Unearthed Gold

In view of the statement -

"There is no guarantee as to how long the links (to the old BioBoards) will be active. It has already been stated by Chris Priestly that the old boards can disappear without notification."

I thought it would be a good idea if I 'rescued' as much of the scripts on these old forums as I knew the location of. I have therefore gone through all 18 pages of the "Endless List of HomeBrew Functions [post functions only, not for asking questions]" thread, all pages in the even older "Completed Scripts" and 1 or 2 other locations that I had an address for and extracted the scripts from these pages. I have only included code that was actually posted on the old BioBoards and not anything that had a link to it away from the site. Even so this still equates to 360+ entries by 210 different authors. Each entry is credited to the original author and whatever relevant comment was made in thier board submission has been included as comments.

I have also edited each submission in such a way that they now appear with the same programming style, which hopefully makes them more readable. Where there was more than one version of the same script, I have only included the latest version in the hope that it is more likely to be bug-free and fully working. In order to keep things managable, I have kept to the original pages for the 'Endless' scripts and the original topics for the rest. Finally, I have created seperate indexes for the 'Endless' scripts and the 'Complete' scripts. I haven't indexed the small number of other scripts as they are generally 1 to a page.

A few things to note.

a. Some of these are (in computing terms) very old. In effect, they may have worked when written but updates to nwn may have rendered them either non-working or obsolete.

b. Some of them are designed for single player, while others are for persistant worlds and yet others work with all types of game.

c. If you do decide that some peice of code suits your purpose, it is probably a good idea to first try them in a small test module, just to be safe.

d. Some of the entries here represent the first outing for systems that have since been expanded by the original author and placed on the vault so it is probably a good idea (at least with the larger entries) to check there before using a large system found here.

e. As I am NOT the original author of any of these scripts I make no guarantee as to thier fitness for anything. As far as I am aware, they are all supposed to work, but I can't guarantee it.

Anyway, rather than keep this all for myself I have decided to upload this to the vault in order for it to be available to anyone who wishes to download it.

I hope you find this useful.