NWN, first mod (another)

[noretoc]

I also ran my first mod today. It was pretty simple. It started with a small lived in tavern, and I added a forest outside with some basic creatures, including a custom one, right from the pages of my weekly PnP game.
As I was out partying for the holiday, people managed to come in and out. As I went back through the log, I saw what they said and felt pretty good. "Who made this, it's pretty cool" and "I wish I knew the guy who made this"
The last group, however (about 5 mins ago) pissed me off a bit. My game is in the Role-Playing catagory marked with EN and the descr explains that it is the starting point of future adventures, and that is wasn't complete. One of the players was walking around saying "DM we need a clue what to do" while fighting the creatures that was in the forest. I told them that there still wasn't much to do yet, like it said in the desc, beside what they were doing. Finding the encounters, and taking them on. There were a few story items. The hides of the creatures fetched money, which they would have know if they talked to the innkeeper. Well, They went to the inn and starting killing patrons. Well, my innkeeper (also straight from my PnP game, like the tavern itself) was a lvl 17 rogue. He was able to kill them a few times, but they kept respawning and killing everything. (including two small kids playing) I guess from now on I have to make all NPC plot items. I didn't want to do that. Oh well, one bad group out of 10 is great. I had a blast, and I hope they did to.

 

[Xenu]

I haven't checked to see if this works, but you might want to consider something similar to it for the OnDeath script of characters you don't think should be killed:

#include "nw_i0_generic"

main()
{
object oKiller;

// who killed me?
oKiller = GetLastKiller();

// if it was a pc
if (GetIsPC(oKiller))
{
// then boot the dweeb off of the server!!!
BootPC(oKiller);
}
}

I've noticed a low calibre of people on my server as well. I was running chapter 1 and in comes some guy that starts killing nurses without warning. Sheesh. He bolted before I had a chance to ban him.

--xenu

 

[noretoc]

That is actually a pretty good idea. IT was the last running of the game (right before I went to bed) so it wasn't bad. The mod was up all day, and no NPC got killed until then. It was a ton of fun though. NWN really has changed CRPGs.