Neverwinter Nights

[Vlad Antlerkov]

Up to lvl 5. Helped a noob by leveling him up from 1 to 3.

I probably won't be in the big DM game tomorrow-- there's a local Soap Box Derby race for most of the day, and I got drafted into helping run the thing.

[Dis]

whew, laggy just recently. It seems to be down now.

now time for more Poly posting.

I got the first page of the Codex. My intelligence is now higher. I am the smartest dwarf of all

Those goblin legchoppers on the island really do chop legs. But now I have one of their axes for myself

I even killed a dragon in those caves (called rumbling caves) on that island. I'm not sure what kind of dragon he was. He seemed kind of weak. And I got 2 criticals on him.

And I blew my 26000 gold on some fancy new armour, belt, and gloves. The shield I got from the dragon. No money for boots unfortunately.

Those druids or whatever have some good equipment. I salivate when I see their selection. Some really nice armour, but you have to be level 11 to use it. I got the level 9 armour.

[MattH]

The one thing I didn't like about the original campaign is that once I had gotten a +3 whatever in almost all categories of equipment the game could just as well have been over. Then again, I liked the mindless Diablo II....

[Jamski]

I even killed a dragon in those caves (called rumbling caves) on that island. I'm not sure what kind of dragon he was. He seemed kind of weak. And I got 2 criticals on him.

Good - this is working then. He's supposed to be harder depending on your level. The game's not designed to kill your character every 5 minutes. Hope you picked up the dragon's diary. As for gold, I have plenty of jobs you can do for me for cash (made up quests to test areas with different levels, classes etc )

Who's is the new dwarf joined today? Thornbeard or something? He's cool

-Jam

[Dis]

err, was I supposed to keep his journal?

I sold it

I was getting pissed at those gnome shamans or whatever. For some reason I kept rolling 1's and 3's for my will saves I even took the Iron will feat to help my will saves out. Lot of good it does when I keep rolling low numbers. I died like 3 times to those things. All I was trying to do was reach level 9... I was running solo at the time. This game can be tough when going solo. I keep forgetting to pick up those ogre companions. I'm curious how they work exactly.

And yeah I notice the game does scale to your level. But it can be tough occasionally. Like I said, those legchoppers really will chop you up. I can take on one or 2. But when I left there were like 4 of them. I ran like hell

[Jamski]

You should have sold it to the tavern owner for 100,000 gold (oh!)

Yeah... I reccommend you get a nice companion of some sort. Either a cleric or a mage is great to have behind your shoulder casting spells. Its not really aimed at solo play in most areas.

-Jam

[DrSpike]

Can you explain the MP gameplay to those who haven't tried MP RPG?

[Dis]

Originally posted by Jamski
You should have sold it to the tavern owner for 100,000 gold (oh!)

Yeah... I reccommend you get a nice companion of some sort. Either a cleric or a mage is great to have behind your shoulder casting spells. Its not really aimed at solo play in most areas.

-Jam

which tavern owner was that? I don't think I've been to a tavern yet. maybe I'll go back and see if I can get another one.

I sold it for 1 or 2 gold pieces. That's almost 100,000 gold. better than nothing

[Dis]

Originally posted by DrSpike
Can you explain the MP gameplay to those who haven't tried MP RPG?

it's like single player gameplay with more people around you.

and your henchman are real people and do less stupid things...sometimes.

[Jamski]

That's it basically. Your henchmen are real people, and do MORE stupid things... but at least there's always someone there with a raise dead scroll

Its more tactical, as you have to work as a team to avoid being crushed.

-Jam

[DrSpike]

If it is a persistent world who does all the world creation and maintenance?

[MattH]

Now Gamespy isn't taking my CD key . Webpage says it's a bug- how could something like that get through?

[Jamski]

Its not a bug. Some arsehole is uing your CD key to play online. Call customer support and get furious.

If it is a persistent world who does all the world creation and maintenance?

Maintainance is partly automated, partly the owners (2 guys in California) and partly just resetting the module every so often. Creation is a team of 5 people including yours truely with new areas added as they're finished.

Its a nice community effort.

-Jam

[MattH]

Long story no-one cares about:
It turns out I had one of the NWN SOU boxes where the key was on a looseleaf sheet stuck inside the box (were they all like that?). The SOU box was one of the 5 or 6 I didn't throw. I had forgotten this so I plugged in my old HDD and got the key from the CDkey.ini file (smart designers!). I transposed one of the keys in copying (install was done using something unmentionable here). Anyways, it's all good now (the website took the key) and all I need is HOTU!

[MattH]

Sorry for the spamming, but this seems like the best place to ask- where's the cheapest place to buy it? Newegg is the lowest I've found @~$26.00 w/s&h.