NWN - Dreamcatcher campaign

Rev Hellfire

I've uploaded the dream catcher files so we're good to go monday.

The files are mirrored here, remember u only need the hakpak which u extract into your hak folder.
http://www.darkkeep.com/viewtopic.php?t=37

Rev Hellfire

Lolth, I've updated the portal key on your character so u can safely start and stop the portal to the campaign one server. Its the one after the rectangle doors the circle door goes to campaign 2 (more on that later). This way you'll not need me there, and can close access to the server when you're finished playing.

A word of advise, no-one else mess with the portal I'd hate to see you hurt.

LoLth

nice protection


portal is up and running (the shaft of light through the rectangular doors below the shop.

LoLth

rev!

scenario has gone weird on us. won't show a cutscene and so won't continue on. Any chance of some DM intervention?

Saruman

well this sucked! Even killing the npc's out of boredom was no fun!! Oh and we all lost our stuff again!!

Saruman

not sure what happened in the end... i leveled up and i got something about my leveling causing a problem in the text box and then server died... sorry

FlashBang

is it just me or are the campaigns more and more going awry on us?

Rev Hellfire

maybe its you.

So there have been two fúck ups with the campaigns, **** happens. I simply dont have the time at the moment to play these games through before hosting them, hell I dont even have time to play the actually games.
The server is typically running a few hours before the actually game, so someone could actually test these modules out earlier, or download them and give them a quick run through at home.
I agree its a pain the way the dm client is limiited in what it can do in terms or resetting/loading a module, but thats the best thats currently on offer.

Saruman

I had done the first few quests in dreamcatcher at home. Long after the first time it messed up with the cutscene last night, at home i got well past that and it was when i freed the bear i stopped playing it realising there was shadowlords BEFORE this one..

Rev Hellfire

maybe it didnt like the fact that there was no movie on the server.

LoLth

Well, the modules are using a lot of scripting. The one last night seemed to be a minor error, probably caused when Elmer already ran through the cutscene ahead of us (and I doubt killing hte NPCs helped ).

We can't playtest the modules ahead of time, if someone does then they wont have any fun on the night and will most likely ruin it for everyone else as they will know what happens.

The DM client sorted it out fine in the end and the module was actually quite good (pity we dont get xp for combat though).

Saruman, I'd say you'll level up at the start of the next session as it will read your xp total and see that you didnt complete levelling last time.

Rev, don't worry about it. I certainly dont expect everything to run perfectly every time, and lets be honest it has worked more times than it failed. What everyon needs to realise is that Rev is providing a server that he doesn't have time to play on so it is pretty much all for our entertainment. We should be happy for what we have.

The movie was a completely seperate file and so doesnt come into the equation, it was just the way the author set the tags and the event timings. He didn't take into account that the group could be seperated, the bit at the beginning with the school house and the kids was supposed to be a staging area where we all gather before setting out. If we'd all been there at the same time I doubt the scenario would have gotten stuck like that.

Looking forward to part two of this.

ps. anyone have any idea what that last cutscene was about?

BattlingCheese

yeah was a pretty cool mod when it got started.
Fair play to Lolth for figuring it out.
We all came away with some cool items. Even though we need to get rid of them before trying another mod :-( They only work in Dreamcatcher and will crash your game if you have them equipped when starting another mod.


O that katana has some pretty cool powers Lolth.
"First, make sure you can use it. That's required to use the special ability, which is needed to talk to it.
Yes, TALK to it. It has a personality (if a bit bland), and you can convince it to lend you powers from time
to time. By "honor", it really means "lawful alignment". As you are more lawful, you will be able to use it
more per day and succeed in getting it to obey you more."



Also the last cut scene was about:
"Archmage Earind is the one who told Lord Paladinson about where the gem was. It turns out he also sent out
the doppelgangers to get it, though his backup plan of sending a party from Waterdeep was apparently required.
Expect some interesting encounters with Earind in future modules."

Saruman

Yeah we got some cool items.. even though yet again we were stripped of everything... Sally ran around naked for a while.. no shame that one!!

I found someone who sold Sorcerer's battle robes and and bought it for just under 3k and when i did i sold my adventuters robe for about the same so that was nice.

Got a bag of holding again off the party and a staff too with some strange power that i have no idea what it does. So all in all it was cool... We showed our dedication in that even though we did not get xp for fights.. we did stay and fight when there was no need to!! And when we were killed we lost some xp sure.. but no gold... unlike last weeks campaign where i lost 1k a death!