Neverwinter Nights - The revenge

[Jamski]

1. What is the general difficulty?

If you mean the general difficulty slider its currently set to "Easy", but there are rare "Manic Mondays" where it goes to Hard for an hour or so of death

2. Would a sun/healing cleric prosper?

Yep. Any class will really. Even Harper Scout

3. Does it use default magic, or have changes been made to the magic system?

At the moment all the spells work as advertised, but I'm working on an insane script to allow mages to specialise in one element (e.g. Fire spells do 25% more damage) at the cost of another (Cold spells cost 10 Exp/level)

4. How plentiful are magic items and gold?

About average, I'd say. All the shop items are custom built and there is in-game potion brewing, while monsters and chests contain the whole range of NWN, SoU & HotU items randomly... erm mostly, but this is always being tinkered with.

New areas, monsters and items are generally demand based - that means whoever moans to me the loudest eventually gets whatever it was they wanted built. Eventually

-Jam

[DrSpike]

Like kukris.

[Dis]

Originally posted by Qilue
I have some questions about Folderol.

1. What is the general difficulty?
2. Would a sun/healing cleric prosper?
3. Does it use default magic, or have changes been made to the magic system?
4. How plentiful are magic items and gold?

I'm asking here because the web site's forum is on ezboard (ewww).

funny you should mention a sun/healing cleric. I am one of those (I think- I know I am healing, I forget my other domain)

I'm an elven cleric who usese longbows as her primary weapon.

I haven't been playing Folderol recently. But I got her up to level 6 with little problem. All solo play. I haven't found anybody else my level to play with. But it shows that even solo play, my cleric can succeed. And I play with no summons either. Although I am thining about using animate dead now I have that spell.

[duke o' york]

I'm impressed that my pally (see Jam's build on page 2) can now just kill skellingtons outright with turn undead. I haven't played a paladin since 2nd edition AD&D, and had forgotten how good they can get.

[Jamski]

Yeah... try a high CHA, high WIS caster cleric. Make sure you take one of the elemental domains, and take Turn Outsiders at high levels.

Hehehe - you can zap Balors, Huge Elementals, Liches... all the dead powerful stuff is fodder

-Jam

[Dis]

I always forget to take turn outsider. I was going to do that this time around.

Imagine turning a balor.

[Qilue]

Thank-you for the answers.

The reason I asked about magic is that the PW I'm playing on at present (Dreu Noctum, action PW) has a revamped magic system which complies with 3.5E rules.

[Qilue]

I logged on and had a bit of a look round and seems quite good. While I've played melee clerics, I've never played a caster type.

With that in mind -

Nymph.
(How exactly do the sub race stat modifiers get applied?)(eg, would elf mods + nymph mods = -2 con, +2 cha?)

Str (10)10
Dex (8)10
Con (12)10
Wis 16
Int 12
Cha 16

Starting skills
Concentration
Heal
Spellcraft

Feat
Combat casting or toughness.

Domains
Sun and Earth (or Air depending on answer to Q2 below )

Further questions.
1. Anyone have any opinions?
2. What is the availability of items that cast stoneskin? (I'm kind of enamoured with this spell )
3. Isn't Turn Outsider a special ability for good and evil domains?

[DrSpike]

Not seen a stoneskin item. You could always ask Jamski nicely.

[Apocalypse]

I'm kinda having problems with connecting to the Gamespy and whatnot. I am guessing it is my college's firewall, but I don't know.

[Apocalypse]

Basically when I click on Internet Game on the thing, it says that it can't connect or whatnot and the nick may be invalid.

[Apocalypse]

Nevermind...got it to work.

[Jamski]

Eh? I typed a great long answer and it disappeared?

Oh... well, I laughed at somethings and then explained why.

Expect the next Folderol update to come online Saturday/Sunday night Pacific Time

-Jam

[Qilue]

Nobody seems to have an opinion.

[duke o' york]

That character looks like it could do well, but you might struggle early on with what might otherwise be easy fights. Still, I suppose that that's going to be the case whenever you play with a "second rank" character, and I'm sure that Spikey will show you the way to the place where he sprang from 2nd to 6th level or something by just wandering round and cheesing it by fighting nettles. (this will make sense when you explore, and when you see how many XP nettles give you. )

By second rank I don't just mean that these characters would find themselves away from the fighting, necessarily, but also that they're mainly based on the bottom half of the attributes.

Good luck Qilue, and if you meet a cookery monster then don't hesitate to stab him in the back.