SERVER UPDATES

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7/19/2011

- Paladins and Divine Champions will now get Kaedrins Lay on Hand Offensive Option.
- Cult of Dragon and Thieves Hall Guilds Updated
- Durlogs Tower: Black Dragon spawns instead of just being in the tower once per server reset. Marked as a boss as well.
- Dusters update to Roaringshore added
- JmBro's update to the puzzle in Gibberling Maze added.
- Fix a DB issue that was booting players.
- Downgrade xp_bugfix to see if it fixes the stealth button cool down getting stuck to some high cool down timer.
- Dustes signs for Nashkel added.

Half-Orcs: Are granted the feat Blooded, and +1 CON now on creation.
Half-evles: Get "skilled" feat like humans, and elven weapon proficiency.

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7/25/2011

PRC / Racial:

• PRC: Dragon Slayer Added
• Half-drow: Get "skilled" feat like humans, and elven weapon proficiency.
• Half orcs will now get the blooded feat on login instead of at creation. It was causing a problem with picking other feats.

Other:

• Amraphaels Airship added for Death to use.
• Vindicators NPC's added.
• Forge bench put into FAI.
• Fixed the fast movement 10% feat on the wyvern armor sets. If you have this armor, ask a DM for a new copy from the DM chooser.
• Fixed beholders. Their rays were broken a while back. DM's, feel free to use them again. There is also one somewhere in the gnoll caves that were added.

Area Changes:

• Gnoll Caves Added to Lions Way. CR7-8, with a few bosses who are CR10. You can rest in level 1 and 2 if you can find the safe spots to rest. Level 3 is not rest.
• UD west of varallas: Walkmesh bug around bridge fixed.
• Minor tweaks to broken goblet. Jmbro's script added for entering the goblet and all object and npc conversations are now private.
• Gibberling Cave can be rested in now, but you have to find the safe area.
• FAI + Lions way area's updated.
• Cloakwood Eastern changed. You can only rest in one spot in area now.
• Serpent Hills: Area trans to Serpent Hills removed. The area's are being redone and will be re-udpated in a week or two. If you really want to go into the area, have a DM port you. The exit out of the area stil works.
• Durlogs Tower: Fixed issue where the black dragon can get stuck in a door.
• Durlogs Tower: Black dragon should not be spawning multiple instances now.
• Durlogs Tower: Fixed issue's Molag found.

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7/31/2011

Warlock Invokations from Kaedrins PRC Added:
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• Existing Dark Foresight is now called Dark Premonition
• Caustic Web
• Dark Foresight
• Frightful Presence
• Hellspawned Grace
• Ignore the Pyre
• Instill Vulnerability
• Repelling Blast
• Tempest Blast
• Undead Baneful Blast

OTHER

• Gullykin and Sshamath have home location widgets.
• Fixes/Tweaks for gnoll cave chests, spawn rates, bosses.

• Setting someone to hostile will no longer inform their entire party.
• Goblet NPC's updated with Jmbro's script (for walking).
• Ivans bio editor added. It lets you store and easily change between multiple BIO's.
• Tigerbombs Kemo Scry changes IG.
• Dusters Custom cloaks and tabbards for guilds are in.
• Dusters cloaks added to the appearance changer (123-152). NOTE: They only work for humans.
• Dusters udpates to the white mask theater added.

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8/9/2011

Area Related

• Nashkel Package from Tfunke added. This is a brand new Nashkel, Northern Lights Inn, Belching Dragon Tavern, and Temple of Helm.
• South of Beregost and Nashkel Cloud Peak foothills had some adjustments done to mesh up with the new Nashkel.
• Nashkel Cloud Peak foothills partially converted to the new spawn system
• Dusters Updates for the WMT added.

