Hey, I have one great idea for a NWN Module that would be of Premium value. I took a look at the builder, and tried many times to build even the first few scenes and encounters yet am finding it damn near impossible to get it to even a functioning level.

Basically the idea would be based on Roman Spin in NWN. The Story goes as follows.

Their are two parts to this game. Path of Slavery, or the Path of Power.

Starting with the Path of Slavery,

You create your Char, starting at level one, and nothing in your possessions, not even your clothes. A slave trader will auto dialog, the setting is like a prison. Player will be forced to pick a background for his Char.

Disbanded Warrior, you were a solider that left the ranks without proper discharge. (( Which requires you are not a Wizard, Bard, Sorcerer, Druid, or Monk.))

Guilty of Which craft, (( Which requires Wizard, Bard, Sorcerer, Druid, or Monk.))

Thief, ((Requires Rouge))

The background given here will be the first few announcements in your matches.

After that, the NPC Slave Trader rally's you and 3 others and takes you to a next scene on the ramp platform in front of a crowd. Then Boasts to the crowd each slave and auctions them off. You get taken by a Human Man name Fenron Heirin, of the House of Heirin. You are taken to his Ludus. You spare a few NPC's to level 2 then are given your first fight in the arena. NPC's Are in the stands and the magistrate gives the intro, the two ludus owners do, and then you fight, you do this for a while uncovering a plot within the House of Heirin, furthering side plots opens the door for a revolution, not, allows you to keep fighting in the arena, becoming champion, fighting double matches, grand spectacles, animals, two on one, three on one. And of course at the end of every fight, the crowd influences the magistrate to have the fallen be killed or live.

Winning fights of grand specticles grants favor and could be rewarded with freedom ((Witch then goes into the path of power but slightly different.))

The path to power basically reverses the roles, puts you in as the leader of your own ludus given from your father. Go and find more slaves, pick from a few different training excersises by speaking with your doctorie. And put on parties, talk with a specific slave girl in order to organize a party, pick the quality of wine, and food, and then one diversion on a list of many, from showcasing the gladiators, to hosting a private match, to a auction of your own, to a night filled with drugs and fornication. Exploring the side quests of the guests opens doors for you to climb the ladder of favor, possible become magistrate yourself? Talk to your henchmen to plan a mugging, murder, or theft. All this costs coin and what do you start with?

500 Gold and 5 Gladiators.

Be careful how many gladiators you sacrifice, they could revolt or try to poison you, also be weary on your activity, to be sure you are not being plotted against.

Missions from, helping a friend with coin, finding out attempts on you and clearing them up to making attempts yourself, even put yourself in the arena for extra favor. Get letters of invitation to games and other luduses to participate in their activities.

Their is so much more in detail but this is just the outline to the beginning. Anyone know how or where I can go to make more noise with this and get it moving?

Building is a lot of fun and most of it comes from learning how to. Different origins is a good idea with DA : O being so popular, but an idea is only an idea. How far have you got? Have you found the right tilesets as haks and built the areas? Found the right clothing haks to create a roman setting? Decided if this is an arena or if it has a more complex RP elemenet? And if the latter, got some conversations written? In other words, from reading this I imagine scripting is a problem, but you don't say where you need help and what you can contribute/do yourself... more details on that are needed if you want to build a team.

Some suggestions are:

Ask on BSN forums, it's a bigger and more experienced community than here. (link in the ultimate link list sticky).
organise exactly which area you need help in.
Get the right haks (NWVault link in the same sticky).
Get someone with good language skills.... bad spelling is a pet hate for many people (which/witch for example)
Start simple.

Good luck :)

(and when it's ready, get playtesters then when you are happy, give it to the reviewers guild to get a review/advertising)

Good luck :)

It is not just a arena! It is so much more. Real great chance at being a PW as well.

I have no skills nothing but ideas, but I do have Dialogs, I just gave you a breeze through. I will check out that other forum. I would need to take a look at the HAK Packs. Also Roman Influence, not Roman. Magic will be low level, races will be fully available. Perma-Death will be the rule of thumb. Given at special matches, such as a no quarter match, or Championship. Also the path of slavery introduction exaction is perma, but most not unless you are given thumbs down unless you give the Missio. It adds to the value of life, so be careful who you betray.

Same thing with the path of power, perma death.

Also their will only be a few houses, and positions are like a job, you can move up the ranks, if you have purchased your freedom, you can work in another house, in service, or to plan some skulduggery. Friends will be rare, and the world will seem a little too hardcore for most. But let us face it, if you die, it is not a sufficient price to loose xp. It will also be like forced rules, do not be obnoxious or rude, or caught plotting, also treat your Domonis.

I just do not know scripting, nor the actual building, HAK Packs I can do most work on but another opinion is not going to hurt.

Start SLOW. Do a simple Single Player adventure. A small town adventure or town/dungeon combo. You don't need to know how to script. Just use Lilac Soul's NWN Script Generator. Once you get a hang for the language you can start figuring out how to use the aSetPLocalInt and aGetPLocalInt functions and how to set/get variables on objects besides the player. Once you figure out how to do that you'll be ready to tackle a Multiplayer mod.

It is made to be single first...

I have downloaded the easy scripting I am tinkering with it.

Great! Try to work within the limited framework of the script generator for a while. Once you get comfortable with it you can start modifying your scripts to become more versatile. Take a look at the NWN Lexicon if you'd like a good reference source for NWN Script.

Looking for people and no hits on the forum I was referred to.

Yeah. I'll be frank with you. You won't be able to put a team together on your first time out. As builders most of us are busy trying to realize our own visions. We really don't have a lot of time to help other people realize theirs.

If you want to be taken seriously you'll need to show the community you can see a project all the way through. You really should table your grand vision and sharpen your teeth on a couple small solo projects. Once you get a few well reviewed modules on the vault people will be more willing to hear you out.

To be even more frank... NWN is an old game on life support. The community is pretty much gone. Finest and most respected builders can still gather some interest to their projects, but most can't.

There's a huge number of modules out there that have gathered a single digit amount of comments, and many of those are just "what a waste of time" dismissals.

If you're starting now and are thinking of spending a few years of your time, I'd suggest finding some other tool. NWN2 is just as dead, Dragon Age is showing signs of passing.