Changes to the module
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Some new changes:
1. Helmlands have now been moved to another location upon the High Road.
2. The High Road has been expanded and extended in order to more accurately reflect the distance between Arabel and Eveningstar.
3. The East Way Road has been shortened in order to more accurately reflect the distance between Arabel and the East Way.
4. Removed a sign in Thunderholme claiming it was closed.
5. Possibly fixed some of the Narfel bugs
6. Adjusted Silentsong's boss difficulty to be easier in some ways, more difficult than others. Balance -should- be better on this quest now. -
Adjusted several customized Hobgoblins to better reflect our current lower magical environment.
Added a new quest called Mysterious Cave, the quest is for players level 3-7.
Added several custom monsters for this quest.
Added Lord Tessaril Winter to Eveningstar; she is the current Lord of that village. Renamed Nathel Goodman and his wife to Mayor Tallhill so the current leader of East Way Village is also available in the module. Small changes, but done for flavor.
Fixed bugs with the Warehouse quest, mostly this was done by completely deleting the old quest, and entirely redesigning it to use our automated and randomized Quest System. Please report any new bugs.
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Fixed Mysterious Cave issue where all spawns were firing twice.
Fixed Pree and Orcus to stop summoning a level 6 Skeleton Warrior, I hope.
Fixed Lumberjack Quest exploit.
Cosmetic changes in East Way to reflect recent events.
Added a few scripts for some custom items.
Removed some of the dried field tags from the East Way, since their crops should be slowly recovering since the worst of the drought is over.
Decorated some of the DeSchurran's rooms.
Added sign near the Mirror of Tides in the Pride of Arabel.
Weakened the spawns outside the Glade on the Winding Path; no more ogres.
Created a uniform for Pride of Arabel Employees. Gave said uniform to employees.
Renamed Pride of Arabel Inn Keeper.
Made changes to Red Sword Inn to reflect recent ingame happenings.
Made changes to South Arabel to reflect recent ingame happenings.
Made a few custom items for NPCs.
Fixed the Red Raven's armor in the Stonelands.
Cosmetic changes to Kanthea's Tower to reflect her background better.
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Another attempt at fixing druids small shape.
Other minor stuff, more or less important.The main change really is this.
The skill check system in conversations has been (almost) entirely revised/replaced. So expect to see a bit of new stuff there.
A lot of ressources have been deleted as well during this change, so some stuff might not be working properly (hopefuly, a minimum).
Report to me any bug or exploit or change that make no sense that you stumble on while using skill checks options in conversations.
Thank you.
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Replaced the Cormyrian Greatshield with a version that uses the PD logo.
Replaced all vestments with 1.69 versions NOTE: This may leave some NPCs naked, please let me know if anyone is spawning in in the buff.
Removed unused NPCs.
Removed unused Areas.
Added Mist Placeable to Hot Springs in Flynn.
Updated apple trees to use Apple Tree Model.
Added cats to toolset and several areas.
Adjusted the following creatures with scaling. If anything is odd; please advise me.
Dire Tiger, Alpha Males are now 10 bigger than Dire Tigers.
Cormyrian Mountain Bears are 120% bigger.
Wolf Pack Leaders are 110% bigger.
Huge Fire Elementals are 130% bigger.
Satyr's use Satyr Appearance.
Adolescent Giant Spiders are now Large Spiders and 80% the size.
Young Giant Spiders are now Big Spiders and 50% of the size.
Large Gelatinous Cubes are 120% bigger.
Huge Gelatinous Cubes are 150% bigger.
Summoned Queen Stag Beetles are 120% bigger.
Summoned Dire Polar Bears are 120% bigger.
Summoned Malar Beast is 130% bigger.
Sick Ancient Dire Bear is 120% bigger.
Great Stone Trolls should now have the Stoneskin FX on them, rather than a swirling ball of dirt. Let me know though if it looks wrong at all.
Added donation bowls to the Helmite Shrine.
Fixed Warehouse quest bugs: Set doors to Plot. I am not sure why the spawns do not fire sometimes; the Encounters are set up correctly.
