Just a suggestion to increase some of the bounty item drops or add them to currently missing:

Frost Giants - Had to fight two of them and neither dropped a head. They are much harder than mountain giants and could benefit from a bounty item.

Frost Orcs - Very rarely drop an item. I think for about 50+ that I killed in the Stormhorns I got like 4 heads.

Ogres - I have yet to see an ogre in the stormhorns drop a head. Had about 1 in 5 drop one in the Hullack. It might be tied to a specific named spawn.

Goblins - About 1 in 10 in the king's forest dropped an ear. May be tied to only specific named spawns.

Kobalds - Seem to have the most consistent and highest chance of drop so far

I could see why maybe limiting the orc head drops and goblin ear drops might be intentional to balance the system and not give a metric ton of XP/gold from something that spawns alot, however, if something could be changed to at least get something each encounter, that would make it more fun.

I feel like harder spawns like giants should all drop something. That got a bit dicey for me, even fully buffed.

@Strife-and-Discord

I it's meat to be hard, ok, but it isn't as rewarding as the difficulty would suggest. If you aren't an evil villain willing to wear obvious contraband and be instantly exiled, the loot was unusable. The supplies were nice but you'd 100% need to use more than you get. Might have been bad rolls on our part, but I'm happy we did it for the plot/lore we needed but probably wouldn't go on my list of quests to do in the future.

Granted the party ran in all directions and died

This part is not necessary to the bug report and does not create a very fun OOC environment. IC digs are always valid and never personal, but dropping it in an OOC forum such as the Bug reports just leads to toxic playing environments.

@Puffy

This currently fits the narrative Daern is running anyway and makes total sense. Tracking and rolling :)

Just a few areas that could use some planting zones:

• Collinwood: Lots of open area that isn't really used for much. Could use a forest planting node or two.

• One or two more to each area in the Kings forest: There are a bunch of open unused areas here too.

• Hullack: I only remember seeing 1 or 2 when I was exploring. Might have been more but not enough to really be memorable.

I based these recommendations on how plentiful the forest nodes are in the Redwood. You can find two almost next to each other sometimes in the Redwood.

Can we please talk about these? I've literally never done this quest before and had no way of knowing there was even a threat of instakill. It ripped through my entire stoneskin and still did 102 damage on top of that. I 100% agree that traps should be a thing in quests and there should always be a good reason to have a rogue or other trap springer, but this is just mean for no reason. It also 100% encourages metagaming. I'm not rage-quitting the character, but I also chose not to respawn just yet and to go to bed instead because that was just super frustrating.

I tried to talk to a DM about it, but none were available tonight.

Area name: King's Forest Knight'swood
Issue Location: Lion Corpses
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Issue Description: Lions using the old model, that essentially looks like a female lion, do not drop a hide when skinning, only meat and a large bone. The male lion models still do as far as I know.

Works now, Thanks Strife

A thought comes to mind, since we don't allow stacking bonuses of the same type in CoA. Could you theoretically, as a work around, make the shifting items a "set" and have the bonus applied by one of the items, say the cloth, be increased in AC by the amount of the shifter set items worn? So since essentially the whole set should add +5 AC, you could have the Armor provide 2, the armor and helmet provide 3, and the armor, the helmet, and the shield provide +5 to the armor?

Alternatively maybe just make it so you have to have the full set to get the max armor bonus and remove the actual armor bonus modifiers from the other set items? I do, however, don't know how well that would work when shifted, if the set bonus would remain when you shift.

You'd also need to decide what AC bonus you'd want for the animal form. If you want it all Deflection, it would go to the helmet, all shield, and it would go to the buckler, or all armor and it would go to the body. This would likely need to be balanced because all to the robe would give +5 armor AC but make mage armor potions useless. All to the hood would give +5 deflection but then people could guzzle mage armor potions to get upwards of +9 with mage armor, while making shield spells/potions useless.

Barkskin is already useless in animal form as every creature gets some natural AC bonus that doesn't stack with barks (I do it so I don't die when shifting).

If you put it all on the shield, you'd make animal shifted druids have the potential of +13 overall when you add set bonus, mage armor, and shield potions. (neither of which are druid spells so they would be relying on friends or consumables.)

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Issue Description: Currently the Awaken 5th Circle spell does not have any effect on animal companions. Likely because it is coded for NWN standard animal companions and not custom CoA ones.