Stacking issues

No. And no. And no.

And no. Refer to my previous comments - while we can script a disarm (or sunder) we have no way to add that option to the radial menu to select during combat, without the mother of all .dll hacks. Let's hope someone comes along to do it one day.

Timed things in combat? I doubt it Zeb: I think all that goes out the window at times like combat, where you do things according to move actions etc, not timed. Same with dialogue - when you initiate that, the timer stops and no timed things happen, even if you sit there for an hour. A clear indication is the fact heartbeats stop working during combat.

Good news though - I have thought of a workaround. In KotB, at least (where the ai is better don'tcha know) on the round when the critter picks their weapon up, if they do indeed fire that script we can then set their ai pointer to only make an appropriate move action - approach or just 5' step or something. Next round it will automatically pick the best ai option and they are back in the game.

I tried running this script last night but I can't seem to get a handle on whether the monster are stunned! Should be straightforward - I am doubtless doing something stupid.

Basil - checking for stunned things is necessary for the 'sneak attack spells' thing, so this advances that too

 

Well I haven't tested, Zeb, but I seriously highly doubt it.

At least I know now why my 'stunning' test didn't work - Sound Burst does not actually 'stun' the creature, it sets it to condition 'Sound Burst' while floating a mesfileline that says 'stunned'. :yawn: Stupid game.

 

Ok, running the 'drop weapon' script off the Sound Burst spell rather than the combat script and it works fine I had to set the distance in the 'pick it back up' script from 5 to 10 to make it work which is surprising, but I can live with it.

Here are some screenies of it in action. In the first one, the gnoll leader and his side kick have been stunned and dropped their weapons: in the second, the leader has snatched his battle-axe back up killed my rogue and gone on to the next target. They didn't drop their shields despite that being in the script so some fine tuning needed. Obviously I haven't implemented the 'don't hit things this round' bit cause thats in KotB and I am testing in ToEE.

Can someone post all the spells that stun? Also, sorry if this sounds stupid, but is 'stunning fist' meant to make you drop stuff? Miko hit Roy with it a few times and I don't remember him dropping his sword.

 

Meh. Either way is good - but the technical definition of a buckler (as opposed to a small shield) is a small shield strapped to your forearm. As opposed to just held. QED...

O, there'll be LOTS of unintended consequences, I guarantee you that. Some intended ones too :wave:

 

Okey dokey, 24 hours on and no-one has suggested anything else that stuns. Sorry to be pernickety but if folks aren't going to help out or show any enthusiasm I will go back to fiddling with KotB.

On a happier note, I got 'drop shields' worked out too - turns out big shields and small shields have a different slot.

 

Getting this to work for Stunning Fist will be that much harder, since it doesn't have its own script. I'll see what I can do.

You don't find value in taking certain enemies out of action for a round? From 'Fascinate' to 'Daze', I think that is very valuable. You take the heavier hitter out of action for a round or two, wallop everyone else then surround him. 'Daze' has saved my spell-casters from the 'guaranteed critical' of the moathouse bandit leader on many occasions.

So its just Colour Spray and Sonic Burst then? Well, I can probably implement it for the 'Detect' spells at high level like Liv wanted, but thats a backlash effect

 

I doubt paralysed folks drop stuff - their hands would be frozen on the handles etc - and unconsciously prone folks already provoke an AoO and spend part of their turn getting up (if revived), so I think making them spend more time pcking things up is over kill.

Still, I'll see if I can get 'stunning fist' working in this regard