{"id":5507,"date":"2021-01-18T18:53:13","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T18:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/?p=5507"},"modified":"2023-01-04T17:39:27","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T17:39:27","slug":"nwn2-shaper-of-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/nwn2-shaper-of-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"NWN2: Shaper of Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A module for NWN2, &#8220;The shaper of dreams&#8221;, a game in six chapters, seeming written in German and translated, or at least the first three chapters have been. Here are my notes. &#8230; <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s on the vault <a href=\"https:\/\/neverwintervault.org\/project\/nwn2\/module\/planescape-shaper-dreams\">here<\/a>., where there is a synopsis of the prequel.<\/p>\n<p>They recommend a female, human and if you don&#8217;t choose a recommended melee class, they&#8217;ll give you second level at the start.<\/p>\n<p>I have decided to play a <a href=\"https:\/\/nwn2.fandom.com\/wiki\/Swashbuckler\">swashbuckler<\/a> to level 2 and then go with the <a href=\"https:\/\/nwn2.fandom.com\/wiki\/Wizard\">wizard<\/a>, or maybe the <a href=\"https:\/\/nwn2.fandom.com\/wiki\/Bard\">bard<\/a> , although many Bard skills help others and not yourself. I <em>manually allocated the skills<\/em>, to get social skills and not crafting skills. I chose the &#8216;<em>flirt<\/em>&#8216; back story, again to enhance the social skills.<\/p>\n<p>I found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.d20srd.org\/srd\/skills\/diplomacy.htm\">this note on 3.5 Diplomacy<\/a>; I am not sure how it was translated into the NWN2 rules; the <a href=\"https:\/\/neverwintervault.org\/project\/nwn2\/script\/official-nwn2-manuals\">manual<\/a> adds little.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/nwn2-sod1-w650.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5513\" src=\"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/nwn2-sod1-w650.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/nwn2-sod1-w650.png 650w, https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/nwn2-sod1-w650-300x93.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s <a title=\"made by me from their documents\" href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1ws-X4ykDX6-suHpi_AZ6_Yp4JhcfbbCC\/view?usp=sharing\">the side quest walkthrough<\/a> for Chapter 1. The side quests are very order dependent, and often require that you revisit correspondents in the quest. They also have choices, which is fun. I wonder if the German author&#8217;s direct not to say blunt speaking has come through to the dialogues, it seems to me to be quite hard to be kind.<\/p>\n<p>Chapter 4 has been translated and is <a href=\"https:\/\/neverwintervault.org\/project\/nwn2\/module\/planescape-shaper-dreams\">now on the vault<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A module for NWN2, &#8220;The shaper of dreams&#8221;, a game in six chapters, seeming written in German and translated, or at least the first three chapters have been. 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