Black flames

Post by **PaulH** » Fri Nov 26, 2004 12:58 am

This is of no consequence whatsover, but I thought I'd mention it anyhow... I gave a Black Flame 35000 HP using CSBuild153 and CSBWin98v8 and noticed it died with just a Lo powered dispel spell.

Post by **Gambit37** » Fri Nov 26, 2004 1:44 am

My previous tests with black flames showed they could only have a maximum of 1000 HP, so maybe if you set it too high it defaults to 1 or something?

(This was on PC DM -- perhaps it's changed in CSBWin)

Post by **Paul Stevens** » Fri Nov 26, 2004 4:01 am

Hitpoints for monsters fit into an unsigned 16-bit word.
Maximum 65535. So your 35000 should have fit. I'll see
if I can reproduce the problem and if not I will ask for more help.

Perhaps something intepreted it as a signed value: maximum 32767.

Post by **Gambit37** » Sun Nov 28, 2004 5:56 pm

OK, my point was incorrect. The 1000 HP for black flames is the maximum HP they can increase to in game (by throwing fireballs at them if they are already lower than 1000 HP).