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Theres Pro's and cons to everything. There always will be, lets not be carebears and badger a great idea!

You should obviously make it really short, and even one syllable. Like Glugg, or Zug for example. Preferably somthing gutteral.

I need to get a tooth pulled IRL, think you can hook me up?

Nine times out of ten when I am online there's no DM's around. Us guys in the -8 time zone would suffer terribly if this was ever implemented. I really assume it wont be. Do the Care Bear Count Down 5 4 3 2 1.

Make a script to make them starve to death if they all fall in. Or throw some caltrops in the bottom. Make it slow.

When I suggested this I was only concerned with the wilds, and more aligned with deer and such creatures and other PC's. Its not a 'you don't want this' it's just something that 'should' exist there really isn't a heck of alot out there in the wilderness, 20 tops per area I have ever seen. Add 10 for neutral things and its not a big difference. You shouldn't be able to track anything in civilized area's anyway because there are so many people around.

My eight cents.

Every warrior would take dirty fighting, and it's already a name of a feat. And having that message on every attack would spam so bad it would make me cry.

Your citation with purple mines is incorrect, I have personally 2 manned that quest atleast 10 times, the number of spawns is completely random. I once had about two dozen archers spawn across the gap, and it was just two of us. The melee enemies are sporatic aswell, and the enemies at the entrance change aswell. I have found there to be no connection between party size on said quest. But I will say that getting 5-10 purple crystals each is very rewarding. Though the risk is quite high with a 2 party run. I think the quest should be changed to require atleast 4 participants to promote more teamwork and less... Hording and monopolization of purple crystals.

It sucks, especially when your the only one online and you cant reach a DM even on IRC. Damn 4th of july!

walk into it and it loads.

I have personally been distributing recipe's I find, for gold obviously. In the form of selling 'copies' of my recipes. I have sold quite a bit at that!

While I think the whole luck thing is a little shady I don't think its too terrible. I have found many recipe's that seem to be low tier and a couple that seem amazing, being neither alchemist or herbalist I never used them however so I don't really know.

I have a good idea where the rarer ones are found but I will not say where. I think the alchemy/herbalism system is good but I think it plays a few too many mind games in some aspects.

I think if there were some 'innate' recipe's that go along with respective ranks in herbalism and alchemy it would make many people happy.

Like different alterations to medicine bags in herbalism and some minor brews for alchemy. Something small but enough that a character that has no recipe's can still make things.

-Fayil

This made the meeting worth attending.

Rhydoc was based on my souls yearning for bullshit and assholery...

I must be a great roleplayer.

Here's how it is. In the eyes of Fayil

Its a low magic world, We know it We see it. Low magic, right-- Get ready for my rant.

Let's imagine that everyone fits into three roles that have NOTHING TO DO with roleplay, fostering conflict and general awesomeness for a second. Let's call these three roles 'Tank, DPS and Support' Now I Know what your thinking. This is starting to sound alot like a MMORPG right? Well bear with me, because its different. Its like rock paper scissors with gray in the middle kids, this is how we roll here on NWN.

First lets talk about everyones favorite example of a badass. A fighter? seriously? If were talking pure fighter they'll range from DPS to TANK depending on how they do up their feats. But I know a multiclass of fighter and somthing else make amazing tanks and decent DPS, but you know what. That's all they can do. They can drink their potions! Bastards! Well they would have alot less of them if you didn't sell them to them. It's cool, we appriciate it really but we pay what is it now, 180 coins for one potion of haste? What does it cost a wizard to cast haste in the middle of a pvp confrontation? 1 coin? When you think of how great your mighty underachiever the fighter is in pvp, consider yourself capable of doing up to 180 damage in 6 seconds, hypothetically at level 10. Lets count off what any 'tank' would have on him if he was even prepared. 40 DR to that? If you cant kill him in the first round you can finish him off with something else, Trust me.  These are AOE spells too keep in mind, so if you linem up right they'll fall down like bowling pins.  Tank's are ROCK (Get it? it's the beginning of a pun)

Next we'll talk about our boys in chainmail (woot) and leather(cowards!) They're our scissor's, they normally do alot of damage and can keep on trucking doing whatever the hell theyre supposed to do. Whether it be sneak attacking or raging on peoples faces with a MASSIVE SCYTHE (kungatar) I generally fit Barbarians Rogues and Rangers into this category, in general order of amount of damage dealt. They flank, theyre the 2nd best at pvp when the fighting is dirty, and easily the best at player vs quest. They hold the raw chopping power, the utility of listen spot search, lots of skill checks that can go a long way. Taunt is amazing against everything. Scissors don't have the raw defense of the rock's, in a even match in a vacuum Scissor's are probably going to lose unless they get some amazing rolls. But thats not what they're there for. They have their niche like the rocks, and they do it well.

Now we get to paper the man of the hour, the one people like to complain about when it's bad but enjoy every honeyed second of it when its good.
Pure spellcasters (clerics excluded) Low magic worlds are your playground, because your the guy's who can blow shit up. EFU gives you this kind of power, and gives you more. There are many MANY things that give you more spellslots, I think i've seen a guy with nine level 1 spellslots before. NINE, you don't get that many without alot of levels and int/wis/cha whatever normally. Those other boys, they've got some low level spells and whatever but you got them by the balls. They need you and they know it, they can piss on each other all they want but they ain't going on them hard quests without you. So you can take what you want and not have to answer for shit. As far as raw PVP mechanical power goes, pure casters win out. As mentioned earlier, a level 10 pure wizard can dish out about average 150 damage in 3 rounds with the right feats. I'm not counting perks since I have no idea how those work.  I imagine they're beastly, since planar lock is amazing. Why do you whine when they want your buffs? They're pathetic worms who cant even hurt a magical pair of boots without you. 'That rogues reflex save is too high, I cant beat him in PVP with elemental damage' I have a plan, Enervation Enervation Phantasmal killer. No? Well, if he didn't make his saves on the enervations his saves are now much lower.

'I can't be effective in quests with damage spells because I can only bring two fireball's'

Let's look at that for a minute, and for a moment remember that every one of those goblins, orcs whatever is 'supposed' to be a living breathing entity in our world. You just snuffed out or mortally wounded 4-10 of them by wiggling your fingers.

Your weak, your a pansy your a Pure caster that wears a dress, live with it. You can fill any roll you want. DPS (Evocation) Support (Buff bot) at higher levels you can be a TANK! Extended blur + Emp cats, bulls, endurance + what? Polymorph? Troll for regen, Umber Hulk for FACE BREAKING power. The best wands are wands that don't scale and have a disabling or stat lowering effect. Example: Negative energy burst, Curse, Enervation? Druids are counted as pure casters, but instead can do 270 max damage at level 9 in 6 seconds. If its raining, on  tuesday, during a leap year when the moon is full.

Did you know that alot of people are barely able to carry all their stuff? Unless they have storage of course. A little strength drain after a dispel might be all they need to start crawling after you.

I'm really sorry for my rant, I realize now its super long and I apologize to the internet.

Clerics are somewhere between fighter and caster that somehow turn into wrecking ball fusion of the three once they hit level 8.

Bard's are the bastard child and needs to find a niche with every generation.

Fayil out.

Its not that they shouldn't have an advantage. Its that they shouldn't be able to control a SWARM of bats with one animal empathy, they are supposed to represent more then one. If it was changed so that there were ten of them on separate health bars there wouldn't be a problem with animal empathy. But that would be too much so it's set up like it is.

It's a good quest, I like it as it is it just needs to be tweaked so it can't easily be exploited. I would rather not argue my point further.

-Fayil