General Questions about IOP

What is maximum level going to be?

Is there going to be a way to enhance standard equipment via questing/farming?

-I loved the original dragon forge, as well as artifact hunting with friends. It added some minor prestige having two artifact daggers as well. Seeing others with rare drops kind of added a level of wariness and respect for their characters too without huge advantages.

Is the high level shop going to be accessible from a dungeon like before?

Is there going to be a harder group dungeon that'll pretty difficult to accomplish without aid?

Are the point towers for the capture the flag aspect going to be underground or actual towers?

-I think sacred kingdoms had towers, then TCC / IOS had more of a small castle thing going on. I actually liked the sacred kingdoms tower with the magical stone on the uppermost level and in the open area. But IOS forts had a locked room within I think... It's been almost a decade, maybe longer, forgive me if I am not recalling it correctly.

Is there going to be an underdark city? It was fun going through the underdark to acquire the better poisons, as well as similar items with different inventory pictures. Also, beholders/umber hulk's are scary.

Is there going to be a dock area? -Eventually we started a group of pirates, and they added a ship in a hidden area for us before. It lead to some fun events involving raiders, export, and trade rivalry. It was kind of a neutral faction, like the players who ran the underdark.

It's great to see this project. I haven't played nwn in forever, and was hoping I'd see some old friends still floating about.

This seems like the perfect place to capture that atmosphere we all enjoyed back then.

First off, Sorry if it's taken a while to get to your question. Our house has been hit with the flu, so I'm very out of it. If I answer a question kinda goofy or incomplete please don't hesitate to point it out and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. Thank you.

The Maximum Level is 20, which is an instant 20 rather then having to go out and grind for EXP/LVL's. The player base that we where working with at the time said this was something that they were tired of having to do, grind for levels. Not everyone feels the same about things like this however so instead of going out for levels you're going out for gear. 

Enhancement to equipment is something we haven't entirely thrown out quite yet as we're hoping to put in a crafting system a little later. There will be an ever changing environment as for what gets dropped where since we want the players to be able to explore more and more areas. With that said not every area available in the beginning will be there in the end, meaning that dungeon and their loot will get switched out from time to time as story goes on. We're creating a living world of island that float by, they don't all stay cluster in one group forever. What fun would that be. 

There will be no shops in dungeons, or probably near them either for that matter. What sane person would put a shop up outside a dungeon like that? Shops themselves area tricky subject at this time as we haven't figured out exactly what we want to do with them just yet.

Yes. There are going to be some dungeons that are near impossible to get though solo, and some that will be such with a small group of 2-4 players. There will be dungeons where Rogues will be needed, and others where having a high strength is best. 

We haven't decided what we're doing for the PvP areas at this time. It is something that has been put on the back burner for the moment as we work to create an environment that has a reason for people to fight back and forth over something or some idea. It is something we're going to be using the players to decide as we move from the first few weeks of RP into a larger setting. (If that makes sense.) 

There is not, at this time, an Underdark City since that would be a very group specific area. That doesn't mean that there may not be one at some point in time just for now there isn't. We don't want there to be tons of unused areas if we've only got a handful of people on at one time. It makes finding other players harder that way. So starting out small and expanding when need be is what we plan to do. With that said we've plans that if a group of players wants to set up a group they are more then welcome to work with the DM/Builder to make such a thing happen. THIS will take some serious RP and dedication though and odds are your not going to have a city spring up in a couple of weeks. 

The same goes for the dock areas, except it's a little harder to do without any oceans. 

Something that is important to remember is that as much as the idea started off being close to IOS it has very much been turned slightly away from it. It is important to read up on what little lore we do have up and go from there. For those of you wondering if there will be more lore put up in the future... well the answer is yes... and no... A lot of the lore for the islands is ON the islands, in dungeons, in libraries, in small forgotten corners of the forest, and in the RP that the players will write as they go about living their lives on those small islands floating in an endless sea of emptiness. 

Anywho.... I'm going back to bed now. If there are any more questions or if I didn't answer one to your satisfaction don't hesitate to ask. It might take me a while to get back though. 

(Disclosure: Since my editor is currently in bed, any spelling or grammar errors will be fixed at a later date.... or never, depending on when he gets back to work.) 

This topic was a big concern for me because I have played on servers that didn't have any lore or guidelines on how to RP death and it only made RP frustrating and chaotic. It is great to hear that you guys have taken the time to address both the mechanics and lore surrounding death. Thank you for replying, you've alleviated any concerns I had.



I like the idea of requiring specific locations for resting, and not resting in dangerous areas makes perfect sense to me. If food were implemented, I do see it's value for immersion and could even argue that it might open more "campfire roleplay" opportunities but I think those scenarios might be far and few between, in which case the aspect of acquiring and cooking food might begin to feel tedious to some. For me personally, I think its place in the server would have a much greater value if there was a more in-depth crafting system to accompany it, where a skill of cooking would open new and superior recipes that would provide boons in the addition to resting. Even though I personally like the idea gathering, learning recipes, and cooking, I imagine that would require a lot of work for something with a potentially low RP value that might also serve to annoy others.



