A bit late in reporting, but these three loot containers in the Bat Cave aren't spawning loot as they should:







Please take a look at their scripting and whatnot.  Thank you.

Well, you would normally need a reason to pick Feats like those anyway (and don't forget that the katana also has a smaller "footprint" in your inventory than the bastard sword does, which someone might come to appreciate after stuffing one's inventory with loot and needing a spot to stick one last magic belt...but that's about it).  Like you might find a Bastard Sword +3 with 1d6 Fire damage as your main weapon of preference, but then you might also find a Keen Katana +2/+5 vs Giants which does +2d4 damage to Giants as well.  And you often cut through the Crags to go to Mirabar (plus, you'll eventually graduate to giant-infested locales like Mounts Frostbite and Hotenow), so that katana might seem pretty attractive too.  So why not pick Feats for both weapons?

To be honest, I've never tried my hand at a Weapon Master.  I assumed that if you had Weapon Focus for more than one weapon, you would be forced to pick one weapon before you could become a Weapon Master.  Is that the case?  Maybe I should create such a character, even though I already have plenty of characters already.  (It can't be Shazoradd; she's already earmarked to be a pure Barbarian with Rages both Thundering and Terrifying.  She might even become strong enough to lift the trap door to Borcha's basement!  Is that a courtship ritual in Borcha's tribe, Torin?  )

I never tried to play a scythe-wielding Paladin, but I have had other characters specialize in it, either playing up to the scythe's associations with farming (ie. my scythe-bearing agricultural Barbarian from the Black Lion tribe, the one Uthgardt tribe known for taking up farming), its associations with death (ie. your usual black-wearing, death-fixated, run-of-the-mill Cyricists, Bhaalites or Myrkulites) or its associations with bloodletting and carnage (ie. my Baphomet-sworn Fighter who, alas, never quite made it to Blackguard).  Any number of horror movies can attest to the scythe's remarkable talent for slicing flesh and spilling blood.  Like Hostel 2.  Never have I watched a scene go from "somewhat arousing" to "ghastly and cringe-inducing" so fast....   

So the scythe has its Good aspects as well as its Evil aspects, depending on its bearer and its bearer's inclinations.  I imagine that a paladin with a scythe would be possible, since it's not really a given that all paladins must be knightly, just living ideals of their respective gods and religions.  Chauntea is a Neutral Good goddess of earth, farming, agriculture and bountiful harvests, and a popular goddess with the commonfolk.  What would one of her paladins be like?  Her Clerics and her faithful tend to be simpler, inglorious, rustic, salt-of-the-earth types, and her Paladins would surely be similar to their ilk (though paragons and defenders of the Chauntean faith no less).  And it so happens that Chauntea and her clergy favor the scythe as well.  So I imagine that a Chauntean Paladin might be driving his mule cart laden with freshly harvested sheaves of barley into town, then on coming upon a mob of brigands sacking and plundering a caravan of all its food and other wares, mutter a bitter, curmudgeonly prayer to the Great Mother as he clambers off his cart, takes up his well-worn scythe and imbues its harvesting blade with her holy power before closing with the brigands to teach them the error of their ways....

(Note to self: Chauntean Paladin, at some point in the future.  Do it.)

And Shazoradd is Level 15 now.  I love the Levels that are divisible by 5 — at least on this server — because characters of those levels can make some pretty lucrative Gold and Experience by easily hunting and killing criminals of the next higher bracket.  Bringing down those Level 16-20 criminals is pretty simple for her to accomplish now.  But then she's going to be Level 16, and those Level 21-25 criminals will tear her apart if she goes after them.  So Levels 2, 6, 11 and 16 are pretty lousy for bounty hunting.  But 5, 10, 15 and 20 are wonderful.   

(I finally opted to give her Improved Critical (Bastard Sword), and it's already serving her well.  Sadly, that meant passing on Cleave again.  I know; it's hard to imagine a Level 15 character from a warrior Class without Cleave.  Shaz was too busy taking Feats like Luck of Heroes, Alertness (because I hate those sneaky goblins in the Goblin Caves), Improved Initiative, Exotic Weapon Proficiency and Heavy Armor Proficiency.  Maybe she'll finally take Cleave at Level 18.  We'll see.)

So as Shazoradd approaches Level 15 and a new Feat, I'm reminded of my endless dilemna: To pick — or not to pick — weapon-related Feats.  You know...like Weapon Focus (Whatever), Improved Critical (Whatever), and so on.

Shaz has a pretty good bastard sword, so it's tempting to pick something like Weapon Focus (Bastard Sword) or Improved Critical (Bastard Sword), so that she can go forth even more boldly with that sword and split even more heads.  But what if I find something even better down the road, like a Vorpal Katana +5 or a Battle Axe of Instant Disintegration or whatever?

And there lies the heart of the dilemna.  On one hand, if you've already found a great weapon, why not make it even deadlier?  On the other hand, if you should switch to another weapon later on, you've essentially wasted a Feat.  Or two.  Or more.  This isn't such an issue for Classes with a weapon preference, like Monk or Arcane Archer; if you're a Monk, you're probably best off picking Unarmed Feats, and if you're an Arcane Archer, then Weapon Feat (Longbow) is probably your thing.  But for Fighters, Barbarians, Paladins, Rangers and the like, you just know that there's going to be lots of temptation down the road; specialize in the battle axe today and you're bound to find a Longsword +5 tomorrow.

This may not be a big thing for Fighters and all their Bonus Feats; I remember playing a Fighter with two pairs of Focuses, Specializations and Improved Criticals once.  But what about the others and their more limited numbers of Feat picks?

What do you think, all in all?  Speak freely. 

Those Soulless are the most annoying little things.  Good thing they'll follow you around corners and drift right into your clobbering distance. 

So were there supposed to be more paladins holed up in that besieged area, originally?

I have managed to find one artifact weapon, a Bastard Sword that is really good (Something akin to Frostmourn being it's name), but if memory serves that was either Tails or Demiurge's find originally. Which means between the three of us, we have one artifact weapon x.x

Ooh!  What do you say, Tails?  Are you the one who found Frostmourn? 

And are there any artifacts for monks, perchance? 

Also, I want to add that this conversation is great, and I'll be back to look through the ideas to see if I can help once I get a handle on..uh.. life.

Real life comes first.   Sure we completely understand here. 

Three more mini-suggestions:

38)  Wands of Town Portal for various other destinations, depending on where they're purchased (Town Portal to Neverwinter Wood, Town Portal to Neverwinter, Town Portal to Mirabar...).
39)  Snake Skins become harvestable with the Captain Gentry Skinner (just like with every other skinnable animal), rather than clicking on the snake carcasses.
40)  Non-skinnable animals which leave persistent, non-lootable corpses either become skinnable or vanish after death (ie. Wild Dogs, Wargh Pigahs).

Thanks. 

And what the heck was the Wand of Sakes Portal for?   

And since I don't play them anymore...

GSID: Wids

Characters to be Deleted:
Soleil Sunbathed
Yggdrie Or-Margr

Thank you.