2001 - Jan. - 12

The file HAMM06.ITM is an edited version of the Dwarven Thrower, a +3 warhammer only usable by Dwarves. It is unique in that it can be thrown as well as used in melee like other hammers.

For this edition of the edited file, I changed the type of damage it will do when thrown from Piercing/Missile to Blunt. It is not known whether its original definition was intended or erroneous, so I have left this file out of my FixPack archive and Bugfixes page, but it seems more reasonable than for a hammer to do piercing damage just because it happens to be thrown. I can understand the distinction for an axe, which when thrown whirls rapidly and has plenty of piercing points, but hammers don't, having a broad striking face that leaves little else to strike an opponent with the momentum of the hammer delivering crushing damage as it would if struck nomally.

The hammer also does 2D4+3 damage when thrown, and was supposed to do 2D4+3 damage in melee, but only did 2D4+2. I changed this to match the thrown damage. This is a bugfix so the file in my Fixpack and Bugfixes page for this hammer does this.

I also changed the icon for the thrown ability, as the two were the same, to that of a lighter and more throwable hammer, so that the two abilities could be distinguished at a glance.

*** NOTE: Installing this fix will NOT place the hammer into your inventory. You'll have to find it in the game or cheat it in with the command-line or Shadowkeeper.

The other version of this hammer that only fixes the amount of melee damage is available from my webpage below.

To use:

Simply extract the file HAMM06.ITM in this archive into your Baldur's Gate 2 Override folder, and quit/restart BG2 if it's still running.

Kevin Dorner
mrkevvy@rogers.com
aka Kivan Do'Urner, solo CG E F/M/T
aaka Elmonster, solo LN/NG H M

This file was obtained from my webpage at http://www.baldurdash.org