LugNut

After reviewing many posts, I have not seen a difinative answer to: Can I add a new PC race?

Sub race is fine, I just would like to add either an Ogre (true race) or a Drow (sub-race). I am aware that there would be extensive dialog editing to the Drow since many of the dialogs in game would not recognize the race, but its my time, I can waste it if I want to.

Any thoughts on this? I immagine that writing the code for an actual new race would be improbable since one would have to add the Avatar at startup.


Lug

I have been having an issue: I want to have a treant drop it's "HOLDRING" so that it can cease being inert and attack the party. The problem is, no matter how I script it, it will not drop/destroy this item.

I have tried:

DestroyItem("HOLDRING")
ActionOverride(MYSELF,"HOLDRING")
TakeItemReplace("HOLDRING","RING09",MYSELF)

An I have also tried using the creatures death variable in place of MYSELF.

If the creature is frozen still by holdring, will it NOT execute it's own script? I want to toss these treants in several wooded areas and do not want to write different scripts.


LugNut

I was going over a post someone made, I figured I would try it out: How can I make there be an equal chance for several different things to happen?

I made a small script to test my theory that I can use RandomNum... I don't think it works the way I want it to. Here is my example:

IF
  True()
  RandomNum(5,1)
  Global("WierdMan","AR0900",0)
THEN
  RESPONSE #100
   CreateCreature("firstguy",[0.0],0)
  SetGlobal("WierdMan","AR0900",1)
END

IF
  True()
  RandomNum(5,2)
  Global("WierdMan","AR0900",0)
THEN
  RESPONSE #100
   CreateCreature("2ndguy",[0.0],0)
  SetGlobal("WierdMan","AR0900",1)
END
  RESPONSE

IF
  True()
  RandomNum(5,3)
  Global("WierdMan","AR0900",0)
THEN
  RESPONSE #100
   CreateCreature("3rdguy",[0.0],0)
  SetGlobal("WierdMan","AR0900",1)
END

IF
  True()
  RandomNum(5,4)
  Global("WierdMan","AR0900",0)
THEN
  RESPONSE #100
   CreateCreature("frthguy",[0.0],0)
  SetGlobal("WierdMan","AR0900",1)
END

IF
  True()
  RandomNum(5,5)
  Global("WierdMan","AR0900",0)
THEN
  RESPONSE #100
   CreateCreature("fifthguy",[0.0],0)
  SetGlobal("WierdMan","AR0900",1)
END

That is basically what I had written. However, now I am wondering why it didn't work the way I wanted it to. Does RandomNum only work for the block that it is in? What I want is for there to be a creature spawn every time, but the creature that spawns (or the location he spawns) to be different. I also want it to be recurring, like on a timer, so that there are always creatures spawning at various times. Is this possible or am I totally lost?

I was hoping that if random number of 5 was rolled, I would get one of these to happen, no matter what.


Thanks for any input.


LugNut