Difficulty slider?

Difficulty spreadsheet

Anyone ever thought of making it possible to increase/decrease the difficulty level? It shouldn't be too hard. All that would need to be done is edit protos by changing all the 2d8s to 2d10s or 3d8s. An external tool could be created for this purpose.

-Mike

 

Thats not what he asked for Ted! Why must you be so difficult. Just mod one up!

Cheers

 

I think this is easy enough that I can complete it myself. I can upload it when I'm done if anyone is interested in trying it.

-Mike

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I plan on only modifying NPC stats. Anyone know of a RAW character calculator so I don't do something that's wrong?

 

I found this one:

http://www.pathguy.com/cg35.htm

However, it only works if you know the level of the NPC. I'm not sure where to find this information in protos for monsters.

 

made me laugh

 

The monster HitDice are listed for each monster in the npc section of protos. With maxhp on they increase dramatically, so call it "Hard"? Off is easy? Somehting like easy, normal, hard, etc isn't implemented in the game. Who the hell knows what easy,normal,hard is. Not really necessary for this type of game.

 

I was thinking of increasing each NPC's level by 1 (or 2 for "extra hard"). I also want all the other stats to increase according to RAW. However, I am having difficulty figuring out what the *current* level for most of the critters is (i.e. NPCs with no levels in any class).

I'm doing everything in a spreadsheet, and have it set up to export a new protos.tab when needed.

-Mike

 

Everything is there in protos. CR/HD for monsters and levels for npc's. If there is no entry for certain npc's they are 0 level non-recruitable types. A lot of stuff has already been increased, some dramatically. The original protos was 962KB and 5.5.0 is 1433KB(approx). Lots of changes.

 

I realize this. According to RAW they should still have a level (but not necessarily in a class). Level 0 is a no-go.

-Mike

 

The author didn't do that and it's not a finished product. A lot of changes have been made by numerous people, so feel to do as you please.

 

How does the difficulty of an encounter increase at higher levels now? Do THAT!

 

Just a heads up - messing around with monster levels can yield unexpected results. E.g. you may find out that the fights aren't particularly harder than before, yet reward the player with more experience and levelups, resulting in EASIER fights in the long run. Balance can be a tricky thing, so good luck with it.

Also, you might want to consider reducing the experience gain modifier (located in rules\combat_vars.mes).

 

Awesome point, Sitra. That makes for a pretty sound reason to just go with the two "Max HP" options in the front end if you want to increase the difficulty.