Monsters and how they work.

[origen]

It has been a while, but I think the hit damage is based on Strength and some other values, although I forget which. You can not edit that one.

[dragonbait]

It seems that no matter what I change, these beasts simply cannot hit my party when using their normal attacks. The default attack that most all monsters have (0x000e0001) just misses 99.9% of the time.

How can I make this work? Raising monster dex seems to do nothing but to insure that they will get in the initial attacks. Raising monster strength didn't do anything either.

If there was a way to add +tohit to this it might work, but with my party sitting at an easy -30AC all around (which can be easily done) they just seem immune to normal attacks.

So would a workaround be to leave out the default attack (0x000e0001) and just use a different attack?

For Inky it seems that I have 3 styles of attack....
0x000e0001
0x0009000c
0x001f0011

yet only the default 0x000e0001 seems to be working as Inky does nothing but normal attacks which are innefective against anyone with a -10 AC. Maybe by removing the default and using only alternate attack styles? I'll have to test it out later

[origen]

That should work. You do not have to include the default, from what I remember. I may be wrong, though.

[Growler]

It has been a while, but I think the hit damage is based on Strength and some other values, although I forget which. You can not edit that one.

..other values such as possibly..

luck?
meanness?
weapon (esp. any extra +damage) ?

[dragonbait]

Here's a question if anyone knows here....

For Hit Point Variance (or other variances)

It says.........
# MaxHP HPVariance
# MaxHP is the maximum HP value allowed for this # creature
# HPVariance is the maximum amount by which MaxHP may be # reduced (random up to this value)
(example)
700 500

Does this mean that while the maximum hit points can be up to 700, Does the second number mean that the lowest Hit Points can be is 500? or that hit points can be subtracted by up to 500? with a lowest Hit Point of 200? I'm taking it to mean that the lowest HP can be 500, but if anyone knows for sure....?

[origen]

From what I remember, that would mean that the minimum will be 200 in this scenario. The a random number from 0 to the variance number is subtracted from the maximum.

So, if you have 700 500, there will be a random value between 0 and 500, which will then be subtracted from 700 to get the creature's HP.

If you had 700 50, then the minimum will be 650.

[dragonbait]

I see. Thanks.