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Carina Faire, faithful of Lathander.  

She bought a farm (or more accurately, Edward Freshwater bought the farm and she's just going to live there with him) right behind the Lathanderite temple in Shadowdale.  However, she has been volunteering frequently at the temple in Eveningstar, as a bard, helping with the rituals to praise the dawn, hymnals, etc.  Before coming to Cormyr, she volunteered at the Spires of Morning in Waterdeep on a regular basis, as her family provided fresh flowers for the Church as their livelihood.

Well, maybe we can call it an 'Active XP' bonus then, since 'RP XP' would suggest that it favors RP, not exploration?  I'm just pointing out that there's a huge discrepancy here. I'm closer to 2 hours for exploration vs 2.5 to 3.5 for engaged conversational RP.  It's an observation I've made for quite some time now that I'm just sharing here.  If that's how it's meant to be, then that's how it's meant to be.

I would like to see the RP XP script re-written so that RPing in engaged conversations will give you more than exploration.  

Just as a note, it's easier to get full RP XP for exploring for 2 hours than it is to be actively engaged in a conversation-based DM event for three hours.  That somehow feels like the script is not incentivizing correctly.

Edit: I have been observing this for a while now. It will take me 2.5 to 3.5 hours of talking to get the same full RP xp as walking around by myself for two hours.

I'm on a Mac, too and had recent issues with the files. If you still can't log in, give me a poke on discord and I can walk through some of the stuff I did, which included testing with the beamdog client to get steam working.

*spank* Welcome to CD! I popped into TSM near the end.  I remember going into the Underdark and contracting a weird disease that made my PC puke up blue liquid goo. <3

I loved the Pendragon campaign I played a few years ago.  Tell me more.

I second the book idea... I've been accompanying a completely new player around with a new alt... it's been tough for us both since I can't remember any of the dungeons and we can't seem to find the right ones for our level.  We've been smacked around wandering into the wrong places.... and apparently missing the places we should be going to.

I did a super fun dungeon dive earlier today at Deepgrave with a lvl 14 PC and two level 16 PCs.  I'll admit we didn't think to look on the forum first and we went right in, cleared out a few floors and then my PC was unfortunately locked out of the lowest level floor while the two higher level PCs could go in.  Needless to say, they couldn't survive without my PC, and it was precarious anyways to leave one PC alone to wait in an area where the respawn rate was pretty high... so we all retreated.

I would love to suggest one of the following to avoid this awkward situation again:

1) Have a warning sign marker that includes any level lock limits so players know ahead of time.  I suppose we could check the forum, but it's hard to tab out sometimes (especially on a mac) just to check a dungeon level.  An in game sign with OOC info would be super helpful.  In Deepgrave, there are already signs in the first room, so you'd just need to append the OOC info to it.

2) Remove the level 15 lock on Deepgrave or bump it to 20 or something.  It was challenging for our group of three, but it wasn't overwhelming.  We were having a blast until we couldn't try the lower level and had to split.

3) If there is a level limit in the middle of the dungeon, make an exit portal accessible for the lower level PCs who will need to leave the party. Don't make them wander back alone to find a place to teleport out.  It's awkward enough IC to do that, even worse OOC to see party members die trying to follow the rules.  If you fear abuse of the exit portal, maybe script it so it's only usable by certain levels.

Hope these suggestions are helpful.  Deepgrave is a great dungeon run, for those who haven't tried it.

I tried using Wine initially and it didn't load up properly for me, so I paid for Crossover.  I don't remember if Wine wasn't loading NWN1 or NWN2 though, but it definitely failed for one of them.

I play on a Mac Air. I had to buy the PC version from Gog.com (diamond edition) and installed it using Crossover for Mac. You just have to be mindful to ask the Gog.com folks for a unique cd key to go online / multiplayer mode.  It was fairly painless to do this.  I did the install in early September, so poke me over Skype if you have questions.

That's just my way of saying I'm out of town until Monday.  

Any Seattle natives care to tell me some interesting places to go eat, have coffee, and kick back a few drinks for the one day I'm not occupied with work?

Just met Liane V at a work event today, snagged a selfie with her, and I've been listening to her stuff since...

Thought I would pop in and say hi to everyone.

(And a special *spank* to the player who thought I was a newbie when I popped in game, offering all sorts of lovely, helpful advice.)

I may be tempted to stick around if I can figure out who to play, given most of my PCs are dead dead.  Poke me if you have any suggestions or requests, good or evil.  You know I'm game.