Progress report (2011+) Options

[aigleborgne]

After all this years, it's good to start a new thread

Side work:
- Monsters : preparation task (sort, group, and find stats) : 100%
- AI script (complete rework in progress) : 50%

Main component:
- BG1 Monsters : 10%
- BG2 Monsters : 0%
- BG1 Adventurers: 0%
- BG2 Adventurers: 0%

At this moment, it seems that I undo some of my previous work (compared to old progress report).
This is true, but it isn't the same quality, it is a lot higher now.

With my new own tools and material, I'll be able to work 5 times faster on main components later on and still get an overall better result.

This post has been edited by aigleborgne: Jun 22 2011, 06:41 AM

[aigleborgne]

Hello,

Already late, but I have 3 weeks at home right now
I'm finished scripts, and I will prepare several components for each monster or group of monsters.
This way, I can test each component one by one and it is also better for distribution.

So, my current purpose is to package and test finished monsters (shown in pinned down topic)
Testing might be tedious and I will not test each creature ! I will only test monster scripts to control their own abilities.
It might not be the perfect P&P monster mod that I dreamed of. It just takes considerable amount of time to make a full test on each creature.
But it will certainly be a lot better than current ones

After browsing many creatures, I can tell you : Bioware did a lot of copy & paste when creating these creatures and I can't blame them, I do the same in my work.
But then, there are many mistakes. For example, everybody know that fire elementals are one the best druid summons. Earth elemental, through in spell level 7, are inferior.
This is just because most elementals (fire, earth, ...) have 19 strength. Now, I'm aware it is based on 2nd edition and strength is not always known. But an earth elemental is bound to earth and should be stronger.
In 3rd edition, it is obvious. Fire elementals never go beyond 18 strength while lesser earth elementals have 19. 24HD earth elemental have 25 strength.

Another copy & paste issue is consistency between levels, hit dice, thac0, saving throws. It is very common to see a level 3 creature with 90 hp.
Consequences might be irelevant or not, depending on each case, but I have corrected all of them.
Most of them will have better characteristics after correction, some will have lower, especially thac0 (9HD monsters with thac0 of 5 is impossible)