OK, some quick, miscelleneous stuff I'm too lazy to look up myself that have been piling up. Don't know if this should go in the DM section...if it should..."make it so Numbah One".

1. Does spell penetration and greater spell penetration make turning undead more effective?

2. Is there a heavy mace in this server?

3. Can missle weapons be used for Improved Critical?

4. Does disarm only work on PCs?

5. When you drink an INVIS potion, is there a DC for PCs to detect you? Is being transparent "OOC" info and players are supposed to pretend they can't see you?

6. Are prestige classes allowed? DMs, if they are rarely allowed, roughly what criteria would you grant this to players?

7. Do rangers have to be good?

8. Do bows fire at 2/round? Assume thrown axes and crossbows are 1/ round. Does rapid reload make crossbows 2/round, and also thrown axes?

9. Does rapid fire affect crossbows if you have rapid reload? So can you get 3/round with both feats for crossbows?

10. Why do half-orc characters look like they are 7' tall when the player races info have them as shorter than humans?

Enjoy! :shock:

1. Does spell penetration and greater spell penetration make turning undead more effective?

I don't think so.

2. Is there a heavy mace in this server?

Heavy mace? As in dire mace?

3. Can missle weapons be used for Improved Critical?

Yes!

4. Does disarm only work on PCs?

Works on anything with a weapon.

5. When you drink an INVIS potion, is there a DC for PCs to detect you? Is being transparent "OOC" info and players are supposed to pretend they can't see you?

There is no DC for detection that I know of. Some people claim that you can make a listen check to hear, but I never in NWN have I made a successful listen check. Being transparent can be OOC info, but if the PC has a reason to swing wildly in random directions they might attack you.

6. Are prestige classes allowed? DMs, if they are rarely allowed, roughly what criteria would you grant this to players?

They are allowed but require an application. There is a thread under the "New Players" part of the forum that tells you all about the application process. You should establish yourself with a regular character to show that you have good roleplaying capability and tell them why you should be granted the PrC. How does this PrC change your roleplay/character for the better?

7. Do rangers have to be good?

Nope! They can be any alignment

8. Do bows fire at 2/round? Assume thrown axes and crossbows are 1/ round. Does rapid reload make crossbows 2/round, and also thrown axes?

Bows fire 2/round if you are a higher level or if you have rapid shot. Rapid reload makes crossbows 2/round, but I do not believe it makes thrown axes 2/round.

9. Does rapid fire affect crossbows if you have rapid reload? So can you get 3/round with both feats for crossbows?

Rapid reload is rapid fire for crossbows. So rapid fire only works for bows, rapid reload for crossbows.

10. Why do half-orc characters look like they are 7' tall when the player races info have them as shorter than humans?

No clue, I always thought half-orcs were much larger then the average human.

Rapid shot is only for bows

Rapid reload is only for crossbows

thrown weapons dont' get a rapid fire feat

1. I'm fairly certain they do not.

2. The server doesn't use haks(currently) - if it isn't possible by scripting, then it doesn't exist. Not as a base weapon, anyway, although there may be something similar to what you're looking for as a custom weapon with magical properties that make it like such a thing.

3. No.

4. No, although when it's used on an NPC, I expect the weapon would be destroyed, rather than just dropped.

5. There's no DC for detection. When a PC comes too close while invisible, you hear them. You won't know their identity, and you won't see them - instead, just play it as hearing footsteps.

6. Prestige classes ARE allowed, however you will need to make an OOC application and have it approved - as well as persuing the PrC In Game.

7. No. Rangers can be any alignment, as long as they're in accordance with their deity.

8. Bows behave as just about any other weapon. They use your character's base attacks per round (for example, as a fighter, 1 attack per round at level 1, 2 attacks per round at level 6, and so on.) Crossbows always fire at 1 attack per round, unless you get rapid reload, which allows them to fire at 2 attacks per round if your character is able to do so. Thrown Axes behave normally.

9. Rapid Shot only works with bows, not crossbows.

10. Ignorance, clearly. The handbook that came with my copy of NWN lists them as the same heights as humans. I imagine it's largely just to do with an error on Bioware's part, as well as to make it easier to identify them

Gwydion OK, some quick, miscelleneous stuff I'm too lazy to look up myself that have been piling up. Don't know if this should go in the DM section...if it should..."make it so Numbah One".

I should have stopped at the I'm to lazy line...

1. Does spell penetration and greater spell penetration make turning undead more effective?

No. It just helps spells get past spell resistance.

2. Is there a heavy mace in this server?

No

3. Can missle weapons be used for Improved Critical?

Yes

4. Does disarm only work on PCs?

No and yes. It works on NPC's, but most creatures are marked as non-disarmable. We don't want anyone disarming to get magic weapons off of standard creatures.

5. When you drink an INVIS potion, is there a DC for PCs to detect you? Is being transparent "OOC" info and players are supposed to pretend they can't see you?

If they see you transparent, it means they hear you. So, if they can see you on screen, they have detected you. Attacking invisible people is perfectly acceptable, and the increased difficulty is already built in.

6. Are prestige classes allowed? DMs, if they are rarely allowed, roughly what criteria would you grant this to players?

They are. They require applications and are on a case by case basis. Requirements vary by PrC, but the two main things are to have goals and a story to involve other players and do stuff that makes you deserve special perks both IC and OOC. If you want advice on a specific PrC, contact a DM in IRC.

7. Do rangers have to be good?

No. That was a D&D 2.0 thing. It hasn't applied since 3.0 came out about 5 years ago or so.

8. Do bows fire at 2/round? Assume thrown axes and crossbows are 1/ round. Does rapid reload make crossbows 2/round, and also thrown axes?

You are looking at 2.0 rules mostly here. Bows now fire at 1/attack, so they are the same as melee. Rapid fire gives 1 additional attack. Crossbows are 1/round. Rapid reload lets them fire at 1/attack up to 2 attacks. I believe Axes are just a flat 1/attack.

9. Does rapid fire affect crossbows if you have rapid reload? So can you get 3/round with both feats for crossbows?

No. No.

10. Why do half-orc characters look like they are 7' tall when the player races info have them as shorter than humans?

Blame Bioware. If that was the only dumb thing they did, we'd be lucky, but they did worse.

Wow, some misinformation in there. Everything Thrawn said is correct, however note especially that Rapid Shot (which gives one extra attack/round) works with bows and thrown weapons (including throwing axes, darts, etc.). As indicated, it does not work with crossbows.