ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

I'm trying to trigger special effects based on how a monster was killed (so a main-hand attack triggers one effect, an off-hand attack triggers a different effects, talents and DoTs a third effect, etc.).

It looks like I could make up a last_damage_source field and set it as appropriate in preUseTalent, attackTarget, timedEffects, etc., then check it in die or on_die. But I don't know if I'm missing anything or if there's a cleaner solution.

Ideas or suggestions?

Thanks.

A different solution would be to put in in Combat.lua (and elsewhere). You would just add checks for "if target.dead then" at the appropriate points.

Your solution sounds about right, since it's your own module you do control everything so should work.