Duration

[Miloch]

What unit of time does a number entered in a Duration field (e.g., for item or spell effects) represent? If this is defined somewhere in the IESDP, I can't find it.

[Nythrun]

1 per second, 6 per round. Casting time and weapon speed use a different metric.

[Miloch]

Eh... sorry for being dim but I'm just a half-orc. So a value of 1 in the Duration field means it lasts a second? I thought a round was 60 seconds (1 minute)?

[pro5]

1 round = 6 seconds

10 rounds = 1 turn = 60 seconds

[cirerrek]

Eh... sorry for being dim but I'm just a half-orc. So a value of 1 in the Duration field means it lasts a second? I thought a round was 60 seconds (1 minute)?

 

A turn is 10 rounds or 60 seconds.

[Miloch]

Well it says something different in the 2e PHB: "A round is approximately one minute long. Ten combat rounds equal a turn (10 minutes)."

 

But what I was asking was what the value in the Duration field represents. Is it measured in seconds, rounds, fractions of seconds, or what?

[devSin]

Seconds. A value of 6 lasts six seconds (one round). A value of 18 lasts 18 seconds (three rounds).

 

A value of 1 lasts one single real-world second.

[Miloch]

Thanks. That's what I figured, though some durations are kind of wack and out of line with descriptions.

[Echon]

Well it says something different in the 2e PHB: "A round is approximately one minute long. Ten combat rounds equal a turn (10 minutes)."

 

This is correct, but for Baldur's Gate everything has been divided by ten.

 

-Echon

[Rikka]

1 round = 6 seconds

 

I agree, but if you go thru a lot of various IWD2 SPL files, you'll see that they use a value of 7 for 1 round, and multiples of 7, not 6, for durations that are hard set to a specific number of rounds. Strange.

[Echon]

Casting times for spells are a little different. In Baldur's Gate a spell with a casting time of '1 round' has it set to 10.

 

-Echon

[devSin]

He may actually be referring to the duration. Who knows how anything is done in ID2?

 

None of the IE information is guaranteed to actually be correct for that IE-on-crack title.