Interview NWN2 rules interview at Warcry

[Spazmo]

Tags: Neverwinter Nights 2; Obsidian Entertainment

<a href=http://nwn2.warcry.com>Warcry</a>'s NWN2 site had a <a href=http://nwn2.warcry.com/scripts/news/view_news.phtml?site=91&id=51506>word</a> with Neverwinter Nights 2's lead designer <b>Ferret Baudoin</b> about the finer points of the D&D rules implementations in the upcoming sequel.<blockquote>5. Will you be upgrading spells to the 3.5 definitions?
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Ferret: Yes, we will. There was a good stretch of time where the 3.0 Player’s Handbook and 3.5 version were always open on my desk as I tried to find all the nuance changes between the systems. Fortunately, some denizens of the web also provided frightening data on this to help. But many spells have gone through changes because of 3.5. One of the biggies is the Harm and Heal spells which now have damage and healing caps. Many of the stat buff spells have had their duration changed. And many more changes are around.</blockquote>The interview also mentions an upcoming dev chat with several members of the NWN2 team which is supposed to happen January 26th at 6:00 PM PST at irc.warcry.com::6667 (irc.chatspike.net::6667) #nwn2.
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[Jason]

A separate Knowledge-Religion skill sounds pretty cool. Too bad it won't be in the game.

 

[Levski 1912]

Well at least it seems Harm will get fixed. Twas the cheapest spell in NWN 1.

 

[Volourn]

1. What's hialrious is that NWN's Harm is EXACTLY like pnp 3.0 Harm yet it's the spell that gets the most flak in NWN (excpt for maybe IGMS).

2. Harm is not overpowered. People who think that are stupid.

Game over.

 

[Sammael]

It should be interesting to note that The Black Hound had separate Knowledge skills, including Arcana, History, Nobility and Royalty, and Religion (there may have been more, but I don't remember for sure).

 

[Diogo Ribeiro]

The Black Hound

 

[Drakron]

Yes ... it sounded interesting and Sawyer could not have picked any other place were pretty much everyone bashes their heads, the Dalelands.