Other

• Barbarians warmace fixed (fast movement feat)
• Bio Editor Fix from Ivan
• Kemo Scry fix from Tigerbomb
• Rasaels creature size/stat randomizer is in.
• RWS Grand Citadel added for the builders

[Administrator]

8/24/2011

General

• Stormsinger. Bard song uses per day fixed. Thunderstrike changed to med range.
• Adjust the cost bases of the mass line of scrolls for spells like mass bear str, mass bears endurance, etc.
• Small general shop added to Doron Amar at the blacksmith stall. NPC's added as well.
• Ivans DMFI X changes for DM client added.
• Tigerbomb: DMFI FIX: Window only displays up to 9 known languages.
• Tigerbomb: DMFI FIX: 'Undercommon' coming up on the first selection after using the player GUI
• Tigerbomb: DMFI FIX: Text entry box is one line which overwrites itself once the text entered exceeds the space alotted.
• negative energy burst and ray scrolls added to UD beholder shop
• seven suns merchant and ud equivalent merchant have had +1 con removed from all cloaks. Cloaks were given +1 fort save.
• BMD items added to Gully merchant
• Removed SR on Duergar in the UD
• Rasaels cursed items system added
• Dusters barbershop sign added
• Dusters Roaringshore conversation updates added
• Iron Throne renamed to Lord's Alliance
• Dorrtypes.2da bug fixed
• 3 hoods add to the appearance changer for stevebarracuda
• A lot of clubs added to the appearance changer
• Sense Motive added as a base skill (still needs some work)

Area

• Orc cave added for guild
• A few DM area's added for Hell and Abyss

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9/05/2011

PRC / Racial:

• PRC: Dragon Warrior Added.

Area Changes:

• Fixed Entrance to Orc Guild.
• Tfunke's Sshamath Central adjustments/fixes in.
• Tfunke's mushroom cave added to UD.
• Frost giants changed in crystal frost keep. They are now CR27ish. The area has a boss now, too.
• Cloudpeak mountain spawns changed.
• RWS Deep Sewers added for the builders.

Other:

• Rings can no longer be re-charged in the wand re-charger.
• Duster addition to the deity cloaks which should make them work for non-human races.
• Rasael's VFX added
• Amn/Cloudpeak, Cloakwood, Doron Amar. and Durlag's area groups area group renamed for the DMs
• Ice Paraelementals and Orglash added to Elementals in the DM chooser
• Warlock's Tempest Blast, Undead Baneful Blast, and Repelling Blast fixed

[Administrator]

9/13/2011

Area Changes:

• Tfunke's UD Crypt Addition was added (level 2). CR 14ish area. Has a higher level boss.

Other:

• Cure type wands should stop becomming cursed.
• Frost Giant King gives more xp and gold now
• Myconid Spore Guardian AI hooked up. It can call more myconids and use a few spells.
• Maxamized negative energy burst fixed.
• Deaths plant VFX added.
• Tigerbombs chat and auto-animation system added. http://www.bgtscc.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=19575
• Cursed items revmoed, and then readed with Rasaels fix.
• Fix for Rasales Devil/Demon scripts
• Fixed old frost giants spawning in Crystal Frost Keep (only high CR one'es spawn now).

Creature Adjustments:

• Spawns in UD Crypt Level 1 redone.
• Frost Giants in crystal frost keep adjusted. Should be less difficult.
• Fire Giants adjusted. Should be little bit less difficult.
• Avengers in Vault of the Dead no longer have Greater Dispell. Protectors who do have Greater Dispell will spawn less. Basically Greater Dispell should be spammed a lot less.

[Administrator]

9/17/2011

• Nashkel Update for DM's by Tfunke.
• Adventures Guild by Tfunke added (in Nashkel).
• NPC Taunts: Should not taunt while stealthed now.
• Script Framework Added for Raesal.
• White Mask Theater Update from Duster.
• Dusters cutsom paintings added.
• Warpriests War Glory should not effect neutral characters any more, and should only effect hostiles.
• Damage on Searing Light and Hammer of the Gods upped a bit.

[Administrator]

9/25/2011

Spell related

• Summons Creature 1-9 are 1 minute a level now.
• Assassin apply poison should work on a weapon now.
• SR Fix
• Assassin Darkness should be fixed
• Darkness will provide 50% concealment vs. ranged weapons.
• Devil/Demon summoning bugs fixed

Other:

• "The Goods are Gone" and "Radger the Badger" will no longer do alignment changes.
• Duster changed to palace district for NOTG merged in.
• Trash can added to FAI by the auctioneer.
• Some more area's renamed / re-orged for DM's

Creature Adjustments:

• Fixed spawns in the cloudpeak area's. Was accidently reverted back to the frost giants.
• Yetis in cloud peak had CR adjustments.
• CR tweaks up to the lowest level UD spawns (CR0-2)
• Gargoyal in Fields of the Dead crypt marked as a boss. A few other misc. tweaks to the area.

