Playtest Party needed..

danielmn · Post by **danielmn** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 3:52 am

Joos, AL and I just talked about that this evening, a starting merchant will be made and available soon...in the mean time...enjoy gettin gouged.

**edit** That is an affirmative Joos, good spot on the merchant. Prices are way too high, have notified the authorities, the Half Orc will be apprehended and publically flogged. He knows better!

Wynna · Post by **Wynna** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 4:08 pm

My compliments to Teric for his building and DMing, Dergon for his DMing and not minding when the other reindeer wouldn't let him play (and especially for not saying "I told you so" when the other reindeer died a horrible death without him); Hin for his RP (what a pleasure to meet such quality RP in someone I'd never met prior to the adventure).

That was a lot of fun. *notches the first ALFA DMed NWN2 session into her belt and considers having t-shirts made: "I survived the first ALFA DMed NWN2 session.... Er...wait. No I didn't."

Thank you!

Rotku · Post by **Rotku** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 9:44 pm

Not meaning to burst your bubble Wynna, but I believe that indio DMed a couple of sessions on NWN2 Silverymoon back last year

ElCadaver · Post by **ElCadaver** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 6:43 am

I think that would be Sunday 6am for me (GMT+8), so I'm in if you need ane more....pwease..... I have a first lvl OAS2 chr ready to go....

Wynna · Post by **Wynna** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 3:37 pm

Rotku wrote:Not meaning to burst your bubble Wynna, but I believe that indio DMed a couple of sessions on NWN2 Silverymoon back last year ;)

"I survived the first...er...third...er an ALFA NWN2 DMed session. Oh, wait. No I didn't." Just rolls off the tongue, don't it?

Teric neDhalir · Post by **Teric neDhalir** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 10:11 pm

El C; 6am. On a Sunday? Are you sure you want to do that?
Please feel free to drop in. We may need a substitute and there may well be other DMs about too. (I am trying to test the scripts etc in a particular area and also whether my assumptions about CR of dangers are correct so forgive me if I restrict the playtesting party to four as advertised.)

For everyone's information: The OAS is now patched to the latest version of NWN so please make sure you are too. Also it's been invisible on the Gamespy PWStory list for some people but can be got at via the history list if you've been on before. *shrug* One of those things.

Vaelahr · Post by **Vaelahr** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 10:34 pm

Wynna wrote:My compliments to Teric for his building and DMing, Dergon for his DMing and not minding when the other reindeer wouldn't let him play (and especially for not saying "I told you so" when the other reindeer died a horrible death without him); Hin for his RP (what a pleasure to meet such quality RP in someone I'd never met prior to the adventure).

That was a lot of fun. *notches the first ALFA DMed NWN2 session into her belt and considers having t-shirts made: "I survived the first ALFA DMed NWN2 session.... Er...wait. No I didn't."

Thank you!

Glad to hear good times were had.

And yes, Hin is a model roleplayer. I'm not surprised to hear good things of him.

Joos · Post by **Joos** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 12:23 pm

Teric neDhalir wrote:El C; 6am. On a Sunday? Are you sure you want to do that?
Please feel free to drop in. We may need a substitute and there may well be other DMs about too. (I am trying to test the scripts etc in a particular area and also whether my assumptions about CR of dangers are correct so forgive me if I restrict the playtesting party to four as advertised.)

For everyone's information: The OAS is now patched to the latest version of NWN so please make sure you are too. Also it's been invisible on the Gamespy PWStory list for some people but can be got at via the history list if you've been on before. *shrug* One of those things.

Elcadaver, it is 7AM, not 6AM. Check here:
http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc

22:00:00 Saturday January 12, 2008 in Europe/London converts to
09:00:00 Sunday January 13, 2008 in Australia/Victoria
Daylight Saving Time is not in effect on this date/time in Europe/London
Daylight Saving Time is in effect on this date/time in Australia/Victoria

I will be joining in at 9 AM VIC time. Looking forward to play with you all!

ElCadaver · Post by **ElCadaver** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 1:45 pm

Cheers, 7am it is

Teric neDhalir · Post by **Teric neDhalir** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 10:30 pm

Thanks to everyone who came along or was co-opted for these sessions. It was very interesting to see people working through something that I'd put a lot of detailed design into. Could I have some feedback on what you thought, specifically;
1) Difficulty. Does it seem a reasonable challenge for 4 x 1st level? Too hard? Too easy? (FYI it's killed 33% of people who've been down there.)
2) Interest. Was it an interesting exploration, or just a straightforward hack 'n' slash. And did any of the design make any sort of narrative sense or was it just a bunch of rooms with stuff in.
3) What didn't you understand about any of the design or systems?
4) Other. Rants? Raves?

Thanks
Teric

PS. If you logged a character out while still underground could you not use them again? I'm not sure whether you could get out, and if you log in various scripts and spawns will be triggered until the next reset, which could cause problems if anyone's trying to run the adventure. Cheers.

ElCadaver · Post by **ElCadaver** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 12:25 am

Hi Teric,
nice fun game, cool building and scary feel to lower levels. One thing. Can you disable crits by monsters for 1st lvl quests? That skeleton really layed the smackdown on me!!!! Would be interested to play it when live and delve into those, extra bits we glossed over...
Oh, and my appologies if we rolplayed too much. Shorty was an easy mark for the making for happy funny times.

I'll check to see if you are on and find out a good time to run the ga untlet with my character, or get ported to saftey.

Joos · Post by **Joos** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 5:55 am

Here my two cents:

Love the fact the environment more or less forced you to use torches or light spells. Finally elves, half-orcs, elves and gnomes get use of their low-light vision.

The lvl design was nice, but a bit empty. Maybe add a bit of debris etc.
The spooky feal of the dungeon could be made even spookier if you add sound effect triggers when moving over certain passages. For example, enter a room and you hear a distant wail, moans, whispers panicked breaths etc. Have a look at Doom 3, FEAR and Bioschock for examples.

More, simpler mobs. No fun going through a whole dungeon lvl and finding one mob that kills half the group. More fun with many, not so tough mobs. For example, instead of human skeletons, you could use kobold or goblin undead, mixed zombies and skeletons for variety.

Perhaps add a few scrolls and books of nonsensical information about the dungeons previous occupants and why everything went bad.

Thats my thoughts on how to add a bit of more fun to the adventure.
Thanks for having patience with us!
Cheers,
//Joos