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manjarowolfie
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I've been working with the foundry for a few weeks now, slowly but surely getting the hang of it and creating my first foundry quest. However one thing that remains to bother me is the lack of friendly encounter variations. There are a wide variety of enemy type encounters that vary in their tactics and appearance; but none of these variances for friendly encounters leave what I could've created limited.
All we can do is reskin the encounter NPCs to make them look like who we want and match them to a specific mob so they act that way too. But that's only if they're the enemy. That's cool, but I don't want to make an NPC follower that'll just cower in the corner as I fight or be ignored by enemies like a leper. It just breaks the immersion you may want to build if you tell the player, "This is the protagonist of the quest and he's stern and will fight to achieve his goals.", and then the guy either passes by like no f***** were given, or stands their like a kid waiting for a bully to take his lunch money until you save him. It's just odd.
There's only 1 ranged friendly encounter type and they're all archers; everything else is melee brutes. Sweet biscuits of Demonlord Zythd'k, even the Nashers had mages! Am I the only one who thinks this city's forces are extremely underdeveloped? I digress.
Anywho, what about Mages? Clerics? Rogues even?? Call me crazy, but I doubt the Neverwinter City Guard is just Wolverine'ing their way in and out of trouble. Someone has to be there healing their wounded, and someone has to be there providing the ranged support that archers can't. There were two mages in the opening cinematic. If anything, that should prove that the guards have more than just brute force and flying twigs at their disposal. Could there possibly be an adding of more friendly encounter types to the Foundry? At the very least, some basics ones that have the same powers as players(and possibly, dependent on player level, have skills to match accordingly).
I remember going on the The Cragmire Crypt Dungeon(I believe it was that one) and we fought a boss group known as "Competing Adventurer Group". Boy how fun that fight was as they had moves just like players and used them appropriately too(Curse that Control Wizard Rogue combo; almost killed me). Could we get that as a friendly encounter? I would love to make quest that have these encounters supporting you with magic, arrows, rogue trickery, and other things and not aren't escorting a timid grown man/woman to a destination. ok, I'm rambling now. Thanks for taking the time to read this though.
All we can do is reskin the encounter NPCs to make them look like who we want and match them to a specific mob so they act that way too. But that's only if they're the enemy. That's cool, but I don't want to make an NPC follower that'll just cower in the corner as I fight or be ignored by enemies like a leper. It just breaks the immersion you may want to build if you tell the player, "This is the protagonist of the quest and he's stern and will fight to achieve his goals.", and then the guy either passes by like no f***** were given, or stands their like a kid waiting for a bully to take his lunch money until you save him. It's just odd.
There's only 1 ranged friendly encounter type and they're all archers; everything else is melee brutes. Sweet biscuits of Demonlord Zythd'k, even the Nashers had mages! Am I the only one who thinks this city's forces are extremely underdeveloped? I digress.
Anywho, what about Mages? Clerics? Rogues even?? Call me crazy, but I doubt the Neverwinter City Guard is just Wolverine'ing their way in and out of trouble. Someone has to be there healing their wounded, and someone has to be there providing the ranged support that archers can't. There were two mages in the opening cinematic. If anything, that should prove that the guards have more than just brute force and flying twigs at their disposal. Could there possibly be an adding of more friendly encounter types to the Foundry? At the very least, some basics ones that have the same powers as players(and possibly, dependent on player level, have skills to match accordingly).
I remember going on the The Cragmire Crypt Dungeon(I believe it was that one) and we fought a boss group known as "Competing Adventurer Group". Boy how fun that fight was as they had moves just like players and used them appropriately too(Curse that Control Wizard Rogue combo; almost killed me). Could we get that as a friendly encounter? I would love to make quest that have these encounters supporting you with magic, arrows, rogue trickery, and other things and not aren't escorting a timid grown man/woman to a destination. ok, I'm rambling now. Thanks for taking the time to read this though.
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"Friend" toggle on something other than an archer, sword-and-board fighter, and a fireballing mage? Yes, please. Even if they were just friendlies who did no damage and were immortal.
You can edit the encounter to get rid of the others individually as far as I can guess. Simply go to the component tree, select that specific encounter and delete the npcs in you don't like and leave the ones you do. I might be wrong though so don't count on that. I know that I can delete individual items in a cluster so it might work for encounters.