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Deity Selection on Character Creation
« on: June 17, 2006, 04:16:57 PM »
NWN2 Lead Designer J.E. Sawyer posted this on the Bioware forums today: deity selection, IT'S IN THE GAME!

Here is some interesting quotes:

About altering the deities.2da (the "removed" colum)
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If you do not like my list of 105 Forgotten Realms deities (including None and Ao), mark all of these to 1 and create new entries for Takhisis and Paladine and Farmer Bob.

Which Forgotten Realms Deities Are Not Included
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Exclude the Mulhorandi deities, the Chult deities, and Uthgar EDIT: and Takhisis. Pretty much everyone else should be there. All demihuman deities from the FRCS are there except Deep Sashelas.

And no, you can't be a cleric of Ao.

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Deity Selection on Character Creation
« Reply #1 on: June 17, 2006, 06:18:30 PM »
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NWN2 Lead Designer J.E. Sawyer posted this on the Bioware forums today: deity selection, IT'S IN THE GAME!

Here is some interesting quotes:

About altering the deities.2da (the "removed" colum)
Which Forgotten Realms Deities Are Not Included
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All they have done is make the free text field for deity entry a dropdown selection.
It has no additional purpose other than to stop people making spelling mistakes for their chosen deity, and preventing people from entering their own made-up deity
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« Reply #2 on: June 17, 2006, 07:04:50 PM »
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All they have done is make the free text field for deity entry a dropdown selection.
It has no additional purpose other than to stop people making spelling mistakes for their chosen deity, and preventing people from entering their own made-up deity
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It also allows servers to create their own dropdown lists of custom deities with custom restrictions. Most players don't even realize there is a deity field in NWN and that makes Father Phastus cry.

The Forgotten Realms campaign puts so much emphasis on deities I was surprised they didn't focus on it more in NWN. After all, in the Forgotten Realms, if you die without a patron deity your essence is added to the Wall of the Faithless surrounding the fortress of Kelemvor on the Fugue Plane. No one wants that to happen!

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« Reply #3 on: June 18, 2006, 01:18:51 PM »
Look, I'm famous on NWVault: Link

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« Reply #4 on: June 18, 2006, 02:05:37 PM »
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Look, I'm famous on NWVault: Link

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« Reply #5 on: June 19, 2006, 12:02:33 AM »
As you should be, damnit!

$35 D&D Books are a bit out of my pricerange considering 1. Im Poor and 2. I dont play P&P D&D.
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« Reply #6 on: June 19, 2006, 10:18:09 AM »
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As you should be, damnit!

$35 D&D Books are a bit out of my pricerange considering 1. Im Poor and 2. I dont play P&P D&D.
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I have DnD core rule books in my room, and I don't play PnP DnD....


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