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Originally posted by SixOfSpades:
To say that Boss Enemy of type R should be immune to magics that are supposed (even designed) to work against all enemies of type R makes no sense. The Boss should be tougher than his/her minions, sure, perhaps more resistant to Anti-R techniques, but immune to them entirely? In short, if Bodhi is supposed to be Undead, let her bloody well be Undead! None this ■■■■■-footing around because Weimer doesn't think the chick is tough enough. Where Weimer made her immune to False Dawn, I would simply make her immune to Confusion. Where he made her immune to Sunray, I would simply have her drink a Potion of Magic Shielding, so she's guaranteed to make her Save against it.
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But it it possible to have her count as undead on some counts and non-undead on others? Undead not get saves against Sunrays damage, so Bodhi would be taking 20d6 damage from it with no chance of defending against it. 2 Sunrays could finish off Bodhi. Undead-Slaying weapons would still have a 1/20 chance of slaying Bodhi, despite a PMS (which lowers saves to -20). Repulse Undead and possibly Turn Undead still make her run away in fear. SSS would be doing 9d6 damage and blindness for 6 rounds, if Bodhi made her save. Instead of implementing anti-Undead resistence, it is much easier to just make Bodhi count as non-undead.
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Her having attacks that cannot be defended against
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What are these attacks that cannot be defended against? The only one I can think off is cloud of bats, which is just as silly as not being able to kill off a vampire bat, or not being able to cast sunfire to kill off insects. Maybe all those vampire bats grouped together and are now attacking you. [img]smile.gif[/img]
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Originally posted by Link:
Anyways: look at who Bodhi is. We meet Jonoleth Irenicus and his sister Bodhi. AFter trying to steal the essence of the Tree of Life, both elves are to be banished from Suldanesselar facing the gravest punishment of all: they are to be left soulless. Bodhi finds a way to fill that gap by becoming a vampire, nothing more nothing less. This means that she shouldn't have any special vampiric powers! Storywise, Bodhi is just another elven vampire! Her brother, Jonoleth Irenicus walks another path to fill the aching gap within his body. As a potent mage already (which Bodhi is NOT!) in his elven time, he increases his power, and sets up a plan to once again try and devour the essence of the Tree of Life. For that, he needs a soul, and for a power-hungry elf like Irenicus, that means a potent soul, a strong soul. So who does he choose? He chooses the protagonist of our story because he has Bhaal-essence in him. And why is Irenicus so powerful with this soul? Because he was a 29th level archmage already! Nothing new for you, I hope.
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The storyline leaves out a lot of blanks of Bodhi's past and history, just a Irenicus was a potent archmage, maybe Bodhi was a potent fighter?
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Bhaal essence does not give you super-anti-vampiric powers! For christ's sake, Bodhi owns the powers for like maybe one and a half weeks! It took the player years to control his powers, let alone attain special powers like the ones in the special ability button.
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How do you know this? Maybe Bodhi has been a vampire for years, there is no detailed in-game history of Bodhi as a vampire. That allows for a lot of flexibility considering Bodhi's powers.
Besides, I find CHARNAME way more silly than Bodhi. Bodhi history is left out, you directly control CHARNAME, who can attain legendary levels on his own in about 1-2 weeks.
Edit: If you're talking about after gaining a soul, then Bodhi could just have not used those abilities when fighting you earlier because (for example) she didn't think you were a big enough threat.
[ 08-23-2004, 05:43 PM: Message edited by: JayS ]