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#41
Suggestions & Ideas / Re: OOC Differentiation for in...
Last post by SpacePope - Aug 04, 2024, 10:42 AM
If it was to be done, what color?
#42
Suggestions & Ideas / Re: OOC Differentiation for in...
Last post by probot - Aug 04, 2024, 05:50 AM
Making the usual signifiers of ooc // and (( produce a different colored text makes sense to me. It helps separate it at a glance which is not much, but sometimes I'd really rather not skim through prolonged tangents or back and forths to not miss on actual ic text. +1
#43
Suggestions & Ideas / Re: OOC Differentiation for in...
Last post by platinum01 - Aug 04, 2024, 05:40 AM
You can change the color yourself with the right characters. Some change the hue of their text when performing songs. I prefer the OOC to be unobtrusive so it doesn't disrupt role play for everyone and only indicates for those with whom you role play. That seems considerate; but that's just me.
#44
Off Topic / Re: Absence from game
Last post by cay - Aug 03, 2024, 06:46 PM
Ah feck. Take good care and hopefully see you again soon.
#45
Off Topic / Re: Absence from game
Last post by onivel - Aug 03, 2024, 05:13 PM
That sucks... good luck in getting your items replaced. We hope to see you when you can return.
#46
Suggestions & Ideas / Re: OOC Differentiation for in...
Last post by Terallis - Aug 03, 2024, 04:07 PM
I'd love this, personally. Seen it done on a couple other servers, as well.
#47
Off Topic / Absence from game
Last post by antoinette1 - Aug 03, 2024, 02:53 PM
Hello to those who may know me, I am Antoinette I play 'Maddie' and 'Ayve' you may have noticed I have been absent from game for a time maybe. This is due to while I was on vacation with friends for two weeks. Our dorm room on the University campus was broken into and we had multiple items stolen. Among the items taken were many electronic, and tech type devices, my computer being one of these. As such I have lost my system and means of playing the game I have come to love. I am saddened, and sorry for my absence in game and running story plots by DM's. I hope to save up and purchase another computer soon, until than I have no way to join nwn my apologies for any inconvenience this my cause anyone if it does. 
#48
Suggestions & Ideas / OOC Differentiation for in-gam...
Last post by Myphicbowser - Aug 03, 2024, 12:34 AM
I know that OOC messages shouldn't be common, but I really think that as they are necessary at some points for corrections or explaining sudden departures, it would be really nice if by typing something like // or ( in front of a message would add a tag to the message [OOC] and change its color in the chat, to make it easier to differentiate at a glance, yah know?
#49
Updates and Roadmap / Re: CD Module Changelog v2
Last post by SpacePope - Jul 28, 2024, 03:22 PM
CD Module v4.11f4
Areas
- Fixed a typo in the name of the mountain orcs from the stonelands
- Low-T3 Underdark dungeon added for testing (Edge)
- Player Business: Qu'za Zhaunil updated
- Player housing: Qu'za Desarn updated
- Updated Swamp Hag dungeon (Lady)
- Updated Drow Treehouse dungeon added for testing (AliceOfTheVoid)
- Marsember Morninglord temple no longer sells tridents due to a cease and desist order (Ray)
- Exit from Marsember smugglers dungeon now works properly
- After much murdering, Drow can finally rest in the Veiled Secret (For real this time. Ray)
- Player Home Added (Aramon)(Lanira / Ray)
- Player Home/Business Updated (Lanira / Ray)

Scripts
- Fixed a bug with rotation of permanent accessories after a server reset
- Fixed Draconic Horns vfx rotation and scaling
- Added /togglehood (same result as /togglehelm)
- Fixed a bug that led to massively inflated HP/AC/AB values on a few summons
- Potential bugfix/improvement to Audience of Stone and Mass Penguin script

Classes
Assassin
- At level 5, the assassin has learned how to cast without Arcane Spell Failure in Light Armor as long as they do not use a shield larger than 'small'
- Spells added to the spellbook, see the notes below
- Caster Level now scales past the normal progression as the Assassin gains levels. +1 caster level at level 3. +2 caster level from level 4 to 9. +4 caster level at level 10+. This bonus stacks with the Practised Spellcaster feat, but cannot go past total Hit Dice.