Appearance Changer:

• Upgraded to latest BTH weapons which added some weapon models.
• Also added in some existing weapon models to appearance changer that had been held in reserve.
• Added: 3 Bastard swords, 4 battleaxes, 8 daggers, 1 greataxe, 2 greatswords, 8 handaxes, 3 longswords, 1 mace, 1 morningstar, 7 quarterstaffs, 6 scimitars, 6 short swords, 8 spears, 1 warmace, 1 Dwarven WarAxe

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10/3/2011

• Updated to the newest BTH shield pack in the appearance changer. Added a lot of medium shields, and quite a few light shields to the appearance changer.
• A few pieces of female clothing added to the appearance changer.
• Deep gnomes can pick Segojan as a deity.
• Shades VFX removed
• Warlock flee the scene should be fixed
• Issue's with AoE spells should be fixed (like not getting xp for kills with AoE spells).
• Beregost: Thunderhammer shop was updated. Apprentice now has a shop.

Underdark update from Tfunke

• "Sshamath (formerly central - touched up)
• Sshamath South (touched up)
• Sshamath Sewers (new area)
• Sshamath Tombs (new area)
• Sshamath Darkwoods District (new area, setup with MMO spawns)
• The Spider's Kiss (new area, formally house mori)
• School of Mages (fixed a few bugs and spelling mistake)
• School of Necromancy (updated map notes)
• The Gloura's Wings (moved Underdark spawn from Lobby to the entrance of the Gloura's Wings (due to complaints of PC's appearing in the middle of the room when others are trying to roleplay at a table. Also renamed the two merchants from their standard boring names)
• There are 16 new spawn creature blueprints (15 new, 1 updated)
• Mushroom Grove fixes.
• Commanders Tent Added

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10/14/2011

• Shambling Mound changed a bit (the one in cloakwood).
• Various spell fixes for spells we broke when putting in the spell framework.
• Fix for tagged based items losing their scripts when run through the appearance changer (fixes things like the rapier of shielding, armor with 10% movement speed, etc).
• Ivans fix to close your character sheet when you level up. Should help with lag problems during level up.
• A few shirts added for males in the appearance changer (for Broham2). One Greatsword and Longsword from duster also added.
• All caster PRC's should have access to epic spells. Prior to this fix some did and some didn't.
• Minor touch up to Baldurs Gate East Gate from Duster.
• Warrior of Darkness and Anointed Knight can take epic damage reduction feats now with their bonus feat selections if an epic character..
• Deaths Darkhold area added for the DM team.
• New Beregost shop moved to DM area so DM's can examine it.
• DM Houses added for DM events.

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10/23/2011

• Sense motive can now be rolled in the DMFI tool
• Fix Dragonslayer feats not working. Thanks for figuring that out Rasael.
• Uthgar added as a deity.
• Monster loot drops for plain rings and amulets will be worth a something now.
• Guild Tokens made by TheVoid added.
• Minor Sshsamath tweaks from Tfunke.
• Unarmed Strike should now carry for Druids wildshape (Rasael).
• Yaddaman Monk Gear added to the appearance changer. This adds Kama's, Longswords, 1 short sword, and human clothing.
  http://nwvault.ign.com/View.php?view=NW ... ail&id=390
• BCKII Gothic added for Death and the builders.
• Some Terrain Textures added for Tfunke.

Added spells

• Animal Growth (R4)
• Blessed Aim (added for rangers P1, R1)
• Briar Web (D2, R4)
• Embrace the Wild (R1)
• Enrage Animal (R1)
• Halo of Sand (D2, R2)
• Lesser Aura of Cold (P4, R4)
• Skin of the Cactus (R3)
• Trip Vine (D2, R2)
• Pass Without a Trace (D1, R1)
• Commune with Nature (D5, R4)
• Longstrider (D1, R1)

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10/24/2011

This was a small update mainly to drive the DM area update for their event.

