Athas Reborn

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Jaysyn

Aug 07, 2007 8:36:52

Athas Reborn, the NWN world where I'm a builder (using athas.org's rules where possible) has had a major update. A few of the new features that may interest you.

1.) Darksun Subrace System with over 14 subraces to choose from. Half-Orcs & Gnomes will no longer be on Athas Reborn. Dwarves, Elves, Halflings & Half-Elves will also more closely match their Athasian counterparts. We also have 13 prestigious subraces that our heavy RP'ers & long time players will be allowed to play as. We're using LETOScript so stat changes are permanent & do not conflict with Biowares / D&Ds +12 limitation.

2.) Spell Sneak Attacks - any touch or ranged touch attack spell will add sneak / death attack damage if you have that class feat & catch your target flat-footed.

3.) New Cleric Domains - we've added the Law, Luck & Chaos Domains.

4.) New Domain Spell - Sphere of Chaos. We should have a few more after the Beta is released as well.

5.) Potionfruit - Nearly every potion in the game as been replaced with an appropriate fruit.

6.) Rangers, Preservers & Animal Clerics will be able to take Shifter as a Prestige Class, similar to PnP.

7.) Epic Shifter forms now require ranks in the Lore (Knowledge: Nature) skill to select them, like in PnP.

8.) Bard Song Modifications - we now have items that will modify / add to the effects of your Inspire / Curse song. These are taken from PnP as well.

9.) Inferior Items - our obsidian / stone / wooden weapons now more closely follow PnP rules for inferior weapons.

10.) New Items - new items have been added, some existing items have been changed. Every equipible item in the game now has a description, even if it's just a short blurb describing said item. We also have a few new equipment models.

11.) Revamped merchants - some merchants only have so much ceramic to spend, some will only buy an item for so much. Some have new inventories. Merchants also will have semi-dynamic inventories, selling items, restocking items & replenishing ceramic as time goes on.

12.) Metal Armor & Weapons - Drake Ivory weapons are equivilent to our current Iron weapons, Iron weapons are the new Steel. Druids can no longer wear metal armor or weapons.

13.) Psions & quite a few of their abilities have been completely rebalanced. Summon Planar Ally has been replaced with Create Astral Construct (per 3.5e D&D).

14.) New creatures & creature models. Epic creatures from the Hypertext d20 website.

15.) New Tileset - Worm's Undersea tileset for a future Last Sea area.

16.) Persistant 3.5e Drug system taken from the Book of Vile Darkness.

17.) Defilers & Preservers will be able to learn the Teleport spell & will recieve a new feat called Teleport Mark @ 12th level. There will also be areas that you cannot use teleport or dimension door.

18.) Concentration checks for using scrolls in combat.

19.) Rods & Wands now need to be wielded in a hand to use.