I am working on a corrected version of protos.tab to assign the proper challege ratings to all monsters. I got so irritated when I saw that the Balor Guardian who calls himself "The Lord of Darkness" had a CR of 8, as did all of the other demons (except the summoned Hezrou, which were CR 28!) that I quit my almost-completed game with the intention to fix the CRs and start over from the beginning. I am not looking at whether every single monster has been altered by Atari to be more or less formidable, because this would be far too tedious. But if anyone knows of monsters which have been significantly altered so that the official 3.5 ed. challenge rating is no longer appropriate, please post them here so that I can fix them.
Feanor - I don't mean to discourage the initiative you're taking in this matter, but Kalshane has already undertaken a massive project to correct creature CRs, among a variety of other inaccuracies in the protos. See the Salamaders and Giants and Gnolls (Oh My!) thread. In the first post he states: If you're not particularly active on the boards or whatever may be the case, I apologize for getting after you here. But people in general, here's a newsflash: Other modders are doing other things. Your particular project isn't the only game in town. This is a fairly small community, so I don't think its too much to ask for active members to have a reasonable working knowledge of what's going on around here; and indeed, Kalshane's protos overhaul is a fairly 'major' endeavor. The problem is, the message that gets sent to any particular modder when they see that their efforts haven't shown up on everyone's radar is "I guess this isn't really that big a deal." And the next logical step for that modder to take is to ask "Why should I bother doing this then?" It's akin to asking, "Hey, can someone come up with a Disintegrate spell?" or "How about adding a trader in Nulb?" or "A custom portrait/voice pack would sure be a good idea." Feanor, maybe you and Kal could work together to improve things in the protos, although I believe Kalshane's basically done with his changes. Nonetheless, two heads are better than one, so you could at least consult with one another on the matter. If you can tweak it in any way, that'd be great. Again, sorry for being a dickhead. :blush:
I looked for someone doing this, but the name of the thread isn't exactly specific about what he's doing. And no, I haven't read every single post on these boards. I had seen other people complaining about this (specifically about the Galeb Duhr) and thought I'd share my work as long as I was going to all the trouble. A simple "Someone else is already doing this" would have done.
Hey Gaear, can we have an Improved Disintegrate spell? @Gaear: Lay off the coffee...ur drinking way too much caffeine, C8+H10+N4+O2 = a bitter white alkaloid we all love to have in our favorite drinks.
All the adjustments are done, but CB has to finish scripting them, which is a far larger project. Unfortunately, I look at code and my brain turns to goo, so I'm no help there.
Perhaps...but he was trying not to discourage you. There are lots of projects here in need of doing; and lots of ongoing projects in need of assistance. He was self-effacing and apologetic enough in his post to convey this without embarrassing anyone, so cut him a little slack back, please! We do look for skilled help; it just become discouraging for us to endlessly repeat ourselves to the uninitiated. And Kap'n K...you should know this.
