Belpheron is a nice person!

If you ever run into a character named Belpheron, do NOT be alarmed. She is a very generous and caring person that will help you through many dificult times on the BadLands by giving out money, advice, and words of encouragment!!!!

I couldn't get a screen capture of Belpheron, but I found this image accuratly depicting what "Belph" probably looks like.

Peace Out,

Simon Hawk

New Sub-Races

I've been talking with our DM's about removing some sub-races and adding new sub-races and it was suggested to ask for some player input.

What kind of sub-races would you want?
Which sub-races are totally worthless and why?

I've always thought of BadLands as a big island that is used as a prison by all the known realms. We are left to die or survive. Only the strongest or the smartest survived to breed with the local monsters.

One of the things the sub-races are missing is racial spells and spell-like-abilities. I want to start adding these to the sub-races. Yes, it would be backwards compatible and existing chars would get the long over due spells. An Arctic Dwarf might get "Freeze Blade", an on-hit spell similar to Dark Fire.

Overwhelm us with ideas please. Even a "bad" idea might be the spark of something neat.

Qwildurn

New Quests

I've been talking with our DM's about building new quests for BadLands and it was suggested to ask for some player input. I know that the Mandros Quest is a bear and most of the other quests are just as clueless. We want to start adding quests for different levels.

So, what kind of quests seem good to you? What rewards seem good?

I know somebody will ask for and instant level 40 reward and I can do that providing you earn the first 39 levels.

I've been thinking about something like: kill 20 Electric Beetles and collect their bellies, kill a Diamond Golem (or 10) and collect the Diamond chips, then you can get a item that can cast "Electric Blade" on your sword (not on your buddies). Electric Blade would be like Flame Blade except does "on-hit electric damage" and would not require any UMD skill or mage classes.

Overwhelm us with ideas please. Even a "bad" idea might be the spark of something neat.

Qwildurn

Free Blades (Good Guild ) Thor (Conan) Leader

Hiya Blade here,

I felt that i should post on Conan's behalf, just to say that the old Free Blades is gone but a new one is born ( Good only this time ).

Also it is worth pointing out that the guilds all seem to have plenty of capacity, personally i have split my chars (36 all over Level 21 ) between my Guild "Death Blades " (Evil only ) ; Merin's Guild "Sword Saints " for all my Neutral chars ; and Conan's Guild "Free Blades " ( Good only ).

All the Best ..........Blade :)

The Newport Scroll Shop

Something needs to be said about the missing scroll shop in Newport. Quite simply, it needs to be fixed and brought back.

While many different classes can augment their abilities through the use of scrolls, mainly through buffing, Wizards rely upon them for their very existence. Without a way for Wizards to find or purchase scrolls and spell-books, there is no way for them to learn new spells. There is currently no consistent method for Wizards to find upper-level spell scrolls, and without the ability to purchase them they are limited to learning 2 spells per Wizard level. While this might not seem to be extremely restricting to someone who has limited experience playing a Wizard, I can assure you that trying to level up a Wizard is difficult enough without being limited to such a small selection of spells.

To put it in perspective, Wizards are balanced against Sorcerers in that they have the ability to learn new spells from spell scrolls while Sorcerers cannot. Sorcerers are limited to learning only a handful of spells per level, but have the ability to cast those spells more often than Wizards. Taking away the ability of the Wizard class to learn new spells through the use of spell scrolls effectively turns them into Sorcerers that cannot cast as many spells per day.

I do not know what happened to the scroll shop, or why it is still disabled, but I believe it would be a safe guess from my experience with Q that it has something to do with attempting to restrict the use of scrolls in non-spellcasting classes. If that is the case, then a different approach needs to be taken. Taking away all of the scrolls simply to lessen their impact on the game is “Throwing the baby out with the bath-water”, to use an old phrase. It has the effect of making the Wizard class, one of the most difficult classes to level up and play well, extremely unattractive and unappealing to those trying to make new characters.

I won’t say that Wizards are un-playable without the scroll shop, but that observation is not far from the truth.

"Free Blades" Guild Disbanded / "Death Blades" Born

Hiya Blade here,

I have chosen to disband my Guild "Free Blades" as it was full up, well interestingly it had 51 Guild Members before Rev Blade dissolved the Guild himself.

I was unable to have all my chars plus a number belonging to players who are not currently playing, and still have room to add fresh blood and hence protect more players.

Instead i shall have a change, and try my hand at PK, if only to show that i'm not all soft :)

Only my Evil Chars are involved in/ or will be involved in the PKing so far, these include Saucy Blade 56, Drago DirgeBlade 56, Sister TrixyBlade 56, Shady AxeBlade 48, Wall DwarkBlade 43, Shorty PaleBlade 42, Long DeathBlade 41, Slicer BlackBlade 40, Stalker DeathBlade 39, Stranger OgreBlade 30, Weaver SongBlade 21; and any others of evil nature. It is my intention to Raise dead after killing when possible, but everybody so far has beat me to it by respawning themselves whilst i have chased down party members etc.

Stalker DeathBlade PKed Skull Crusher whilst a member of "Free Blades ", so i then felt that the Guild had truly outgrown it's original anti-pk purpose. I think i just wanted to try something new aswell.

I can now update my original post to say that "Death Blades " has been Born. This is a new Evil Only PK Guild with my eleven Chars listed above forming the Backbone. Plenty of room left for me to add other players Chars if I feel that they are likely to stick around a while, and I can see the potential and usefulness of their respective builds........

So I will be scouting about looking to recruit some more talent, before the guild takes off like a slow burning fuse ..........


All the Best ............Blade ( Death Blades)

Letoscript ( To mend broken char delete & add feats)

Hiya Blade here,

I did a Google search on Letoscript by "DragonSong" and got some stuff.

A cool guy called "FunkySwerve" has done a very nice post on Biowares NWN1 site under scripting.

He explains what the coding is doing in various examples. Especially relating to Char Deletion ; and why the server logs you out to do it etc.

"FunkySwerve " is the Author of the Higher Grounds Legendary Level System.

He also refers to the Sourceforge site,

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=94983

I believe he also refers to the most current version of Letoscript as version 24

All the Best ...........Blade

PS sorry I have yet to learn scripting :)