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You could just turn off roc eggs in all your food stockpiles.

When fishing you are catching vermin fish, not "large creature fish" that would swim in from off map. Simply building a room over the cavern lake and putting some grates as floors, will let your dwarves fish through it in relative safety.

I need names for scripting purposes.

Updated the post with the name.

Woot! First character submission.

Not familiar with Dragon Disciple, but now that I'm checking the description I'm thinking we may have a "no prestige classes" rule. The character bio itself is fine, but forgive me if I have a difficult time reconciling your statement that you were going to avoid powergaming and yet you want a class that the NWN wiki claims is basically one of the most powerful classes in the game with a massive pile of super abilities, several immunities and a +14 attribute points bonus at level 10.

...yeah. I'm going to rule base classes only:

 * Barbarian
 * Bard
 * Cleric
 * Druid
 * Fighter
 * Monk
 * Paladin
 * Ranger
 * Rogue
 * Sorcerer
 * Wizard

What about other prestige classes, like Dwarven Defender, Champion of Torm, Shadowdancer, Shifter and such. While I personally find RDD a rather meh class with its only saving grace being the huge +14 attribute points, some of the other prestige classes in nwn have nowhere near the bonuses RDD gains.

Shadowdancer's first lvl feat "Hide in Plain Sight" is indeed OP, but the rest of the class is fairly nice. And I like it for the rogue like abilities it grants on the side for chars that didn't multi into a normal rogue. That HIPS feat alone is what makes the SD class OP in my opinion. Though a simple true seeing spell/ability, nukes the feats usefulness.

Palemaster can be OP with the 10th lvl crit/sneak attack immunity, and gobs of extra ac. Honestly I consider PM to be far more OP than RDD. Especially on a melee build. PM actually sorta handicaps a caster build the more you take of it. The extra abilities it gives beyond lvl 10 aren't worth the caster lvls you would lose for it.

RDD, you've already covered has a large amount of the red dragon super ablities and the huge stat bonuses. And any caster attempting to take rdd is going to gimp themselves in the long run anyways. The OP'ness of this class comes from a melee char abusing it, much like they would abuse a PM.

Those are probably the 3 most overpowered of the prestige classes off the top of my head. And do make for strong chars jus simply based on them alone, but like most every class in nwn its how you combine them with the base classes that makes them really shine into the potential behemoths that they can be.

Anyways I can still make a char without them, but jus putting out an arguement for some of the other prestige classes that are actually balanced.

I have done my fair share of power gaming on nwn, and I still know a significant amount of ways to put together some absurd characters. I can give you a fairly good run-down of most any class you want, here or in a pm if you don't want that knowledge out there.

I've stopped using seed stockpiles period here. At least till Toady manages to work out some of the kinks with the hauling update and seeds. I keep my food processing areas close to the farms. The workshops process the plants, and leave the seeds in the workshops. They do still try to bag every stupid seed much to my chagrin, but at least they don't spend as much time moving bags around. The only type of seeds that makes it out of the farm/food processing area are the plump helmets since they are edible raw, and the seeds often times end up in the dining hall.

Might regret being up that late, as that is 1-4 am for me. But I can probably make it provided I don't fall asleep earlier.

As for class, I can roll with most anything, and can take my pick from whatever is leftover or needed.
As for the rp part, I'll give it a shot. But I wouldn't expect anything beyond a fairly generic backstory.

Are we going to need any hakpaks or the CEP?

My fortresses do inevitably use magma forges in all of them. Though jus how quickly I get to settng them up depends on some factors. Like does my starting civ have coal or lignite I can embark with. Or am I planning on settling a deep fort or a surface/near surface fort.

If I got coal or lignite available for embark, I will use most of my points on that, and live off it for the first year or 2. If that isn't available, I bring an extra pick or 2 and dig for the magma sea within the first season or 2.

Surface/near surface forts, I'm a little slower to dig to the sea and build my forges, as I'm usually busy getting my initial defensive positions built and operational, since a surface fort isn't as naturally well protected as one built miles under the earth. A deep fort for me is one built in the caverns or below the caverns and jus above the magma sea, obviously due to the proximity to the magma sea of one of my deep forts, the magma forges are usually setup quite quickly.

Oh wow, been awhile since I've seen this thread. The hamachi room in question is pretty well dead as far as I know. But I still do play soku, usually with direct connect, but can use hamachi if needed.