V1.1 (post release) Scale Encounters.

Lalaith Va'lash · 03-19-07, 03:55 PM

I'm learning two lessons from the feedback I've gotten since releasing this:

1.) In a non-linear mod, make encounters way more scalable than you think they need to be

From Talan in this thread: http://www.layonara.com/community-pr...rc-brutes.html

Lalaith Va'lash · 03-19-07, 03:57 PM

Example:

After meeting Xora in her tower for the first time, I meet a black wizard out side and get whisked away to the Black Wizards' tower to have a conflab. At the end of the conversation, they don't whisk me back. Now, this wouldn't normally be a problem, because, hey, I enjoy a good walk, but, in this case, the only way back entails a jaunt through "Orc Brute" territory. The problem is, the Orc Brutes thump me, thump me good, thump me dead.

I think you can see my point; not having initially travelled through an area to get to the Black Wizards' Tower, I now have to travel back through an area that is too tough for me.

It seems to me, either the Black Wizards should whisk me back from whence they whisked me, or the Orc Brutes are too tough.

Talan Va'lash · 04-02-07, 09:01 PM

Orc spawns nerfed.

The spawns are handlable with a level 2 char and still not stupid easy with a level 8.

Lalaith Va'lash · 04-12-07, 04:39 AM

This thread was left open because of other encounters throughout the module that need adjustment.

One I can think of offhand are the Ice fairy like things on the lonely path in the Valley of the moons.

Another is the Spirit guardian at the end of the lonely path.

I was under the impression you were going to make encounters more scalable for lower level pc's. Not spawning as much at lower levels, or spawning weaker creatures at lower levels? over all. There are more encounters than just the orcs that people were having trouble with.

Talan Va'lash · 04-12-07, 08:59 PM

I rebalanced all the creatures in the Valley of the Moons, I must have forgotten to mention it.

Oh, no it's that I was thinking of them under the "creatures with illegal feats" bug report.

per reports the minotaurs were balanced prior to the 1.1 release and no issues with them have been brought up since, so I think they're good.

It was the particular spawns that needed to be made more scalable, most others were already more scalable (in fact, the orcs were pretty scalable but they had room to scale up just no room to scale down heh.)