Excluding Spells from Bards

[Jarno Mikkola]

To apply this to all bards, you would need to set all bard kits to share the Skald usability value (0x00800000). Of course the Trueclass cannot have a kit's usability flag so you would need to, as I said above, add a new "Trueclass" kit and replace the real Trueclass with the new clone in the menu.

And change the K_B_x.2da tables to not include the vanilla vanilla Bard, but the altered bard... but that should be simple after the above is done. Simple and simple. Well, relatively it is.

[Aquadrizzt]

I was messing around with the spell exclusion flags (using v2.3.67.3 of SoD and BG2EE) and I found some weird behavior with the various flags. I looked at which spells were shown during character creation for Mages, Diviners, Wild Mages, Sorcerers, Dragon Disciples, Blades, Jesters, and Skalds.

 

Flag -> Hidden from:

0 -> Blade, Skald, DD

1 -> Jester, Skald, DD

2 -> Blade, Jester, Skald

3-> Blade, Jester, Skald

5 -> DD

31 -> Wild Mage

 

Flags 15 through 30 did not show any exclusion properties for any of the kits examined.

 

It looks like 5 is a DD exclusion flag, which is bizarre because it DD's use the trueclass usability hex 0x4000).

[Jarno Mikkola]

I was messing around with the spell exclusion flags

These ? You didn't try 30 - paladins obviously.

[subtledoctor]

They discuss what does and doesn't actually work in the thread this was split from:

 

http://gibberlings3.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=28382&do=findComment&comment=248646

 

Long story short, it is only feasible to use wizards and bards for this. (And alignments.)