True Strike

I don't know if this helps but I tried to reproduce
your bug with true strike with my mage. I didn't
work too with a spell used, that is Scorching Ray
did not recieve bonus however the spell expired
and I could see the throws. Then I tried to use it
with a weapon when she fired from her crossbow
she got the +20 bonus. There must be some conflict
with "ray" not taken into account as a weapon (ray)
hmm have to check out if weapon focus affects it.
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Edit: Aha! Rays aren't affected by weapon focus
(Ray), I checked the rolls there's no entry for Ray
weapon focus (checked it for scorching ray, ray
of enfeeblement, ray of clumsiness, Melf's Acid Arrow
(definetly not a ray, although the same type of attack
is rolled). :/

 

By the rules, true strike definitely affects ray attacks.

In my cof8 4.0 game, I have just tested ray of enfeeblement after casting true strike and it DID give me the +20 bonus.... Don't know if this is a 5.0 problem or something else causing your problem.

 

Hmm...would the True Strike spell effects not working on Ray spells be similar to the problem of the Discern Lies spell not giving a bonus to Sense Motive?

 

It was worth taking a shot at. That's exactly where I was going with it. It just bugs me so much that the Discern Lies spell doesn't work, and I don't have the time to learn to work the system to try and fix it myself. If it even can be fixed. Which I want to try anyway but can't. @__@ I always pile myself too full with things to do and don't give myself enough time to do them...

 

I've never tried Detect Secret Doors. The only thing I can think of as far as buffing specific skills are the Skill Mastery feats and the Bard's Inspire Competency. Actual spells, though, I can't think of any more.

 

Detect Secret Doors should work like the assorted Detect Spells (concentrate on an area long enough and you can find whatever the spell detects, if it's there.) Most-likely it's as bugged as the other detect spells.

Discern Lies, at least by the rules, doesn't actually add a bonus to the Sense Motive. It makes you capable of automatically telling if the person you're concentrating on is lying.

The only spell I know of, that exists in ToEE, that gives a direct bonus to a specific skill (as apposed to a bonus to skill checks like Guidance or Inspire Competence do) is Find Traps, which gives a +1 bonus to Search per 2 caster levels to find traps. I have no idea if it actually works as advertised, though.

(Unrelated, but combining True Strike with Ray Spells in 3.0 was really nasty because 3.0 haste only affected one person, but it allowed an extra partial action, which could be used to cast spells. So a hasted Sorcerer or Wizard could cast True Strike and then follow it up with an Enevervation or Disintigrate that was going to hit on anything but a 1. This was a bigger deal for Sorcerers because they had the extra spell slots to burn.)

 

Well, I can't test monsters for you, BUT I did try a few more tests with a PC that MIGHT help.

Sometimes true strike wouldn't work if I cast it out of combat. So, if I cast it when combat rounds are going on then it works fine. However, if I cast it and then try to quickly cast the ray, SOMETIMES the game says "spell expired" and I don't get my +20, other times I do manage to get the bonus. When I tried to force combat mode by pressing C, then casting true strike, I ALWAYS lost the spell at the end of the round when the game reverted to non-combat mode-I was never able to re enter combat mode before the true strike expired.

The point of this ramble is simply that I wondered whether your pre-buffing scripts (if that's the right term and I understood what you were trying to do correctly) might be taking just a bit too much time for the game to execute and thus the spell is expiring before it can be used, even though the NPC in PNP should have the time to use it.

Edit. Just thought, are you talking about a pre-buffing script or simply normal combat rounds? If its the latter then I guess this is useless to you-sorry!

 

True Strike shouldn't work as a pre-combat buff anyway.

If it's failing because you're casting it out of combat, or because you're taking longer than a round to make an attack/cast a ray spell, then it's working as it should by the rules.

 

While this is true as far as the official SRD goes, if you'll check the spell description in-game for Discern Lies, it specifically states that it's supposed to add a +20 bonus to Sense Motive checks.