Weapon Creation Question

[Kanain]

It's quite true that any potential character can wield any of these "only for NPC" weapons.  The major stumbling block for Yoshimo's Katana, for instanace, is that you have to be true neutral.  You also have to be either Human or Half-Orc.  Other than that you can be lots of classes that could potentially wield any Katana.  I used Shadow Keeper to make my fighter true neutral and now he can wield Yoshimo's Katana.  Wow, I have to say my respect for the implementation of this game has been lowered somewhat.  If the Devs considered it important to the storyline to have items useable only by certain NPCs, which is implied by the item's description, then they should have made dang sure that it was the case.  Otherwise...why bother?  I don't get it.

On the other hand I'm glad I know this.  I mean, since it's not really possible to make a weapon NPC specific then I'm not going to bother trying to make my weapon PC specific even if I could do it with scripting.  The whole concept shouldn't even be in the game's item descriptions to begin with if you ask me.

[Drew]

Most NPC only items really work as described.  If you flag enough stat checks the weapon will appear to be useable only by that NPC.  Think about it.  Before you started opening up the game files and finding out how they worked, how many NPC only items were you actually able to use?  I think the bioware implementation is fine.

[Kanain]

@Drew:

Of course you are correct from a suspension of disbelief point of view.  I just feel that if they are going to tell me that it isn't possible, then it absolutely shouldn't be.

[Avenger_teambg]

Actually, if Yoshimo's katana works for half orcs, then the developers didn't really want to restrict its usage to Yoshimo.
There is no way to turn Yoshimo to half-orc, so there is no point to let them use it

But it is possible to create weapons that work for exactly one NPC.
Scripting can solve a lot of problems

Either add a checker snippet to baldur.bcs (quite ugly), or dplayer3. (or 2?), whatever.
You can also add a script via the item itself.