Familiars linked to hitpoints?
Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 5:23 am
Hello
I'm playing through the game again, using a Wizard with her Pixie familiar. I've obviously conecnetrated most of her skill points on Intelligence, but I was fed up with the way that she died frequently, whenever attacked directly. So I put quite a few points into her strength, her dexterity (for shooting arrows from a distance) and a couple on her Constitution. At the time, I didn't realise about Const being important to prevent spell disruption, but it is not at a minus value. Her only low score is her Wisdom.
I've played Wizard before, using the Pixie, but I think I took the recommended stats that time. Anyway, everytime my Familiar dies, she knocks a couple of hit pioints off me. I don't remember this happening before. It was a real pain in the beginning, as my Wizard only had 12 hp whilst running around Beggar's nest; Charmane the Pixie would charge off to engage one zombie, the Wizard would get surrounded by zombies who would knock off a point at a time, Charmane would then die and that would usually be enough to ensure the Wizard died too! My first thought was that it may have been due to my Scores on Const. etc.
I just can't understand why this happening, although I have noticed that now my NWN actually works, things like the Lenton Bug seem to have been smoothed out. It's as if now I've put this onto a pretty good machine, I've gotten some tweaks to my game without my having installed a patch or changed the game or anything. Has anyone else had experience of Familiars causing them pain? Is this another drawback of using them?
I'm playing through the game again, using a Wizard with her Pixie familiar. I've obviously conecnetrated most of her skill points on Intelligence, but I was fed up with the way that she died frequently, whenever attacked directly. So I put quite a few points into her strength, her dexterity (for shooting arrows from a distance) and a couple on her Constitution. At the time, I didn't realise about Const being important to prevent spell disruption, but it is not at a minus value. Her only low score is her Wisdom.
I've played Wizard before, using the Pixie, but I think I took the recommended stats that time. Anyway, everytime my Familiar dies, she knocks a couple of hit pioints off me. I don't remember this happening before. It was a real pain in the beginning, as my Wizard only had 12 hp whilst running around Beggar's nest; Charmane the Pixie would charge off to engage one zombie, the Wizard would get surrounded by zombies who would knock off a point at a time, Charmane would then die and that would usually be enough to ensure the Wizard died too! My first thought was that it may have been due to my Scores on Const. etc.
I just can't understand why this happening, although I have noticed that now my NWN actually works, things like the Lenton Bug seem to have been smoothed out. It's as if now I've put this onto a pretty good machine, I've gotten some tweaks to my game without my having installed a patch or changed the game or anything. Has anyone else had experience of Familiars causing them pain? Is this another drawback of using them?