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(Not quite finished yet, may be 2 resets from now)
-Several minor cosmetics changes (music, added placeables, etc)
-Hot Springs and Arabel Springs should now function as baths.-Lancelords now ride horses, this should not have altered existing ones (in the PD garrision notably), if it did, please notify,
-Added PD Lionar (foot)
-Added PD Scout Cavalry and PD Lancer-Hobgoblin Captains and Warlords now ride Worgs.
-Greater Werebats, Wererats, and Werewolves are all 30% larger then their counterparts.
-Stone Giants are now bigger then Hill Giants.
-Several size adjustments amongst trolls.
-Wereboar now uses the Wereboar model -
Lokarn's forge converted to new tileset. Ronus also now has an apron.
Iron Throne redesigned to new tileset.
East Way converted to new tileset.-Speaking of which, the Blacksmith's tunic item is now a smith's apron.
-Iron Throne Guard uniform altered slightly
-Noble's Overcoat item added to a store, somewhere.
-Ogre chieftain is now larger.
-Iron Throne now has facilities for PC members, it's not an official DM faction as such though.
-Fezznick Shrine has a Helm banner over the altar.
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Updated Kanthea's Tower. Edited her store which is accessible only after doing her quest, PM me anything you notice that is out of place.
Removed the area North Arabel: Wizard's Tower; Living Quarters because all of Kanthea's Tower is now one area.
Updated power on a few NPCs.
Added a prototype of fixes for the Alchemist Quest; DMs will be testing these over the next week or two to ensure I really fixed all the bugs that were plaguing this quest originally.
Updated the scripts that summon NPCs when a friendly NPC is attacked in a town; if anything odd goes on with this let me know.
Boss monster on Narfel Quest now scales.
Moved Thradril's Spawnpoint back a little on the warehouse quest-this will hopefully get him to stop setting off the trap in his place.
Added NPC to Dragoneye Coaster; let me know if anything odd is going on with her.
House Guard template is now Lawful Neutral and not Lawful Evil by default.
Fixed broken transitions in East Way. Hopefully, I got them all.
Resized Lokarn's Forge, it was 8x8 with a 4x4 area in it.
Fixed Lokarn's Door to use craft transit scripts. Added forge key variables to door.
Fixed Oliver Baba to not mention Marliir being alive.
Fixed Apple Trees on Calantar's Way. Let me know if I missed apple trees in any other areas you see.
Fixed Red Sword Inn Keeper conversation to reflect Bhaliir's disappearance.
Fixed cat size and descriptions.
Replaced Yaesol's Quest bugs-this quest was disabled for some time. I left the Yaesol quest giver where he is for now, we need to test the quest and make sure nothing else is broken. DMs should be testing this over the next week.
Added an EO acolyte outside their building.
Shira's Dog is now a Cat since it makes more sense in Arabel anyway.
Created a few new demons for use on quests and plots.
Adjusted the power level of the Mysterious Tower quest, a party with level 7 PCs should be able to do this now. Let me know though if you encounter major challenges-screenshot your combat logs or send them through e-mail please. DMs should be testing this over the next few weeks since its tough to get enough level 7+ PCs to do a quest.
Many low-level quest NPCs will now be paying out slightly more gold, paying out gold rewards per person instead of lump sums, and handing out more quest reward items. Please suggest any other quests where rewards seem too low or too high (I especially want to be rid of quests that give lump sum gold rewards, I prefer to pay per person since it doesn't discourage taking a larger party) and we'll be looking at them in the future.
Added a Hidden Tunnel placeable for use on QS_ quests.
Edited several scripts. (This may cause some unusual behaviors in the current Alchemist Quest, please alert us to these but be patient, the scripts work right in the updated version.)
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-Reduced East Way placeables by approximately half to reduce lag.
-Removed one of the horses in the field.
-Decreased Fog distance, hopefully reducing simultaneous rendering stress.
-Added Archery Targets to Range behind the bowyers.
-Moved trees so that Sugnar's door should be fairly visible from the west angle.
