On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, James Schuldes wrote:

>
> I think we are saying the same thing here - yes the bard gets the mob's
> attention but it's because of the way mob ai works - they can sense who they
> should kill and they see you as both dangerous to them and as easy to kill.
> Because you are in the party that attacked one of their party - you get put
> on their hate list. All of them now hate you. You are right it is a
> programming thing but I think it's the way they want it.

As several people have pointed out, mobs that *other* people
are attacking, unrelated to your party, will come over and
start whacking on you. Sometimes even when you're not
singing.

Surely it can't be intended that the gnoll soothsayer the
other group is fighting turns around every 5 seconds to cast a
spell on me even though they are beating the crap out of it
and the only thing I'm doing is watching and singing
Accelerando on myself.

--
John H. Kim
kim@...