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Title: Nights of a wintery varienty, in the land of never
Post by: Entsuropi on January 30, 2004, 08:42:55 PM: So, i got my copy up and running, and hopefully tomorrow will have both expansions going. Does anyone fancy going through some modules online, like the dreamcatcher series?
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Post by: JP Dogberry on January 30, 2004, 09:33:59 PM: You couldn't pick a normal title, now could you?
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Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on January 30, 2004, 09:55:31 PM: get me a working computer that can run it, I'd LOVE to. Love NWN. Just can't play it right now.
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Post by: Mr_Pleasington on January 31, 2004, 02:16:16 PM: I think we tried this before, unsuccessfully. I hope we can do it this time as playing with friends is how NWN is meant to be played.

In other words, I'm all for it! :)

Now someone just needs to learn to DM it.

Oh, I only have the first expansion though...
Title: Re: Nights of a wintery varienty, in the land of n
Post by: Entsuropi on January 31, 2004, 03:12:19 PM: Cool beans. You would need to set aside a time during the afternoon, in order for me to be able to make it. I am 7 hours ahead of SE... that makes you 5 hours behind me, right Mr P?

Here's hoping we can pull it off, i love NWN and would love it even more online, (with voice-com even, but thats a bit painful for 56k i think).
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Post by: Spriggan on January 31, 2004, 05:05:01 PM: I can hop on but I don't have any of the expansions.
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Post by: Entsuropi on January 31, 2004, 05:54:46 PM: As long as you are patched up to 1.61 you have no compatability issues to worry about, but you cannot play mods that use the tilesets and monsters in the expansions. Just means i can make chars with the new feats, spells and prestige classes that you guys cant.

How about this... you guys free next wednesday?
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Post by: Mr_Pleasington on February 01, 2004, 02:27:27 AM: It would have to be late wednesday for me...like 11pm CST, but I could do it then.
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Post by: Spriggan on February 01, 2004, 03:14:46 AM: Becasue of work, I couldn't do it till about 1am DR.P's time.
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Post by: Entsuropi on February 01, 2004, 05:42:12 AM: Lol. Maybe if you two stayed up really late and i got up really early we could pull it off ;)
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Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on February 01, 2004, 08:29:15 AM: 8am is actually sleeping in...

oh wait. Entropy doesn't have children. *sigh*

I *wish* I could call 8 really early...
Title: Re: Nights of a wintery varienty, in the land of n
Post by: Entsuropi on February 01, 2004, 09:30:03 AM: Actually, i think thats 6am for me SE. Which i can infact do, assuming i don't sleep. Or use an alarm clock and get stressed enough about having to get up for work to actually get up.

I checked on IRC - if we do this, i can use the new spells, feats, prestige classes and familiars from HOTU, while Mr P can use the ones from the 1st one, but Spriggan will be confined to vanilla NWN choices. Just make sure you are patched up. And we would need modules that don't use tilesets or monsters from the expansions.

Oh... how about today/tonight? If you guys can make it. I'm thinking we could try
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Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on February 01, 2004, 10:09:32 AM: actually no, it's 8. You determined you were six hours ahead of me (when it's 2 here, it's 8 where you are). I am one hour ahead of Dr. P (he's central, when it's 2 here, it's 1 there). Spriggan is another hour behind that (when it's 2 here, it's 12 there).

Which means that if Sprig can't play "till about 1am DR.P's time" than it's midnight for Sprig, 1 am for Dr. P, 2 am for me, and 8 am for you.
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Post by: Mr_Pleasington on February 01, 2004, 01:59:58 PM: I'm out for tonight. It's the Superbowl and all...
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Post by: Prometheus on February 01, 2004, 07:18:04 PM: Funny, my brother and I just barely started playing NWN together online. Currently we're just hacking our way through the original single player campaign, but playing with other folks too would be good. I have both expansions.