Blackguard
- Smite Good refresh timer reduced to 6 minutes
- Spells added to the spellbook, see the notes below
- Caster Level now scales past the normal progression as the Blackguard gains levels. +1 caster level at level 3. +2 caster level from level 4 to 9. +4 caster level at level 10+. This bonus stacks with the Practised Spellcaster feat, but cannot go past total Hit Dice.

Demonic Servitor
- Fixed the bonuses to summons' stats being dispellable
- Fixed a bug in the HP calculation of the summon bonus (different from the bugged summon HP/AC/AB values listed above)

Paladin
- Smite Evil refresh timer reduced to 6 minutes

Green Knight
- Added a 25 minute refresh timer to Challenge

Shadow Adept
- Fixed a bug where class levels would give an unlisted bonus against Spell Resistance

Tempest
- Tempest Flurry refresh timer reduced from 6 to 5 minutes

Spells
This update introduces a complete rework of the custom spell damage scaling that was gained through levels and the archmage class. As a reminder, the spell damage scaling was used as a way to keep spell damage relevant versus the much inflated HP values of most of enemies in the lategame.
Instead of adding a flat d6 value to most spells, the base damage of each spell will now be multiplied by the following values:
Caster Level:
  • 5 | 1.1
  • 10| 1.2
  • 15| 1.4
  • 20| 1.6
  • 25| 1.8
  • 30| 2.0

To reward further investment in spellcasting, focus feats, a higher casting stat, and archmage levels all add to this multiplier as follows:

Focus Feats for the given spell school:
  • Spell Focus    | +0.2
  • G. Spell Focus | +0.4
  • E. Spell Focus | +0.8

Casting Stat (includes buffs):
  • 32 | +0.2
  • 34 | +0.4
  • 36 | +0.6
  • 38 | +0.8

Archmage:
  • Level 1 | +0.2
  • Level 3 | +0.4
  • Level 5 | +0.6

Note that these multiplier don't apply to damage against Player Characters, so as to not make Mastery of Shaping even more necessary than it is.

Hopefully, this change will help keep damage values closer to the intended scaling between base spell damage, instead of lower damage spells reaping much more benefits out of a flat damage value than higher damage ones, as a percentage of their total damage. This change also aims at providing a way for characters focusing on spellcasting over melee/ranged attacks to scale their damage above and beyond what "gishes" can achieve, and enhance an archetype that we felt was lacking.

We understand that this introduces a deep rebalance of how spellcasting plays on Cormyr and the Dalelands. Please expect future adjustments to these multipliers or to certain spells base damage if we notice issues ingame as we all learn to accomodate this change in "meta".

TLDR: This is a -big- change, expect hiccups. We will adjust things as we see how it plays.

Acid splash
- (Player only) 2d4+1 damage at level 5, 3d4+1 at level 10, 4d4+1 at level 15, 5d4+1 at level 20.

Acid Fog
- Lingering cloud now does 4d6 damage

Beltyn's Burning Blood
- Now benefits from spell damage scaling

Bestow Curse
- Added to Blackguard (2)

Bigby's clenched fist
- Now benefits from spell damage scaling

Bigby's crushing hand
- Now benefits from spell damage scaling

Blade Barrier
- (Player Only) Damage now caps at 15d6.
- Orientation bug fixed. Note that this disables the use of /endmyaoe and timestop pausing the spell.

