History of A Simple BOE Scenarios Page 12 November 2001 * Removed the recommended r scenario Burned to the Ground (mainly due to its comparison to the other scenarios and some of the current ones). 02 November 2001 * Added a section of the scenarios I recommend playing, which are those indicated by a "R" or "r" and ensured the version numbers of Brett Bixler's Spheres Trilogy were correct * Added Top 15 Nightfall (Scott Evans) quotes (text) * Added scenario descriptions of the recommended ones (text file) * Restored the TWOTS walkthrough and Nephil's Gambit hints (which I had written before the author wrote the included walkthrough) ---------- 05 October 2000 * The Scenarios Page is no more, it will just contain links to other scenario pages - there is no need to try to catch-up to Brett Bixler's Alexandria database and be redundant to it * Scenario files that were hosted at this site: TWOTS 1.36(Enhanced 1.02) (L) Dragon's Lair (L) The End of Longflight (beta 0.90) (L) - was removed per the author's implied wishes Mere Silver War (M) - was removed due to its poor quality Wise Man of the Mountain v 1.04 (M) Dragon Quest (H) Quest for the Gems (H) The Search for Motrax (H) * Walkthrough files that were hosted at this site: Bandit Busywork (L) Islands of the Wheel (M) The Wreck of the Slug (L) A Small Rebellion (M) Compositus (M) The Za-Khazi Run (H) * These pages effectively served their use from 03 December 1998 to 08 February 2000 29 September 2000 * Added An Apology and The Magic Flute * Added page links to Alcritas' other scenarios - Kalloskagathos (2nd scenario) and The Staff of Kayolith (4th scenario) * Made more corrections to the names/e-mail addresses of authors (based on Alcritas' Scenario archive at Alexandria) 08 February 2000 * Added Demon Island II, Earthward Road, Justice v 1.02, Labyrinth, The Nature of Evil, Ominous Tide, Plague Against Cyclamen, A Valetian Mystery * Added page links to The Hut of Baba Yaga and The Lost Expedition * Scenario updates: The Forsaken v 1.40, Requelle's Nightmare v 2.40, River and Leaf v 1.02 * Restored the three Blades scenarios - Valley of Dying Things, A Small Rebellion, and The Za-Khazi Run * Made corrections to the names and e-mail addresses of authors * Reformatted the pages to Epic and Low, Medium, High, and Very high level scenarios for more manageable file sizes * Removed my links to scenarios I recommend or are non-playable (soon to reappear in another format) * Incorporated Alcritas' Scenarios Review page via links (with his permission) * Added links to Olly's reviews at his scenarios page 01 January 2000 No update, just wanted to put this here for those premature millenium hopefuls ---------- 18 November 1999 * Added Johnny Favourite, The Dragon's Lair (not to be confused with Dragon's Lair) * Scenario updates: Riddle of the Spheres v 1.11, Quests of the Shperes v 1.08, Destiny of the Spheres v 1.03 * Removed the file links to Brett Bixler's scenarios - his site has both the Macintosh and Windows versions of his scenarios (different due to custom graphics) and the most updated versions 10 November 1999 * Added Orb of Hauyne and Power Quest * Added a link to Akhronath's River and Leaf * Fixed the link to Doom Moon II: Dragon's Revenge 26 October 1999 * Added Dark Raiders: Part 1, The Nature of Evil (sampler), Terrible Goblins * Scenario updates: The Forsaken v 1.20, Redemption v 1.03 * Added link to the partial walkthrough for Redemption (to finish the scenario, not win it or its major side quest) * Restored the walkthroughs for A Small Rebellion and The Za-Khazi Run (both at the bottom of the page) 19 October 1999 * Scenario update: To the Quick v 1.02 * Noted the two rated R scenarios - Redemption and To the Quick * Placed Diablo's Demise on the non-playable list * Corrected some version numbers of the newly added scenarios 13 October 1999 * Added Diablo's Demise, Doom Moon II: Dragon's Lair (DM2 looks promising) * Added a link to the Scenarios Entered page of the Second Scenario Design Contest 12 October 1999 * Added The Forsaken, Unholy Crypt of death (PC only) * Recommended The Forsaken * Removed the three scenarios included with the registered version of Blades