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| Spell Information | |
| Spell level : | Innate level: 2, Warlock: Least |
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| Descriptor(s) : | Eldritch essence, Fear, Mind-affecting |
| Components : | Verbal and Somatic |
| Range : | Medium |
| Duration : | Instantaneous |
| Save : | Will negates |
| Spell resistance : | Yes |
Description[]
In addition to normal eldritch blast damage, the frightful blast forces any creature struck to make a Will save or become shaken for 10 rounds, taking a -2 penalty to attack rolls, saving throws, and ability checks. Creatures with more than 6 HD are immune to the fear effect.
Bug Notes[]
- Obsidian probably does not realize that the penalties are already hard-coded into the EffectFrightened() effect on the engine side, so the re-apply the penalties through scripting, resulting in double penalties being applied. Many Fear spells and spell-like abilities suffer from this bug. The actual penalties applied are: -2 penalty to damage, attack and all saves hard-coded into the engine plus the weird penalties applied through scripting: -2 to saves vs. mind-affecting spells and an additional -2 penalty to damage and attack, resulting in an overall penalty of -4 for mind-affecting saves, -2 for all other saves, -4 to damage and -4 to attack.
- In addition, targets immune to fear who fail their saving throws will still suffer the penalty applied through scripting, resulting in -2 penalty to saves against mind-affecting spells, -2 to damage and attack, which obviously shouldn't happen if target is immune to fear.
- There is no "ability check" penalty, likely because Ability Checks are rarely used in NWN 2. Other spells which inflict a "shaken" effect seem to have the same save and ability check inconsistancies.
- Creatures of exactly 6 HD are immune to the effect of this spell.