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#51
Updates and Roadmap / Re: CD Module Changelog v2
Last post by SpacePope - Jul 28, 2024, 03:22 PMCD 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:
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:
Casting Stat (includes buffs):
Archmage:
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:
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.
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.
#52
Updates and Roadmap / Re: CD Hak Changelog
Last post by SpacePope - Jul 28, 2024, 03:14 PMCD4 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:
hak
- Updated human male head models (Thanks Nibbles!)
.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!)
#53
Setting Information and Lore / Re: Comyrean Nobility
Last post by Fire Wraith - Jul 22, 2024, 01:45 AM##### Further Accolades in Cormyr
Once a character is a noble, whether by birth or being granted a title, Cormyrian nobles in particular have additional options to earn further status through demonstrated loyalty, responsibility, and service. This comes in two forms, being granted a hereditary title, and ranks of distinction. These are only attained through continued displays of both IC and OOC responsibility on a character/player's part.
Hereditary titles are just that. It allows the character to ICly pass their title to their children, and essentially creates them as founder/head of a (minor) Cormyrian noble house. For those born to existing noble families, they becomes the head of their own Cadet branch of the family, while knights and baronets become a new house entirely. This house has no assets and no special power/influence, but it does come with the IC right to have a country manor (subject to normal housing rules) within Cormyr. Players are NOT required to retire on attaining this, although becoming the head of an existing (canon) noble House still requires it (due to the influence/resources). Note that this is only open to Human characters, as above, because the nobility of Cormyr will not ICly accept non-humans being raised up as hereditary peers.
Ranks of distinction are the typical Noble titles. In Cormyr, these have no actual meaning other than fluff, and possibly seating order at a formal noble dinner. Even if associated with a place, they do not grant any control or lands, and are simply vestigial/honorary. They are also not used as a title of address (it's always "my Lord/Lady" regardless of such, e.g., "Lord Blunderblatt, Baron of Hogswallow" gets called Lord Blunderblatt/my Lord, etc). Note that these MAY be granted to non-hereditary titles (e.g., Storm Silverhand is also the Marchioness Immerdusk).
Duke/Duchess (presently not available to players)
Marchion/Marchioness
Earl/Countess
Viscount/Viscountess
Baron/Baroness
Baronet/Baronetess (granted to those given a minor non-hereditary title by default)
Lastly, spouses of such hold an equivalent courtesy title, while Children/blood relatives of a title holder are treated socially as if they held a courtesy title one rank below for every degree of removal. That is, the child of a Duke or Marchion is treated socially as if equivalent to an Earl/Countess, a grandchild would be as a Viscount/Viscountess, while an Earl's grandnephew would be treated socially as a Baronet. This is NOT a title of address, they don't get called that, etc.
Once a character is a noble, whether by birth or being granted a title, Cormyrian nobles in particular have additional options to earn further status through demonstrated loyalty, responsibility, and service. This comes in two forms, being granted a hereditary title, and ranks of distinction. These are only attained through continued displays of both IC and OOC responsibility on a character/player's part.
Hereditary titles are just that. It allows the character to ICly pass their title to their children, and essentially creates them as founder/head of a (minor) Cormyrian noble house. For those born to existing noble families, they becomes the head of their own Cadet branch of the family, while knights and baronets become a new house entirely. This house has no assets and no special power/influence, but it does come with the IC right to have a country manor (subject to normal housing rules) within Cormyr. Players are NOT required to retire on attaining this, although becoming the head of an existing (canon) noble House still requires it (due to the influence/resources). Note that this is only open to Human characters, as above, because the nobility of Cormyr will not ICly accept non-humans being raised up as hereditary peers.
Ranks of distinction are the typical Noble titles. In Cormyr, these have no actual meaning other than fluff, and possibly seating order at a formal noble dinner. Even if associated with a place, they do not grant any control or lands, and are simply vestigial/honorary. They are also not used as a title of address (it's always "my Lord/Lady" regardless of such, e.g., "Lord Blunderblatt, Baron of Hogswallow" gets called Lord Blunderblatt/my Lord, etc). Note that these MAY be granted to non-hereditary titles (e.g., Storm Silverhand is also the Marchioness Immerdusk).
