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The-Frozen-North / tfn-module

A persistent world set around Neverwinter and the Wailing Death, with content from HotU and NWN2
https://github.com/b5635/the-frozen-north/wiki
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Respawning should Greater Restoration surviving henchmen, possibly also consider instant respawning henchmen under your command #751

Closed Logg-y closed 1 year ago

Logg-y commented 1 year ago

1) Damaged henchmen end up drinking potions in the temple. Confused henchmen can end up attacking the immortal NPCs which means they just die, get respawned and then attacked again. (Unconfirmed, but it might also be possible for them to murder "innocents" which might reflect on the leader's alignment too.) Both of these behaviours are not great. You're incentivised not to wait for them to die fully to avoid the 5min respawn wait, which leads to...

2) Dead henchmen persisting for 5 minutes even after full wipe and respawn to temple sucks. If you want more, you have to get them with persuade. And you can't get the "good" henchman because they're still dead on the floor without sitting and waiting and doing absolutely nothing interesting for 5 minutes.

Playing with henchmen is already a frustration point because of their poor AI (and, to a much lesser extent their worse builds/equipment than what players assemble) this just makes it feel even worse.

Henchmen staying dead on the floor for 5 minutes even if the master is out of area is great when you need to run away, but when you wipe fully back to a temple it's just not fun.

b5635 commented 1 year ago

We should consider if we should abandon all henchman and followers upon respawning or teleporting back. It's sort of odd that they come back with you at all.

I'll implement it as is, but something to think about.