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<font size="3" face="Verdana, Arial" color="#cc6600">J.E. Sawyer, NWN2 Senior Designer</font>

Question for h4rdc0r3 radial menu numpad players (http://nwn2forums.bioware.com//forums/viewpost.html?topic=474321&post=4043824&forum=95&highlight=)
Thank you for the feedback, everyone. I should have some exciting and dare I say... shocking information about our interface forthcoming.

max hp option? toggle AoO? (http://nwn2forums.bioware.com//forums/viewpost.html?topic=474355&post=4043835&forum=95&highlight=)
We've also changed AoOs in the following way:

* They are virtually instantaneous actions that are always bumped up in the action queue immediately below the current action.
* The character model does not rotate to take an AoO.
* AoOs are not animated, but represented by a distinctive colored particle effect (like a ghostly sword slash).

Cleaves work in a similar fashion, with a different colored particle effect. A fully maxed-out guy with all the various cleave feats can annihilate a horde of creatures around him or her in a second.

Good times.

Instruments (http://nwn2forums.bioware.com//forums/viewpost.html?topic=474629&post=4043828&forum=95&highlight=)
Yes, they will. I believe they have lute, drum, and one other instrument type.

More: The only thing I can answer with certainty (I'm at home right now) is that you see the model on the character and the character has animations to play the instrument.

More: The third instrument type is flute. Currently the animations exist for NPCs (or on PCs through script), but I'm pushing to get a full stance set for bard PCs. http://forums.bioware.com/_commonext/images/smiles/icon_shades.gif