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[990Dreams]

no. This post is the ing last post.

Edited by DavidHurricane, 23 September 2014 - 03:46 PM.

[Alaskan Nobody]

If you say so

Anyone know what kind of damage the spell Healing Sting does in Neverwinter Nights?

[990Dreams]

nooo mine's not the last post

[Alaskan Nobody]

Was for a bit

[XphR]

Shar Wolf, on 23 September 2014 - 03:52 PM, said:

If you say so

Anyone know what kind of damage the spell Healing Sting does in Neverwinter Nights?

Technically its vampiric but without being able to go over your own normal total hit points. It looks like in Neverwinter its 1d6+1PCL and NW2 shows it at 1d12+1PCL.

Edited by XphR, 23 September 2014 - 05:00 PM.

[Alaskan Nobody]

Vampiric Damage type though?
It would be unique then for that.

I am not talking about the vampiric effect, I am looking at figuring out what kinds of Damage/DR relations there are, and it is one of only two spells that I cannot find that info for. (The other being Earthquake)

The spell type is Negative, but that doesn't mean it is doing Negative damage type, just that it can be countered some with Protection from Negative Energy.

IE: rather like the Cure spells deal Divine damage type (* to the Undead) which is not resisted normally, but you can custom make an item that does.

*Edit

Edited by Shar Wolf, 23 September 2014 - 05:02 PM.

[XphR]

It is Negative type and it transferring to you makes it Vampiric, Divine aka Positive plane energies are the counter.

[Alaskan Nobody]

So Negative Damage and a Vampiric Buff?

[XphR]

Pretty much,
Its extremely localized negative material plane exposure with a siphon worked into the spell directing the stripped away health towards the caster.

Fun side note, too much contact with the positive material plane also results in not so positive ends.

If you are interested in the ins and outs of realities and magics of D&D, look into the Planescape source books. Very fun reading into the architecture of the multiverse, the stuff its made from and what binds it all together.

Edited by XphR, 23 September 2014 - 05:42 PM.

[Alaskan Nobody]

Fun.

Any idea what damage type Earthquake is?

[XphR]

Depends on the situation at hand its a spell that directly effects the plane the caster is on, and the effects felt as damage are actually quite non magical in nature(crushing, falling, being buried and other physical dangers{thus the reflex saves to avoid or lessen damage}). Ill have to look at Neverwinter directly for their adaptation.

Neverwinter over simplifies it and treats it as general area of effect damage Reflex save for half.
NW2 holds true to this but takes it further by labeling it as blunt damage(thus other protections from blunt damage should also lessen the total impact followed by the save for half).

Edited by XphR, 23 September 2014 - 05:55 PM.

[Alaskan Nobody]

I've been digging through NWN's files trying to figure it out, as well as digging through various wikis and forums.

Mostly I have found people repeating the in game spell descriptions (half of which are half wrong >.< ) rather than actually answering the questions.

Probably does Blunt (or Bludgeoning as NWN1 calls it) damage though.

[XphR]

Sounds about normal.

[Alaskan Nobody]

And people complain about how unfinished MWO is.

[Stonefalcon]

Now if only I was an admin and locked the thread after I posted in it.

[Alaskan Nobody]

Then you would have won.

[XphR]

lol Yea, well D&D also suffers from the things that table top mechwarrior suffered(countless multi-verses run by an equal number of rabid fan-gods{the rule change from iteration to iteration only to be thrown out and rewritten at will}).

[Alaskan Nobody]

What series does not?

Star Wars has it (EU "Canon" vs actual "Canon")...
Warhammer revels in it....

Star Trek might not, do not know enough about it to say, but listening to the Trekies argue I doubt it....

[XphR]

The Trek-uments generally stem from plot holes and various fluff interpretations, though they did have a pen and paper RPG and Im sure those individuals realities were quite varied.

[Alaskan Nobody]

Why doesn't that surprise me.

In other news, tried making my own mercenary company.... could not.

As far as I could tell, neither the names I tried (many!) or the Tag I used were in use or canon.

However, upon hitting "submit" all I got was:
Unable to create the unit. An error has occured.