Neverwinter Nights Forum News
Posted Thursday, November 27, 2003 - 0:55 CET by chevalier

Here are today's Neverwinter Nights forum highlights. Please take into account that these are only single parts of various threads and should not be taken out of context. Bear in mind also that the posts presented here are copied as-is, and that any bad spelling and grammar does not get corrected on our end.

Georg Zoeller, Designer

Hellball: Hellball has 40m radius in NWN. You can't evade the explosion but you may be able to run for cover before the Hellball detonates (if you see it coming) ... unless you were directly targeted by the caster, in which case the Hellball is homing on you, tough luck (through you could consider to run toward the caster if that happens).

Summary
- Hellball has a Save, the DC follows the epic spell Save DC rules
- You can not evade hellball
- Hellball ignores SR
- Hellball does not have the 10d6 backlash on the caster because it's not easy to stay clear of the blast area, (through its present in code and can be activated by setting a variable(
- The casting range is "long" and the hellball projectile is homing on the target location or object
- The spell covers 40m, which is roughly 4x4 tiles.

Avoiding Hellball effects:

Quote: does boring, average, "even the kid down the street has two", spell mantle protect from hellball? Or do you need shiny and sexy epic mantle of some sort?

Nothing protects you from hellball (except enough resistance against each of the elemental damage types used). SR does not work.

Quote: Well no reflex save according to Georg. Only the resistance to different types of damage

Wrong, there is a reflex save, but it does not "safe you" from the spell, you would still get half of the damage.