-Added Bar/Inn sign to East Way Inn-Previously DM access only area now can be visited normally (Reminder, DM supervision for attacking non-hostile NPCs is required) and has undergone significant upgrades to bring it to standard for non-DM setup area.
-Fixed a missing tilemagic in a spoiler area, where a river suddenly became a chasm.
-Added swamp water tilemagic where the borderpoint of the Vast Swamp is on Thunder Way.
-Removed a large amount of unusued resources from finished plots, or NPC's now converted to the less resource-consuming system.
- Switched some of the Glade trees to new ones (Please report extreme lag situations, and we'll see if we can find a good balance). Changed background music in the Glade.
-Renamed Stormhorns Western Descent to Stormhorns Frigid Cliffs. This is to avoid confusion with the newer added Stormhorns Western area when that section of wilderness was expanded.
-Removed the late Prince Caliburnus.
-Some updates reflecting ingame events.
-North Road is now named Marliir's March, and all sections of the road are prefixed with such, matching the conventions of the other roads.
-Volcano Spirits no longer spawn hostile. Greater volcano spirits are slightly larger. Volcano spirits slightly smaller.
-Purple Dragon Cavalary now has the Cavalry suffix in the NPC name.
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Chages are:
- Fixed Lokarn's door, I think.
- PD knight should now be a restricted PRC, let me know asap if you are still able to take the class without needing to be wanded.
- Summon have been changed to match what was suggested in general discussion.
- Guards, PD and WW can no longer learn if there is a stolen flag on items, they can no longer remove it either.
- ECL shouldn't be taken in account anymore to enter a quest.
- Sending system are now Cormyrwide, they can't be heard outside of the knigdom.
- Some wildmagic stuff was implemented too.
See the announcement about persistant storage as well please.
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-Fixed Lokarn's door. The door is no longer locked, but Ronus will yell and not let you go downstairs without a pass.
-You can no longer go traipsing in Lokarn's bedroom.
-Armor anvil should now be accessible, not blocked by the tile.-East Way Well should function now.
-Assorted placeables removed to reduce lag. Most notably multiple willow trees and the chopped tree placeable (after testing discovered these as major sourceS)
-The inn stream is partially enterable.
-Northeast corner now turns into a tree line, instead of a wall, sicne the wall looked aesthetically poor and didn't map the hill well.
-The PD Tower of Doom is now a much smaller simple Watchtower. The interior map of it has had some changes reflecting the single door as well.
-East Way Inn interior backdoor exits into the stables.
-Hitching posts block the horses currently in the stables, to prevent theft.
-Wall around the shrine altered for aesthetic purposes-Fixes to upcoming 1.69 converted areas (Frontier Farm, Eveningstar, Immersea) based on test runs.
-An area previously requiring a DM can now be visited without, provided you have the IC means to do so without being attacked.
-Some modifications to secret door code, to allow different hidden objects.
-Added script for an automated bartering system, allowing for itemized trade without DM presence.-Some resource cleanup in the backend
-Fixed a broken secret entry that no one can actually use as yet >_>
-Removed willow trees from the Glade.
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Another In Progress
-Lokarns door fixed…hopefully.
-Old Eastway is going back for now, while New Eastway continues undergoing upgrades and testing. The gun was obviously jumped a bit, and adjusting to the new patch techniques has proven a little more demanding then originally thought.
-The Farmer Wife selling baked goods got ported over though./
-Adding a horse on the Road to Arabel, if after the next reset, everyone crashes in droves, try and get word to the DM team immediately. The idea is to partially fix the lag generated by occasional horse viewing by loading the animations. Though my understanding of the engine workings in play may be flawed and this won't work.
-Trade mechanism now properly gets rid of the item you traded when paying you.
-The Eclestian Index added ingame.
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A reset has to happen first, as a note.
-Removed Old Iron Throne Headquarters that was still in the mod.
-Fixed some doors that were busted, and some similar instances in other places.
-Lokarn's armor anvil workings should now be accessible, it's been lowered and moved off that platform a bit.
