Item ability stats: Alternate dice size, # dice thrown and damage bonus
Thunderburp
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Hi,
I'm currently building a Python tool to retrieve data directly from game files and mass transfer it into the Baldur's Gate wiki. One of the sluggish parts of the task will be to make sense of the data pulled from the game before it can be pushed into the wiki.
For this post, my questioning is about an item ability's Alternate dice size, Alternate # dice thrown and Alternate damage bonus, as Near Infinity calls them. What are these used for and when? IESDP doesn't seem to elaborate beyond the stat name. Near Infinity doesn't specify that they are "unused", like it does for the slightly different SPL abilities.
At least in BG2EE these stats are barely ever used, but it would be nice for the wiki to have mod pages with subpages dedicated to mod items and whatnot. So if possible, I'd like the tool to know about stats even if seldom used in the unmodded game.
The three options I see are that these 3 stats:
Anyone knows off the top of their head?
I'm currently building a Python tool to retrieve data directly from game files and mass transfer it into the Baldur's Gate wiki. One of the sluggish parts of the task will be to make sense of the data pulled from the game before it can be pushed into the wiki.
For this post, my questioning is about an item ability's Alternate dice size, Alternate # dice thrown and Alternate damage bonus, as Near Infinity calls them. What are these used for and when? IESDP doesn't seem to elaborate beyond the stat name. Near Infinity doesn't specify that they are "unused", like it does for the slightly different SPL abilities.
At least in BG2EE these stats are barely ever used, but it would be nice for the wiki to have mod pages with subpages dedicated to mod items and whatnot. So if possible, I'd like the tool to know about stats even if seldom used in the unmodded game.
The three options I see are that these 3 stats:
- Don't do anything in the Baldur's Gate games, i.e. it's for another consumer of the Infinity Engine
- Represent an "alternate damage" stat, e.g. 5d6+2, but I don't know when that would ever kick in
- Their so called dice info is actually min/max level information, like in item effects. I.e. the item ability is only usable between level min and max. Not sure what becomes of the Alternate damage bonus stat then.
Anyone knows off the top of their head?
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Calling @kjeron @Bubb for confirmation...
Still for future reference, Near Infinity calls this flag Large creature without mentioning alternate damage or quest criticality. IESDP only talks about alternate damage in CRE V1 (the version I care about), otherwise it's only quest critical.
So it's option #2 then, and it only kicks in on special creatures. Thanks again
Interesting, good to know.