Northlander's War Axe Options

[EiriktheSkald]

We were discussing a technique with a light axe... hooking the axe over the opponent's shield and pulling it out of position, a nicely effective trick. Effect #264 - Drop Weapons in Panic (Example: gauntlets of fumbling) causes the target to drop all weapons it is holding. If it's a weapon-wielding humanoid, it's largely disabled by this. I would like to cause the target to either drop its shield or suffer a penalty in armor class on a successful hit (5-10% chance). Can this be done? What would be required to cause the target to drop its shield?

Edit:] This script might work:

IF
HasItem("SHLD01",NearestEnemyOf())
THEN
RESPONSE #100
DropItem("SHLD01",NearestEnemyOf())
END

But I'm not sure how to implement it into the item.

This post has been edited by EiriktheSkald: Jan 22 2007, 03:41 PM

[Rabain]

I don't think you can use the IDS target in this sense. The General.ids relates to a setting in the cre file. This isn't changed by wearing a shield.

I've looked at some creatures using NI that carry shields and their General setting is Humanoid. In fact I couldn't find a cre that used anything other than Humanoid, Monster, Giant-humanoid or Undead from general.ids. This means that even if your item was working it would never get a chance to as there are no creatures in the game generally classed as shield.

This is the description for the thaco modifier opcode in DLTCEP: Applies the modifier value specified by the 'Statistic Modifier' field in the style specified by the 'Type' field.

Known values for 'Type' are:
0 Cumulative Modifier -> THAC0 = THAC0 + 'Statistic Modifier' value
1 Flat Value Modifier -> THAC0 = 'Statistic Modifier' value
2 Percentage Modifier -> THAC0 = (THAC0 * 'Statistic Modifier' value) / 100

You don't need to use the Power field.

I don't think you'll be able to do what you want to do without a script.