Greyhawk: The Temple of Elemental Evil Forum News
Posted Saturday, March 22, 2003 - 20:18 CET by Gopher

Here are today's official Greyhawk: The Temple of Elemental Evil forum highlights. Please take into account that these are only single parts of various threads and should not be taken out of context.

Huy Nguyen, Interface and Magic System

Quote: Spontanious Casting?
Yep - "spontaneous casting" is in!
In case it hasn't already been covered: if you are tending towards good, then you can convert non-domain cleric spells into Cure Wounds spells; evil-tending to Inflict Wounds spells.

Quote: Will turning and Rebuking be featured in the game?
yep - both are in!
Commanding undead is even better than rebuking!

Quote: What about Romances?
I don't want to give away any spoilers, suffice to say that there are some romances of all kinds in ToEE.

Btw, some of my favorite NPC and/or PC "romances" in a cRPG came from Ultima VII:1+2. I think the love interest in U7:1 was some girl at the Shrine of Compassion (whether your PC was male or female), can't remember. you could also go to establishments of ill repute hehe. In U7:2 you could get down with some Ice Sorceress. it wasn't no leisure suit larry, but hey.

In general i think the NPC interaction, story, and "mature themes" in U7:1+2 is some of the best ever.

Quote: So is the skill list complete yet?
I don't believe the implemented skills list (non-item creation and non-meta magic) has changed since steve enumerated them. For sure, skills like Ride, Jump, Swim, etc, won't be implemented, as they wouldn't work well in the game engine.

Currently this is (as far as I know) the list of skills that are implemented and working in the game.

Appraise
Bluff
Concentration
Diplomacy
Disable Device
Escape Artist
Gather Information
Heal
Hide
Intimidate
Listen
Move Silently
Open Lock
Perform
Pick Pocket
Search
Sense Motive
Spellcraft
Spot
Wilderness Lore

Tim Cain, Lead Designer and Program Leader

Quote: Sanctuary Spell for Clerics?
Sanctuary is in. It was a priority 1 spell for us, given that I consider it a mainstay for clerics and that it is a domain spell as well.
Anyway, you cast it and then any NPC has to make a Will save to hit you. The spell breaks if you do anything hostile, but you can cast inoffensive spells.

Quote: Return Of The Fatcam TM!
The Troika Fatcam is back!
Some of today's highlights:

The Evershrinking Mound O'Chips
The Bowl of Untouched Fruit
The Unemptied Pail of Recyclable Caffeinated Soda Cans
The Map of Troika World Domination

Steve Moret, Lead Programmer

Quote: Are there Prestige Domains for Clerics?
Nope o要 the prestige domains, I think we are just doing the standard domains. Here is the list (currently):

air, animal, chaos, death, destruction, earth, evil, fire, good, healing, knowledge, law, luck, magic, plant, protection, strength, sun, travel, trickery, war, water

As far as I know all of their domain abilities are in, and we currently have domain spells for every clerical domain and level except Earth level 2 (and we will come up with o要e, or die trying).

Quote: Using skills in dailogs
I know of o要e item (which I wont say what it is), and o要e spell (True Seeing) that actually affect dialog.

Quote:Combat Transition Animations.
Combat transition animations are something Mike has been bugging me about for years. It is something we'd really like to support, something that we think adds a lot, visually, to the game. Unfortunatly it is currently o要 my "cool-shit" list. And its not too high up o要 that list.

Quote:About Screenshots.
We make upwards of 20+ screenshots each month. However it isn't up to us o要 when they get released, how they get released, or to who they get released. We are just as stoked and excited making the screenshots as you are waiting for them.

On a side note, Mike went to Infogrames, Santa Monica o要 Monday and both our producer and our PR guy said they liked the shots. So all I guess we can say is hang o要 tight, they should be out eventually...

Quote: Will there be Psionics?
No there will not be psionics.