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[aigleborgne]

Overall completion status:
Update: 24/01/2006
Scripts : 80%
NPC : 0%
Joinable NPC : 0%
Monsters : 0%
Items, spells and stores : 0%

Estimated release date: April-May

Monsters (Status, New features)

Overall, a monster is based on 2nd Ed., but is completed with 3rd Ed. for missing stats. Special abilities specific to 3rd Ed. are not implemented but new immunities are. For example, all elementals are now immune to certain spells.

Most important changes are:

- Strength : previously, most monsters had often incorrect/inconsistent Strenght (polar bear with 16 Str). This has been corrected.

- Constitution : monsters didn't benefit from Con bonus in 2nd Ed.
That's why there are some tough monsters with low HP (battle horror with 58 hp for example). I have added HP bonus considering monsters as fighters.

- Dexterity : only minor changes in AC for most monsters

- Special Attacks : some were missing or wrong (ankheg for example had only one range attack every 8 hours). I have added and corrected special attacks according to the 2nd Edition Monster Manual.

- Spell abilities closer to P&P

- Attacks per round : often too high, sometimes too low.

- Movement speed : as close as in P&P (most monsters were too slow in BG)

Monster's abilities:

- Aerial servant : strangle
- Air aspect : fall unsconscious, poison
- Ashikuru : backstab
- Ankheg : entangle (because ankheg try to burrow with his target)
- Basilisk : petrification
- Greater Basilisk : done (fatal poison gaze, and many tweaks that make this monster worth its 7000xp)

- Bears : done (hug attack, can fight beyond death (simulating with higher hp & script))

- Battle Horror : done

- Doomsayer : done

- Carrion Crawler : done

- Crypt Crawler : done

- Demon Knight : done

- Cornugon : done

- Tanari : done (new death gaze, paralyze, energy drain, many tweaks)

- Doppelganger : done

- Dryad : done

- Ettercap : done

- Hamadryad : done

- Fire elemental : done

- Flesh golem : done

- Flind : done

- Ghoul : done

- Ghast : done (carrion stench)

- Ghoul lord : done (carrion stench, rotting disease)

- Ghost : done

- Invisible stalker : done (vortex)

- Loup garou : done

- Revenant : done

- Sirine : done (polymorph self, mass charm, major invisibility)

- Skeleton warrior : done (fear aura)

- Spiders (all type) : done

- Werewolf : done

- Wolfwere : done

- Wolf : done

- Wolf, dire : done

- Wolf, dread : done (disease)

- Wolf, vampiric : done (fall)

- Wolf, winter : done (10 feet frost)

- Worg : done

- Wyvern : done

- Greater wolfwere : done

Most other monsters are nearly done, I will edit this post as often as possible.

This post has been edited by aigleborgne: Jan 25 2006, 01:07 PM

[Salk]

Small Update:

I and aigleborgne are hopefully going to have a chance to speak some on MSN tomorrow evening. He is more or less half way into his review of monsters and he's been correcting, fixing and modifying them since it started. A very time consuming task as well one I can not be of any help with but some small advices here and there.

Unfortunately there are some special abilities that we would have liked to add to some creatures but that because of either lack of time or, more often, technical obstacles (engine limitations or lack of know-how), will not see the light of the day.

In the first case though, it is possible that future versions might hold some surprises.

Keep tuned!