Not a bug, necessarily... it was designed for much tougher mobs that recently got removed and replaced with basic bandits. It basically needs a complete do-over.

I fixed it.

Desc is wrong. It's supposed to hit everyone in the aoe. I'll get around to fixing the description soon.

I'll fix this. If I can figure out why my current upload isn't working I'll have it done soon!

Since it was changed, this quest seems like a death trap now. Mobs are very hard, and the cap on spawns is probably too high per encounter. Definitely needs toning down.

Party of six, level 7-9, all buffed up and pretty well geared. Half of us got slaughtered.

@SpiffyMeister its not restricted. It's the anti-goblin song.

@knockknock 100% how I feel about it. Definitely agree with knockknock here. It's a pointless suck of time.

I feel like ECL is needlessly punishing. Back when there weren't apps or it was app-lite to play an app subrace, it made sense to have something like that holding players back.

Now with the return of it all being full app, it just feels unnecessarily punishing. After all, all it does is increase the amount of time spent questing to get closer to other people's levels. Which means less RP, and more grinding.

It also adversely effects how xp is gained from enemies at a crazy amount. You get fractions less.

I do see why originally it was in place... but I just don't see any good reason to keep it. I'd rather spend more time with the RP and interacting with others than having to add 2x the amount of time into quests just to be at the same levels of others. Argument that the stats make you a level higher doesn't exactly apply, especially since the power mainly comes from levels.

It's forcing those cool apps and players that really wanted to play something special have to spend countless more hours just doing quests instead of doing things cool and special.

I feel like I didn't put enough coverage in the server on where you can get bard songs and curse songs from. Could use maybe more coverage on drops.

Also, songs that aren't on the builders/Bard class list should probably be deleted everywhere they can. Bombastic Brawl, icy lyre, and maybe a couple more are still dropping somewhere and they're invalid.

Can DM me to ask which ones are valid or not on discord.

@swifty-willownall nwn is a jumbled mess with lots of spaghetti that is a mystery how it's inner workings truly work. XD

But in stuff like this, there's nothing we can do, really. Hard-coded stuff isn't things we can edit.