conditions for permanent death

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Dee

Disintegrate yields permanent death, flesh to stone (followed by any attack) results in permanent death, and (I THINK) any critical hit with a melee weapon that kills you results in permanent death as well. Wear those helmets!

elminster

Aosaw said:

Disintegrate yields permanent death, flesh to stone (followed by any attack) results in permanent death, and (I THINK) any critical hit with a melee weapon that kills you results in permanent death as well. Wear those helmets!

and (applicable only to BG2) no Ioun stones either (at least if you plan on melee). Those don't protect against critical hits (from what I recall).

Nukenin

elminster said:

Aosaw said:

Disintegrate yields permanent death, flesh to stone (followed by any attack) results in permanent death, and (I THINK) any critical hit with a melee weapon that kills you results in permanent death as well. Wear those helmets!

and (applicable only to BG2) no Ioun stones either (at least if you plan on melee). Those don't protect against critical hits (from what I recall).

If I recall correctly, it was an hard-coded engine feature that anything equipped in the head slot would protect against critical hits.

Not sure if this is still applicable in BG:EE. Never played it, since The Man still won't let me. *glares*

elminster

Nukenin said:

elminster said:

Aosaw said:

Disintegrate yields permanent death, flesh to stone (followed by any attack) results in permanent death, and (I THINK) any critical hit with a melee weapon that kills you results in permanent death as well. Wear those helmets!

and (applicable only to BG2) no Ioun stones either (at least if you plan on melee). Those don't protect against critical hits (from what I recall).

If I recall correctly, it was an hard-coded engine feature that anything equipped in the head slot would protect against critical hits.

Not sure if this is still applicable in BG:EE. Never played it, since The Man still won't let me. *glares*

*puts melon cut into two on his head* and now I'm ready for battle !!!

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Riolathel

thats one thing i never liked about 2nd edition..

What's the point of crits if everyone just wears a helmet..

stygga

Critical hits don't chunk you... its a certain amount of damage you take past what would put you at 0 that determines whether or not you get chunked and therefore permanently dead.

Knoland

Yea, I gear my characters to the teeth... can they make me a Dragon skin skullcap?

example:

Horns of the Black Dragon (Skullcap)
(protects against critical hits)

+2 AC
+2 THACO
resistance to acid and cold
Immunity to fear

(matches Black Dragon armor)

DinsdalePiranha

also, death spell. Semaj has it *on contingency*. only way to protect against it if you don't have a lvl 7 cleric is resist magic potions, and a nice chunk of luck, cos it's still 50-50.
I don't like Semaj. I really don't. Though I'm pretty sure Monty managed to get that bit of info through his insides with the combination of stealth -> backstab -> ring of invisibility -> backstab.

also, iirc if cone of cold kills you, that also tends to be permanent. (you're chunked)