Recent content by gothwalk

I am extraordinarily pleased to see this return.

Thing is that even for those entities that put together the cash for the early look, nothing has yet appeared. Wolfgang Baur's Open Design project assembled the $5K in no time flat, and he's now been waiting for three months for any word at all from WotC.

I'm going to buy the books, look at them, and see how enthused I get. I'm going to want to have the core books anyway, even if it's just so I can understand what other people are talking about. There're three possible outcomes. A) I go OMGMUSTPLAY! and convert all my games to 4E. When the...

Out of my current campaigns, there's an equal division in one, more guys in one, and more girls in two. This may be somewhat biased by the fact that my wife plays, but I've not really encountered the all-guys thing here. And yet at a convention, you see a 70/30 divide. I'm wondering if it's...

It depends on the campaign, really. I run about three in parallel. One of those is a casual game, run in a particular house, with a core of players that usually are there, and more who drift in and out. There are four who've always been there, pretty much, and as many as ten others in and out...

Apologies if this isn't the right board for this, but I've looked carefully, and can't find a more appropriate one. There was a report recently of Esdevium getting exclusive distribution rights for WotC products in the UK and Ireland - this is on Esdevium's website as well. This does mean...

I'm working on an encounter which features two kinds of creatures working together. One has a special attack which calls for a Fort check, the other can cast bestow curse I suspect that the spell bestow curse doesn't stack with itself in a single form. That is, if a caster uses the -4 to...

"Mac" means "son of", so no, Celtic women wouldn't have used it. :) The word for daughter is "Inion", but in names, it's usually reduced to "Ni" - so you'd have Sile Ni Bhroin, say, and her brother Conn Mac Broin. Family names - which were strictly a later invention than the Celts, are often...

Thanks, Frosty. I dub thee Expert Answerer of Questions About NWN. :)

Can someone talk me through the process of making a henchman character in a module? I found an AddHenchMan function, but while I can add the character, they won't follow, guard, or even leave the party - although if I enter a new area, they appear just inside the entrance. I've tried looking...

Got that much, alright, but the problem is that either the "Actions taken" script isn't working, or the "show text when" script isn't - within the game, it's fine in the toolset. But, come to think of it, I have my second set of text last, not first. That'll be the problem, cheers! What I was...

I'm having some trouble with a conversation I'm making in a module I'm working on. I want to set a local variable at one point, and have a different start to the conversation based on this variable existing. (The NPC asks the PC to do something. When the PC agrees, the variable is set. If that...

Apologies if this has been answered elsewhere. A player in one of my campaigns is asking how much a permanency scroll would cost. Now, the cost of the spell is simple - same as any other spell. But I noted in the description of permanency that it has a variable XP cost, depending on what it's...

Masters of the Wild arrived here two months after US release. Deities & Demigods last month... no sign of the Stronghold Builder's Guidebook yet. Drew.

There are a great many strengths to this kind of set-up - many of which have been used in television and comics. The main one is that you don't have to seek out a motivation for the PCs to get involved; they just do what they're told. This has been used in presentations as varied as the...