Neverwinter Nights Forum News
Posted Sunday, November 30, 2003 - 14:09 CET by chevalier

Here are today's Neverwinter Nights forum highlights. Please take into account that these are only single parts of various threads and should not be taken out of context. Bear in mind also that the posts presented here are copied as-is, and that any bad spelling and grammar does not get corrected on our end.

David Gaider, Designer

HotU Romance: I don't know what it is. To be honest, although I've joked about it in the past there IS no particular fixation amongst anyone here (believe it or not). It has just ended up this way, somehow. The HotU female romance was actually originally human, too. Then somewhere along the line it was decided to make her a dark elf, for story reasons... but nobody thought until later "Oh... I guess that makes another elf romance, doesn't it?" I think the next time we do another fantasy romance (Bastila wasn't an elf!), we'll deliberately avoid another elf just because. Either that or we'll deliberately make her an elf just to continue tradition.

Georg Zoeller, Designer

CD-Key Scam: Just a reminder: Never give your CDKey or Account Password away.

BioWare will never ask you for your CD Key except when you first register your game. There will never be the need for us to "update" our databases (or any other stupid reasons these scam artists will try to invent to steal your CDKey). If you receive such a message as a private message on our boards, please forward it to Derek French. If you receive a request for your CDKey via mail, ignore it, we don't ask for your CD Key. If it looks like someone tried to make a mail look authentic, you could forward it with full mail headers to Derek French as well, so we can see if further actions need to be taken. Additionally I really recommend that you take the time to apply the proper security updates to your operation system, install a decent antivirus software and optionally a personal firewall as there seems to be an annoying trend: Some of the more recent internet worms are trying to steal CDKey information for a variety of games from your computer, including Neverwinter Nights.

Item spells: Yes, I think fireball is among the spells you can put on items. With some item property scripting module builders should have no trouble of converting this property into some "On Hit turn the wielder into a chicken" type property if they don't like it

Combat scripting functions: There is a scripting command to modify the number of attacks on a creature but so far we only used on on golems and custom encounters I think. Characters gain a couple of nice feats while in dragon form to compensate for that ... plus they can use their breath weapon each round, which can do around (rough) 16-20d(6-10) points of AoE damage (a slight bit more for epic shifters than druids, as they are a bit better in adapting a creatures magical abilities).

Turn Undead: Yepp, I did a test with taking the turn undead script and modify it to make undead creatures a henchman for a limited duration for evil clerics, works pretty well. We won't do such a thing officially (after all there are reasons why you can only have one summon, and that reasons still are valid), but nobody is going to stop the scripters in the community to go wild with that.