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Author:  blackvswhite [ Thu, Jan 22 2009, 23:47 PM ]
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what should I assume about the majority of the characters' living quarters?

do I assume the inns are just that big? If I want a character who comes from a well off background, I would want to say that he has some kind of home of his own.
Author:  Craig deathwalker [ Thu, Jan 22 2009, 23:50 PM ]
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The towns and cities you walk in are in actually fact alot bigger :) area between transitions an such, so just think you havent seen all the housing districts and that the inns are indeed massive.

Just stretch the imagination somewhat, i actually think if you combined all the beds on amia you might well fit about half the players into a room each or something lol.
Author:  Galenson [ Fri, Jan 23 2009, 0:14 AM ]
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Living conditions change every place your character resides.

For example: My Orc lives in a cave with all his boys which virtually has no privacy: they all sleep on the floor (or on top of the poor Gobbos who just happened to be lying there first) and they all share two rooms. My Salandran in comparison enjoys a large family room in the temple with several wardrobes and lots of large stone framed windows.


Cordor's housing would differ to Forstakkrs just like Ultrinnan would differ to Winya. It all depends on which city your character resides in.
Author:  blackvswhite [ Fri, Jan 23 2009, 0:36 AM ]
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so I can just make up a home for any of my characters as long as its ICly reasonable, like no massive mansions hidden behind the gobbo cave or anything, but I could have a home near south cordor or something?

I do know that many people take nwn as WYSIWYG but will most people go with anything ICly reasonable goes?
Author:  Yurell [ Fri, Jan 23 2009, 0:48 AM ]
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Most people accept whatever is ICly reasonable - no one I know will complain about a small house in Cordor or a farmstead outside Kohlingen, but a keep in the Forest of Despair, for example, will most likely receive disbelief
Author:  BrainSplitter [ Fri, Jan 23 2009, 0:50 AM ]
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blackvswhite wrote:
so I can just make up a home for any of my characters as long as its ICly reasonable, like no massive mansions hidden behind the gobbo cave or anything, but I could have a home near south cordor or something?

I do know that many people take nwn as WYSIWYG but will most people go with anything ICly reasonable goes?


Yup. It's safe to assume you can acquire housing of your own as long as it's reasonable.
Author:  Selvec Darkon [ Fri, Jan 23 2009, 2:20 AM ]
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But don't camp in the city, apperently the guards take offence to pitched tents in Cordor Square 8)
Author:  Galenson [ Fri, Jan 23 2009, 2:24 AM ]
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The Cordor Guard also take offence to Jack leaning on his Pillar, but that's another story...
Author:  Yurell [ Fri, Jan 23 2009, 2:30 AM ]
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So basically, so long as your dwelling is reasonable and in a reasonable location it's fine.
Author:  Guxx [ Fri, Jan 23 2009, 3:08 AM ]
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Selvec Darkon wrote:
But don't camp in the city, apperently the guards take offence to pitched tents in Cordor Square 8)

Wait is this like BG2 where the camp once and they come bug you but as soon as they stop talking you can hit the camp button again and it's fine?
Author:  Yurell [ Fri, Jan 23 2009, 3:17 AM ]
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Guxx wrote:
Selvec Darkon wrote:
But don't camp in the city, apperently the guards take offence to pitched tents in Cordor Square 8)

Wait is this like BG2 where the camp once and they come bug you but as soon as they stop talking you can hit the camp button again and it's fine?


