To use shadowkeeper to enable my elven sorcerer to use longbows and perhaps longswords?

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I think that you can put profisencies in but still you cannot use it.
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Perhaps if you used Shadowkeeper to give him one level of a class that is able to use them... this may results in a few nasty bugs though :(

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I really do not understand why do you want to use them anyway.Sorcerer is raw power.He does not need any weapons. He is a walking nuclear bomb.


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its a role playing thing

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You could edit the bow and sword files to make them usable by sorcerers.

Wouldn't it be better to use a kit editor to edit the allowed weapons for the sorcerer class or something?

i've read that you can use shadowkeeper to equip them but that they get kicked to your backpack after you level up (although i assume you can re-equip them)

That cannot be done, because Sorcerer is not a kit (the closest thing to a mage kit is a bard kit).
And even if it could be done, longsword would still have a flag "unusable by sorcerers".

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as said before a mage/soc does not need a bow or sword...

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Icewind Gate will enable that possibility.

[ 06-11-2003, 02:53 AM: Message edited by: Vedran ]

Another option would be installing Ashes of Embers Universal weapons -component(or something similar) which allows every class wield every weapon they like, as long as they have enough strenght and dexterity.

Personally I don't see any reason why sorcerer/mage should be unable to use swords. He _definitely_ would not be as good as fighter but at least he should be able to hold one, even without training.

[ 06-11-2003, 05:18 AM: Message edited by: McHaggis ]

I can understand the mage. He could (well, he couldn't, but for the sake of realism let's say he could) use swords, but he doesn't want. Pure mages generally don't think weapons are something that they should use. Else they would be fighter/mages or who-knows-what.

Sorcerers are different story. They are (if I recall correctly) 3rd edition class. In 3rd edition they can use weapons (but cannot became very good with them). In 2nd edition they are unable not only to use weapons, but also to multi/dual-class. While 2nd ed has some excuse (perhaps lame) why mages cannot use swords, it has no excuse for sorcerers.
Moreover, sorcerer doesn't need to study magic for years and years as a mage needs, so he could train anything.

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