New HLA's for Swashbucklers Options

[Sikret]

Swashbucklers will no longer have access to "Use Any Item" HLA. Instead, I decided to add other HLA's for them. So far, four HLA's are added:

They already had access to one warrior HLA; so, I decided to add three more (though the total numbers of these new HLA's they can pick are fewer than the numbers a warrior can pick):

- Hardiness
- Critical Strike
- Resist Magic

I also added one new HLA:

- Acrobatic Combat

Description:

By using this ability, a high level swashbuckler can improve his agility and fighting expertise (in both defense and attack) to an extraordinary level. Acrobatic Combat grants +6 bonus to AC and +3 bonus to THAC0 for 5 rounds.

Suggestions for more new HLA's are welcome.*

Thanks.

* Ideas for new HLA's should be original (not copied or taken from other mods).

This post has been edited by Sikret: Oct 21 2008, 10:06 AM

Reason for edit: Fixing typos

[Raven]

Actually what I remember is that the value displayed on your character's sheet is your base AC against all weapons, which *is* capped at -26 (or -25 for classes who can only put 1* on Single Weapon Style, -24 for singles class mages/sorcerers).

This can be made lower by up to another 20 points (to a final limit of -46) by the weapon type-specific modifiers which are written in the character record. It's not quite possible to get that extra 20 against all weapon types, though (just because of which bonuses various items happen to grant in the game).

So I think if you have a base AC of (say) -21 on your character sheet, and use this Acrobatic Combat HLA, your AC will be displayed as -24 and will actually be -24, not -27.

But my memory of this is somewhat hazy so like Sikret says it'd be good if someone could test it.