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MCS question: If I got it right, max is 4 powers per item yes? So why the Forge will not let me add + 1 WIS to a Nasher's Ring of Strength (+3 STR)?

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Armor, gloves, and small-medium weaponry may have a maximum of 4 benign (positive) powers. Large weaponry may have a maximum of 5 beign powers.
Equippable items may have a maximum of 3 benign powers.
Ammo may have a maximum of 2 benign powers.

Much many thanks Iron, was searching the MCS page for that exact piece of info and couldnt find it.

Every CL of Chaotic Evil alignment for Gate spell is giving the same summon. Does it get more powerful on higher CL?

viewtopic.php?f=20&p=1121581#p1121581 ?

• Evil: Glabrezu Infiltrator [Chaotic]

• Evil: Glabrezu Beguiler [Chaotic]

• Evil: Glabrezu Beguiler [Chaotic]

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O.o weird

I have no idea on that one haha. They should be different as far as I am aware, unless the third is just upgraded or something.

Is the amiawiki down, or is the link broken? (Can't connect!)

Shatuga wrote:

Working on it... thanks for posting!

It's being worked on. It'll be up in a few hours at most, I'm guessing.

On building a cleric, if I take the domain Tyranny, will it have the spell Dominate person as it says ?

Tyranny
Special Ability: All Domination-like spells are cast as Extended
Spells: 4 - Fear, 5 - Dominate Person, 8 - Power Word: Stun

Er, yep. If it says it has the spell, it will have the spell.

If I had a Blackguard with a negative charisma modifier, would I actually lose points in my saving throws or would they just stay the same?

You lose them.

Unlike divine grace, if the character has a negative charisma modifier, his saving throws are reduced instead of increased.

Ninja'd. :cry:

the evil powers have no time for WEAKNESS

Whats the best way to represent a Zakharan following Zann the Learned? Leave the deity system alone, or pick Oghma so he doesnt count as faithless?

Edit: Thanks for the reminder 666, its not a Divine caster, its a Wizard.

It depends if he casts divine spells, if you're just going to make a Lore Master Bard, you should be okay. You're going to need a request if he's going to be a Cleric, however.

Thanks 666, edited the question for accuracy.

And another one, is it IC to test divine custom spells (I am thinking about the ones I see in my druid's list, Wall of Sound, Druid's Punch, etc) or they are supposed to be used only by the people who requested them? And on arcane spells, if a wizard finds someone who developed a spell, will they be able to learn it via scribing/RP?

Thanks

Those are placeholders for requested custom spells.

What happened to the temple of Loviatar ? My toon can't get in there and he's the one of the two who knows how to get in. The area is not working anymore ?

Is there anything you can actually do to keep a certain stack of Arrows from autoloading?

I think if they are in a bag they wont auto load, or at least that's how it has worked for me.

Can anyone think of a reason one character would be more laggy then another? Settings don't seem to do much, lowering resolution only helps a little... but switching characters removes the jitteryness one is experiencing. I've been playing with a lot of settings trying to improve performance, so I guess it could be any of that... but the noticeable change between characters is odd. The laggy one is a monk, if that matter (which is the only difference I can think of, I don't usually play monks or halflings, this one is both). The choppiness happens when my character moves, and seems to have little to do with anything else on the screen (that lag spike is different, heh).

The faster moving character requires your computer to render new terrain quicker than the slower characters. Running an older rig?

NinjaClarinet wrote:

The faster moving character requires your computer to render new terrain quicker than the slower characters. Running an older rig?

First level monk, so no speed increase yet.

And yes, but it should be plenty for this.

Could be a clothing part you're wearing, or your character's head choice.

PaladinOfSune wrote:

Could be a clothing part you're wearing, or your character's head choice.

Yep. This can also cause your nwn to crash too. If you notice some areas are extremely laggy, or you crash when a particuliar NPC loads, I would re-install NWN. For some reason, this worked wonders for me.

The server is most often not the cause of lag from my experience.

Casvenx wrote:

Can anyone think of a reason one character would be more laggy then another? Settings don't seem to do much, lowering resolution only helps a little... but switching characters removes the jitteryness one is experiencing. I've been playing with a lot of settings trying to improve performance, so I guess it could be any of that... but the noticeable change between characters is odd. The laggy one is a monk, if that matter (which is the only difference I can think of, I don't usually play monks or halflings, this one is both). The choppiness happens when my character moves, and seems to have little to do with anything else on the screen (that lag spike is different, heh).

