Super Boss Chest list anywhere? OC, SoU and HotU

[Legacy_Motrax85]

               So I've been reading that there are some chests that seed the loot once you open them, making it possible for you to save and 're-roll' what loot you get.

Does anyone have a list of where these are? I would very, very much appreciate this. I've tried googling and I can't really find anything.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_MrZork]

               Chests whose loot script checks the PC and uses that info (class, feats like weapon focus, etc.) and which may yield different loot when saved-game mining are quite common in the OC. Ditto for enemy loot drops. In fact, most containers and monsters with loot are random and I wouldn't be surprised if most of the high- and boss-level chests and so on use such PC-customizing scripts. Any list of random containers would be pretty long, since they are sort of the default for loot. If you read some of the campaign walkthroughs, (like Duncan Clay's NWN reference) will note which containers have fixed loot (some of which are plot items), since there are fewer of those than those of the random loot type. The ones not listed are random.
               
               

               

                     Modifié par MrZork, 12 mars 2012 - 10:45 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_Motrax85]

               So aside from finding out which chests have fixed loot through the reference you named, my best bet would be to just save before opening any container that's around after I've defeated a tough enemy?

I can probably do that. Thank you.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_HipMaestro]

               

Motrax85 wrote...
So aside from finding out which chests have fixed loot through the reference you named, my best bet would be to just save before opening any container that's around after I've defeated a tough enemy?
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Use quicksave.  Most of the so-called boss (high-end random loot) chests are consistent in their appearance, at least in the OC... sort of pyramid-shaped and often trapped.  (I never trust my Search check so I have gotten in the habit of this method to prevent a surprise deadly from zapping my toon. ) I'd guess there are somewhere around 50 or more chests in the OC modules that use nw_o2_boss.nss to spawn loot.  There are, however, very few of the class/feat specific ones.

Besides the reloading method, seeding is based on character level (again, in the OC anyway) so the longer one waits to open a chest, the more likely a better item will appear (for example, a dagger +1 at low character level will appear as a dagger +2 after a few more levels).  As MrZork indicated, most chests in the OC seed randomly and can be reopened for different loot (I hate those stinkin' books myself '>).