No, you hit the pause button and keep pressing rest until the go away
Author:  Lally [ Fri, Jan 23 2009, 3:30 AM ]
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Cerri lives in a van down by the river.
Author:  Yurell [ Fri, Jan 23 2009, 3:38 AM ]
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One of my characters lives in a house in Howness, another in an apartment in Underport, my drow lives in her Qu'ellar and my Svirf lives in a cave in Amia Forest.
Author:  Dramatic_Prince [ Fri, Jan 23 2009, 4:53 AM ]
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Yurell wrote:
but a keep in the Forest of Despair, for example, will most likely receive disbelief

What's so disbelievable about that? The Shadowflames have a keep in the FoD.
Author:  Yurell [ Fri, Jan 23 2009, 5:07 AM ]
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I thought it was on a different plane, an only accessible through a planar rift in the forest (or a portal rod)
Author:  Selvec Darkon [ Fri, Jan 23 2009, 5:10 AM ]
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Yurell wrote:
I thought it was on a different plane, an only accessible through a planar rift in the forest (or a portal rod)


That is true. We plan to roll Dwarven Barrels through the rift for lol's.
Author:  Galenson [ Fri, Jan 23 2009, 9:11 AM ]
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Selvec Darkon wrote:

That is true. We plan to roll Dwarven Barrels through the rift for lol's.


Screw the dwarven barrels, lets throw Gobbos instead!
Author:  Shrewd [ Fri, Jan 23 2009, 12:22 PM ]
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You must gather your party before venturing forth.
Author:  555444333 [ Fri, Jan 23 2009, 14:01 PM ]
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Who was the voice of that? I mean it was so uber.
Author:  Shrewd [ Fri, Jan 23 2009, 16:00 PM ]
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I always thought it was the true voice of God. He seemed to know everything! Right when I'm trying to ditch Minsc... Suddenly God bellows out to everyone... and makes me wait. *Sigh.*
Author:  Guxx [ Fri, Jan 23 2009, 18:03 PM ]
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Ditch Minsc? But what will you ever do with out Boo's guidance?!
Author:  FA_Frey_XC [ Mon, Jan 26 2009, 4:29 AM ]
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In Tarkuul, since we've only got three doors in the "Residency" area of the Castle proper, we came up with the following "POTTAH" style explanation:

Each archway in the Residency area is synch'ed to the citizen, via either a token, ring, whatever, doesn't matter.

When a resident goes through any of the three portals, they are actually transported to a pocket dimension where their room resides. It obviously looks like the interior of the room when you go into it.

This solves the crowding issues nicely ;), plus it's kinda expected in a City of Arcane and magic.

Regards,
Author:  Eighty-One [ Mon, Jan 26 2009, 5:35 AM ]
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blackvswhite wrote:
If I want a character who comes from a well off background, I would want to say that he has some kind of home of his own.


I suppose it's fine, but you should be careful treading on that line, since just a few steps beyond "well-off" is noble status, which requires DM approval and such.
Author:  Corendran [ Mon, Jan 26 2009, 6:59 AM ]
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Anything goes. Bushes, woods, trees, holes in the ground, caves...Hell, my halfling character once slept in a pile of dead zombies in the gordor sewers. You gotta take what you get.
Author:  IronAngel [ Mon, Jan 26 2009, 15:01 PM ]
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Mind that the idea of rentable houses and other apartments is that you can pretend they're your character's home. So when you climb up those ropes to one of the two tree houses in Winya, you're not actually using the same lodging every other PC is, but going to your own/your friend's/someone random's house. It's the same with the generic doors in Cordor, too.
Author:  Carter [ Mon, Jan 26 2009, 15:27 PM ]
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Eighty-One wrote:
blackvswhite wrote:
If I want a character who comes from a well off background, I would want to say that he has some kind of home of his own.


I suppose it's fine, but you should be careful treading on that line, since just a few steps beyond "well-off" is noble status, which requires DM approval and such.


Not really. "Well-off" and "noble" have nothing to do with each other. There could easily be a wealthy farmer, or a wealthier merchant, neither of whom are nobles. There could also be a very poor noble. The two are by no means mutually inclusive.
Author:  Nekhy [ Mon, Jan 26 2009, 16:02 PM ]
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What Iron said. Frey's approach works as well.

If two people happen to use the same house at the same time, and both RP owning it... well, I suggest that you accept the implausibility and agree, that the other uses some other house for the moment and pretends it's their normal home.
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