Greetings, a few questions from a new player

[Mandragoran]

Greetings to this wonderful community. I am just returning from a 10 year hiatus from NWN and was wondering how the scene maintained after so many years. I played NWN 1 first day of release, and also NWN 2 all the way up until late 2008. Then I took a hiatus away from it all the way until now, I am just returning. So far the only thing I've checked was NWN Server Scry and don't even recognize any of these servers, all the servers I used to play on are gone. Is it hard to get established on this server? Is everyone basically level 30 and you're the only one level 1? I would like the community's input for a new (returning) player before I download and log in. It's like stepping into utter darkness all over again and trying to find a light. My thanks ahead of time, and sorry for so many questions!

[chad878262]

Hi there and welcome!

while there are plenty of level 30's, there are also many at any level range and many players will be willing to create or hop on an alt, especially to RP and help out a new player. Our server is classified as 'medium' rp, but you will find that there are those that are closer to heavy rp and others that are almost no rp. Like any online game, different strokes for different folks. If you check out the wiki there is loads of details you can read up on including some custom feats and classes. Leveling 1 to 20 can happen relatively quickly, but I suppose different people would define "quickly" in different ways. In any case, 21-30 is far slower. When you first log in you can open the scry window and put "looking for group: new player" and I bet you get a few tells with people willing to join up and adventure with you.

BG Wiki

[Mandragoran]

Gave in and downloaded and installed it. Question though: where do I find my nwncdkeys ? Where are they located for multiplayer?

NVM: Found it, thanks!

[Kiran]

Welcome to the server!

Chad answered everything so just here to say welcome, as said above.. welcome. Thats 3 times!

[Mandragoran]

My thanks for the friendly welcomes so far!

[Tekill]

If you like character building, this is a great server to play on. There are custom rules for character creation here but there are a friggin lot of options for classes combos.

Use http://nwn2db.com and put BGTSCC in your search field for class ideas. Look in 'Server Rules and Content' on this forum for the custom classes and changes etc.

There is a fair bit to explore for new players. You can grind your way up solo or with others. There are about a dozen weekly quests you can do if you get bored of grinding. Getting Experience is not hard on the server and so you can level up fairly quickly (imo). As you may know some classes are easier at it than others. You get good exp for RPing with others btw.

Lore wise things try to stay as close to Forgotten Realms, Sword Coast Cannon as possible. Current year 1354.

There are a lot of factions you can join. I find joining the right faction can really help give your Character purpose on this server.

DM's will pop up from time to time to do a spontanious events. And they are also running longer plot lines usually involving a new threat to the Coast that needs to be stopped. They can be really helpful. Be nice to them, they do it for free.

There is a duration between between rests, but it is reasonable.

PVP is sort of frowned upon....sort of. There are fairly strict PVP rules, mostly to prevent melo-drama in game. Everyone is allowed a 'PVP out'. Which means if someone does not want to participate in pvp they can simply walk away.

There are an average of 40 players on at any one time. It can go much higher or lower depending on the time of the day/week.

There is an underdark- which often has issues with low population. There are a fair number of drow around though.

The Drow and Orcs are technically kill on sight but they seem to have a fairly solid player base of great players and seem to have a lot of fun.

Lets see what else...
The elves are haughty, the hin are saucy, the dwarves are drunk, the humans are aasimars, and the teiflings have tails. Okay okay....not all the dwarves are drunk...some of them are "just buzzed".