Bunch of cool kids have dies, it makes me sad but also excited to see what you will bring up next! Brilliant characters, but at the same time I'm glad I can focus on other things now

@--lizard-man--: Thanks to the cage fighting crowd tonight, especially Petruchio and Mulg the Monster! Absolutely brilliant combo. Yes, it was quite wonderful. It was a chaotic mess, and it was a boatload of fun!

I'm bringing this back. When you're feeling productive with the toolset, but some dm is hogging the module and not actually doing anything.

"In defense of the City, In service to the People" THE CITY MILITIA NOW RECRUITING The city needs YOU!! The Militia of Arabel is recruiting for all departments The Arcane Division is tasked with Magical Investigation, Enforcement, and Protection. The Special Investigations Division is tasked with Criminal Investigation such as Gangs, Smuggling, Law Enforcement, and Protection of the City It is your responsibility to ensure that your families are safe. Your loved ones are depending on you. There is only one way... JOIN THE MILITIA TODAY!!! No matter your size, no matter your skill - Join us today. We will shape you into the person you need to be to make sure that the citizens of Arabel remain safe in their homes._ ADVENTURER'S WE NEED YOU Do you respect the Weave and it's benefits? Do you care about fame and glory? Do you care about coin and riches? Do you care about faith and tradition? Do you want battle and glory? These things and more can be found if you Join the City Militia TODAY! Protect and bolster Arabel against Magical threats and dangers. Save YOUR city. WE need you. Become the glorious Militiamen - Stop murdering, thieving bandits. Save YOUR city. WE need you. Lead honorable men and women to dispatch lairs of Arabel's enemies. Save YOUR city. WE need you. Honor your faith, and your God. Follow your code while enforcing the laws. Save YOUR city. WE need you. Find your fight, win your fight, bring battle to the enemy and glory to yourself and the militia. Save YOUR city. WE need you.

These are some songs that go with my latest character Lekuna. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EocavRjoN4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc1I70seg6s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOhsIvJGo7A

HEY! If you're in the Builder's Guild, you can start building loot for v6! Like this thread, like an idea in this thread, now is the time to make it real.

A little update on Ronya! A full body one even, heh.

Genre: Rap Sullee J: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0DqSF4vaPc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYsleb4LKKU Flipsyde: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bQG8v8kTGs&ob=av2e Jay Electronica: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5AFpQ96jjE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaFDcDePgvA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-WixcJ-R6E Common: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C99iG4HoO1c This is just some of the stuff I listen to, want more suggestions? Just shoot me a PM I'll shoot you a list. ~Angel

Starstruck page(s) of the ancient Fire-conjurors These pages are obscenely old. The tattered leather pages seem to be made of long-forgotten aminals. The writings are nearly all worn away, and range from charcoal, blood, ink, or and engravings. The Pages compile many different rituals. The most basic of loremasters would discern that many of the descriptions within these pages detail the onerous story behind the creation of this mythical tome. It appears this ancient form of spellwork was a combination of divine magic, blood magic, and what could be the first touchings of the magic from the Weave. The tale upon the first page tells the story of Elruk Darfollo, an old shaman of some ancient tribe which devoured the corpses of their fallen warriors as a means of honoring them. The story begins with an offering to dark forces, a brother to Elruk Darfollo, which delivers him this ancient text though left empty. Elruk seemed to offer more of his village to the Dark Force, in hopes that the tome would begin to fill itself. To his dismay the offerings did not bring anything to the pages aside from his own mad writings describing the rituals he used to murder the countless amounts of innocent villagers. (inflict moderate wounds 1/day) The next story is of a woman who worshiped Fire in the days before Kossuths' true name was known. It details the success and failures she made while attempting to create fire within the lungs of unfortunate experimentees. There seems to be only one success within the many many pages of attempts, and it seems the explosiveness obliterated the poor creature it was used on, the surrounding area, and herself. In fact one might assume due to the bloodiness of the final page, that last few written words were her dying act. //I would prefer if this was random, either delayed blast fireball or combust// (1/day) The very last pages legible are the writings of a cult of Cyric who spent the majority of their days attempting to infiltrate a temple dedicated to Shar. Many of the pages leading up to the final entry are of such intimate obscenity that the reader considers never opening this ancient tome again. Graphic depictions of torture are used liberaly within this portion of the text. The final entry though speaks of their failure to infiltrate the temple, and the ruthless vengeance of Shar herself upon the failed cult. The writing is branded into the page, and darkness seems to spew from the last words which translate to the common tongue as "Truth in Darkness" (mass confusion-and-darkness on the same place mass confusion was casted 1/day) //I also think it would be cool if the text could disintegrate eventually, perhaps randomly scripted after being used so many times.//

Pitch in, people! You know you want to…

A little fun with Tress. These drinks fit the occasion perfectly. For her. Chilled to perfection. For him. Just what a nervous young man needs.

I have to say I rather appreciate DM Mercy in PvP. From what I have seen some of the dullest times on a server are when a major group pushing things is killed off entirely. Sure all stories have their ends, and another group will no doubt rise from the ashes. Still, lets make sure all the stories are told to their fullest extent possible and the endings are epic.

Thayan knights: Umara Kraan Aloth Ashaban I'll think of a few more, no doubt >_>

@khammy

wow, I must really suck at mechanics. I had no idea there were things like dumb feats and smart feats. Jasede, you and damien make me feel like a grandpa playing counter strike for the first time, along with 40 11 year old children who do nothing but play at internet cafes from the time they arent in school. Honestly, the mechanics you need to know arent that excessive. They have in the past been taught from player to player, and will if people are willing, continue to be so. Forte brought me to an arena server almost 6 year ago, so that I could learn what it meant to pvp. I have build my own small arena areas fighting coa versions of enemies, in order to learn how to survive. But mostly, i was taught by other players, who were willing to teach me in an in game way. All OOC info can be taught IG, if you have a bit of imagination, and you are willing. Even the combat window can be taught, if you know how to create a bit of a spin on it. Might just be me, but i can usually guess a persons ac, strength and so on, from the first minute or so of fighting them. All of this comes down to. You can, as a high lvl, teach others how to survive on coa, by combining your imagination along with your knowledge of the mechanical side. I know for certain, that I have a book written, or at least 60% finished, on the old Adventuring Guild Forum, that was a paper on how to effeciently combine weapons, tactics, feats and magic in various areas, against the enemies you most often encounter in such areas. I just never got around to finish it. And if i can do it, everyone can, cause i am not that smart.

My 5 cents to whole topic : I have had different views with DM's few times BUT only when I was a noob and totally new to NWN (not RP though) I have had any real difficulties with them. Few times I have had some problems with my app going through because of difference of opinions (Once "This is a Powerbuild" when I was apping for least mechanically powerful of my characters ever, once "Be a wizard, not a cleric" and "Too many lycanthropes around, won't give it"), but two of the three went through as was and the last one with other benefits being approved. All in all, our DMs are fair bunch of people who treat you with respect if you don't go blazing at them and whining. I must also tip my hat to them for allowing me to play here because I have stopped few application characters without a telling them and a few more with warning that my health has prevented my from playing. My only real problem is that I have few times been promised something by a DM, be it event, NPC support or whatever and the DM has left the server for long time, not giving me any warning. Or the DM just did not show up (Sorry Syntax, could not resist, my old friend) This has happened with players also and even I have done it few times. But hey, we are only human and as I stated in the previous part of this post, I have done something similar… A lot of love to our DM crew. A Job well done. We all have our favourite characters to play with, and you have the right to that too.

@king-dobby Its fine, maybe make a survivability post--that's basic common sense stuff.