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Posted May 07, 2018
I'm currently playing through PoR seriously for the first time since 1990-1991 on my old A500, having a blast. GBC really makes the game for me in my not-as-much-free-time-to-map+memorize spells as I used to have back then. :)

I noticed something odd, however.

I'm at the part where I've gotten a "Two-Handed Sword +1, +3 vs Undead" item from the Clerk in order to help on a quest to the Valhingen Graveyard. When I equip the sword on my True Neutral or Neutral Good fighters, GBC tells me that it applies the "harassed by snakes" condition on the character that has it equipped.

Is this a bug? I don't recall this from 30 years ago.. :)

I thought it MIGHT be due to the fact that I'm using DosBox ECE because it makes playing on a 4K panel bearable, but I fired up the game in Vanilla DosBox 0.74 and it's saying the same thing there.

Is this just a weird bug? I can't seem to figure out where in the editor this effect is being applied by this item. It seemed to be the "3" in Properties 2, but I removed it from the item and nothing changed.
This question / problem has been solved by joonashgogimage
Posted May 07, 2018
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hfm: I'm currently playing through PoR seriously for the first time since 1990-1991 on my old A500, having a blast. GBC really makes the game for me in my not-as-much-free-time-to-map+memorize spells as I used to have back then. :)

I noticed something odd, however.

I'm at the part where I've gotten a "Two-Handed Sword +1, +3 vs Undead" item from the Clerk in order to help on a quest to the Valhingen Graveyard. When I equip the sword on my True Neutral or Neutral Good fighters, GBC tells me that it applies the "harassed by snakes" condition on the character that has it equipped.

Is this a bug? I don't recall this from 30 years ago.. :)

I thought it MIGHT be due to the fact that I'm using DosBox ECE because it makes playing on a 4K panel bearable, but I fired up the game in Vanilla DosBox 0.74 and it's saying the same thing there.

Is this just a weird bug? I can't seem to figure out where in the editor this effect is being applied by this item. It seemed to be the "3" in Properties 2, but I removed it from the item and nothing changed.
Pool of Radiance's effect numbers are tricky as most of them are not displayed in the ENCAMP -> MAGIC -> DISPLAY view. I've copied some of the effect names from the other games. Some are same through the games (like "blessed") and clearly effect 3 here is used for something else.

For a quick fix, you can edit the file Effects.txt found under "Gold Box Companion\Games\01. Pool of Radiance" -folder. Replace the string "- harassed by snakes" with something like "+ undead slaying sword". The "-" and "+" mark negative / positive effects.
Posted May 09, 2018
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hfm: I'm currently playing through PoR seriously for the first time since 1990-1991 on my old A500, having a blast. GBC really makes the game for me in my not-as-much-free-time-to-map+memorize spells as I used to have back then. :)

I noticed something odd, however.

I'm at the part where I've gotten a "Two-Handed Sword +1, +3 vs Undead" item from the Clerk in order to help on a quest to the Valhingen Graveyard. When I equip the sword on my True Neutral or Neutral Good fighters, GBC tells me that it applies the "harassed by snakes" condition on the character that has it equipped.

Is this a bug? I don't recall this from 30 years ago.. :)

I thought it MIGHT be due to the fact that I'm using DosBox ECE because it makes playing on a 4K panel bearable, but I fired up the game in Vanilla DosBox 0.74 and it's saying the same thing there.

Is this just a weird bug? I can't seem to figure out where in the editor this effect is being applied by this item. It seemed to be the "3" in Properties 2, but I removed it from the item and nothing changed.
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joonashgog: Pool of Radiance's effect numbers are tricky as most of them are not displayed in the ENCAMP -> MAGIC -> DISPLAY view. I've copied some of the effect names from the other games. Some are same through the games (like "blessed") and clearly effect 3 here is used for something else.

For a quick fix, you can edit the file Effects.txt found under "Gold Box Companion\Games\01. Pool of Radiance" -folder. Replace the string "- harassed by snakes" with something like "+ undead slaying sword". The "-" and "+" mark negative / positive effects.
Ahhh.. fantastic. Thanks for answering! (Perhaps that file should be updated in the next GBC release)
Posted June 25, 2019
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hfm: I'm currently playing through PoR seriously for the first time since 1990-1991 on my old A500, having a blast. GBC really makes the game for me in my not-as-much-free-time-to-map+memorize spells as I used to have back then. :)

I noticed something odd, however.

I'm at the part where I've gotten a "Two-Handed Sword +1, +3 vs Undead" item from the Clerk in order to help on a quest to the Valhingen Graveyard. When I equip the sword on my True Neutral or Neutral Good fighters, GBC tells me that it applies the "harassed by snakes" condition on the character that has it equipped.

Is this a bug? I don't recall this from 30 years ago.. :)

I thought it MIGHT be due to the fact that I'm using DosBox ECE because it makes playing on a 4K panel bearable, but I fired up the game in Vanilla DosBox 0.74 and it's saying the same thing there.

Is this just a weird bug? I can't seem to figure out where in the editor this effect is being applied by this item. It seemed to be the "3" in Properties 2, but I removed it from the item and nothing changed.
Experiencing the same bug too. Equipping the Two-Handed Sword +1, +3 vs Undead" item applies the "harassed by snakes" condition.
Post edited June 25, 2019 by GrimjackMV
Posted June 25, 2019
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hfm: I'm currently playing through PoR seriously for the first time since 1990-1991 on my old A500, having a blast. GBC really makes the game for me in my not-as-much-free-time-to-map+memorize spells as I used to have back then. :)

I noticed something odd, however.

I'm at the part where I've gotten a "Two-Handed Sword +1, +3 vs Undead" item from the Clerk in order to help on a quest to the Valhingen Graveyard. When I equip the sword on my True Neutral or Neutral Good fighters, GBC tells me that it applies the "harassed by snakes" condition on the character that has it equipped.

Is this a bug? I don't recall this from 30 years ago.. :)

I thought it MIGHT be due to the fact that I'm using DosBox ECE because it makes playing on a 4K panel bearable, but I fired up the game in Vanilla DosBox 0.74 and it's saying the same thing there.

Is this just a weird bug? I can't seem to figure out where in the editor this effect is being applied by this item. It seemed to be the "3" in Properties 2, but I removed it from the item and nothing changed.
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GrimjackMV: Experiencing the same bug too. Equipping the Two-Handed Sword +1, +3 vs Undead" item applies the "harassed by snakes" condition.
You can fix this yourself by little editing, see above.
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