I've heard about a feature in HoW dubbed "call to arms". What exactly is this? Do characters automatically whip out a sword and charge forth or something?

No, no, we wish. Actually, it's the monsters who do that. :D

Call to arms is a feature implemented to make fights harder. What happens, is that a creature that spots you sends out a "call" that draws all hostile NPCs in a certain radius. It was put in to prevent players from drawing one monster at a time out of a group and picking an entire horde off singly.

I like it, actually. Instead of having to go into every corner to clear out monsters, they come right after you... and into the Web. ;)

Some monsters don't appear to use the call to arms. The undead in the Vale are an example of that.

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I IWD you could pick off individual monsters in a group, as long as your party did not get within visual range of other monsters in the group. With HoW installed, the monsters act more intelligently (and realistically): If you pick on one monster in a squad, all the monsters in the immediate area come after you.

EDIT: Wow, Aerich, you usually beat me by hours while I am slowly composing. But I don't think we can cut our simultaneous posting any closer than this one.

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[ 11-15-2004, 07:02 PM: Message edited by: NobleNick ]

Oh, that. They have that in IWD2. I forgot it wasn't in IWD! Meh, I can deal with that. In fact, I prefer that.

Thanks to both of you. Your timing is VERY uncanny [img]smile.gif[/img]

Yeah, ::uncanny timing:: that's what I thought. However, note that I got mine in first. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Frightening. Same time, same content, the only thing different is that crazy green font.