PowerTurn, v1
kevL's (Obsidian/Bioware, Kaedrin)
2010 December 10
Back in the good ol' days you could count on your Cleric to turn the tide of battle against undead critters. You know how those skeletons and zombies like to swarm! Well, the PowerTurn is an attempt to bring back the glory days of NWN, when a good Cleric was an essential ingredient of every anti-Evil Safari.
Changes to Turn Undead ability:
- prints "Rebuk'd" above the turned creature(s) in a dusky orange color (so now you know!).
- does both Rebuke and Damage (bypassing Kaedrin's innovative PrC switch). was, one or the other
- gives less damage than K's original script does: d4(nTurnLevel - 2). was, d6(nTurnLevel)
- increases amount of TotalHD affected to (d8() * d2() * nTurnLevel / 4) + ChaMod + nTurnLevel - 2 (gives much greater variation, and low levels have a really tuff time while high levels can truly shine!). was, d6(2) + ChaMod + nTurnLevel
- Rebuke effect lasts less duration: only 8 rounds. was, 10 rounds
- decreases MaxHD of Turn by 2 (but has bonus for high LoreRank though).
- Lore bonus (affects only MaxHD & TotalHD & SaveDC of Turn, not destroy-ability or Damage): increases effective Level by 1 per 10 LoreRanks.
- reduced TurnCheck by 2; makes it harder to achieve MaxHD (bonuses for high Charisma & SunDomain remain).
- increases effectiveness of SunDomain: additional d8 HD turned, and +d6 to TurnCheck (makes it easier to achieve MaxHD). was d6 & d4
- reduces area of effect by 20%.
- accrued penalties are no longer dispellable (ExtraordinaryEffect).
- changed WillSave to FortitudeSave vs. Damage effect.
- fixes Saving Throw routine (half damage if successful FortitudeSave).
- rewrote & re-implemented function PrintTurningDamage().
- bit nicer formatting of FeedBack messages (note, Failed message will be in English, for those with non-English Dialog.TLK file).
- streamlined code ( .. what a mess .. )
(and if you don't believe me, here's what one of the Obsidian coders had to say about it:
// had to change this WACK system to support the .. Lol).
The abilities of various Domain powers (apart from Sun, above), as well as the Empowered, Improved, and Extra Turning feats remain as-is.
Installation:
Simply create a folder in your MyDocs->Override, called "PowerTurn". Place these two files there:
nw_s2_turndead.NSS nw_s2_turndead.NCS
(contained in 7-Zip download)
Note you should not need Kaedrin's PrC Pack to use this effectively; the proprietary switches have been remarked, and the remaining constants should either be ignored or utilized depending on whether or not you have that PrC Pack already installed. In any case, you should search your Overrides for any other instances of 'nw_s2_turndead' (besides PowerTurn) and rename them as backup versions. Tks.
Recommended for use with the PIA. Care has been taken, though, to retain balance with the standard game; the major changes are an increase in total HD affected, and the inflection of Damage. Characters of very low level will have an extremely tough time and may need to boost their Charisma to climb out of negative values - due to their lack of faith and their Deity's lack of trust ..
ps. If you are using Kaedrin's PrC Pack, the (two) switches in cmi_options.2da for "AlternateTurnUndead" (only) will not work with PowerTurn. The rest ought work fine ..
Screenshots:
1st Pic - Kaelyn Turning at Level 27 (22 Cleric, 5 Master of Radiance), with 24 Charisma (+7 modifier); a magnificent turn!
2nd Pic - Death Lord
3rd Pic - Kaelyn Turning at Level 23 (21 Cleric, 2 Master of Radiance), with 24 Charisma (+7 modifier); a poor turn.
4th Pic - Kaelyn Turning as in 3rd Pic; low MaxHD, high TotalHD.
5th Pic - Dorin Amon at Level 3 Cleric, with Improved Turning (EL 4) and 12 Charisma (+1 modifier); please note that this is a cheatshot, it was taken when I was testing the function for extra turn resistance, that some Undead have. Hence it shows Dorin rebuking a Ghast and destroying a Ghoul - he actually would be very lucky to get a rebuke on the Ghoul.
Pls let me know if it's overpowered. (particularly, the total number of creatures affected) _________________________ All the world's a stage ... but so what.
Posted by fredamora at 2012-10-01 18:53:48 Voted 10.00 on 09/07/12
No, no..what I meant was that will this work WITHOUT Kaedrin's PRC? For a change, I don't have it installed in my current runthrough. Pretty interesting, really, I'm excited to try this on Kaelyn...still got a long way to go, just got to Crossroads Keep.
thanks for the vote etc. I'm always a bit slow ... i'm the sorta guy who would be just as likely to give it back if i got one!
Yes, it ought work w/ Kaedrin's : note he includes the 'nw_s2_turndead' .nss/.ncs files (so that the switches in Cmi_options.2da config work) and those scripts need to be renamed/backed-up. The powerTurn here simply bypasses the kPrC options, UseAlternateTurnUndeadRules & PaladinOnlyAlternateTurnUndeadRule,
which gives me an idea hmm - btw, I've had more chance to use powerTurn IG and find it uh amusing how frustrating it is at low levels, but by the time a Cleric reaches epic levs it can get really epic
Ps, it was originally playtested w/ Kaelyn :) _________________________ All the world's a stage ... but so what.
Posted by fredamora at 2012-09-07 20:47:02 Voted 10.00 on 09/07/12
It will work even if Kaedrin's PrC isn't installed, right? I've read the description that it will, but I'd feel more reassured if you can say it yourself. I'm using ToB that's why, straight ToB character...a bit buggy so I opted not to use Kaedrin, just to minimize the chance of conflicts. But Kaelyn, yes...she could sure use this mod; that's why I'm interested.
Posted by fredamora at 2012-09-07 20:43:10 Voted 10.00 on 09/07/12
Awesome. I can't believe you still haven't made it to HoF, kevL. I guess that's because you came a bit late to the party. But believe me, many if not all of your work are Hof material
I was wondering that myself...heheh. Anyway this Turn Undead fix is grrrreat! :) _________________________ Logical arguments tend to favour those who have much faith vested in them. Often accompanied by an epic skill to resist the arguments against.
right on. Ever since the Anschluss, we've been the same up here _________________________ All the world's a stage ... but so what.
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