Ice Mephit

Ice Mephit
Record
Type	Elemental
Gender	Neither
Race	Mephit
Class	Mephit
Alignment	LG NG CG LN TN CN LE NE CE
Involvement
Allegiance	Enemy
Chapter	2
Ability scores
Level	3
Hit points	27
XP value	420
Str	15
Str	15
Dex	18
Dex	18
Con	9
Con	9
Int	9
Int	9
Wis	9
Wis	9
Cha	9
Cha	9
Total scores	69
Morale	16
Break	6
Recovery	15
Combat basics
Full damage	1d3 1d3 (slashing) +1 (cold)
AC	6
Base THAC0	17
Base APR	2
Saving throws
Dth	13
Wand	15
Poly	14
Brth	16
Spell	16
Damage resistances [%]
Cold	100
Cold	100
Fire	-50
Fire	-50
Unused resistances [%]
Magic cold	100
Magic fire	-50
Spells & abilities
Spells	Blur Not used by script
Special abilities	Innate Abilities: Ice Shard
Special
Special	Immunity to: Level drain Unconsciousness Sleep (Status Effect) Petrification effect Cloud projectile No. 94
AI scripts
Override	GENSHT01
Default	MEPICE
Inventory
Gold	0
Items	None
Exclusive equipment	Undroppable item This icon indicates an item that cannot be dropped or stolen. Weapon Undroppable item This icon indicates an item that cannot be dropped or stolen. Amulet
Reputation impact if
Killed	None
Technical information
Creature codes	MEPICE01 MEPICE02 OBSICE02

An Ice Mephit is an extra-planar "outsider" (i.e., linked to various Elemental, Quasi-Elemental and Outer planes of existence). These creatures are similar to Imps, and are found in a number of areas during the Baldur's Gate II games.

Gameplay

The Ice Mephit needs to get fairly close in order to attack in melee with its claws, or near enough to get within range of its innate ability attack, Ice Shard. The Ice shard is launched at a target in range as soon as detected, and then repeats every three rounds afterwards. It has an endless supply of this attack option.

The Ice Mephit has elemental resistance to cold, but is particularly vulnerable to fire damage, taking extra if affected by that damage type. It has no magic resistance but retains some immunities to certain status effects as shown in the InfoBox.

Note: The ice mephit has the Blur spell in memory, but it won't use it as the script does not employ it.

Locations

Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn

• Irenicus's Dungeon 1st Floor
• Irenicus's Dungeon 2nd Floor
• Mekrath's Laboratory
• Rayic Gethras’s Home

Bugs

• In the Classic Baldur's Gate II:
  Shadows of Amn (2000)
  This icon indicates content from the original Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn campaign. game, one ice mephit (creature file MEPICE02.cre) is falsely named Radiant Mephit. This is fixed in BG2EE.
• This same version (MEPICE02) also has 0 % immunity to Cold. This is fixed in BG2EE.
• Two versions of Ice Mephits (creature files MEPICE01.cre and OBSICE02.cre) use the innate ability of a Magma Mephit (Magma Ball (×8)) instead of the Ice Shard ability of an Ice Mephit. This is fixed in BG2EE.
• These same two versions (MEPICE01 and OBSICE02) also have 206% immunity to fire, possibly because the developers simply copied the creature files from Magma Mephit and forgot to set it to 0. This is fixed in BG2EE.

External Links

• Ice mephit on the Forgotten Realms Wiki, a wiki for the Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting Forgotten Realms.
• Mephit on the Forgotten Realms Wiki, a wiki for the Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting Forgotten Realms.