Boars and Malar Beasts

[Ranek]

I'm posting this in case it's not intended. Boars seem now to be attacking on sight, not randomly like before. Their bodies don't remain anymore, so they're not skinnable. Malar beasts body now remain on the ground, I'm not sure why.

[Drakill Tannan]

The malar beasts body remains on the ground for a while, but not forever.

[FleetingHeart]

Boars are still skinnable. I just tested it.

Their AI might still be wonky and I`ll look into that... but they are definately remaining after death and able to be skinned.

Odd that you mention this and didn`t come to a conclusion as to why malar beast corpses might remain after they have died ...

[Drakill Tannan]

May be due to the creature propieties in the toolset, if i don't missrecall, there is an option to say how much will the corspe remain before it disapears and leaves a loot bag. If such value had been accidentally set to 107 rather than 10 for example, that would explain it.

If such is the case, shoulnd't take more than 2 minutes to fix it (once the module has loaded, i imagine that alone takes 10 minutes)

[FleetingHeart]

I`ll try to make it a little clearer for you :-)

It`s a thread reporting that boars can no longer be skinned because their bodies -don't- persist.

And mentioning on the side that Malar Beasts -do- persist now.









:D



Perhaps the malar beasts are intended!

[Garem]

Malar beasts do not "die". They just get recalled to Malar's home plane before going out to hunt again, I believe. Interpret that as you will!

A lore guru could tell you more.

[ScruffyMcSmirkalot]

Concerning that...
 
I can't quite recall the description of the Malar Beasts, however I've always considered them planar creatures, as I recall that it says they come from Malar's home plane itself.
 
As far as actual Lore goes... the "Beast of Malar" was detailed in the 3.0 Forgotten Realms supplement "Monsters of Faerun", starting on Page 20. Picture here. Essentially, it was a beast sent from Malar's home plane that shifts between panther, wolverine, and bat forms. Its sole purpose is to hunt and slay, and when it dies, the beast rejoins Malar, and if it hunted well, it will be rewarded and reincarnated once more.
 
As far as how I've RPed them... essentially... I've had Walther treat them as representatives to test hunters in the forest, to make sure they are worthy in the eyes of Malar... And once they die, they dissapear with crimson smoke, leaving behind a boon to the ones who slain it (as it usually ends up being some random item that an "animal" wouldn't carry), proving to be able hunters.
 
But yeah. Blarg. Have fun. And on the boars not dropping skins thing... I remember that happening like a week and a half ago. Not sure now.