Duke/Duchess (presently not available to players)
Marchion/Marchioness
Earl/Countess
Viscount/Viscountess
Baron/Baroness
Baronet/Baronetess (granted to those given a minor non-hereditary title by default)
Lastly, spouses of such hold an equivalent courtesy title, while Children/blood relatives of a title holder are treated socially as if they held a courtesy title one rank below for every degree of removal. That is, the child of a Duke or Marchion is treated socially as if equivalent to an Earl/Countess, a grandchild would be as a Viscount/Viscountess, while an Earl's grandnephew would be treated socially as a Baronet. This is NOT a title of address, they don't get called that, etc.
#54
Player Announcements / Re: Quick Absence
Last post by ADM Walking Carpet - Jul 21, 2024, 10:47 AMBe fun have safe
#55
Updates and Roadmap / Re: CD Module Changelog v2
Last post by SpacePope - Jul 19, 2024, 12:58 PMCD Module v4.11f3
Areas/Monsters/Items
- Two T6 belts with wrongly set ablity bonuses have been fixed (this is a buff!)
- Increased spell level of Longstrider on the Elixyr of Travelling sold near Yulash
- Fixed the Gallery dungeon level lock script
- NEW: There are rumblings and whispers of illegal smuggling activity in the Southern Canals of Marsember. Can you find where the notorious smugglers are conducting their illegal operations? (New T4 dungeon is now live. Thank you, Ladybug!)(Ray)
- Updates to Pirate and Hag dungeons (Ladybug)
- Drow and other ne'er-do-wells can now rest in The Veiled Secrets before getting stabbed by other Drow and ne'er-do-wells. (Ray)
- Player house added: Aramon (Ray)
Scripts
- Heroic alliance: Fixed a visual bug
- Tenser's Transformation: Fixed a bug where damage was wrongly set to Divine
- Tenser's Transformation: Fixed a bug with item use
- Mordenkainen's Sword: summon can now die. Stats have been rebalanced.
- Divine Power: Fixed a bug with item use
- Implosion: Damage type changed to Force.
- (Green Knight) Fixed Take Their Heads and Cut the Corruption not working
- Fixed Demonic Servitors receiving monk's level 17 feat, no relevel needed
- Updated the animation list in the Help menu
- Melf's Acid Arrow: Fixed the lingering damage not applying the scaling damage
- Melf's Acid Arrow (Greater Shadow Conjuration): Fixed the lingering damage not applying
- Metric height is now reported by the OOC mindflayer and the alter-self dialogue when adjusting character scaling
- A big chunk of the the accessory VFX system has been rewritten. Rotation should now work, and ~50 obsolete scripts have been removed.
- Monks and ECLs eye glow added to the Accessory VFX system. These can now be scaled/moved/rotated.
- Fixed several issues with traps not respawning properly (Ray)
AI Changes
- Tweaks have been made to how the AI decides who to attack
- Turn Undead has been removed from the AI functions
- Summons should now be able to (mostly) hold aggro. Monsters will still swap target at times or have preferences
- AI now has a cooldown on Curse Song use
Areas/Monsters/Items
- Two T6 belts with wrongly set ablity bonuses have been fixed (this is a buff!)
- Increased spell level of Longstrider on the Elixyr of Travelling sold near Yulash
- Fixed the Gallery dungeon level lock script
- NEW: There are rumblings and whispers of illegal smuggling activity in the Southern Canals of Marsember. Can you find where the notorious smugglers are conducting their illegal operations? (New T4 dungeon is now live. Thank you, Ladybug!)(Ray)
- Updates to Pirate and Hag dungeons (Ladybug)
- Drow and other ne'er-do-wells can now rest in The Veiled Secrets before getting stabbed by other Drow and ne'er-do-wells. (Ray)
- Player house added: Aramon (Ray)
Scripts
- Heroic alliance: Fixed a visual bug
- Tenser's Transformation: Fixed a bug where damage was wrongly set to Divine
- Tenser's Transformation: Fixed a bug with item use
- Mordenkainen's Sword: summon can now die. Stats have been rebalanced.