• Sense motive should be a class skill for the following classes: Bard, Favored Soul, Monk, Paladin, Rogue, Swashbuckler, Warlock, Arcane Trickster, Assassin, Dread Pirate, Duelist, Dwarven Defender, Eldritch Knight, Harper Agent, Invisible Blade (which actually has a SM 6 prerequisite), Shadow Thief of Amn (Guild Thief), War Priest.
• Karonds UD shop added to Sshamath.
• Knightmares Beregost shop back in.
• Farmlands S. of Baldurs Gate updated per DM event.
• Revision update to Darkhold from Death added.
• Variable spot script was adjusted. Mainly in the down direction. And almost to the point of non existant for very low CR creatures..

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11/03/2011


General / Area

• Ivans DMFI-X menu option to disable spawning in an area added
• Rasaels token / script update added to disable NPC taunts. It's under Miscellaneous -> Disable NPC Taunt Token.
• Rasaels RCR system in DM Loot Area 2 to start testing with and tryign out.
• Sense motive (skill) will now show up on moster loot drop items.
• Mithral Fullplate, Breastplate, and chainshirts should now match
  the regular amror appearances. Many more appearances are available.
• Epic Spell Hellball is now 3 uses per day. Damage changed back to OC default.
• Blessed Aim added to Rangers.
• Longstrider should work when targeting others.
• FAI updated for DM's and DM NPC's added.
• Oghrann area's from Tfunke (two total) added to UD. CR range is 18-21. Can be reached from the spore caves

Palemaster

• Spell Progression now 6/10. Level 10 grants another level of spellcasting.
• Touch attack DC are 10 + PM Level + Primary Caster Attribute Mod (Int or Cha).
• Summons from the 3 summons spells made much stronger.

Quest XP changes. Low level xp raised so you can level past 1 easier without combat.

• Deadly Rodents - Bumped to 350 (from 150).
• Baldurian Postal Service - Delivery to wizard in hilltop bumped to 500.
• Mail Delivery - Delivery to man in grave bumped to 500.
• Captains Crew. 250 xp (was 0 xp I think, just item reward).
• Deliveries from the Docks - Changed xp to 250-300 depending on condition. Was 50-75
• Iron for Iron (Temple of Gond) increased xp to 200
• Scarecrows and Straw - xp changed to 200-225

[Administrator]

NOV UPDATES

General

• Counterspell add feat widget so people can be givin the feat for testing.
• Rasaels feats for charge and shield bash line added and have gone through a few updates while testing is on going.
• Teleport spells in for testing
• Kemo Auction bumped from 55 to 60 items.
• some more terrain textures added for Tfunke and the devs frm this hak -> http://nwvault.ign.com/View.php?view=NW ... etail&id=9
• RWS Underwater Placables added for devs. http://nwvault.ign.com/View.php?view=NW ... ail&id=455
• Re-sync to RWS creature pack. Added models for Sahuagin, Kuo Toa, Manticore, and Axbeak
• Added Intellect Devourer and Rust Monster from nwn2 vault HAKS
• Spells: MagicFang, Greater MagicFang, Jagged Tooth, and Flame weapon will not work on fists any more. That was an un-intended change that was picked up with the wildshape / animal companion upgrades and when gloves were changed to slashing damage which qualified them as weapon.
• Pale master touch DC fixed.
• RCR system moved to the nexus and is live.
• Tieflings can start in the UD or Surface.
• Dogs can now be chosen as animal companions. Stats wise they are identical to wolves.
• Spirit Shaman now gain the Telthor animal companion feat.
• Roaringshore should cost 50 to travel to. Down from 100.
• Commune with nature should give survival skill now (it's fixed).
• GMW no longer works on Guantlets. It was an accident this was enabled.
• Sshamath Home Location Widget is gone.

Area

• Nexus updated from Tfunke.
• Minor tweaks to the Nexus to fix crashing problem.
• Nashkel and Cloud Peak Foothills: Snow, Music, and other effects added by Death.
• Nashkel Iron mines redone. Crystal Cave Added. Temple to Auril added. From knightmare.
• All of the baldurs gate area's were renamed for the DM's to align the naming convention for all the area's.
• Farmlands S. of BG updated to reflect work on the bridge (Duster).
• Roaringshore sea wolf area's added (Duster).

Quest

• UD Pesky Slaves Part1. Xp bumped from 300 to 500
• UD Gathering Ore xp bumped to 300
• UD Gathering Mushrooms xp bumped to 700
• UD Gathering Corpses xp doubled.
• UD Gathering weapons xp bumped to 300.
• Basils Quest XP upped a bit.