[CF-Devel] oratory/singing bug

[Mark Wedel]

     pc-crossfire at crowcastle.net
     
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      It seems that you can't use oratory or singing with multi-square monsters.
     
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      Is this intentional?
     
     
 There is definately code in place to prevent this from happening.

 My guess is that code is there to prevent singing/orating to supposed tough
monsters.  Unfortunately, some amount of the code presumes that multispace
monsters == real tough, so things shouldn't work on them.  there are of course
some pretty weak multi spaced monsters (giants, wyverns).

 There is also code for orate/singing to prevent it from working on creatures
with messages.  This makes some amount of sense (don't want pc to be able to
orate to some critical npc or clear out goths tavern), but it does mean that any
monster, no matter how weak, is immune to those skills if they have any
message.  A few archetypes actually have default messages (raas, dwarf priest,
dwarf wizard, sages, guildmasters)