Items.2da

This 2da contains information about the items that can be found or purchased throughout the game:

Combat styles are items as well, but for some reason or another the developers decided not to give them their own category. They're filed under "powerups".
 * Gems
 * Techniques
 * Plot Items
 * Weapons
 * Powerups (such as Chi orbs or Focus orbs)
 * Minigame Weapons

A Note about Weapons
Weapons are the odd items in this list. There is a but it is unused. Apparently the developers did not find a way to squeeze weapons into their database scheme. That's because weapons have a somewhat complicated nature. The simplest weapons like Fortune's Favorite and Golden Star are regular combat styles and therefore powerups (see ). The more advanced weapons like the Dragon Sword and the staff Flawless however are advancements (see ) that improve the basic weapons. Worse: If the player receives the advanced weapon without having received the base weapon beforehand, he or she needs to receive the powerup as well as the advancement. The developers chose to stuff all this complex logic away into a script.

Jade Empire in Style uses a different approach. It replaces Bioware's weapon script with one that contains no magic numbers and stores all information about base styles, advancements, etc. in a new file named upgrades.2da.