or its functional equivilant...

There I am (having finshed just about all quests in chp. one) going back and looting all the chests that I didn't open (to get good stuff), when what do I pull out of a chest but a Kukri that I can't identify.

Now see, the odd thing is that I have 18 in lore do to "wielding" certain rapiers while wearing certain rings. Of course 18 in lore = 30,000 gp in value. So I say to myself: "hmmm, must be some other reason why I can't identify this Kukri"...but I save the game anyway and recall back to get it identified by Aribeth. (I didn't have any lore potions on me at the time because I didn't think I'd need them.)

So I get the thing identified and low and behold what was it? The Cutting Star!!!!! One of the most powerfull weapons in the game and also one of the most expensive. I could have sworn this was only a character level 14 variable chest item and here the thing pops-up at character level 9!

Has anyone else experienced something similar?

I have gotten some pretty neat equipment in chest but nothing extraordinary. Seems that you were very lucky to find this kukri.

What's the stat of the weapon? Is it a +4 weapon?

The Cutting Star:

These blades are occasionally brought to civilization by adventurers, along with tales of ruined temples and the gods of old. Likely this weapon fell under the domain of a sun- or star-worshipping sect, and while possibly far-reaching in their day, no official record detailing their practices has survived.

Damage Bonus: Fire 1d6 Damage
Enhancement Bonus +2
On Hit: Blindness DC=14 25% / 3 Rounds


Total Cost: 46096
Required Lore: 20
Required Level: 15


I myself have either not been so fortunate, or did not recognise it when I was. As far as popping up at lvl 9 is concerned, chests do on average spawn an amount of treasure befitting your level. But, there is always a chance of your getting something more or less. In your case I'd say the odds were about one in a million, but then one-in-a-million chances tend to work out nine times out of ten [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[ 09-14-2003, 07:30 AM: Message edited by: Legolas ]

I probably haven't had such a great experience, but in one of the first chapters I found the Armor of Comfort and for the next several chapter, every other armor I came across, just didn't beat the Armor of comfort, until finally, I found a Full Plate +3 AND White Dragon Armor near the end of the 2nd chapter or the beginning of the 3rd Chapter.

Is this normal? LOL

I've often found that when you start getting a paticular item that the item will re-occur again and again (which is great for the golden circlet at 9'th level because you can sell them for over 9k a pop).

It could be because I'm really "working" the inventory of ALL chests this time (in an effort to accumulate a large sum of money to export a character over to SOU to purchase several certain EXPENSIVE items).

Well, Golden Circlets and Thayvan Circlets I have gotten alot of. You can sell them for alot of money but there really isn't much I feel a need to buy.

Also known as my "Diablo" style of play LOL. In that game, I searched every square inch of every level, searched and killed every person, and looked at every item I could buy- my charatcer had about the 2nd best of everything in the game, not to mention the ground was littered with items and gold- so many items, it got to a point where I couldn't put any more down.

*Shudders*

Then came... hacks- my Diablo character was soon obsolete, people hacked all the best items, got "inviciblity" hacks, and has been a down spiral ever since. Don't play no more since theres no point. Don't buy other Diablo versions, since they're just hacked. Friends say "oh but your account can be deleted"- I say, so what? Make another one. Dont get caught in the first place. Its way to easy to hack blizzard games...

Thank goodness for a nice game like NWN :D

Shall I tell you about Gram, the Sword of Grief? :D

OK the reasons for working the chests, bearing in mind that this particular character is a rogue with the "use any item" ability.
Lesser Mace of Disruption - Slay Undead (a true bane to rogue attacks)
Club of Smiting - Slay Constructs (as bad or worse than undead for rogues)
Twin Fists of Fire - gloves that create a twin (a double) once a day
Cloak of Greater Sanctuary - spell greater sanctuary once a day
Boots of the Shifting Sands - haste, -1 to dex., spell earthquake once a day (at full power)
Magic Electrifier - recharges chargless magical items

Consider that the Boots alone cost over 100k with precious little means to purchase them within SOU when they are offered for sale.

Best I did was Boots Of Speed, which I love greatly. [img]smile.gif[/img]

I've been working over each of the major chests now for chp.1 and so far have accumulated 6 Cutting Stars (each chest takes a LOT of re-loading but eventually the Kukri pops up). I still have the beggers nest and Blackisle district to rummage through so I should be able to come close to half a mil.

I got a question- what exactly do you do when one "reloads a chest"- save the game right before opening, then open, if not right item, reload, then open, get a new item- and so on?


Oh, and its off topic, but I thought this was pretty interesting:


Good News for bad spellers...or brain teaser??

> Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer
> inwaht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is
> tahtthe frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae.The rset can be a
> total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm.Tihs is bcuseae the
> huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a
> wlohe.

whoa...now that is cool... the wrod tinhg i maen.

exactly so.

(hmmmmmmmm, there were misspellings in that teaser? LOL.)

Well, I didn't make it LOL. But, it may be true- I'm not sure. I'm kinda skeptical because take an unscramble word thing for example- and put the right letters in the front and back- and can I still solve it- no.

Here's an example (I tried to chose a word everyone does know (not something like chivalrous)

EX: Dronsaius

Do you know what that is- I dont think so. However the answer is:

Dinosaurs

[ 09-20-2003, 11:42 AM: Message edited by: Wolf Blade ]

your right I didn't get it - it isn't a common word I read.

Legolas, I must be the millionth player on NWN since Scott G - because I also pulled the Cutting Star out of a hat. I was equally astonished to see how valuable it was. As I play a Paladin who can't use Exotic weapons, it is only of sale value to me.

On this subject - how can you determine the actual value / price of an item. I know that at least one shop in each chapter buys / sells at a better rate than other shops.

In Chapter 2 the Shops buy The Cutting star for 16133 gold and then resell it for 69144.

Legolas gave these statistics

The Cutting Star:
Damage Bonus: Fire 1d6 Damage
Enhancement Bonus +2
On Hit: Blindness DC=14 25% / 3 Rounds

Total Cost: 46096
Required Lore: 20
Required Level: 15

This suggests that Chapter 2 shops buy for 35% of actual value and resell at 50% more than the actual value. Chapter 3 shops have a different set of buy/sell percentages

Question - how can you determine the actual value and stats for any object? Some of the Description do not give all the necessary info. eg Boots of Speed give a big boost to Armor Class

Lastly, the stats above for The Cutting Star mean that this kukri can inflict between 4 and 12 HPs damage with a possiblity of Blinding the opponent 1 turn in 4. For that, it seems rather highly priced !!!