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

[Kerkes]

As for AC...
I tried this in vanilla game, and in vanilla Raven's first post is true. I don't know about Anvil6, but in vanilla the lowest AC is -26. I tried this with a swashbuckler, then cast prot evil, def harmony and used Greater Evasion HLA, (his base AC was already -26, therefore, all this added should have made it -36) and had Korgan (who is evil) attack him.
Mechanics were like this - Korgan, prior to buffs, hits on a roll of 17 and higher. After the buffs, he hits on the exactly same roll, as if Greater Evasion, Prot evil etc.didn't even exist. Only the "specific" weapon types AC applies after -26 AC.

[Raven]

As for AC...
I tried this in vanilla game, and in vanilla Raven's first post is true. I don't know about Anvil6, but in vanilla the lowest AC is -26. I tried this with a swashbuckler, then cast prot evil, def harmony and used Greater Evasion HLA, (his base AC was already -26, therefore, all this added should have made it -36) and had Korgan (who is evil) attack him.
Mechanics were like this - Korgan, prior to buffs, hits on a roll of 17 and higher. After the buffs, he hits on the exactly same roll, as if Greater Evasion, Prot evil etc.didn't even exist. Only the "specific" weapon types AC applies after -26 AC.

Hmm that is interesting because I would have expected at least the Prot from Evil to be effective irrespective of how good the character's AC is (since it applies a penalty to the attacker's hit roll, nothing to do with AC). Greater Evasion and Defensive Harmony both give regular AC bonuses so they have no effect if you have are at your AC 'limit' (i.e. -24 without single-weapon style, -25 with one point in single-weapon, -26 with two).

Are you absolutely sure that the Protection from Evil made no difference? Was the 'plus' number for Korgan's attack roll the same with and without the PfEvil? By 'plus' number I mean the number the dialogue box shows is added to the actual d20 roll.