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Neverwinter Nights 1
Familiar & Companion Fixes
by Ben Harrison, BCH & The Krit
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Index:
1: Installation
2: Use
3: Notes for the Community
4: Credits
5: Updates & Bugfixes

This small override fixes the attack properties of the wizard/sorcerer Fire Mephit, Hell Hound, and Faerie Dragon familiars, as well as a number of similar bugs relating to familiars and animal companions. Additionally, an exploit related to the familiars' dialogue options is fixed.

See the NWNWiki for full details of familiars and animal companions.

Details of bugs fixed:

• Level 35-40 Fire Mephit familiar missing attack properties (nw_fm_fire**)
• Level 35-40 Hell Hound familiar missing attack properties (nw_fm_hell**)
• Level 35-40 Faerie Dragon familiar missing attack properties (x0_fm_fdrg**)
• Heal spell can fire from familiar dialogue
• Level 15 & 16 Dire Wolf companion [various fixes] (nw_ac_dwlf**)
• Level 8, 10, 14, 18, 35-40 Giant Spider companion [various fixes] (nw_ac_spid**)
• Level 40 Hawk companion missing items (nw_ac_hawk40)
• Level 12 & 14 Wolf companion [various fixes] (nw_ac_wolf**)
• Level 7 Imp familiar has Ice Mephit properties (nw_fm_imp07)
• Eyeball Familiar levels 21-25 - reduced uses per day of eye-rays and spells to match earlier and later levels. (Bugs mentioned in Wikia article.)
• Faerie Dragon Familiar level 19 - removed erroneous Daze Bolt, replaced with normal 2/day Improved Invisibility and 2/day Confusion Bolt. (Bug mentioned in Wikia article.)
• Pixie Familiar level 17 - Wisdom raised from 12 to 15 to match earlier and later levels. (Bug mentioned in Wikia article.)
• Hell Hound Familiar levels 13-14 - upped Fire Breath from 2/day to 3/day to match earlier and later levels. (Bugs mentioned in Wikia article.)
• Bat Familiar level 4 - added Weapon Finesse feat to match all other levels. (Bug mentioned in Wikia article.)

The fixes are unlikely to conflict with any other custom content, and are CEP compatible. Further information and installation instructions can be found in the included readme file.

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1. Installation
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Place the included 36 files into your NWN installation's override folder (default: C:\NeverwinterNights\NWN\override).

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2. Use
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Play Neverwiner Nights normally; the fixed familiars and companions will appear correctly when summoned, as normal. The creatures are otherwise unchanged. This fix will also apply to previously saved games. The fixes will not work in multiplayer, however, unless the module builder implements them. The dialogue fix will not work if the same conversation file is already customised in a module.

Conflicts with other haks are unlikely.

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3. Notes for the Community
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Individual modders and custom content teams are welcome to use, modify, and compile this mod as they see fit.

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4. Credits
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Fixes, packaging and documentation:
Benjamin Harrison ([email protected])

Additional familiar fixes:
bch

Investigating & reporting the majority of the familiar/companion bugs:
The Krit

Pointing out the Heal dialogue exploit:
ShaDoOoW

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5. Updates & Bugfixes
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6/12/2008
* Initial release

20/01/2009
* Fixed Fire Mephit and Faerie Dragon bugs

26/01/2009
* Fixed an exploit in the familiars' dialogue file

24/02/2009
* Fixed several animal companion bugs

27/07/2010
* Fixed level 7 Imp familiar bug

03/11/2010
* Added bch's familiar fixes (thanks bch!):