Be sure you have the latest driver for your video card installed. (From your card's manufacturer, not one Windows installed by itself - That helped me recently on a Windows 8 laptop)

When checking clothing, as others have suggested, try an outfit without a robe as part of the design. I seem to recall that certain robe selections are quirky for other than humans, though I've not tried dressing a Halfling monk on Amia

Heh, -everything- I do seems to indicate that it's halflings that create the problem. Which seems strange... but there it is. Outfits don't change anything, different heads, playing offline, everything has that same choppiness, where it looks like it's just dropping frames. Staying still I still get lag spikes with spells and stuff, but stuttering doesn't happen. I'm wondering if it's something in the ACP overrides?

Drivers are up to date (though 'up to date' might not be best for NWN), running a 1gb video card. Which should be plenty for this game, heh (and turning video settings down did nothing for this particular lag). I found a slight RAM upgrade sitting around (in another computer), which seems to help some.

Thanks for the ideas though. It doesn't make much sense, which makes me feel like I'm seeing things, but it repeatedly showed itself. Maybe I just shouldn't play hin.

Damn shiny water.

DMs - how is the concept of Level Restriction on equipment rationalized ICly? I understand it's there as a balance option. What I'm curious about is how to deal with a situation of a PC trying to give a level 1 Commoner NPC a magic item, but them being unable to wear it.

Is Level Restriction waived for NPCs or in cases were it sort of doesn't matter? Or would that level 1 Commoner just be too spiritually weak (or whatever) and thus unable to get the benefit of wearing, say, a Ring of Protection +1? Could they even put it on in the first place?

I imagine magical gear takes a certain amount of skill to use, even if the effects are passive. If you're not practiced in using strength gear you could break your own bones, or the magical barriers from AC gear need to be angled and accounted for in order to be effective. Easier to make up a reason for each specific case in order to justify the mechanic, rather than one universal explanation. I do imagine that it does take a certain "strength of spirit" to harness powerful relics, as well.

Is there an equivalent of "Due Process" in Kohlingen law? Is it a jury convened of peers or is it just "Guilty in the eyes of Tyr"? How do Tyrrans normally do it?

CouncilofAutumn wrote:

How do Tyrrans normally do it?

Tyrrans do it with one hand.

Haha.

SRSLY THO.

Good question. Not sure that anyone has ever answered it or that it has come up in Kohlingen. Cordor has a Due Process (of sorts), but it only applies to citizens, and even then some might question with what regularity.

In Kohlingen, I'm not entirely certain if they have an indepedent, secular judiciary. People live a life dictated by Triadic scripture there, so I imagine any active magistrates are, if not holding ecclesiastical rank, then at least a notable member of the parish, with all judgments rendered by the laws of the gods.

Yossarin wrote:

Good question. Not sure that anyone has ever answered it or that it has come up in Kohlingen. Cordor has a Due Process (of sorts), but it only applies to citizens, and even then some might question with what regularity.

In Kohlingen, I'm not entirely certain if they have an indepedent, secular judiciary. People live a life dictated by Triadic scripture there, so I imagine any active magistrates are, if not holding ecclesiastical rank, then at least a notable member of the parish, with all judgments rendered by the laws of the gods.

Yeah, I was just reading the stuff about Malus Greywater and thinking back to other, similar situations and it seems like Kohlingen doesn't do the judge/jury/trial thing 100% of the time, so I'm not sure how my extremely Lawful character would react to that. I'd need to know what the laws are - and if they're anything like Cordor's laws, they're hidden somewhere on the forums if they exist at all, and not actually written down on a book you can click on and read IC....

Tyrrans don't so much do their own arbitrary judgement, since Tyr is very much a god of law - not merely (some private sense of) justice. The letter of the law must coincide with the spirit of the law, and so on. Tyrrans in general don't put themselves above secular law but rather in service of it. So even in a Triadic theocracy, I imagine they would champion a very clear, formal justice system independent of any specific church. Of course, the concept of secular and religious spheres is completely misplaced in the setting, so even a "secular" court wouldn't be secular. One of the primary roles of Tyrran clergy and laymen is to act as judges in various justice systems, and those systems need not have anything to do with the divine will of Tyr.

