New Feats for the ToEE Engine

Well thanks for your efforts anyways Ted! You have always contributed so much to the game...

I'll just file true ambi-two weapon fighting in my wishlist then

However, I do have a question. Remember those monk weapons from Keep and the Drow armor masterworks? Have they been updated in the cumulative thread? I check it all the time but I keep seeing "Last updated by Gaer : May".

Are the updates somewhere else, or has it not been gotten to yet? The only reason I even ask instead of waiting to see a post, is that I've followed your threads for a bit and it seems like you're getting a lot done.

Just wondering.

 

That's amazing!

I know it doesn't really apply to many (if any) situations in the game, but that is quite the *feat*.

 

I can see sending a scout ahead (rogue or ranger with good stealth skills) to reveal the enemy, then the archer picking them off from afar.

 

What about feats that would benefit monsters, like awesome blow or bullrush?I realize that bullrush has no animation,and therefore not possible.The tactical possibilities are endless if it could be used.Imagine how much nastier the greater temple bugbears would be if they had improved bullrush to move the fighters and clerics out of the doorways to get at the juicy wizards and rouges behind them.

 

Here is my 2cp worth.
After a long discussion on another thread where I learned that the Archery tree feats, Rapid Shot and Manyshot, cannot be combined in the same combat action, I have decided to modify (in my PnP campaign) the Ranger 11th class ability to Shot on the Run. Since Manyshot is a skirmishing type feat and SotR improves mobility, I felt it was a suitable trade (Archers could then use regular feat slots to improve handling cover, most Archer-Rangers already have the prereqs at that point anyway).

I know I am big on RAW and you are trying to implement a feat (with difficulty), but I wanted to share with you an alternative.

 

@ Ted

It sounds like you've already done the hard (fun) work -- setting up the infrastructure (seriously, one of my "favourite" parts of programming). Your justification for +2 as a "first approximation" seems reasonable, so I say ship it. Since you've already set up the scripts, anybody wanting to try different logic should be able to rather easily.

--thearioch

 

I consider myself a rules lawyer, but I feel that is a good compromise. I can't think of another way to approximate the removal of cover, and meeting halfway - albeit with a static +2 that applies to non cover situations is acceptable.

I second the ship it motion.

 

Improved Precise Shot: I would like to reiterate the concerns that HK made earlier in this thread about this workaround potentially creating a +5 to hit modifier. Perhaps someday it will be possible to understand how to apply the cover conditions so the feat works RAW. Until then....

Grapple: I know you mentioned that this is not doable because of the animations. Although perhaps not aesthetically pleasing, would it be so objectionable to have the grapplers share a square (I've seen the orcs do that), but have the animation alternate between the two (or more) characters every 2 seconds?

Touch Spells: As mentioned in another thread the engine does not stack touch spells with either Improved Unarmed Strike or Sneak Attack (as per RAW). Would it be easier to implement if they were implemented as a free feat for a spellcaster, or added into an existing feat like Improved Unarmed Strike?

I will gladly help in any way that I can.