Temple of Elemental Evil discussion thread (merged)

[Shard O'Glase]

I'm a little irked at magic item creation. Though this is mainly minor stuff.

1. Fairly small list.
2. some items appear unmakeable for exmaple headband of intellect on the list but it neve rlights up to be made.
3. very few masterwork items, so have to do some lame MW gimick, and even that isn't great since I can seem to enchant in to +2 but I can't seem to make a +1 something cool.
4. thanks to the lack of masterwork items I can't pull off the lame gimick for armor since I got me a druid instead of a cleric on the team. Maybe if I hire a merc I can pull it off.

Another minor irritant the barabrians movement is wonky, I put on chain gloves and it drops, a chain helm it drops more, breastplate down to 20' movement and no increased more form barbariandom helps.

Still overall a good game, I just want a patch sometime soon.

 

[Dark Jezter]

Attention all ToEE players! An unofficial patch has been released for the game here! It fixes numerous bugs, makes things work the way they're supposed to, makes masterwork items purchasable from the Blacksmith, and even puts the Brothel back into the game (which was removed by Atari so that the game would get a T-rating).

I reccommend that everyone download it now; it makes an already good game even better!

In related news, an official patch has been announced by Atari and should be out later this month. You can read the press release at Sorcerers Place.

 

[Olive]

The game needs a pretty beefy machine to play on the average graphic settings. Right now, my machine is running at 2.0 Ghz, 512 Ram and a GeForce 4 MX (which sucks) and I am having to run the game just over 800 x 600 and without anti-aliasing. Maybe its just my machine.... Im not sure if this helps you or not, but my bet would be that it is going to run really slow on your comp. I definitely could be wrong though - someone with more computer expertise could probably better answer your question.

Cheers,

I'm guessing my Athlon 1gig, 256 meg of ram and GForce 2MX is gonna have some serious problems then.

All the more reason for a demo!

 

[Joseph Elric Smith]

Attention all ToEE players! An unofficial patch has been released for the game here! It fixes numerous bugs, makes things work the way they're supposed to, makes masterwork items purchasable from the Blacksmith, and even puts the Brothel back into the game (which was removed by Atari so that the game would get a T-rating).

I reccommend that everyone download it now; it makes an already good game even better!

In related news, an official patch has been announced by Atari and should be out later this month. You can read the press release at Sorcerers Place.

thank for the links
ken

 

[Welverin]

Do you know for how long Atari has the contract?

A long time. I'm thinking about nine, but definitely in the 5-10 year range.

THere was a topic around here hwen it first happened, maybe someone will have pity and do a search for it.

It seems they're not handling it in a very popular manner; I'm wondering if WOTC might hand it off to a different company.

Unfortunately WotC has no say in the matter, it was all Hasbro's doing and since they sold the rights to all of there properties wholesale, I have no faith in them doing anything about it.

I wll suggest you not give up on them yet. THey haven't done to bad so far, Interplay didn't start off to well with the D&D license and that turned out pretty well. So as long as Atari sticks with good developers like Bioware and Troika we'll get more good games than bad.

 

[Scorch]

What am I doing wrong?

I am attempting to level my party to third level and decided to get Weapon Finesse for my halfling rogue. It will only allow me to choose dagger and I want to choose short sword. What am I doing wrong? Am I forgetting a basic rule in 3.5e?

Thanks,

Scorch

 

[Victim]

A short sword isn't a light weapon for a halfling. Both are small.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

They're using 3.0 weapons sizes (and 3.0 weapon finesse). Also, Weapon Finesse is bugged, and doesn't work with some weapons (magical/masterwork shortswords in my experience -- though it may be the weapons and not the feat that are bugged). It did work fine with a halfling rogue and dagger for me, though.

 

[uv23]

I've recently given up on this game. The performance is unacceptably bad. I'm in the fire node and it constantly freezes for minutes at a time, and saving games takes 5 - 10 minutes. I am so sick and tired of game publishers releasing buggy software into the market then relying on patches after the fact. Bah.

 

[Scorch]

Thanks for the 411 on Weapon Finesse. I got her Weapon Finesse - Dagger.

I am currently using the latest Circle of Eight unofficial patch and am heading out to the Moat House. Wish me luck!

Scorch