You guys have me horribly confused with your times and such, but if someone can tell me what time to be on, I can quite likely be there.
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Post by: Spriggan on February 02, 2004, 08:48:22 AM: honestly the best day for me would be this thursday or saturday, but I'm still willing to play on play wensday. But don't push back your playtime just so I can start with the rest of you. I can allwayse jump in later.
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Post by: Entsuropi on February 02, 2004, 07:31:01 PM: Well, the later we start the better for me. Timezones are wierd. I vote for 1am onwards, on wednesday, Mr P's time. That would equate to midnight Spriggo time, and 7am my time. * If Promethius wants to join in, thats groovy. 4 players makes for a balanced group after all. What modules and classes do people want to try? I am all in favour of the dreamcatcher series - 2 sets of 5 modules. And i make the perfect fighter, with my total lack of mental ability and bloody mindedness.

*Spriggan is an hour behind Mr P, and i am 7 hours ahead of spriggan.
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Post by: Spriggan on February 02, 2004, 07:48:27 PM: thief/ranger is my fave in NWN. It's uber powergamer since NWN dosne't follow the D20 ranged sneak attack rules.

Oh and I demand that Entropy makes us an adventure!
*cracks whip*
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Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on February 02, 2004, 09:24:17 PM: I like fighter a lot better than ranger because you get more feats. Feats are what it's all about.
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Post by: Spriggan on February 02, 2004, 09:35:39 PM: not in NWN
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Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on February 02, 2004, 09:43:16 PM: no you don't get more feats or no it's not where it's at?

the first part, yeah, they do get more feats. the second part: you could argue skills (specifically diplomacy, search, open lock, and disarm traps), but for combat, a really tight and calculated selection of feats can make a HUGE difference. Which is why I do the fighter/rogue combo. Get so I can take 20 to get a 28-30 result in the above skills, then do a lot of two-weapon/improved crit/weapon focus/specialization in my chosen weapons.

Usually I have a few left over to get some feats for that bow too. Then I can lay some smack down and just change over to my swords when they get close (yeah, I suppose that I could get the feats to stay with the bow, but the high level fighter 2 weapon combo gets so many more attacks)
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Post by: Mr_Pleasington on February 02, 2004, 10:09:08 PM: I'm out for this week, I'm afraid.
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Post by: Spriggan on February 03, 2004, 03:04:31 AM: feats aren't all that usefull in NWN. Being able to hit a creature at the oppsoite end of the screen for over 30 points of damage is so much better.
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Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on February 03, 2004, 07:45:29 AM: feh, I can do that with my fighter. And then when the dragon advances (or more likely, a crowd of ogres, giants or leveled humanoids) and gets to me, I can rip it/them up in a round.
Title: Re: Nights of a wintery varienty, in the land of n
Post by: Entsuropi on February 03, 2004, 11:31:28 AM: I'll have you know that my level 8 fighter, level 10 weapon master who specialises in the Katana is sickenly good. He has taken down his first beholder in 3 hits. IE, one round.
Title: Re: Nights of a wintery varienty, in the land of n
Post by: Prometheus on February 03, 2004, 03:58:39 PM: I still haven't seen any time for the meeting being mentioned. Additionally, should we be planning on bringing our own characters previously leveled or new ones?

I imagine the server could be named TWG. I'd recommend it be made for the Solo channel as that one isn't heavily used.
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Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on February 03, 2004, 05:16:07 PM: I know this is off subject, but Prometheus isn't reading other threads. AORP started back up, kid. Galford's sitting round picking his nose while Gareth leads them in an assault against the Prussians or something.
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Post by: Entsuropi on February 03, 2004, 07:30:12 PM: Midnight Utah time, this thursday. Although i am having wierd trouble - my ping times have tripled for no apparent reason. Level 1 characters playing the shadow lords and dreamcatcher modules is the current plan i think, but Spriggan found a module where it was full of wandering monsters and you could affect the eco system by killing them.
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Post by: Spriggan on February 03, 2004, 08:13:58 PM: ya and they give you lots of experence. Those kobolds were dishing out 500exp each.
Title: Re: Nights of a wintery varienty, in the land of n
Post by: Entsuropi on February 04, 2004, 07:23:19 PM: I'm pulling out, on account of not knowing wtf is going on. And my ping has been through the roof for several days now, for unknown reasons. I feel like the engineers from star trek, only i cant simply press lots of buttons and solve it that way.

Next week. I want to have, like, a list of who is coming and stuff.