of Exile (redundant and to make the scenarios file smaller) (they are Valley of Dying Things, A Small Rebellion, and The Za-Khazi Run) * Verified many of the e-mail addresses of the older scenarios (removed some mailto links) 05 October 1999 * Added An Eye for an Eye, Burano, The Lost Island: Chicken Plague 2, Mercenaries (demo) * Scenario updates: Nephil's Gambit v 1.2, Redemption v 1.02, Quests of the Spheres v 1.07 * Added a text file note to Mairwen's Crystal (from Article 54 at Spiderweb's site) * Added an old scenario: Dark Triad * An old scenario update: The Labyrinth of the Trall v 1.10 (was called Maze) * Moved the Utility scenarios to a seperate page - the Utility scenarios page is now accessed from the main Index page 27 September 1999 * Added The Chicken Plague, The Lost Island * Scenario updates: Destiny of the Spheres v 1.01, Nephil's Gambit v 1.2 * Alternative Bladbase v 1.30 now has the added text files of the v 1.01 items and v 1.00 monsters (both for reference) * Removed Fringes of the Empire due to an invalid link and no backup copy * Removed not-playable rating for On a Ship to Algiers (v 1.03) based on its available walkthrough file * Removed the walkthrough page to Erika's Legacy as it is included in the scenario 22 September 1999 * Bladbase v 1.01 now has an added text file of the v 1.00 monsters * Added links to a text page listing the scenarios I recommend, briefly why, and some hints (the Rs and rs link to that page) * Added a link to Alcritas's Lyceum page which contains his scenarios 20 September 1999 * Added Spiderweb's Bladbase v 1.01 scenario source file (includes a text file of the items) * Added a link to the walkthrough page for On a Ship to Algiers 16 September 1999 * Added Redemption * Recommended Destiny of the Spheres and Redemption * Added a new section - Epic length scenarios (mainly to honor Brett Bixler's Spheres trilogy and Tony Wilsdon's The Wreck of the Slug) 14 September 1999 * Added Destiny of the Spheres, To the Quick * Changed the download link of Requelle's Nightmare to a download page per the author's request (e-mail, 6 September) * Scenario update: Requelle's Nightmare v 2.3 * Recommended (minor) Requelle's Nightmare 25 August 1999 * Updated Bladbase v 1.3 (called the old 1.3 version 1.2) 20 August 1999 * Scenario update: Requelle's Nightmare v 2.2 * Removed Kalloskagathos (2nd scenario) and The Staff of Kayolith (4th scenario) per the author's request (e-mail, 17 August) * Updated my alternative Bladbase - v 1.3 (now renamed v 1.2) * Verified/updated links 18 August 1999 * Added Fringes of the Empire * Scenario updates: The Fog v 1.02, Nephil's Gambit v 1.1 * Removed my hints file for Nephil's Gambit as the author included a walkthrough 27 July 1999 * Removed Suspension of Tranquility and its walkthrough per the author's request (Blades of Exile Majordomo mailing list, 16 July) * Removed the text at the bottom to make the page a little faster to load 20 July 1999 * Added The Fog, War on Bigail v 1.04 * Recommended The Fog * Added The Island of the Goaual and Zalkor: The Goblin Threat (7 June 1999) * Fixed the Borderlands: Encounter link - now it points to Taraka's site * Scenario updates: Farmhands Save the Day v 1.01, Amazonian Saga v 1.03, Erika's Legacy v 1.19, Lost Hope v 1.21, Of Good and Evil v 1.02, Quests of the Spheres v 1.06 * My delay in updating missed Assault on Valorim * Added "r" as a minor recommendation (will keep it limited to 5 of them) 26 May 1999 * Added Borderlands: Encounter, Of Good and Evil, The Staff Of Kayolith * Added links to Caligula's BoE Scenarios Database (Geocities site) * Updated links to Alcritas' scenarios (smart use of a Geocities site) * Removed the Scenarios Description text page 3 May 1999 * Removed outdated web information for Kaylar's two scenarios (The Day the Wall Fell and The End of Longflight) and uploaded those scenarios to Xoom * Minor fixes and verified the links 1 May 1999 * Added Farmhands Save the Day * Added Kalloskagathos * Added site information to On A Ship to Algiers * Scenario updates: Aftershocks v 1.01, Amazonian Saga v 1.02, On A Ship to Algiers v 1.03, Requelle's Nightmare v 2.10 29 March 1999 * Recommended