Playful NPCs 1.3 patch

I'm sorry, Ted, but somehow, the skill check fixes were not added. The spiders and buckler work fine, however. Unfortunately, I'm going to have to work today, so I won't be able to get a fix up for the next 12 hours or so.

 

Are these armor fixes in the protos.tab or somewhere else in the game code? If it's the former, I guess I'm waiting on those before starting my work on the creature stats.

 

Just a quick question. Do you realize that Zaxis now has a 98 Charisma in your protos? If you did, why?

 

Wow. Tom Jones would have nothing on him.

 

I re-added all my armor check fixes, and ran a quick playtest. My changes seem to be working as expected. For those who weren't aware, masterwork armors with a zero skill check penalty were still adding the masterwork bonus to the hide, move silently, sleight of hand, and tumble checks. These armors were given skill circumstance penalties (-1) on these checks to offset the improper bonus without changing thier masterwork status, and without adding an actual skill check penalty (which would have resulted in increased miss chances in combat for non-proficient users).

The armors and shields modified in this way are masterwork padded (both), small masterwork padded, masterwork leather (both), small masterwork leather, mithral shirt, masterwork gladiator, magic Celtic tattoos, darkwood buckler, large darkwood shield, and large mithral shield.

Additional changes to masterwork status of armors were made. Bone helm, corset, and hoodless circlet lost masterwork status. Wooden elvish shield gained masterwork status, and the aforementioned skill circumstance penalties. In addition, the corset lost the inexplicable +2 dexterity bonus.

Cujo, since the corset was one of your items, I apologize for changing it. May I humbly suggest that if you restore the +2 dexterity bonus, you increase the value comparable to gloves of dexterity +2?

I also added a small change to InvenSource.mes, allowing Otis to sell the very excellent mithral buckler 25% of the time. Be aware that the mithral buckler has no skill check penalty, and no spell failure chance, but is quite expensive. As far as I can tell, there's really no reason not to equip a wizard with one, since there should be no penalties, even with non-proficiency in shields. Your mileage may vary.

Oh, and Zaxis' charisma was restored to the original 15. Thanks for the heads-up, Blue.

Installation instructions: Please install Ted's playful NPCs 1.3 before overwriting with my files. Once again, make sure that Co8 4.0 is the active mod, if you are using ToEEFE. Extract to your ToEE directory, and the files should properly install to the /data/rules subdirectory, overwriting the pre-existing files. Have fun!

Edit: Due to an error on my part, the InvenSource.mes that I originally uploaded was incorrect. The error has been corrected. Please re-download.

 

oops, I was cheating but when I checked his stats today they were fine (just looked there are two of them, I bet one is the one you're sposed to meet at the snake pit) so I thought ted must've noticed and fixed it and didn't say anything. he also has 3 extra feats, point blank shot, precise shot and quick draw.

@Gwythur, I don't care if you change my stuff, well don't change it to much from the idea I had but most of my ideas are looks based, and I don't know the rules so I really need feedback on my items. you're probably going to have a feild day on some of my other items. feel free to PM me about why I made things the way I did just to see what I was thinking.

I've been playing with dragons today, I changed a couple of the animal companions into a white dragon whelp and a red dragon whelp and made a modifid fire ball for its breath weapon (1/4 area, 4x damage, no target self) cos I couldn't get a cone of fire to work. its fun and they're not over powered, well atleast in temple level 4 and the nodes where there are still enemies left alive to test them on (had 3, 2 red 1 white all killed by ogres in the room to the right of Livs trap after killing the bug bears). if this is ever included it means no more pandas or black bears. well atm it does.

 

yeah yeah cujo im working on it.. opandas black bears and dragons oh my

 

I just installed Playful NPC 1.3 patch followed by Gwythurs armour check fix on the top of the non Toffee Co8 4.0 patch, and I now get start-up problems - I get past the Atari logo etc to the initialising sector data part and then I get thrown back to windows, i.e no opening movie, no game. I played yesterday okay using the non Toffee Co8 4.0 patch, so I'm assuming it's something in today's patches. Apologies for throwing spanner in works - appreciating all the hard work though.

Thanks.

 

Allyx: If he doesn't use ToEEFE (like he says), he probably doesn't have a Co4-4.0.0 folder.

Did you install anything else apart from Co8 4.0.0, Gawain? And are you sure you extracted Ted's patch into the right directory, overwriting existing files (see Ted's installation instructions)?