Breath of Fire
- d10 -> d8 damage

Chromatic Orb
- Now benefits from spell damage scaling
- Effects reworked as follows:
  • Level 1: 1D4 Magical Damage and blindness for 1 round.
  • Level 2: 1D6 Magical Damage and blindness for 2 round.
  • Level 3: 1D8 Magical Damage and blindness for 3 rounds.
  • Level 4: 1D10 Magical Damage and blindness for 1 turn.
  • Level 5: 1D12 Magical Damage and stuns for 3 rounds.
  • Level 6: 2D8 Magical Damage and stuns for 4 rounds.
  • Level 7-11: 2D8 Magical Damage and paralysis for 2 turns.
  • Level 12-17: 2D8 Magical Damage, Petrifies and slows for 3 turns.
  • Level 18+: 2D8 Magical Damage, Save vs Death or Death and petrifies for 4 turns

Circle of Doom
- Cap of Caster Level 20 removed

Cloudkill
- Duration changed to 1 round / caster level
- Damage changed to 1d4 constitution damage on a failed fortitude save vs Poison (Immunity protects against it)

Combust
- Now has a set duration of 1 round per 3 caster level.
- No save.

Displacement
- Added to Assassin (4)

Divine Favor
- Added to Blackguard (1)

Entropic shield
- Added to Blackguard (2)
- Added to Assassin (2)

Electric Jolt
- (Player only) 2d4+1 damage at level 5, 3d4+1 at level 10, 4d4+1 at level 15, 5d4+1 at level 20

Elemental Weapon
- Can now be cast on creature weapons (i.e. summons without a weapon)

Feeblemind
- Now also lowers Charisma
- Duration of the debuff is now permanent
- Can be removed with Restoration, Greater Restoration, or Mist of Eldath
- Fixed a bug with Maximize metamagic

Find traps
- Added to Assassin (1)

Finger of Death
- Now benefits from spell damage scaling

Flare
- (Player only) 2d4+1 damage at level 5, 3d4+1 at level 10, 4d4+1 at level 15, 5d4+1 at level 20

Flame Arrow
- Added to Assassin (2)

Ghostly Visage
- Added to Assassin (1)

Healing Sting
- Now benefits from spell damage scaling

Horizikaul's Boom
- Damage increased by +1 per 3 caster level

Ice Dagger
- Damage increased by +1 per 3 caster level

Incendiary Cloud
- Now a conjuration spell (as in PnP)
- Bonus damage lowered to 1 per 3 caster level

Inferno
- Damage increased by +1 per 2 caster level

Improved Invisibility
- Made the script more robust, shouldn't bug out and leave people invisible anymore.
- Added to Assassin (4)

Isaac Lesser Missile Storm, Greater Missile Storm, Firebrand, and Ball Lightning
- Now benefit from spell damage scaling

Keen Edge
- Can now be cast on creature weapons (i.e. summons without a weapon)

Khelben's Warding Whip
- Now removes two effects per rounds, three if you have Greater Spell Focus: Abjuration

Knock
- Added to Assassin (1)

Gaseous Form
- Added to Assassin (3)

Greater Magic Weapon
- Can now be cast on creature weapons (i.e. summons without a weapon)
- Added to Blackguard (3)

Larloch's Minor Drain
- Damage increased by +1 per 3 caster level

Longstrider
- Added to Blackguard (1)

Magic Missile (and Shadow version)
- Damage increased by +1 per 3 caster level, divided by number of missiles

Melf's Acid Arrow (and Shadow version)
- (Player Only) Lingering damage now 2d6.

Meteor Swarm
- Damage changed to 1d6 per caster level
- The "safe zone" was not a thing, despite the description. No change, but worth mentioning.

Murderous Mist
- Damage increased by +1 per 3 caster level

Negative Energy Ray
- Damage increased by +1 per 3 caster level

Negative Energy Burst
- No change, but it never had a +20 cap on the damage. Description was updated

Phantom Steed
- Added to Blackguard (3)

Phantasmal killer
- Fixed a bug where the spell would be blocked by death immunity
- Now benefits from spell damage scaling

Polar Ray:
- d6 -> d8 damage

Ultravision
- Added to Assassin (1)

Undeath to Death
- Now only targets enemies

Raise Dead
- Added to Blackguard (4) and Paladin (4)

Ray of Frost
- (Player only) 2d4+1 damage at level 5, 3d4+1 at level 10, 4d4+1 at level 15, 5d4+1 at level 20.