- Divine Power: Fixed a bug with item use
- Implosion: Damage type changed to Force.
- (Green Knight) Fixed Take Their Heads and Cut the Corruption not working
- Fixed Demonic Servitors receiving monk's level 17 feat, no relevel needed
- Updated the animation list in the Help menu
- Melf's Acid Arrow: Fixed the lingering damage not applying the scaling damage
- Melf's Acid Arrow (Greater Shadow Conjuration): Fixed the lingering damage not applying
- Metric height is now reported by the OOC mindflayer and the alter-self dialogue when adjusting character scaling
- A big chunk of the the accessory VFX system has been rewritten. Rotation should now work, and ~50 obsolete scripts have been removed.
- Monks and ECLs eye glow added to the Accessory VFX system. These can now be scaled/moved/rotated.
- Fixed several issues with traps not respawning properly (Ray)
AI Changes
- Tweaks have been made to how the AI decides who to attack
- Turn Undead has been removed from the AI functions
- Summons should now be able to (mostly) hold aggro. Monsters will still swap target at times or have preferences
- AI now has a cooldown on Curse Song use
#56
Updates and Roadmap / Re: CD Hak Changelog
Last post by SpacePope - Jul 19, 2024, 12:58 PMCD4 Hak Update v4.03b3
.2da and class changes
- Champion's Valor icon changed
- Blackguard's Magic Weapon fixed to the correct spell
- Improved Invisibility added to assassin spellbook
- Fixed wrong feat number for Telepathic Gaze
- Fixed Diabolic Disciple abilities not being treated as hostile
.tlk
- Mercurial Longsword description updated
- Elven Chainmail description updated
- Improved Invisibility description updated
- Divine Wrath description updated
.hak
- Tweaked the animation of one of the tiefling tails
- Compiled VFX models that were uncompiled, this should help with FPS drops when a model has to be loaded in
.2da and class changes
- Champion's Valor icon changed
- Blackguard's Magic Weapon fixed to the correct spell
- Improved Invisibility added to assassin spellbook
- Fixed wrong feat number for Telepathic Gaze
- Fixed Diabolic Disciple abilities not being treated as hostile
.tlk
- Mercurial Longsword description updated
- Elven Chainmail description updated
- Improved Invisibility description updated
- Divine Wrath description updated
.hak
- Tweaked the animation of one of the tiefling tails
- Compiled VFX models that were uncompiled, this should help with FPS drops when a model has to be loaded in
#57
Player Announcements / Re: Quick Absence
Last post by lackofimagination - Jul 15, 2024, 09:37 PMHave good vacations, you two!
#58
Player Announcements / Quick Absence
Last post by platinum01 - Jul 15, 2024, 08:28 PMHello CD,
Turtle and I are taking a mini vacation for family stuff. We'll be back the 20th.
Cheers,
Plat
Turtle and I are taking a mini vacation for family stuff. We'll be back the 20th.
Cheers,
Plat
#59
Player Announcements / Back in the saddle
Last post by The Graveman - Jul 15, 2024, 12:41 PMJust posting here to say hello and to make sure this new forum account of mine was going to work. I'm mostly more active on the Discord nowadays.
Most of the old players would know me as Morticia Locard or my old main, Kevran the Tempus cleric.
Most of the old players would know me as Morticia Locard or my old main, Kevran the Tempus cleric.
