Neverwinter Nights Forum News

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(Originally posted by Veldrin)

Here are today's Neverwinter Nights forum highlights. Please take into account that these are only single parts of various threads and should not be taken out of context. Bear in mind also that the posts presented here are copied as-is, and that any bad spelling and grammar does not get corrected on our end.

Brent Knowles, Co Lead Designer

Prestige Classes: We were unable to use the Divine Champion because we needed this cleric/paladin prestige class to be able to be a 10-level prestige classes (unlike the 5-level prestige class, Harper Scout). WOTC could not grant approval of a 5-level Divine Champion but they approved the 10-level Champion of Torm (which is basically a 10-level Divine Champion). None of the powers are "Torm specific", so its still a very generic, versatile class. Red Dragon Disciple - Has no alignment restriction (just because daddy dragon was evil doesn't mean you became evil). This is an art limitation -- we don't have the resources to create multiple wing/breath weapon colors. This might be something down the road that we could add to in updates to give more flavor (i.e., bonus White Dragon prestige class), but that would be up to the live team.

WOTC could not approve a *10-level* Divine Champion as it went against their PnP description. They approved the 10-level Champion of Torm. We did not want to add another 5-level prestige class since they cannot take epic levels.

David Gaider, Designer

Succubus: The succubus model still has her wing node from waaay back when we had originally begun to set up the optional wing feature. So, yes... I believe that you should be able to slap some wings on that puppy, if you so choose.

Wings: The PC models will all have wing nodes, but only some of the creatures will. Should a wing node be added to a model by the community, then yes... I assume you could add the wings to it just like the succubus (though there might be something you need to add to the 2da for sizing, I don't know).

Nope. I'm pretty sure it's just there for the DD PrC, though you can make some pretty interesting-looking NPC's out of the wing selection.

Quote: David, any word on whether or not that got fixed up and/or working for HoU?

Tails? Maaaaaybe. As for the wing selection, yes... it's added into an Appearance tab in the toolset that is greyed-out unless a wing node is present.

Quote: In particular I am looking for any of these:
* OnEquip/OnUnequip scripting hooks
* Changes to the merchant system (e.g. no identify, etc.)
* Ability to use .tlk entries in haks
* Ability to limit races/classes during character generation via .2da files (this currently works only on level up)
* Ability to limit a player's inventory size
* Ability to edit the AC, Spell Failure and AC penalties
* New item properties (gender limitation, etc)

About half of these are, indeed, included with HotU (and are already in our builds, in fact). We probably won't be talking about them just yet. Look for more info in future NW Wednesdays.