Misc Changes

With the extensive lifespan of Arelith, also come a large number of mechanical changes. Some of them large enough to merit their own page, such as the Spell changes and the Feat changes, and others may be fewer modifications in a larger spectrum. This page covers the latter.

Weapon Changes

Katana: Is now affected by the Weapon Finesse feat.

Quarterstaff: Is now affected by Weapon Finesse feat. In addition to that, Quarterstaves will benefit from the monk's UBAB progression.

Shuriken: Will benefit from the monk's UBAB progression.

Spear: Are now considered medium-sized weapons, thus they can be wielded with a shield. Smaller characters, such as halfings and kobolds may use them as two-handed weapons.

Note that due to a bug, a spear with shield may not be quickslotted. There's a file to fix this available at Google Drive[1], just download and install in the Override folder.

Trident: Stats changed from 1d8/x2 to 2d6/x3 of damage, making them a sort of cross between greatsword and greataxe. They are still large weapons, and thus they cannot be wielded with shield. Due to a bug, Weapon Focus feat will not work for tridents.

Misc Items

Blade Orbs

A blade orb is an anti-pickpocket item. A character that pickpockets a blade orb will be paralyzed for a couple of rounds.

Blade orbs are usually found as part of loot in the modules, either from mobs or chests.
A high Search score from part of the pickpocketer will allow the pickpocketer to avoid the blade orbs altogether.
Pickpocketing grabs one slot. If they're stacked and a pickpocket grabs them, it'll take all the stacked blade orbs at once with effect of only one.
With unstacked blade orbs, the pick-pockets have a better chance to be caught.

Lasso

A lasso has two functions. It can be either used to capture certain mobs, or it can be flung to certain specific locations to generate shortcuts.

The lasso can only be used to capture a limited array of creatures, following a few conditions:

Not boss-type creatures
Not flagged as plot or immortal
Not PC associates
Medium or Small sized
Near Death

Attempting to capture a creature is a ranged touch attack. On successful touch attack and with all conditions met, the creature is captured and added to the party as a henchman. They will not attack, and cannot be controlled in any way, and only passively follow the lassoer.

After capturing, bear in mind that:

One PC can only capture one creature at a time.
When you drop the lasso item, log off, or die, the captured creature will flee.
You can use the lasso item again on the captured creature to release it (it will flee) or you can use the lasso item on another PC, to transfer the captured creature to the targeted PC.
You can sell the captured creature to certain NPCs in the module.
Currently, it's not possible to take captured creatures across servers (other portals work fine)

Shovel

Rope