Hi all,

Today I thought I would have a look at a new pw and came across Escape from the Underdark. It looks great and the couple of players I ran into were really helpful.

However, I was having some issues with my character. I wanted to make a cleric, probably lawful neutral. But I seem to have chosen the wrong deity. In the entry screen I saw that I have to choose the deity of my alignment, hey that makes sense.

But can someone help me out. I tried to remake (i.e. Make a new) character, but couldn't seem to get it right. -- I have played on nwn worlds for a while and years ago read some forgotten realms books, but still am quite a novice as to gods and which I should choose.

I also had a look through some of the stickies in the forums but couldn't really seem to find a thread on what I am looking for – I am sure there must be one somewhere, there must be a few newbies like me who tumble over this little hurdle.

Could someone post on what I should do, or point me to the appropriate thread.

Thanks all. (oh, any advice on playing would be greatly appreciated. I would love to get together with a group if there are any adventures who would accept a newly arrived -and very confused- cleric into their group.)

Cheers...

You want to look at the info here.

Also, you don't have to be the exact same alignment as a deity, you can be one step away. (Ie from lawful good to lawful neutral would be acceptable, unless there is a specific exception stated for the deity. However, lawful good to neutral neutral would not work, since that's two single steps away.)

Thanks,

I will get a character made straight away,

Cheers

Dammm, I hate being a newbie,,,,,

OK,,, my story, I tried to make a cleric, lawful neutral alignment, then from the list tried to chose Helm as my deity.

I can see the cleric alignment (on the link you gave me above), as being LE, LG or LN, so I figure that lawful neutral will fit right on it.

Well I have made 5 characters now, but can't seem to get this worked out – And I really want to play a cleric,,,,

Anyway, after a bit of frustration on my 4th character, I sat in the “OOC Welcome” start up room and chose every deity one after the other, only to get a message after each and every selection saying:

“[Divine Spell Failure Warning] Your deity (and the different names appeared here) is a valid forgotten Realms deity, but does not match your domains. Only characters with domains appropriate to their deities will be able to cast divine spells”.

As I said, I have selected each deity (twice) and all came up with this not matching warning. Can you suggest to me what I may be doing wrong. Should I select a minor, dead, monster or racial pantheon first then come back for the major deity. Or am I doing something wrong with the Deity Configuration Panel.

Checking my character sheet I see I have it set for “war, good”, another character had “sun, heal” perhaps that is what I have wrong, but I am unsure of how to set this up, I never thought about it before but it seems to be automatic in the character creation, or when I log on in,,,....

Once again, thanks for the help so far,,,, really looking forward to playing.... just a little confused...

ps: how do i delete characters from the server vault???

You must select domains that correspond to your deity. Picking any random domain and any deity will not work. Certain deities will only allow certain domains.

You cannot delete characters from your vault.

Welcome! The link you're looking for is here :

https://efupw.com/efu1-forum/topic/12/129/major-deities/index.html

You have to pick an alignment and domains specifically allowed by your deity. We even allow for some extra domains, downloadable at :

http://www.escapefromunderdark.com/downloads-page/

So you get a bunch of extra choices that the NwN engine doesn't usually allow (that give spells and do stuff that's detailed elsewhere on the announcements).

Hope that helps!

Blafin Dammm, I hate being a newbie,,,,, Checking my character sheet I see I have it set for “war, good”, another character had “sun, heal” perhaps that is what I have wrong, but I am unsure of how to set this up, I never thought about it before but it seems to be automatic in the character creation, or when I log on in,,,....

Selecting domains happens during character creation. You're probably just selecting a "package", which automatically picks your domains for you. You need to select "Customize Package" when you get to that point, and after you've chosen your skills and feats, it will allow you to choose your domains. As the DMs have mentioned, you need to pick domains that are within your deity's scope. If you pick domains out of that scope, you won't be able to use spells, which is what that error message was telling you.

Hope that helps, and see you IG.

Godspeed, Delron

You're probably just selecting a "package", which automatically picks your domains for you. You need to select "Customize Package" when you get to that point, and after you've chosen your skills and feats, it will allow you to choose your domains.

That was it exactly Delron, I now have my cleric and am all set to play. :D

Thanks everyone for all the help,,