DM,ing for PRCWorlds,any tips?

[magpie45]

I have recently been given this honour as a minor DM with access too 3 worlds,I have my mini-meta plot worked out roughly but would appreciate any tips and examples from anyone here.Ihave Dm,d before,but years ago,and only vannila NWN.


EG:First question comes too mind,how easy is it too create prc race/class npcs/villans etc?

Please bear in mind im a lore DM,not a techie one!



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[DM Heatstroke]

EG:First question comes too mind,how easy is it too create prc race/class npcs/villains etc?

The races work ok for the most part, but a lot of the PRC class features don't work.  The stock NWN AI will fire the PRC spells & psionics, but poorly & with no augmentation.  Custom AIs such as TonyK's & Jasperre's ignore the PRC completely.

You can make NPCs with PRC classes in the toolset, but they won't automatically get their class features since most of them do not have advancement packages associated with them.  They will get their racial features but won't use anything that has to be activated (i.e. githyanki's Blur ability).  PRC casting classes (like the archivist) can't get spells at all.

[Complex]

is there any good custom ai that would contemplate prc usage? was not able to locate any

[DM Heatstroke]

is there any good custom ai that would contemplate prc usage? was not able to locate any

No, but I did a little poking around with TonyK's AI, since XWarren showed me how to get it working with the PRC, & discovered that it should be possible to just add the PRC spells into it.  You'd have to call the PRC constant script in the main AI script & then it's just a matter of a lot of sorting which spells need to go into which function & in which order they should be evaluated.