How much can the Druid's Wildshape be modified?

well, if you want something that makes wildshapes useful from the core rules, theres the multiattack feat (MM P304) - whether or not you meet the prereqs is debatable, considering you only have 3 natural attacks some of the time, and only in some forms...

 

hmmm? multiattack doesnt change the number of attacks; it just makes secondary natural attacks more accurate

 

other wildshape forms im hooked now lol

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Legendary Eagle (MM2, but we already have legendary rat, so...) - flyspeed 100... AC 25 Touch AC 21

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Legendary Ape - AC 19, str 30 dex 17 con 16

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Legendary Wolf - AC 24, str 25 dex 28 con 21

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Tendriculos - grappler >_<, but its so good at it.... swallow whole, paralysis inside stomach, regeneration....... blahhh

Elephant - str 30, dex 10, con 21, trample 2d8+15

or if you're using MM2 stuff

Grizzly Mastodon - str 35, lots of attacks, trample 4d8+18

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Triceratops - str 30 dex 9 con 25 mentioned before, but you essentially get to charge: 4d8+20, and then in the next round, trample away for 2d12+15 readying itself for another charge :Crazy_Lio kind of like running someone over and then reversing back and forth on top of them... has the qualities of rhino and elephant merged together

 

I can't remember, but isn't it possible to set the number of natural attacks something has in the protos

 

You can define up to 3 natural attacks with modifiers for each of the three attacks in the protos for a monster. However, there is no feat nor magical property nor spell available to script the equivalent of multiattack for PC and NPC characters.

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Those three natural attacks you can define in the protos are 'creature' attributes.

 

So I guess I'll have to use my impromptu means to simulate it.
Oh well, better than nothing.

I will add though that not all the rules in Co8 are official. For example, Read Magic is not supposed to ID potions, yet I have no problem with that in toee. I feel it's an acceptable compromise since toee doesn't offer all the options of full D&D, just as I feel regen is an acceptable compromise for all the abilities that Wildshape doesn't have in toee.

I don't know anything about programming, but Allyx's druid's vestments might provide an answer. Instead of modifying the wolf form, could you create an alternate wolf form that has that feat? Then, just as Allyx's item adds the hill giant form to the wildshape options, your druid belt could add wolf form B to the list, with this form having that feat? If you can't touch the original monsters, create alternate monsters with the abilities/powers you want, and then provide an item that allows those alternate forms.

 

Here's the only thing I can think of concerning that - short of DLL hacks.

What if a monster were scripted (referenced in the protos with a name like Wildshape-Bear, for example) along with the appropriate assigned natural attacks and whatnot in the protos? The PC or NPC character would have to have a scripted effect of losing their actions, except movement, and also not be able to be attacked during the duration of the 'wildshape' spell. The player would have to be able to control both the character movement AND the 'wildshape' monster actions during the duration of the wildshape spell. The one HUGE drawback is HPs, AC, and all other applicable character attributes and modifiers would have to be scripted to the spawned wildshape monster [a terrible huge script] AND if the wildshape monster is killed or dies, the character would die AND the wildshape monster would have to be destroyed and vanish from the game.

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1. a new spell + a few or more either long or complex scripts
2. It's very different from the actual pNp spell, wildshape, because the character and monster are not the same object moving around and attacking in the game.

Otherwise, and maybe, if only the monster could be always invisble AND the invisible monster only be right on top of the spell effected character AND the monster movement was dictated by the character movement (monster movement ghost shadows the character), then yes, but that may not even be able to be done.

 

just out of curiosity (i know that i have absolutely no idea when it comes to code) but how do the current wildshape forms work within the game?

 

And, looking through the list of wildshape animals and monsters, the models [and skins] and protos entries for most of what is in those lists of monsters are not in the game. New protos entries are easy, but new models are questionable to make or, maybe, are not possible.

 

Some research a while ago showed that it is possible to "polymorph" to a different model, but, once you change you can't change back again.