Small quality of life changes

[susitsu]

Well, then you've got a race that starts with three languages. You wanna give up Animal Language, man?

In fairness, drow start with four, duergar start with three, svirf start with three, and so do kobolds and goblins (three languages as well). All that'd do is put gnolls in line w/ all the other underdark races.

Hmm. I have touched like none of those races, so I didn't even think about that. Yeah, honestly, very fair point. I do find the whole 'they aren't actually an UD race thing' to be a pretty strong one to stand by, but that reasoning really makes me have to think about the ECL all the races take on or the negatives they suffer. Statically speaking, that's probably what needs to be taken into mind.

But I do think it's a reasonable argument that the Arelith gnolls after the servers been running for what, a hundred IC years, would have integrated Undercommon into their languages.

Still not sure how I feel about it. I have no idea how balanced they are compared to each other.

[CragOneEye]

Other outcast races don't get under common automatically, and gnolls are an outcast race not an underdarker race. I would rather see gnolls get something like orc-sh in addition instead.

[Lorkas]

By "outcast races" do you mean humans and half-orcs who select the outcast background?

[CragOneEye]

By "outcast races" do you mean humans and half-orcs who select the outcast background?

I do yes. Where as gnolls are unique in the sense they're all an auto-outcast race. But they are not an underdarker race. Is a reason why at one point they required 20 rpr.

It is also worth noting they used to have heir own starting area right underneath stone hold before they flooded pit town.

So gnolls only been living in aundor what thirty years tops?

[Montaugh]

Add to the journal's page about gold restriction on items notes about when gear can be used.
Example... (not based on actual gameplay as I don't feel like looking it up atm)
Level 3 5000 gold, +1 weapons/armors/shields
level 15 150,000 gp Mith armor with 5/- essence, Masterly Damask Weapons.

Basically just a quick indicator for the commonly used items so players know at a glance what they can use by what levels would be a nice quality of life feature.

[Silverrock]

I've noticed a lot of resources around Cordor proper are a bit less than what they used to. Three sand deposits and four coal deposits that used to be easily accessible for low level characters are gone. Getting some of them back would help low level resource gathering RP and provide a way for such to make needed money at that level.

[Peppermint]

Add to the journal's page about gold restriction on items notes about when gear can be used.
Example... (not based on actual gameplay as I don't feel like looking it up atm)
Level 3 5000 gold, +1 weapons/armors/shields
level 15 150,000 gp Mith armor with 5/- essence, Masterly Damask Weapons.

We've actually discussed this before. The plan was simply to add level requirements to an item's description if you don't meet the requirement.

It simply hasn't been done yet because, well. Lots of things to do.

[Montaugh]

When using a resource chest to sell to a settlement have it count the items in the bag as being sold. ie putiting a hunting bag full of meat/hides should count those meats/hides as for sale.

Alternatively when removing items from the bags have them remove in stacks rather than single counts.

[Baron Saturday]

Add an option to Speedy Messengers to send a message to all members of a faction currently online.

[Ork]

Potions stack up to 99

[Convention of Blades]

Make magic staffs small. Please.

It's purely aesthetic. I'd rather have my kobold sorcerer use a magic staff with a ruby on its tip than a mace while using a shield.

[Nitro]

Potions stack up to 99

I'd rather not see characters with decent strength carry around literal thousands of potions without much trouble.

[Lorkas]

We already have characters with or without decent strength carrying around literally thousands of uses of wands. Is it balance or inventory realism that bothers you about that idea?

[Thera]

Potions stack up to 99

To use or to appraise scum to NPCs?

[Lorkas]

Eh, there will be limits on that soon, and they have to be split to sell them anyway, which is the part of the process that takes the longest tome by far. I don't think appraise runs are going to be affected by a change in potion stacking, or at least not for long.

[Nitro]

We already have characters with or without decent strength carrying around literally thousands of uses of wands. Is it balance or inventory realism that bothers you about that idea?

Largely balance, the fact that wands don't stack at all and potions only stack in 10 means that you actually have to sacrifice a fair bit of inventory space to have the full cavalcade of buffs and cures on you at all times.

[Lorkas]

In general potions aren't going to allow you to have that full set of buffs ever, since there are far fewer PC potion makers than wand makers, and wands allow for an entire extra level worth of spells.

The inventory space issue is less of a balancing factor and more of an annoyance--the exact kind of change we were asked to propose in this thread.

If we want to have a wands vs potions balance discussion on anther thread, I'm confident that consensus would be that wands are stronger. That's not the point of this thread though.

[furryn]

Can magic staffs be made "offhandable", able to be wielded in the offhand?

I can understand if the answer is no, due to something about then being able to wield some crazy wild weapon in the main hand. but it would be somewhat nice to see my character capable of carrying his staff in the offhand though.

[JediMindTrix]

I don't know how possible that is in the game engine. Typically, if you use scripting to equip an item to a slot it doesn't belong, it'll cause client crashes.

Besides, you won't see the weapon in combat. Only the staff.

[furryn]

I don't know how possible that is in the game engine. Typically, if you use scripting to equip an item to a slot it doesn't belong, it'll cause client crashes.

Besides, you won't see the weapon in combat. Only the staff.

Aww... Just looked here and thought it might be possible: http://nwn.wikia.com/wiki/Magic_staff

as it says:

Magic staves cannot be wielded in the off-hand without using a modified baseitems.2da.

But that might be a hak instead? :/

[JediMindTrix]

It might be possible then!

[Silverrock]

Have the effects of the different coloured Skleens listed in their titles or their descriptions.

[Aodh Lazuli]

Have the effects of the different coloured Skleens listed in their titles or their descriptions.

Please do this. Please.

[Durvayas]

We already have characters with or without decent strength carrying around literally thousands of uses of wands. Is it balance or inventory realism that bothers you about that idea?

Largely balance, the fact that wands don't stack at all and potions only stack in 10 means that you actually have to sacrifice a fair bit of inventory space to have the full cavalcade of buffs and cures on you at all times.

As someone who crafts and has limited inventory space, but also plays that same character as a warrior with as much STR as possible...

Maybe stack them to 20(like the empty wine bottles). But 99 is absurd. If you need to have that many potions on hand at any time, it should take up a great deal of space in your inventory just like it'd take a great deal of space up on one's belt if they were actually wearing one.

[Tashalar]

Make Fish able to be put into Hunting Bags!
I enjoy gathering fish for roleplay, but they fill up your inventory fast. If they could also be put into the Hunting Bags, that would make general food-gathering a lot easier!
(same with Fish being sellable to settlements or Bernto..)