#60
Updates and Roadmap / Re: CD Module Changelog v2
Last post by SpacePope - Jul 15, 2024, 08:36 AMCD Module v4.11f2
Areas/Monsters/Items
- NEW: The Brass Lamp (player business) has opened up in Sschindylryn - Central Markets. Check it out! (Eidolon, Rykka)
- UPDATE: The ATAE story arc continues to affect the world, and more areas have been updated to reflect that. Be on the look out... (Ray)
- Hag lair dungeon has been updated (Lady)
- Pirate dungeon has been updated (Lady)
- Boss of the Gallery dungeon has been updated (Lady)
- Asylum dungeon has been updated (Misty)
- Removal of the Adamantine Breastplate (T4) drop
- Mercurial Longsword now has a base damage dice of d8
- Added a check to the Subrace checker NPC (FireWraith)
- Fixed guards and purple dragon NPCs armors showing a belt (Vince)
- Bindpoint added to: Eilistrean Enclave, Harper base, The Veiled Secrets
- Lock removed from the Storm Horns' Duergar dungeon entrance
- The sword Moonblade of Eilistraee has been renamed to Lunar Blade of Eilistraee to prevent confusion
Scripts
- (Blackguard) Edits made to certain scripts to enable Blackguard spellbook and remove the SLAs from active characters
- (Assassin) Edits made to certain scripts to enable Assassin spellbook and remove the SLAs from active characters
- (Fighter) Now gains a bonus dodge AC. 1 at level 6, 2 at level 8, 3 at level 10, 4 at level 12. No relevel needed
- (Monk) Added a fix so that monk AC bonus gets automatically added at level 1 without the need for a rebuild
- (Green Knight) Cut the corruption: useable on gauntlets and now uses the same targeting as Keen Edge
- (Green Knight) Take Their Heads: useable on gauntlets and now uses the same targeting as Keen Edge
- (Demonic Servitor) DC to Enchantment and Conjuration now scales by +1 at level 12, 15 and 18
- (Demonic Servitor) AC changed to Shield and script changed so they keep the AC if using an offhand, as long as it isn't a shield
- DMs adding an epic spell to player characters will now add the feat at level 1 to prevent relevels from wiping the spells
- Added Hold Undead immunity to Bosses
- Fixes to deity/alignment checks for certain fringe combinations (Ray)
- /reportxp now shows how much XP you have earned in the current level. Good for knowing if you have enough for epic spells (Ray)
Epic Feats, Spells, and Epic Spells
Devastating Critical
As was said when the feat was first changed, the damage was always an initial test and subject to further tweaking. After careful consideration and some math behind the scene, the damage bonus provided by the feat has been adjusted and will now vary depending on the weapon being two-handed or not as well as its base critical threat range. This is to bring the overall damage curve of these weapons into a closer average proximity with one another, rather than having any one be a clear outlier or 'better' than the others by a significant margin. Damage is as follows:
One-handed weapon:
18-20: 15
19-20: 25
20: 35
Two-handed weapon:
18-20: 25
19-20: 40
20: 50
Epic Mage Armor
The spell has been changed to take into account base casting ability modifier on top of the type of armor, to reward investment in a character's casting ability modifier, with a cap on the AC amount. This will slightly reduce the AC gain for hybrid fighting-casting or 'gish' characters, bringing the average AC closer in line to other martial classes, while keeping the same AC gain for pure casters and DC casters, smoothing the curve across those build types. The numbers are as follow:
Base Armor AC Epic Mage Armor AC Bonus
0 +9 + Base Casting Stat Modifier (max of 7)
1 +8 + Base Casting Stat Modifier (max of 7)
2 +7 + Base Casting Stat Modifier (max of 7)
3 +6 + Base Casting Stat Modifier (max of 7)
4 +5 + Base Casting Stat Modifier (max of 7)
5 +4 + Base Casting Stat Modifier (max of 7)
6 +4 + Base Casting Stat Modifier (max of 7)
7 +4 + Base Casting Stat Modifier (max of 7)
8 +4 + Base Casting Stat Modifier (max of 7)
11 +4 + Base Casting Stat Modifier (max of 7)
NOTE: Mystic theurge level 10+ always gets the max AC for their armor type, as they're already forced into splitting stats.
Heroic Alliance
Attack bonus has been reduced to +3. Damage bonus has been changed to physical and reduced to +3.
