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^Agreed on all counts. Furthermore, certain heavily dogmatic faiths such as Shar would fit perfectly. A blanket "no" to all faithbased characters, especially when you're working in those faiths' domains, seems a bit odd.

Something appropriately creepy for Tarya

HoT is preeeetty good. As far as rogue-types go, Book of Shadowe is top tier as well.

My alltime favourite is Almraiven, though. Fester really outdid himself there in terms of sheer atmosphere. It's got one hell of a PnP feel to it.

Yep, that worked. Thanks bunches!

What you're describing as "legit stealth" is HIPS.

Finally bite the bullet and roll something 8 INT.

I have a few ideas, but first I need to know how and what is koscher in terms of player efforts here. What are the "don'ts" especially. They're different on literally every server.

I totally agree. Brainstorming time?

The only problem with the quest train is that often, it really is the only way to get any form of interaction whatsoever. Of the PCs I have played prior to Tarya, who was the first to hop on board the "MMOisation", none of them were major questers. The result was little to no interaction or connections. People (not regulars of the quest train) would, literally, completely ignore them. The high point of my last character was me deliberately losing a PvP (opponent emoted nicely, and I had fun, so I figured, why not? :D ) and then returning from vacation to find that my char's victor, and captor, was dead and I was fairly high and dry there due to bad timing.  Both counts were mildly frustrating, and in the latter, since I am rather disinclined to ask about OOC for info, I may as well figure the character got toiled to death in slavery.

On my next character, I found the folk who go hunting a lot far more willing to interact, and thus roleplay, with a few notable exceptions (I really am disinclined to flat out name the positive or the negative here, though). As for the rest, it might be noob syndrome (few folk like to babysit a newbie, I get that! 's no big deal) , it might simply be different RP customs or whatever, but for the moment, I do have to say, the quest train at least provides roleplay for those folk who cannot easily find some elsewhere, for whatever reason. If you kill it, you need to provide some easily accessable alternatives for RP for new players. Because I fully believe that is the main attraction of the quest train.

It is a group activity that folk can easily join in on.

If you want efu to change get in game and actually play out these suspicions/fears/whatever IC'ly instead of continuing to contribute to a thread that reached its peak relevancy three pages ago.

Perhaps folk are. But perhaps such suspicions are not voiced where the spellguard has ears? Who knows?

There is always a "surface" of questing, in any NWN server. The question really is, what is going on beneath it, and how does one get "in" on that.

Regarding the safety of the shield:
When something is too good to be true, it is usually a trap. And given the way Sanctuary is structured, it would be implausible for the Dread Empire not to know it exists. The real questions should be:

Why haven't they attacked yet? What are they getting from letting Sanctuary be?

It would not have been in character to let him walk, unfortunately, even if my heart did bleed there a bit, because he seemed a fairly awesome dude. Seriously, hat's off.

Character in question: Tarya Vardenfyord

I am not entirely certain how this even happened and regret not being able to provide much detail, but it seems I somehow have two rings of Sanctuary on her name. I wish I could provide more insight but I simply do not know how this happened, period. I'd appreciate if someone grabbed and destroyed the duplicate, though. That'd be great :)