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[Shaitan]

So I've made ready my line up for a game with ver. 4,3 installed. Rather I've two lineups:

The first will be with a party consisting of:
Me T->C dual hammer/maces or hammer or flail
Jaheira (romance) dual scimitar/club
Keldorn two handed
Valygar dual katanas?
Nalia->Immy Shortbow
Xan ?

The second will be:
me F/M dual long swords / flail or hammer?
Ariella (custommade T->C) Slings
Jaheira (romance - what a surprise) dual scimitar/club
Valygar dual katanas?
Kivan Longbow
Nalia->Immy Shortbow

Don't know yet wich to choose... thus I would like some opinions.

I'll have the following mods:
Kelsey SoA+ToB
Allison
Kivan
Xan
Auren
Enhanced BG2
Dungeon Crawl
Tower of Deception
BanterPacks
something from EoU
and ofcourse IA

What say you?

[Shaitan]

Just remember to buy you license before throwing those daggers I like the bastard swords which I find severly lacking in the SoA part.

BTW does anybody know if a sword ie +1/+3 against xx actually works as a +1/+3 against xx or just as a +3?

Regards

[Sikret]

BTW does anybody know if a sword ie +1/+3 against xx actually works as a +1/+3 against xx or just as a +3?

In the vanilla game, a +x/+y against z creature type weapon has the +y enchantment (the higher number) against everything. So, for example the war hammer +1/+4 against giantkin can hit Kangaxx though it will have the +1 THAC0 and damage bonus against him.

In IA it's the other way round. All such weapons have the +x enchantment level to determine what it can hit and what it can't. The +y bonus only applies to THAC0 and damage when it hits that specific creature type z.

This post has been edited by Sikret: Oct 5 2007, 11:10 AM

[aVENGER]

In IA it's the other way round. All such weapons have the +x enchantment level to determine what it can hit and what it can't. The +y bonus only applies to THAC0 and damage when it hits that specific creature type z.

I've stuck with this design philosophy for the RR items as well. For example, there's a dagger which counts as +4 to hit and damage vs. Trolls, but its enchantment level remains at +2 nonetheless.

Personally, I think it works better this way because some powerful creatures require highly enchanted weapons to hit (i.e. Adamantine Golems, Kangaxx, the Demon Lord...etc.) and I didn't want to grant that ability to many weapons, especially not the ones which are readily available for purchase at the start of the game. Thus, most powerful weapon which RR introduces is a +4 short sword (the Silent Death) and that is only available in Chapter 6.