Heroic Empowerment
Because most of this spell wound up not stacking with Heroic Alliance, the bonuses and benefits from this spell have been rolled into the Tenser's Transformation and Divine Power spells, respectively, to keep the average benefit the same and remove a 'necessary' epic spell choice/spent slot. The spell has been removed. The benefits were not translated 1:1 with the old spell, but the overall increase of both spells has been improved.
Characters who had the spell researched are eligible for a one time free replacement with an epic spell of their choice, or a gold and combat xp reimbursement. The feat will be automatically removed from characters at a later date.
Divine Power
Now provides a divine damage bonus equal to your base number of attacks per round once level 21+. Added to Druid spellbook as a 5th level spell. Epic casters of the appropriate class will benefit from that damage bonus even if they use the spell through an item.
Tenser's Transformation
Now provides a magic damage bonus equal to your base number of attacks per round once level 21+. Also provides a Dodge AC bonus equals to half your base number of attacks per round once level 21+, rounded down. Epic casters of the appropriate class will benefit from that damage and AC bonus even if they use the spell through an item.
Storm of Vengeance
Spell Damage scaling fixed so it doesn't benefit from double the scaling received by other spells
Blizzard
Spell Damage scaling fixed so it doesn't benefit from double the scaling received by other spells
Creeping Doom
Damage cap increased to 2000.
Flare
Light descriptor removed.
Improved Invisibility
Concealment bonus reduced to 10%. Now reapplies invisibility every 3 rounds until the spell expires or is dispelled.
Implosion
Now removes any temporary HP from a creature and deals 95% of its max HP in untyped damage on a failed save.
Death effect removed.
Spell damage scaling has been added/fixed for certain spells:
- Magic Missile
- Shadow Conjuration - Magic Missile
- Force Missile
- Isaac's Lesser Missile Storm
- Firebrand
- Ball Lightning
- Flame Arrow
- Combust's initial hit
- Melf's Acid Arrow's lingering damage
Damage added to missile spells is divided by the number of missiles.
Areas/Monsters/Items
- NEW: The Brass Lamp (player business) has opened up in Sschindylryn - Central Markets. Check it out! (Eidolon, Rykka)
- UPDATE: The ATAE story arc continues to affect the world, and more areas have been updated to reflect that. Be on the look out... (Ray)
- Hag lair dungeon has been updated (Lady)
- Pirate dungeon has been updated (Lady)
- Boss of the Gallery dungeon has been updated (Lady)
- Asylum dungeon has been updated (Misty)
- Removal of the Adamantine Breastplate (T4) drop
- Mercurial Longsword now has a base damage dice of d8
- Added a check to the Subrace checker NPC (FireWraith)
- Fixed guards and purple dragon NPCs armors showing a belt (Vince)
- Bindpoint added to: Eilistrean Enclave, Harper base, The Veiled Secrets
- Lock removed from the Storm Horns' Duergar dungeon entrance
- The sword Moonblade of Eilistraee has been renamed to Lunar Blade of Eilistraee to prevent confusion
Scripts
- (Blackguard) Edits made to certain scripts to enable Blackguard spellbook and remove the SLAs from active characters
- (Assassin) Edits made to certain scripts to enable Assassin spellbook and remove the SLAs from active characters
- (Fighter) Now gains a bonus dodge AC. 1 at level 6, 2 at level 8, 3 at level 10, 4 at level 12. No relevel needed
- (Monk) Added a fix so that monk AC bonus gets automatically added at level 1 without the need for a rebuild
- (Green Knight) Cut the corruption: useable on gauntlets and now uses the same targeting as Keen Edge
- (Green Knight) Take Their Heads: useable on gauntlets and now uses the same targeting as Keen Edge
- (Demonic Servitor) DC to Enchantment and Conjuration now scales by +1 at level 12, 15 and 18
- (Demonic Servitor) AC changed to Shield and script changed so they keep the AC if using an offhand, as long as it isn't a shield
- DMs adding an epic spell to player characters will now add the feat at level 1 to prevent relevels from wiping the spells
- Added Hold Undead immunity to Bosses
- Fixes to deity/alignment checks for certain fringe combinations (Ray)
