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Magical weapons


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Hi.

 

I realized again the weird dice damage values of the melf's meteors and sol's searing orb (like 2561d4654) magical created weapons. Anyone know how it is works? Are these missile weapons hardcoded or there is a limit in the maximum amount of dice damage?

 

Thanks.

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Technically, the most damage you can ever do per hit is 65535.

 

There is a limit, but the spell creates weapons, and all weapons use that damage system, and all items have the possibility of doing damage. For example, your arrows do damage, but your bow is your weapon.

 

I would use a tool such as Near Infinity, and take a closer look.

 

For the more technically minded person, there is a dissection of the file format (.itm and .spl) in the IESDP (which is here)

 

Icen

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There is some case where these values are much larger for no apparent reason, but I don't remember the details.

 

Anyway, the 2561d4654 in your example is correct and will yield whatever damage the spell description says it does (just can't remember why). I'm sure there's some post or other around here talking about it, but you'd probably have to do a fair bit of searching (Taimon could figure out exactly why and Avenger may recall offhand, but I don't.)

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