Skills and Abilities Mod

[subtledoctor]

1 minute ago, Greenhorn said:

Percentage chance to block attack with the shield perhaps? 

Could be done. You can't really do it on a per-attack basis. It's more like, a repeating effect once per round that makes you immune to physical hits; and once you are hit the immunity goes away. So you could apply a percentage chance to the effect each round, meaning some rounds you will block one hit and other rounds you just won't. It would more or less achieve the desired effect.

Alternatively, you could make an aura that applies an APR penalty to the nearest attacker, once per round. Could make it a -0.5 penalty so that it doesn't drop anyone to zero APR; or make it a full -1 penalty (or even set to zero!) but with only a percent chance of happening. (Or allow a save, or something.) That would be effective in a duel; but would not help much when you are surrounded by xvarts or kobolds.

Alternatively, honestly, just go vanilla style and apply a beefy AC bonus. This ultimately has the effect of reducing incoming hits, and it scales up better against crowds of enemies...

[Greenhorn]

12 minutes ago, subtledoctor said:

Could be done. You can't really do it on a per-attack basis. It's more like, a repeating effect once per round that makes you immune to physical hits; and once you are hit the immunity goes away. So you could apply a percentage chance to the effect each round, meaning some rounds you will block one hit and other rounds you just won't. It would more or less achieve the desired effect.

Alternatively, you could make an aura that applies an APR penalty to the nearest attacker, once per round. Could make it a -0.5 penalty so that it doesn't drop anyone to zero APR; or make it a full -1 penalty (or even set to zero!) but with only a percent chance of happening. (Or allow a save, or something.) That would be effective in a duel; but would not help much when you are surrounded by xvarts or kobolds.

Alternatively, honestly, just go vanilla style and apply a beefy AC bonus. This ultimately has the effect of reducing incoming hits, and it scales up better against crowds of enemies...

Interesting ideas. I thought that something like Entropic shield could be implemented:

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Entropic shield - 20% chance for enemies to miss with ranged attacks

but for melee. 

[subtledoctor]

?? Is that a thing in the game? Or a PnP spell?

[morpheus562]

Could probably do a 20% chance per round of casting a one hit invisible stoneskin on the shield user. This would be equivalent to a 20% chance of blocking one attack per round.

[Greenhorn]

Just now, subtledoctor said:

?? Is that a thing in the game? Or a PnP spell?

It was part of some megamod, maybe TDD, I don't remember anymore. As you well know I'm not PnP expert but it could very well be. 

[Greenhorn]

5 minutes ago, morpheus562 said:

Could probably do a 20% chance per round of casting a one hit invisible stoneskin on the shield user. This would be equivalent to a 20% chance of blocking one attack per round.

Sounds fantastic. 

[morpheus562]

Okay, so bright side my approach works and it successfully blocks 1 attack 20% of the time each round. Bad side the character turns grey for the round this is active.

[subtledoctor]

2 hours ago, morpheus562 said:

Okay, so bright side my approach works and it successfully blocks 1 attack 20% of the time each round. Bad side the character turns grey for the round this is active.

Yeah one of my applications of this is as a revised version of Barkskin, so I can cover it up with the green/brown barkskin coloring. 

You could patch the executable to remove the grey effect from Stoneskin. 

Another possibility, which I haven't tried yet, is to mimic what OlvynChuru does for his Deflect Missiles ability. It uses 7EYES.2da to apply a Seven Eyes defensive effect, which can block one attack type. And simply applies it with a 6-second duration, once per round. He has it block the missile damage type, which is straightforward; melee attacks might not work as well since there are three or four damage types and you want to block one attack of any of them, not one attack of each type. I’ve never gotten an answer from the Olvyn/Kjeron/Bubb types as to whether this could work; but maybe it’s worth playing around with it? It’s pretty easy to code it up in Weidu, the only question is whether it will work.

The last option I’m aware of, which I’ve only recently started messing around with, is to apply Protection from Weapons (PfNW and PfMW combined) to the character. Hits have no effect but they do register; so you can apply a contingency that casts a subspell when hit, which would cancel the weapon immunity and, six seconds later, re-apply the immunity and the contingency (if you are carrying a shield). This is functionally like a once-per-round Stoneskin, except there is no grey visual effect and Stoneskin lets elemental damage through while this blocks it. 

7Eyes would be the best, if it works. But it’s the only method I haven’t yet seen working. 

[morpheus562]

I think I'll move it to a passive 10% physical damage immunity for the second pip since I like that more than the situationalness of wrong buffet immunity. I'll definitely play around with a blocking ability.

[Graion Dilach]

The bard components are marked incompatible with IWDEE. And others as well, but I forgot the rest I noticed.

[Graion Dilach]

ProjectInfinity-WeiDU-Error-skills-and-abilities-312.log

I think your 2da patching code needs some tweaks in the NWN weapprof component.

[morpheus562]

2 minutes ago, Graion Dilach said:

ProjectInfinity-WeiDU-Error-skills-and-abilities-312.log

I think your 2da patching code needs some tweaks in the NWN weapprof component.

Thank you! I'll take a look at this tonight. Do you have a complete weidu log by chance?

Edited June 7, 2022 by morpheus562

[Graion Dilach]

ProjectInfinity-WeiDU-Log-Finished-Installation-2022.06.07-22꞉00.logProjectInfinity-InstallSequence-2022.06.07-18꞉02.log

Here you go. But considering that the query where it crashed was a *.2da, I assume (haven't checked) you missed an EVAL somewhere.

[morpheus562]

@Graion DilachI'm not saying they are related because I'll dig in-depth tonight, but I think there will be an unrelated compatibility issue between Forgotten Armament - NWN Style Weapons and Scales of Balance - Functional Weapons Tweaks. I personally would recommend either one or the other.

[Graion Dilach]

There are none. I actually already had those installed together on Saturday and tested it already.

They might overlap a bit but unless they touch the exact weapon class's base damage, they don't collide and FWT leaves the NWN2 crits untouched.

Migrating to your proficiency system was my main reason for reinstalling this time (and I wanted that ioun stone in my game I cooked up for a random Beamdog forumer).

Edited June 7, 2022 by Graion Dilach