- /reportxp now shows how much XP you have earned in the current level. Good for knowing if you have enough for epic spells (Ray)
Epic Feats, Spells, and Epic Spells
Devastating Critical
As was said when the feat was first changed, the damage was always an initial test and subject to further tweaking. After careful consideration and some math behind the scene, the damage bonus provided by the feat has been adjusted and will now vary depending on the weapon being two-handed or not as well as its base critical threat range. This is to bring the overall damage curve of these weapons into a closer average proximity with one another, rather than having any one be a clear outlier or 'better' than the others by a significant margin. Damage is as follows:
One-handed weapon:
18-20: 15
19-20: 25
20: 35
Two-handed weapon:
18-20: 25
19-20: 40
20: 50
Epic Mage Armor
The spell has been changed to take into account base casting ability modifier on top of the type of armor, to reward investment in a character's casting ability modifier, with a cap on the AC amount. This will slightly reduce the AC gain for hybrid fighting-casting or 'gish' characters, bringing the average AC closer in line to other martial classes, while keeping the same AC gain for pure casters and DC casters, smoothing the curve across those build types. The numbers are as follow:
Base Armor AC Epic Mage Armor AC Bonus
0 +9 + Base Casting Stat Modifier (max of 7)
1 +8 + Base Casting Stat Modifier (max of 7)
2 +7 + Base Casting Stat Modifier (max of 7)
3 +6 + Base Casting Stat Modifier (max of 7)
4 +5 + Base Casting Stat Modifier (max of 7)
5 +4 + Base Casting Stat Modifier (max of 7)
6 +4 + Base Casting Stat Modifier (max of 7)
7 +4 + Base Casting Stat Modifier (max of 7)
8 +4 + Base Casting Stat Modifier (max of 7)
11 +4 + Base Casting Stat Modifier (max of 7)
NOTE: Mystic theurge level 10+ always gets the max AC for their armor type, as they're already forced into splitting stats.
Heroic Alliance
Attack bonus has been reduced to +3. Damage bonus has been changed to physical and reduced to +3.
Heroic Empowerment
Because most of this spell wound up not stacking with Heroic Alliance, the bonuses and benefits from this spell have been rolled into the Tenser's Transformation and Divine Power spells, respectively, to keep the average benefit the same and remove a 'necessary' epic spell choice/spent slot. The spell has been removed. The benefits were not translated 1:1 with the old spell, but the overall increase of both spells has been improved.
Characters who had the spell researched are eligible for a one time free replacement with an epic spell of their choice, or a gold and combat xp reimbursement. The feat will be automatically removed from characters at a later date.
Divine Power
Now provides a divine damage bonus equal to your base number of attacks per round once level 21+. Added to Druid spellbook as a 5th level spell. Epic casters of the appropriate class will benefit from that damage bonus even if they use the spell through an item.
Tenser's Transformation
Now provides a magic damage bonus equal to your base number of attacks per round once level 21+. Also provides a Dodge AC bonus equals to half your base number of attacks per round once level 21+, rounded down. Epic casters of the appropriate class will benefit from that damage and AC bonus even if they use the spell through an item.
Storm of Vengeance
Spell Damage scaling fixed so it doesn't benefit from double the scaling received by other spells
Blizzard
Spell Damage scaling fixed so it doesn't benefit from double the scaling received by other spells
Creeping Doom
Damage cap increased to 2000.
Flare
Light descriptor removed.
Improved Invisibility
Concealment bonus reduced to 10%. Now reapplies invisibility every 3 rounds until the spell expires or is dispelled.
Implosion
Now removes any temporary HP from a creature and deals 95% of its max HP in untyped damage on a failed save.
Death effect removed.
Spell damage scaling has been added/fixed for certain spells:
- Magic Missile
- Shadow Conjuration - Magic Missile
- Force Missile
- Isaac's Lesser Missile Storm
- Firebrand
- Ball Lightning
- Flame Arrow
- Combust's initial hit
- Melf's Acid Arrow's lingering damage
Damage added to missile spells is divided by the number of missiles.