Nature's Beauty causes permanent THAC0 penalty - bug and quick fix.
jmerry
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Prompted by a thread over at Gibberlings 3, I took a look at the level 7 druid spell Nature's Beauty. It's bugged, in a way that you'll only ever notice if it's used against the party. Since the only non-party druid that even has the spell is the immortal version of Faldorn, this doesn't happen unless you're using mods.
Specifically, the permanent blindness effect can't be cured properly. You can dispel the portrait icon, you can restore vision with a Cure Disease effect, but nothing undoes that 4-point THAC0 penalty. Not even death and resurrection.
This problem comes about because of the effect's timing mode (mode 1, instant/permanent until death). This decomposes the blindness effect into its underlying parts, leaving no ongoing effects for dispels and the like to work on.
A quick "drop in override" fix is attached below; I've switched the spell's blindness effect (and corresponding portrait icon) to a normal limited-duration effect with an extremely long duration. The blindness will technically wear off eventually just like Polymorph Other does, but I doubt you're willing to wait over 40 days in-game for it.
The fix is for BG2EE; text errors will result if you use it in BGEE. Not that you need it there, since level 7 druid spells shouldn't come into play.
This will be in the next version of my tweak mod as well.
Specifically, the permanent blindness effect can't be cured properly. You can dispel the portrait icon, you can restore vision with a Cure Disease effect, but nothing undoes that 4-point THAC0 penalty. Not even death and resurrection.
This problem comes about because of the effect's timing mode (mode 1, instant/permanent until death). This decomposes the blindness effect into its underlying parts, leaving no ongoing effects for dispels and the like to work on.
A quick "drop in override" fix is attached below; I've switched the spell's blindness effect (and corresponding portrait icon) to a normal limited-duration effect with an extremely long duration. The blindness will technically wear off eventually just like Polymorph Other does, but I doubt you're willing to wait over 40 days in-game for it.
The fix is for BG2EE; text errors will result if you use it in BGEE. Not that you need it there, since level 7 druid spells shouldn't come into play.
This will be in the next version of my tweak mod as well.
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If you're worried about incompatibilities, use the version in my tweak mod (linked in the second post). That one edits existing spells, and searches for all spells with the offending effect rather than just assuming the original Nature's Beauty is the only one. It should work in any order.
1. Quest and NPC mods, etc.
2. Your tweaks mod (including or only using the Nature's Beauty fix).
3. Tweaks Anthology.
4. SCS.
And in this case, installing SCS last won't overwrite your version of Nature's Beauty? I'm wondering how SCS won't overwrite anything that already exists. Is that because it won't touch anything that's already in the override folder? Please forgive my silly questions - I'm not as computer savvy as most people on here, but I am genuinely curious about how these things work.
Neither simply overwrites the spell with a new one.
Also, I had a syntax error in version 2.1 - I rushed it out without testing. Updated to version 2.2 with the fix.
Faldorn (Level 14 druid)
Nilthiri (Level 14 druid, in druid stronghold quest)
Great Druid (Level 14 druid, in druid stronghold quest)
Nyalee (Level 27 druid)
Lizard Man Shaman #1 and #2 (Level 25/25 druid/mage, in Improved Abazigal's Lair)
If there's anything else out there in the main campaign, it's added by some other mod.