Shadow Keeper help

[timothy trotter]

just for fun, im making a super cool fighter, sort of a evil thing. anyway, i want him to be able to cast lightning spells, really quickly, you know how Irenicus can cast really fast in the cut scenes?

The problem is this, how do i cange the casting time of my fighter, and how do i make it so there is a button to cast spells on the interface? I thought of giving him one level in cleric, but then he has all the weapon restrictions that a cleric has. The spells i want are chain lightning, and call lightning, the first is a lvl 3 spell and the latter is a lvl 6. I have made it possible, by adding spell slots in a priest book, and memorised the spells for him, but i am unable to cast the spells.

For the portrait, i have made a cool, anti keldorn thing, just played around with the colours, i think it looks neat, ill post it if you want....

Thanks,
Timothy

[Sir Degrader]

Right click on your interface to change it, at least that how it works in IWD2. Post the pic!

[timothy trotter]

embaressingly enough, i have forgottern how to post pictures, other than have a link to it somewhere else that is hosting it. oh well sorry i got your hopes up.

[Sir Degrader]

Why not try imageshack? BTW, did you fix your problem with the casting speed? If so, can you post your solution?

[Iron Greasel]

As for getting a fighter cast spells, I don't know. Armour will interfere. You might be able to make them into innate abilities instead, but I'm not sure how to do that. The quick casting thing comes from 9th level spell Improved Alacrity. I'm not sure how the game deals with it, but the most obvious option would be flags. Get a mage, cast it, save, and see if anything changes in the flag window.

[Illumina Drathiran'ar]

A trueclass fighter can't cast spells. You'd have to multi or dual class. The SoA interface can't be changed like IWD2.

[timothy trotter]

nah, i haven't dixed the casting problem, i could however make an item, such as cloak that would decrease casting time by 6 or something, such like the robe of vecna does, although IIRC it only does it by 4.

Originally posted by Iron Greasel You might be able to make them into innate abilities instead, but I'm not sure how to do that.

By using shadow keeper you can add new innate abilities, although, unfortunately, call lightning and chain lightning comes under the preiest section, no the innate abilities sections,so it is impossible to make an innate ability from either of these two spells.
I say impossible in reagrd to it being impossible for me to figure out how to make it possible to change it to a innate ability.

[Iron Greasel]

Then I guess the easiest way would be to make him a fighter/mage/priest multiclass.

[timothy trotter]

that would give me the weapon restrictions of a preiest and a mage.... is there any way to change the files around so that chain lightning and call lightning can be added in shadow keeper as an innate ability, instead as a priest spell?

[timothy trotter]

I know i was the last person to comment on this topic, and im not suppost to re-post, but, would it work if i made the charicter a lvl 1 paladin, then dualed over to a fighter, so the fighter would be the active class, but he would have no weapon restrictions like if he were a cleric fighter. The reason i ask this is that it would allow me to cast priest spells.

I know it isnt a valid dual class, so i would need to make it a shadow keeper dual class.

Would this work, or would i suffer ill effects? such as bugs, or would there be problems by make an iregular dual class?

Thanks,
Timothy