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NWN Forum update

Discussion in 'Game/SP News & Comments' started by NewsPro, Apr 29, 2002.

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    (Originally posted by Z-Layrex)

    Jay Watamaniuk, Community Manager

    Will thieves with boots of speed be able to nick the party's items from killing enemies in online games of NWN?: Experience points are given out evenly to all party members, but gathering items and gold that enemys drop after being dispatched is up for grabs.
    I would use the very technical and diplomatic method of driving a sword through the offender's head, should he/she get any ideas about stealing the party's hard earned winnings.
    I think we can all share in that very fine roleplaying moment. :)

    Will an unfair DM give his friends goodies? My understanding of being a DM is that they are not a character, they are the needed brain behind the entire world the players are in.
    If the sky is purple in their world so be it. If orcs have been extinct for a 100 years so be it. If the only weapons available are daggers so be it.
    If a DM wants to destroy his party he can- with one click. Why would he? It is not a contest between DM and Player- the DM wins every time.
    If I am DM I will run a game however I want with my friends or whomever. If I feel everything in the game should have 1 hit point and 10,000 gold then, O.K., I will do that. A DM needs to have complete control over his environment- it's his or her game.

    Derek French, Assistant Producer

    Could you hack in an online session? In a Server Vault setting, while you could adjust memory values, you would only adjust your own visual display of them and not the version that is on the server. The server treats all clients as untrusted and just responds to clicks and actions and not on values. You could probably make the client display level 57 on your screen, but the next update from the server would change it back to whatever the real level is. Its pretty much Server -> Client only, in terms of values.

    Will we be able to convert our character sheets to Text files? No, not for initial release. It is something we would like to do, though. But I am sure that someone in the community will beat us to it.

    David Gaider, Designer

    Will familiars have any alighnment restrictions, like imps for evil characters only? You can have any familiar you want. I chose the imp because my character was Lawful Evil... but I wasn't restricted in any manner.
    We made the familiars the way they are (ie. not requiring the Improved Familiar feat for these 'larger' familiars) because we don't have many tiny creatures in the game, period (which would have restricted your choices a LOT) and wanted the familiars to remain useful (and they are!).
     
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