That is the general gist of how I think Tyrrans do it. Kohlingen isn't run solely by Tyrrans, so I can imagine the more zealous, ends-justify-the-means churches of Torm and Ilmater having their influence.

To be fair, when you have a window of 24 hours to deal with something like that you don't really have the time to throw together a trial like some may want to. Having a clear system that relies on those in charge is the best thing we can do at the moment, in my opinion, that makes it fair for everyone involved when the restrictions on time are entirely OOC.

Jes wrote:

To be fair, when you have a window of 24 hours to deal with something like that you don't really have the time to throw together a trial like some may want to. Having a clear system that relies on those in charge is the best thing we can do at the moment, in my opinion, that makes it fair for everyone involved when the restrictions on time are entirely OOC.

Set a court date and release the guy on bail...?

Unless people are guilty until proven innocent, I guess.

Does Vampiric Regeneration stack with innate shifter shapes.

Example: Does my +3 vampiric regen stack with the vampire shapes +3 vamp regen giving a total of +6 vamp regen.

CouncilofAutumn wrote:

Jes wrote:

To be fair, when you have a window of 24 hours to deal with something like that you don't really have the time to throw together a trial like some may want to. Having a clear system that relies on those in charge is the best thing we can do at the moment, in my opinion, that makes it fair for everyone involved when the restrictions on time are entirely OOC.

Set a court date and release the guy on bail...?

Unless people are guilty until proven innocent, I guess.

Innocent until proven guilty is a rather recent development in history

GreatPigeon wrote:

Innocent until proven guilty is a rather recent development in history

That's why I want to see if anybody knows what the Kohlingen laws are. If the law is "Guilty until proven innocent", I'd like to know.

treant13 wrote:

Does Vampiric Regeneration stack with innate shifter shapes.

Example: Does my +3 vampiric regen stack with the vampire shapes +3 vamp regen giving a total of +6 vamp regen.

I dont think it stacks like +3 and +3 makes +6, but instead +3 and +3.

vampiric regen is hard to keep track of given its kind of broken in that it works at random and may or may not work for rounds on end.

So basically I can assume, cautiously, that having my vamp weapon with vampire/risen lord shape isn't a waste. That is the more important point I guess.

Even if Faerûn history paralleled our own, some kind of an onus probandi on the one making charges has been a feature of Western legal theory as far back as we have good documentation, as far as I know. We know for certain it was the theory in Roman law. (Of practice, we can say little.) I'm not saying Faerûnian moral and political philosophy would simply mirror our own, but it's somewhat contrived to dismiss every historical belief we have as a recent development not pertinent to the Realms. Between Platon and Aristoteles, most questions of ethics, politics, epistemology and language that concern us today are already given thorough treatment. It seems the same ideas will arise rather persistently regardless of historical context, as long as the fundamentals of rationality, observation and social interaction remain relatively constant.

If you wanted to assume there was a justice system that considered the accused guilty until proven innocent, you'd have to make sense of it first and explain why it came to be. Why do those people employ such a system and ideology? They're as smart as we are, so it's not as if they're not capable of making the distinction and imagining the alternative - even if it didn't already exist in various societies around them in the Realms. So they need a reason to stick to it, other than the condescending assumption that they simply don't know better.

CouncilofAutumn wrote:

Set a court date and release the guy on bail...?

Unless people are guilty until proven innocent, I guess.

I find it very hard to believe that a good settlement like Kohlingen (or my character, if I'm wrong) would set free a murderer or other criminal and hope they come back for the court date. A modern system like what most countries use today is simply not going to work in a place like this, I think.

As one of the higher-ups in Kohlingen, I'll say that I think the "system" as known IC is simply that criminals will be interrogated and a judgment passed by those in charge at the time. A suspected Banite will not be released back out on bail pending trial when those holding him have enough supporting evidence to the truth - regardless of what their captive might say. And since we can't hold him for more than 24 hours because of an OOC rule, we have to come up with something else quickly in that time frame.

...I feel like this is a little too close to talking about specific IC events OOC'ly, though. >.>

The 24 hours rule can be waived by the player of the captive. I should know, she was in that cell for 11 days. :wink:

For my part, I'm just speculating what Tyrrans would do in general. As far as Kohlingen goes, it would be interesting to see some Tyrran (or other) PCs take initiative and reinvent/revitalize the local justice system. Whatever that is. There's too little legal RP on Amia.

I just want to know if the law, really. If it's the law, then it's the law.

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