-Dragon Disciples now breathe whatever their color is supposed to. Due to nwn limitations, it'll still show as "X breathes fires" and play a fire visual, but the effects will match up. If you're playing a metallic dragon disciple and want to breathe an elemental instead of a status breath, please indicate this preference to whichever DM sets you up. This can also be changed on the fly with DM oversight.
Some more backend resource cleanup
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In the most minor update ever concieved.
Added some new OA's for DM quests, and pulled a few old ones out.
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Edited areas on Bresk Vampire Quest.
Made cosmetic changes to Sunken Ship Quest; also increased XP reward at the end to make it more in line with other quests in this range. This quest seems like it would be too easy; please advise me if that is the case or not.
Made spawns on Road to Redspring more balanced for the middle-level parties.
Vampiric Mist is immune to its own attacks.
Deleted unused resources.
Set several beds in the Tired Traveler to Plot; someone thought it was funny to smash them all lately.
Lowered treasure value on Narfel chests; they gave too much. Also spun the WP around so they faced the right way.
Added several new creatures for summoning themes.
Made cosmetic changes to a few areas.
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More changes to the module:
- Fixed some chests pointing in wrong directions on lumberjack and Orc Camp
- Some quest givers will now have a description including the level range and party size allowed for their quest
- Changed lightning bolt spell (read the changes with your character token!)
- New limit of items is now applied on persistant storage
- Trash receptacles should no longer delete corpses and artifacts
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Removed a few "Condemned!" from 4 sewer entrances, that should have been removed a long while ago.
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Fixed conversation error on the new Alchemist Quest, I'll be gathering volunteers during the week to help test this.
Reduced XP gain in some areas that could easily be exploited for massive powergaming.
Tweaked Crazy Fey quest slightly.
Hopefully, Vampiric Mists won't still kill themselves on spawn in.
Wyvernstones can be reached without a DM again.
Lady's Challenge now pays 100 per person rather than 150 total to encourage parties and lower the solo'able rewards.
Reduced some of the bigger pay-outs on statues on this quest.
The necromancers on this quest should finally have their undead working properly–but then again--who knows this is my fourth effort. Tell me if it worked.
You can now drown when you're in certain underwater areas. This is in an alpha-stage and will need some testing. If everyone drowns when this module version goes up as soon as they log in--my bad.
Added description to Karin Gallin.
Karin now pays 150 per person for Gilmore's Tower, rather than 200 total.
Added a delay to Gilmore's doors so people walking should now be teleported. We need to discuss this quest, its a bloody mess honestly right now.
Fixed Drinking Fountain in north Arabel.
Fixed the stupid "You manage to drink, but are no longer thirsty." typo--this should be "and" not "but". Its frustrated me for years!
You can now bluff Porry Hatter and tell him you're a wizard. This should allow this quest to be done slightly more often, it is a fun quest.
Removed some Willows from the Glade.
Added an Old Posted Stump to East Arabel Road just to see if it'll work.
Changed the appearance of Twig Blights/Tree Blights. They should look less like humans missing some parts now; but if they look terrible let's change them back. They have descriptions now too.
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Added server messages to the drowning scripts to explain to players what is happening to them.
Customized the devil/demon summoning theme.
Removed some areas that existed only for Fed-Ex quests.
Modifications to Desert Camp area.
Changed the model of the Tree Stump Post thing on the East Road.
Slight boost to Magical El-rats. They now do various elemental damage with their attacks.
Deleted unused resources.
Updates to Kanthea's Tower.
Combined Tailor and Nebrilimar's shops into one area to save space.
Added No Trespassing Sign to abandoned Bhaliir estate.
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- Fixed Oemor's conversation (intel check).
- Deleted unused ressources and replaced a few (mostly skill checks in conversations) so let us know if you face some bugs.
- Refreshed the whole Bazaar scripts.
- Second attempt at adding level range to quest giver NPCs, if you could list NPC quest givers who don't have this in their description, let me know which, make a list.
- Other minor changes.
