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It really shouldn't take a bunch of months to train a bladesinger, at least not just the first level of the class.

I know Leane's gotten the training done for level 1 in 1-2 weeks of RL time, as it's just level one.  There's plenty of training from levels 1-10 going on as well.

I have no horse in this race except that I would love a Survival skill.

My deepest condolences, buddy.  Take care of life stuff and hug the ones you love.

I want to echo the above shout outs to Edge  (and everyone else on staff involved, for us it's been Rykka , and ladybug ) for how entertaining this MSQ has been for the past however many months it's been going on now.

Such a huge, impressive undertaking both in coordination and storytelling.

Dec 22, 2022 19:22:33 GMT -5 Diestormlie said:

Just got my THTF DM Item of Edge manufacuture and I am gushing. Excellent work, and thank you so so much!

Me too!

Mine was so sweet, I loved it!

(Also, you're a nerd, Stormy)

I've been playing NWN for more than half of my adult life now and while I've been involved in a lot of great events (including the fun series Darkfangs has been running!) I don't have words to adequately describe how amazing the last session of THTF plot for the Willows Group B was. 

Edge and Rykka, thank you so much for the best 3ish hours I've ever had playing NWN.

Sept 14, 2022 13:06:45 GMT -5 Jazzmyra said:

Isn't uncanny dodge supposed to run on instinct? How much sense would that make ICly for a high-concentration caster? Just curios.

I mean, they also turn into bears who are nothing but instinct.

Sept 3, 2022 22:30:00 GMT -5 Vincent07 said:

Monk is planned.


Duelist does not have it, because it's assumed you would have one of the above listed classes if you're taking Duelist, as that is kind of the theme of Duelist.

You know, that's fair.

What about Druids?  Seeing as they get bonus AC for not being in heavy armor, have Hide/MS focused builds, it's a little irritating they don't get it and have to dip into another class if they want it.

Hello!

I don't know if this has already been flagged, but, at the next hak update if the following classes could maybe be given Uncanny Dodge that'd be great:

Monk (figure this is an oversight as the classes' AC is primarily DEX/WIS based)
Duelist (Having to dip into Ranger, Rogue, Bard, or Barb to get Uncanny Dodge is kind of a bummer.  Shadow Dancer and Bladesinger gives UD, figure it'd be appropriate if Duelist did too seeing)

Best,
Dingo

Aug 28, 2022 12:23:00 GMT -5 Meadows said:

Nice try. You're gonna have to do better than that to push me away!

Challenge accepted.

Hi all,

I just wanted to apologize if you've interacted with me lately and I've been terse, short, or bad-tempered.  My mom has been in and out of the hospital with something fairly dire for the last two weeks and we lost a family pet on Friday.  I'm trying really hard to keep it together but I've been struggling.  It's not an excuse, though, and I'll try harder in the future.

Dingo

I think the best suggestion I could offer for something like this would be to work with the other players OOCly.  Even adversarial RP should be something that is cooperative and fun for everyone involved, in my opinion.  

Ask them what they're comfortable with, where they'd like to see that sort of RP go, where you'd like it go, see if you can tell a story both sides can take something out of to enrich their characters.  If that's something you can't come to an agreement on, I think I would just retcon the encounter away and pretend it didn't happen.

Jul 31, 2022 12:58:48 GMT -5 haroshia said:

Jul 31, 2022 12:44:44 GMT -5 DubiousScroll said:

"If I know a character is a member of Category 4/5/6, can I talk about it publicly?

The short answer is "it depends." If the character themselves is making no attempt to conceal their nature publicly, or discussing it themselves, then yes. Their nature is considered public knowledge at that point. However, if a character is attempting to abide by these rules but is still discovered or revealed, we ask that you do not casually announce/discuss the matter publicly. This negates the entire purpose behind them attempting to maintain a degree of public secrecy, and forces other players to react as though the character were openly walking about with their race revealed."


I think if it's out in the field that you stumble across them that's different from walking around in a town uncovered...so I don't think they've outted themselves in this case.

The question becomes though what do you /do/ with that info?  What productive RP do you as a good character have with an evil character who if they were an NPC you'd just cut down and go about your day?  There's a certain suspension of disbelief required for good RP that doesn't devolve into stupid conflict, but I think the initial question is valid.  

I'm of the personal opinion that if they were out on the surface in the usual haunts of other adventurers, not making an effort to hide what they are, that is them not making an effort.  If someone stumbled upon either of my wererats in hybrid form killing goblins or undead or whatever, I would never expect them to not tell their friends or for there not to be social consequences because I chose to willingly take that risk while out dungeoning. 

As to what you do with that information, yeah, I don't know.  The lack of being able to actually have meaningful conflict with the other side of the alignment spectrum has always been something this server has struggled with.  My suggestion would be to see if you could work with the other players in tells to come up with a solution that doesn't completely destroy or take you out of RP.

Jul 30, 2022 10:06:26 GMT -5 Sir Ven said:

Afternoon all,

Yesterday,  I found myself in a situation with my Chaotic Good, Pro-Freedom (Very, very anti-slavery) character that I didn't know how to handle.   So, I'm looking for a little advice to avoid the outcome I got, which was basically to log out and not to play, because I could see no good outcomes. 

I was heading to a dungeon, crossed paths with 2 other people heading the same way.  A Drow (openly, visibly a Drow) and their slave.   Worth noting this was on the surface.   Without getting into a blow-by-blow, I think it's pretty likely my character who is passionately anti-slavery is going to work out pretty fast this is not a nice Drow and that the surfacer with them was their slave.     In those circumstances, ICly, my character would (I think, reasonably?)  kill them - or try to, at least. 

Assuming they even agree to PvP, that's not really fun for anyone right?  They die.   My character investigates them, maybe figures out who their disguised appearance is?   But even if they do, they're not allowed to tell anyone, because that breaks the "Don't out people rule".   He's not about to raise them, or heal their wounds - their an evil slaver.   Presumably they just respawn.

So what happens next?   If they try to complain about the attack ICly, they out themselves as an evil Drow, so they won't do that.   If they don't complain and I'm not allowed to out them, or say anything about it, then... That's that.   My character beats up someone else's character, they respawn.  Nothing really changes, or grows or improves.  There's no story.

It's possible the evil drow tries to plot revenge, but, what can they really do?  They're not allowed to just assassinate, or poison my character - and even if they were, does it really make IC sense?  They were killed and died, they shouldn't be in a position to be able to take revenge.   Any revenge they take is likely to just be "Now you're dead, please respawn - but you can't RP about what happened because that would out my Drow and that's against the rules".

However I game it out,  it seems to lead to dead-ends.  Nobody wins and chances are at least one party, if not both, end up frustrated.

--

So, I didn't do anything.   I pretended I didn't see them, I went back to town and I logged off.  It seemed to me that not playing was better than creating any of the situations above, so I did, but surely the solution can't simply be "Don't play" or "ignore it until it goes away".   There must be a better option here?

I think the "don't out anyone" rule only applies when they're trying to hide it.  If they're openly being ... whatever, I don't think you have to pretend your character doesn't know what they are in other public spaces.  One of the main tenants of the race application is stating you understand and accept the consequences of what happens to you if what you are becomes common knowledge.