How many builds do you see with only 4 levels of Blackguard? Compare this to how many with all 10 levels taken. Many people consider it not worth going all the way with Blackgaurd.
This mod aims to improve the Blackguard by beefing up the fiendish summons he gets. Prior to level 10 he gets the standard Dire Rat.
However, at level 10 depending on his alignment he gets a new summon:
Lawful Evil: Calls forth a huge hellhound. This beast is tough and a good melee fighter.
Neutral Evil: A Dark Stalker is summoned which uses stealth and sneak attacks to take down your foes.
Chaotic Evil: A dark succubus is summoned to rain down fire and ice upon your foes.
Good and Neutral: You summon the deadly dire chicken. This is actually sent as punishment to those who dare to leave the dark path but still try and call upon its powers.
USE: Drop the files into your override folder (cant imagine it conflicting with anything that exists to-date but if you have anything else that modifies blackguard fiendish summons then it naturally will conflict).
Now create a level 10 blackguard in your favorite leveling mod and test it out.
BUGS: This is a BETA for sure. I know of several problems already. However, some of these problems may be related to the unpatched nature of my game.
1) (minor bug) The NE summon uses the githyanki base model with the animus elemental effect. However, sometimes the portrait does not apply the effect therefore the summon doesnt look exactly like its portrait.
2) (major bug) For some reason the summons dont seem to equip their weapons that are equipped in the toolset. This is a real problem for the NE summon. If anyone knows what is going wrong here i would love to know.
3) (strange bug) I found that if i summoned a creature, and then afterwards changed alignment, then the next creature i summoned would sometimes default to the chicken. Would be interested to know if anyone else experiences this. To be safe make sure your alignment is what you want it to be before doing the summon.
FUTURE:
At the moment no README and no test Blackguard character included. If i can iron the bugs out then will do this for the final release. Also the summons need balancing but until i can iron the bugs out this is a secondary concern for the moment.
FEEDBACK:
I would love feedback, constructive criticism, and ideas on how to solve the bugs. Please dont say patch... ive been down this road before several times and being on dial up its not fun. Will wait for MotB and get the base game updated that way.
Also let me know if you find any other bugs. Hell, i dont even know 100% if this will work with later versions of the game although i see no reason why not.
Posted by Tetsuo at 2010-12-26 13:48:14 Voted 7.00 on 12/26/10
I really like this... I too feel that the fiendish rat isn't really fitting for a high-level blackguard (if at all... really, I think Obsidian dropped the ball on the class.) I'd really like to make a similar mod, one which gives the blackguard an Erinyes if lawful (since it would make sense a Lawfull blackguard would be allied with devils over demons), a horned devil if neutral, and a succubus if chaotic. I'm not really good with the toolset though, so if anyone could email me at [email protected] with help in making the mod, I would love to offer my own slant on this mod.
There is really two mods here combined into one:
A silliness mod, that adds a goofy pet to the campaign, but only for non-evil blackguards.
A serious blackguard mod, that only effects evil characters.
Those who want to use one, might have no desire for the other. It really limits your intended audience, and I have a hunch it is hurting the rating too.
Posted by Arvirago at 2008-02-20 06:24:53 Voted 6.50 on 02/20/08
Good work.
Quedaría más limpio el código si en cada if sólo asignas a una variable de texto el tag de la criatura a convocar, y no todo el efecto completo. _________________________ Reino de Aldor
Going to give this a try I think. Was wanting to try out a Blackguard but the idea of having a rat as my faithful companion in evil sounded very... Un-evil really.
And a Dire Chicken? Does indeed sound hilarious. Needs spikes though right? :D
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