cowsmanaut]

Thank you for the compliment. I've yet to fix a few things but none the less thanks.

As for your mentionings about the Sar symbol. I would agree that good can not survive with out evil and infact would not exist with out it..

However the nature of this game is that chaos is a representation of evil and is shrouded in darkness. He wears the horns of a demon on his helmet.. etc

Sar is far more representitive of Choas than Ra.. Thus the reason I chose it.

[cowsmanaut]

ZPC has helped me clean up some of the formatting issues, and I decided to put in a voting booth. Only one thing to vote on right now. Go check it out..