Shadow Hand
- Cleaned up errors in the script and added Spell Damage Scaling

Shadow Double
- Removed Tenser's Transformation and See Invisibility from list of copied spells

Slay Living
- Now benefits from spell damage scaling

Spell Resistance
- Added to Blackguard (3)

Spike Growth
- Now benefits from spell damage scaling

Stoneskin
- Added to Blackguard (2)

Storm of Vengeance
- Electrical damage is now 5d6

Sunburst
- Fixed a bug where spell damage scaling wasn't applied correctly

True Seeing
- Added to Assassin (4)

Vitriolic Sphere
- Lingering damage increased to 2d6

Wall of Fire
- Orientation bug fixed. Note that this disables the use of /endmyaoe and timestop pausing the spell.
- Bonus damage lowered to 1 per 3 caster level.

Weird
- Now benefits from spell damage scaling
- Now stuns for 2 round on a failed Will save if the targets succeed their Fortitude save.
- Fixed a bug where the spell would be blocked by death immunity.

Feats
Pernicious Magic
- Fixed missing bonus to CL against Spell Resistance under certain circumstances

Shadow Weave
- Fixed missing bonus to CL against Spell Resistance
- Fixed an instance of malus to DC for Evocation and Transmutation that stacked on top of the malus to caster level

Spell Focus: Abjuration
- Focus feats now provide 20% / 40% / 60% more HP to the shielding from the Energy Resistance line of spell and Protection from Magic Energy.
- Focus feats now provide 25% / 50% / 100% more levels of spells absorbed by the Spell Mantle line of spells. If you have Greater Spell Focus Abjuration, they are auto-extended when cast. This includes Shield of the Archons.
- Greater Spell Focus increases the number of spells removed per round by Khelben's Warding Whip to three.
- The d20 when making a dispel check is now set at a minimum of 5, 10, or 15, according to the level of Abjuration focus.
#50
Updates and Roadmap / Re: CD Hak Changelog
Last post by SpacePope - Jul 28, 2024, 03:14 PM
CD4 Hak Update v4.03b4
.2da and class changes
- Icon updated for Champion's Valor
- (Knight Errant) Final Stand is now instant use.
- (Knight Errant) Inspire Courage is now instant use.
- Draconic Horns vfx entries have been moved to an earlier spot in visualeffects.2da

.tlk
- Profane Beauty description updated
- Ray of Frost description updated (was set to Conjuration, but is Evocation)
- Dominating Voice and Charming Voice description updated
- Pernicious Magic description updated
- Spell Focus, Greater Spell Focus, and Epic Spell Focus Abjuration description updated
- Assassin class description updated
- Blackguard class description updated
- Archmage class description updated
- Tempest Flurry description updated
- Damaging cantrips descriptions updated
- Spell description updated for the following spells:
  •    Acid Fog
  •    Blade Barrier
  •    Breath of Fire
  •    Chromatic Orb
  •    Circle of Doom
  •    Cloudkill
  •    Combust
  •    Horizikaul's boom
  •    Negative Energy Ray
  •    Ice Dagger
  •    Incendiary Cloud
  •    Inferno
  •    Larloch's Minor Drain
  •    Magic Missile
  •    Melf's Acid Arrow
  •    Meteor Swarm
  •    Murderous Mist
  •    Negative Energy Burst
  •    Polar Ray
  •    Vitriolic Sphere
  •    Wall of Fire
  •    Weird
  •    Detect Traps
  •    Knock
  •    Ultravision
  •    Entropic Shield
  •    Gaseous Form
  •    Flame arrow
  •    Displacement
  •    True Seeing
  •    Divine Favor
  •    Longstrider
  •    Bestow curse
  •    Stoneskin
  •    Greater Magic Weapon
  •    Phantom Steed
  •    Spell resistance
  •    Raise Dead
  •    Khelben's Warding Whip

hak
- Updated human male head models (Thanks Nibbles!)