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Stonelands quests should now all be updated and available.

This includes the Goblin/Kobold hunting quests.
Lost Soul Quest
Stingers Quest

These are all for 6-8th level PCs, low level rewards that should give roughly 250 xp and gold per person.

This shouldn't have affected anything else in the module since the Stonelands creatures are exclusively used there, as are the stingers; but the zombies/ghouls on the Lost Soul quest are boosted and may appear in other areas. I can't imagine that causes a problem since they're now balanced for the lowest level challenges though, but alert me to any bugs of any kind via the forums mates.

4107 - did MANY bug fixes.

You should no longer die and drop below sixth level.

Respawn penalty should be at 18 as proper now, it was set to 20%.

Repair kits and healing kits should hopefully all work now, except maybe +6 healing kits. I hit a snag.

Damp Caves quest should have the blade and altar both working correctly now.

Moved the Wand/Bookseller shop, Magical Mysteries across from the bazaar. Goal is to make a bit of easier for new players to learn their way around, they'll do Celas' fetch quest, that leads them past Froidoc and to the bazaar while giving a clue on how to get into the World Serpent Inn. This is a bit of a WIP.

City now has gates!

The World Serpent Inn password is back, and its a new password -- you learn it on a quest for new players, old players who had a character transferred will have to find it the old fashioned way (or PM me, and I'll let you know cause I'm such a nice guy). cough its "scales"* ...I don't want a bunch of PMs really.

The Damp Caves quest is back for 6-8th level PCs; and improved!

Hell Cows is new and improved for v6.

Celas gives a quest to you when you're level 6, it'll lead to a few other 'fetch' style quests that are really only designed to help new players find their way around the city (I'll be working on this slowly though for a bit).

I accidentally broke some appearances....I'll be fixing this soon.

Taking a break for awhile, some of the constant stream of complaints because someone moved the cheese and tried to breath some new ideas and options into the module and keep it fresh has just entirely deflated my ability or desire to play CoA for now. I'm stepping back before I lose my temper with some people and just ban them for being downers and complainers.

Folks, just wanted to give an update.

On NWN:EE, we have all the technical changes made now we think. Which means, I (or someone else) will soon compile and update to NWN:EE and see what breaks and what doesn't. We were widely slowed down because our module is 15 years old, we had legacy fixes to some of our legacy fixes still running that would break NWN:EE. Echo's Hubby was extremely helpful in fixing all of these things for us.

However, its also final exams week for me. I'm swamped at work because of end of semester stuff, its the busiest time of year for me.

So I know there are some bug fixes piled up, the EE update to do, and I will jump on these hopefully in a week. Just wanted you all to know, and if there are every any questions; ask away.

Seriously, need something run? Want to pursue a plot or idea for your character? I should have quite a bit of free time this week to schedule things with players--so contact me.

Particularly if you're interested in following up on :

Mitchifer's World Serpent Inn plans
Ini-Herit's Claims on the Ruins
The "Sun Cult" of Old Town
Inmai Mush's Searching for lot relics
Researching Bloodstones

If you've got something else you want to try, we can schedule that too.

Moloch 4060

Updates to Hanse Quest; quest giver now conforms to v6 guidelines (ie: social rolls at the end of the quest for extra rewards, XP now based on individual rather than group, loot boost, level range 6-11). Fixed bandit "spams" of spells--problem was not the bandit spamming, so much as up to 8 mages/clerics could appear all able to cast spells and that made it lethal.

As with the Lost Kid and Slaad Crypts; please report any strange bugs or problems.

Also keep in mind, enemies that appear on any of these three quests were rebalanced for v6 (mostly meaning monsters below CR 6 got boosted up to the CR 6-11 range)--that could cause problems if these foes appear on other quests or areas. That's what REALLY went wrong with the mage/clerics on this quest. If you note a problem like that, let me know. I'll be trying to retool/revise one or two quests a week so if there is a problem quest that'll be the priority for revision.

Folks!

Please be patient with us. We're literally trying to figure out how to upgrade a 15 year old server to NWN:EE.

We're working rapidly to bring about some big new ideas; especially designed to give more influence over server events to the players.

Some players are wanting DMs to focus on things when we just do not have the immediate time. This is especially true with people asking for big perks, or people who want to build things for the module to benefit their factions/goals etc.

We're still working out kinks with a lot of the things we want to do.

I will say this flat out though just so we're all clear. We have a Builder's Guild to help build v6 areas. We have players offering to build new stuff for the current module--but that's NOT as feasible as you may think. We have guidelines for how areas get built, but we don't have guidelines for player submissions. Please be patient and let us work out things, we're still not paid to do this and so trying to rush us is not going to help.

Also please, just be direct, the sheer level of passive-aggressive "well, seems X isn't in" or "if you don't want us doing x why say we can do x" kind of stuff is just not at all making anyone feel like helping you do X! Just recognize, we're trying to get to things and have a lot to do.

Moloch 4057

I've redone two quests to match our v6 guidelines and start testing some shifts and changes---so if anything is strange, out of balance, too good to be true, or way too much risk for reward on these quests as the updates go through let me know.

Garonius the Explorer in the ruins
Old Woman - Rescue the Kid (now located in Tilverton)

Fixed Doretta's conversation

Balance changes to Stoned (Archprelate) quest--this quest had enemies regularly dropping cure critical wound potions which was too good to be true for a quest in this level range, they'll drop serious wound potions instead. Some foes were rebalanced.

Temon's buy prices for stolen goods was set to 1%, it was 2% and that's honestly too much considering the value of some items. He no longer buy's scrolls, but Nebririlimar should buy scrolls with a 50 gp cap; the fact that very high level scrolls can be found in the module means these changes keep people from making far too much gold off some quests.

MAJOR CHANGE

Starting level is now sixth. Players will start currently with 5,000 gold. There has been an update to the starting store with better gear, which should be about what a sixth level player would have earned. You can only take 1000 gold with you out of the Road to Arabel; and this may need to be adjusted-we're going to be tracking gold and gear from this area very carefully to make sure no one is exploiting this; so if you find/discover a problem, please let us know right away!

You can not go below level 6 even with respawning/raises; it is possible to drop below six if you pay xp from other sources (like potion/scroll/wand making--so DO NOT do that right now!).

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