This is a reference guide for the Blades of Avernum Avernumscript language. Blades of Avernum is a role playing game made by Spiderweb Software, more information can be found at the Avernum Web Site. This document is basically the calls section of the Blades of Avernum Editor Appendices put in an online, easily browsable form.

Currently, almost all credit should go to Jeff Vogel, creator of the software and writer of the original documentation. This wikibook will be heavily based off the original documentation.

Table of Contents

1. General notes about scripting
2. Basic Script and IO Calls
3. Campaign and Scenario Calls
4. Basic Character Calls
5. Item, Special Item and Gold Calls
6. Location and Distance Calls
7. Statistic and Damage Functions
8. Animation and SFX Functions
9. Scenario Initialization Calls
10. Boats and Horses
11. Event Calls
12. Town Calls
13. Outdoor Calls
14. The Passage of Time
15. Miscellaneous Special Calls
16. Terrain Checking and Modification
17. Dialog Calls
18. Basic Dialog Box Calls
19. Advanced Dialog Box Calls
20. Terrain Script and Creature Script Calls
21. Terrain Script Calls
22. Movement, AI Functions
23. Combat and Targeting Calls
24. Grouping Calls
25. Messaging Calls
26. Advanced Item Management Calls
27. NPCs Joining Party Calls
28. Splitting Up the Party Calls
29. Custom Item Ability Calls
30. Custom Character Ability Calls
31. Cutscene Calls
32. String Manipulation Calls
33. Debugging Procedures
34. Bugs and Workarounds

Quick Reference

1. Bugs and Workarounds
2. Return Data Types
3. Constants
4. Lexicon