I feel this is a perfectly sensible expectation for a roleplay server and I am sorry if that should have seemed like an obvious answer, I just wanted more clarity on the topic and I appreciate you taking the time to do so.

Ah, my bad. I must have missed it when skimming the forums. I appreciate you taking the time to reply all the same. On every server I’ve had experience playing on, resting anywhere in dungeons was allowed so long as enemies weren’t present. I always felt like it was kind of cheesy; “wait guys, I ran out of spells so let me take a quick power nap in the hallway here.” But I understand not being able to rest at all might be an indirect nerf to caster classes. While I’ve never experienced dungeons with specific safe zones, it seems like a good compromise. Resting will be more meaningful and slow down RP to provide breaks from killing and exploring, which I like, and does it in a way that keeps casters viable.
Now, coupling this with hidden paths, shortcuts and tricks just sounds like an amazing time. I know that part of your decision to start everyone off at lvl 20 was because some people don’t like grinding. I am personally one of those people that hated going out and getting levels. Looking back at it though, that was probably more so due to poor design. There was nothing to keep me engaged while killing mob after mob, and the consensus was that RP took a back seat in favor of speed farming over and over until a level was knocked out. I know this is nearly a 15 year old game, so I don’t expect you guys to pull any miracles here, but I have to say, from what I have read so far, IoP will have the most interesting dungeons that I have not yet had the pleasure of experiencing.


I’ve never built a server from scratch, so I can only imagine how much time must go into it. I would love to see crafting eventually because, as you’ve said, there is a lot of RP that can be done around the whole crafting system. But I think anyone will forgive you guys if something isn’t available on launch day, especially something as complex as crafting. I would love to see crafting implemented eventually, but even if it is never added I’ll still understand considering how much work probably goes into it. I was more so weighing in on the idea of requiring food to rest. For my personal enjoyment, it would depend on the complexity of the food system. If it is just a matter of taking meat and roasting it over a fire and that is the extent of it, then it feels more like a chore. If it is accompanied by a more robust crafting system and a cooking skill, where you hunt and gather ingredients and learn more complex recipes that offer additional benefits, then words can’t describe how much I want this. But, as you’ve mentioned, not everyone enjoys the same things. I have friends that would probably never touch the crafting system and would rely on paying for services and buying goods from others. This makes sense because not everyone should be a master blacksmith or huntsman anyway. The problem with food is that players who don’t enjoy crafting would be required to do so whenever they want to rest, which is why I think, if it is ever implemented, it shouldn’t be required for resting itself, but instead certain foods and recipes when consumed would act like potions that buff you for a duration. Just my thoughts on it anyway, but really whether food is required or a crafting system does or doesn’t accompany it, I know I’m going to enjoy myself based off everything else I’ve been reading.

It sounds like you guys have put a lot of thought and time into the server and I really can’t wait to play. Thanks again for answering my questions and taking time to clarify some things for me.

As it stands kittenfish has said that she plans on reflecting in game events in the areas she builds. If a group of evil-individuals started raiding supply lines, I'd imagine that whatever outpost, city, village, or whatever they're taking the supplies back to, would reflect being better supplied, and the city would suffer for it. This drives all manner of rp, including that if the city were attacked after having such goods stolen - it might suffer worse casualties in such attacks because of lacking supplies. Things such as this should help to shape - and drive, better evil roleplay on the server.

There are a few built in opportunities for evil players to pressure good ones as well, but I won't spoil anything here, but you can expect there to be things that are less dm involved that could definitely be considered evil acts that will be on the server either at launch, or soon thereafter.

As for direct rewards - I can't say I -can- reward anything specific directly. DM's will be granted rights to reward, to a degree, good roleplay. That's it. If you roleplay good, you've got a chance of catching dm attention and earning rewards; which is a general reward not tied distinctively to "being evil".

I hope this answers your question.

How to tell Corruption was tied when he wrote this. I also don't think he really answered the question all that well. 

Will Evil characters be necessary on IoP? Yes, and No. Good Characters sit in the same boat though, which is something to keep in mind when creating a character. If you have a city that is mostly ran by Evil/Chaotic players and you get singled out as Good is it not in their best interest to snuff that out before it becomes a problems? When building the cities they were thought of as Chaotic/Neutral/Lawful, meaning that they allow for both good and evil characters to set up in them. Since we later decided that we want the players to influence and drive such things we skipped out alignment based fighting, which was the original idea behind the cities. 

Lets take your example and run with that. Lets say you set up a group of Evil doers to raid some supplies line. Is it in their best interest to make themselves easy to identify? No, odds are those people would wear some kind of mask or disguise. Meaning that other then the player names above their heads there wouldn't be a way to identify them to turn them in. Now with that said, the same works with a group of Good doers going to save a shipment of slaves and so on. In these cases it will be required to tell a DM of such things, this helps to prevent Grifing charges against anyone. 

I think other then that Corruption answered the other half of the question. If either of us didn't answer right just let us know.