Under the God's Hand * Placed History of Bizstra on the non-playable list * Stopped updating the Scenario Descriptions text file a long time ago, just download the scenario if your browser doesn't support the tag 18 March 1999 * Placed On a Ship to Algiers on the non-playable list 9 March 1999 * Added The Doomed Land (linked to Aceron's site) * Scenario update: Requelle's Nightmare v 2.00 * Made links to Requelle's Nightmare page and Mike Natushko's e-mail address 22 February 1999 * Added Reign of Terror and On a Ship to Algiers * Recommended Amazonian Saga * Recommended Quests of the Spheres (v 1.05) * Removed not-playable rating for The Riddle of the Spheres (v 1.10) based on fixes made in its history file (but if the game freezes on me due to the Goblin altar special and I get trapped in that library. . .) * Scenario updates: The Riddle of the Spheres v 1.10, Amazonian Saga v 1.01, Quests of the Spheres v 1.05, Doom Moon v 2.01 * Updated Scott Evan's e-mail address - mountaineer@wonderlan.com 28 January 1999 * Added The End of Longflight beta * Added Titles to the tag, thus pause the mouse pointer using an HTML 4.0 compliant browser on the link to get that scenario's information * Added a link for the walkthrough page for Haneda Yoshiyuki's Amazonian Saga * Removed the paragraph at the end about my opinion of the Spiderweb Scenario Contest results. It was becoming non-relevant and used bandwidth 18 January 1999 * Made a link to Leon Lin's Rubacus' hints page 5 January 1999 * Added a hints file for Nephil's Gambit * Moved The Nexus from the Index page to the Utility section ---------- 28 December 1998 * Copied the Dragon's Quest scenario from Zaloopa's The Doomguard's Realm, but had unzipping problems with the Death Cove scenario * Added Resistance demo scenario * Updated xBladBase scenario base file * Recommended Burned to the Ground * Recommended the 3 BOE scenarios and Bandit Busywork * To reduce the Scenarios.htm file size, moved the Not playable text at the bottom to a text page - Scen-np.txt 24 December 1998 * Added links to Leon Lin's updated scenarios - The Magnificent Six and Rubacus * Added a paragraph at the end about my opinion of the Spiderweb Scenario Contest results 21 December 1998 * Recommended Nephil's Gambit * Added some details about what the scenario is about (from Spiderweb's site). Also placed some comments in brackets 16 December 1998 * Added site ja checkmarks for Jeff Vogel's 4 scenarios - Spiderweb Software * Minor editing, added to the descriptions of the Utility scenarios 8 December 1998 * Added a link to Haneda Yoshiyuki's page to his Amazonian Saga scenario * Added this History file to the Scenarios page 5 December 1998 * Added Quest for the Gems (Stareye's Site) plus scenarios I had on my hard drive (note, some of them dropped off of Spiderweb's First Efforts listing when their users' rating dropped below 2.5) * Created a Utility scenarios section * Moved my scenarios from my Index page to this page * Posted Fandore, a Utility scenario * Verified the zipped file sizes, added links to the author's sites (if they have one), changed the Difficulty column to a Code column * Moved most of the top text to the bottom and did some editing * Defined what I deemed a non playable scenario and noted them * Placed the Spiderweb Scenario contest results by the associated scenario - "Sxx" where xx is its placement (01 to 12) * Noted if the scenario files had included hints or walkthroughs in the zipped file * GIF Crunched ja.gif (914 to 163 bytes, 18% of its original size) 3 December 1998 * Adapted the Scenarios page to my Simple Blades of Exile site style and uploaded it * Added some commentary at the top and bottom of the page. Made a key for what the column data meant * Placed "R"s by the scenarios I have played and recommend 25 November 1998 * Created the page by merging the 3 Spiderweb Scenarios pages with JtP's scenarios page (even using the ja.gif checkmark). The intention was to revive JtP's Blades of Exile Page (the First Unofficial Blades of Exile Page). I copied the files from his site, edited them, and uploaded a near mirror of his site to kfalls.net. The pages were removed January 1999.