Module Development Discussion

[ghost81]

Our next thread.

This is for your ideas for the world but goes beyond that. Not only do we want to see people and places for the world but ideas on content and how best to realise this in game terms. Straightforward suggestions have their own thread elsewhere this is for more developed ideas with supporting descriptions and ideas for in game realisation.

[Fasin]

Kev Im gonna email you some Framsburg stuff Ive knocked together with a few ideas thrown in for the Northern Misties/Grey mountains in general. Going to have to be in bits Im afraid as the erf with everything in one export would be too big for your mail server and it would just bounce. Here goes.
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Correction - it ZIPs down nicely. Ive attached that and it should go all in one go.

[Galdor_Niphredil]

No, I'm not talking about those of 'Hotel California' fame, I am of course refering to Gwaihir the Windlord and his feathered friends and their placing on MERP_UK's server.
They could perhaps be located somewhere in the Misty Mountains, carrying the 'worthy' traveller to places far and wide (in a similar way to the Tharbad ships). It is proposed that when the new server is in place the old one will be used initially as a test pc, but after this Kev has said it might be used to run offshoots from the main mod. Perhaps the eagles could be used to ferry adventurers to the locations of these 'offshoot' mods (transferring players from one server to the other ?).
The only problem i can see with this is graphically portraying the eagles within the constraints of the NWN game.

[DM_Kev]

I've had a look at the full range of birds, including cep ones, and the eagles is not particularly large. Certainly not large enough to physically carry a character.

I will still use the eagle as a means of transport though. I'll just have to set it up maybe so that you talk to a lesser eagle who 'leads you to your waiting transport' and then, up up and away :)

Ive always been one for improvisation ;)

[Fasin]

There are eagles in NWN/CEP but they are a bit um... stiff... like fixed wing gliders.

Have I missed somethin tonight ?

[Galdor_Niphredil]

Perhaps another way is having caravans as transport. I've always wanted to steal the one belonging to the fella at the entrance to the Trollshaws! :P

[Fasin]

New Class... TWOKmiester:
Epic Feats: Steal Caravan, Wear Hat Backwards, Be an Obnoxious Git, Spit in the Street, Speak Charva.

[ghost81]

Just a thought on UTT2. I've been looking at the new PRC, and trying to write descriptions for them and it struck me that a couple of Shirriff posts in the Shire, would be great locations for giving out quests to low level hobbits. Not only could they give out quests in increasing difficulty much like the rest of the world, but it would also be a nice introduction to the Shirriffs for hobbit characters and could encourage some of them to become Shirriffs as they continue their travels.

[TheStoryteller01]

Wrong thread - I apologize!