factions

[*Lutemasta]

Please god no. That's all we need, Jiro drawing a dagger and then leading the entire Harmonium on a wild goose chase through Sigil.

And yes, Lutemasta, we know you're the one who'd do it. :P

Meeeee?
Noooo
never...

[*Product of Void]

I would love to see the shattered temple IG.

Otherwise I do have two ideas for athar trouble will be updating the faction forum with them.

Maybe something to shatter holy items in the shattered temple and produce something with charges that gives spell failure to druid/ranger/paladin/clerics ... MUahahaha

Sensates should have drinks, food and other things that cause random effects.

Takers would be neat to have loaded dice. require like a bluff vs spot roll to see them cheating on a roll.

OH and maybe senasates have like a memory gem say "troubled mind of Goobernut" when used you travel to this mad mans dreams fighting his demons until you find the way to awake again. yeah the Name sucks but could be fun.

[*Lutemasta]

A Xaos meeting place would be nice :P
Or simply a corner that looks like it belongs to the xaos.
Or atleast some place that xaos could goto to meet theyre higher ups.
So that trying to find a xao isnt a pain in the arse.
[/QUOTE]
Secondly I do think some little novelties like a faction feat could be fun for PC's.
For example when you pick a faction from Mimir you could gain a feat for that faction and it could grant something. On the low end maybe a skill or save bonus or on the high end if you wanted to really make it something worth joining the faction for talent that people from that faction could have. e.g. Harmonium could gain an ability to arrest someone mechanically like a hold person use or something, Dustmen maybe a raise dead 1/day. Doomguard could get a Disintergrate spell 1/day, Sensates, immunity to deafness/blindness. There are all sorts of things you could do but if you did give really good properties to the faction members it would make picking one quite attractive as opposed to sitting on the fence and never getting involved.

I really like this idea.
Xao - Prismatic spray

[*hunvagy]

i Would Say.. For The Hard heads..  a Widget to summon another  Guard to assist you with your work.. when not with another player.. I often see players ignoring the guards walking about.. and well Even going as far as the attack one  in the plane open without respect for the npc ones walking past

Just brainstorming since I don't know if NWN2 makes that possible without excessive heartbeat scripts, but NWN1 PWs had the guards react to drawn weapons, warn you verbally, then if you did not respond, they went hostile, and whooped your ass.

[*cryptc]

It's good we spend even more time discussing something that is already planned... all factions will get private areas, this has been agreed on since start of SCoD working phase... we just use more time dealing with other stuff than we get working on our plans

[*Ceremorph]

Just brainstorming since I don't know if NWN2 makes that possible without excessive heartbeat scripts, but NWN1 PWs had the guards react to drawn weapons, warn you verbally, then if you did not respond, they went hostile, and whooped your ass.

Please god no. That's all we need, Jiro drawing a dagger and then leading the entire Harmonium on a wild goose chase through Sigil.

And yes, Lutemasta, we know you're the one who'd do it. :P

[*Agony_Aunt]

Faction locations are free for anyone with the skill to try making. Its not limited to just DMs/Builders/Admins to contribute.

In a recent thread this topic also came up. Feel free to give it a go. If it looks good and the admins like it, it may just be accepted.

If you have building skills, feel free to suggest to one of the admins that you would like to give it a go. A thread can be created in the builders area to track its creation. You could send early versions for feedback just to understand early whenther what you are doing is in line with what is expected.

As for Shattered Temple and Xaos HQ, see...
http://z13.invisionfree.com/nwn2planesc ... wtopic=455
and
http://z13.invisionfree.com/nwn2planesc ... topic=1232

Neither area has been completed and both seem abandoned for the moment.

I'm tempted to give something a go myself, i do have some skills with the toolset. But making a good area takes time and patience.

And for the moment we only really have one active builder that is Cere. So patience is advised regarding these things.

EDIT: PS: Oh yeah, on the topic of faction only benefits, we have had quite a few discussions on these topics. Without going into detail the bottom line is, most of these things have problems associated with them which makes us cautious of implementing them.

[*Product of Void]

Two suggestions that have been floating around in my mind

1) enforced permadeath (aka no raises/respawning - ever. That means when you die in grinding, RP, PvP, etc - your character gets deleted from server vault). That'll make you think twice before you decide to pull a chiv in the bazaar or go to 'strech your legs' in the Abyss.

2) Stricter multiclassing rules - in other words, Multiclassing can only be done with DM approval (akin to how we have special race requests set up). At the very least, X29 and Shadowdancer 1 should be disallowed.


I am only half joking about these- at some point or another, they have seriously crossed my mind. You all should be glad that there are other DMs to soften my viewpoints. But how long do you think they can restrain me for? moohahaha


Edit: as for factions (just realized that this is a faction suggestion thread - not an evil - or as some would say: practical, suggestion thread): I beseech you all to be patient as the builders and scripters finish the faction HQs.

1. My characters die when I fall asleep at the keyboard or take a leak would wipe my vault in a week with my luck hah.

2. that just sucks I already have a strict restricitions on builds due to my rp comfort zone.

[*Loki_999]

Orgasmatrons for sensates.

Only for sensates called Barbarella.

[*cryptc]

To Cadence: As far as I understand, this is a thread for suggestions FROM the Community TO the Team, not really reverse. Your DM status doesn't make your post any more informative/useful, thank you.

DM group is also a part of the community, so they have same right as anyone else to say their personal opinions, and conversely aren't given any more weight than any one elses suggestions in a setting like this (it's later when they bribe me on the dm forum that their votes start counting extra *nods*)