Customizations — Homer's LOTR

This module runs on stock Neverwinter Nights rules (plus CEP 2 content), but a number of spells, mechanics, and whole systems have been deliberately changed. This page is the full reference for what has — and has not — been modified relative to a vanilla NWN game, drawn directly from the module's scripts. A short, in-game version lives in your journal under Server Info → Module Customizations.

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Appraise & Selling to Merchants

A high Appraise skill raises the maximum gold a merchant will pay you for an item. Many shops cap how much they will hand over for any single piece; Appraise lifts that cap for you specifically — up to double (+100%) at an Appraise check of 65 (you always "take 20", so your Appraise skill + 20). The benefit is per-character and never shared with other shoppers. You need at least one point of Appraise before it helps; with none, you sell at the shop's normal cap. Merchants that don't buy from players still don't, and shops with no buy cap are unchanged.

Banking & Family Accounts

Bank NPCs (in Bree, Minas Tirith, and elsewhere) let you deposit and withdraw gold and XP. Beyond a personal balance, a family account is shared across every character on your account, so you can pool gold and pass items between your own characters. XP banking is capped so it cannot be used to over-level past the module's ceiling.

Merit Reward System

You earn merit points when your reported bugs get fixed, your reported exploits get closed, or your suggested features ship — defects are worth 1, features 2, and exploits 3. Points are tracked per account and never expire. Spend them from the rest menu (or with a DM) at the Keeper-of-Records, Barliman Butterbur, in the Prancing Pony. See the Roadmap & Player Ideas page for what has shipped and who earned merit for it.

Merit Redemption Shop

Spend merit on any of the following. Costs may still be tuned over time.

Teleport & travel (rest-menu features)

These are live rest-menu teleports, unlocked in order — each one requires that you already own the one above it (the menu shows a locked option as "buy the previous one first" until then). Once unlocked, the teleport appears in your rest menu permanently.

Merit	Reward	How it works
3	Teleport to your party leader	Rest-menu jump to wherever your party leader currently is.
4	Return to your last Well-of-Eru point	One-shot: armed only when you take the rest menu's "To. The Well of Eru." teleport, and consumed when you use it (death never arms it). Brings you back to exactly where you left.
6	Save-slot teleport (Slot 1)	Five dedicated, rewriteable save points. Set a slot to your current spot, then teleport back to it any time. Each saved location is per-character and persists across reboots.
7	Save-slot teleport (Slot 2)
8	Save-slot teleport (Slot 3)
9	Save-slot teleport (Slot 4)
10	Save-slot teleport (Slot 5)

Premium boosts (2× gold & XP)

Merit	Reward
1	1 week of 2× gold & XP for you (all your characters)
3	1 month of 2× gold & XP for you
4	1 week of 2× gold & XP for the whole server — your name joins the login welcome message
8	1 month of 2× gold & XP for the whole server — your name joins the login welcome message

What is boosted. The 2× multiplier applies to gold and XP you earn: killing creatures (kill XP and the gold they drop) and turning in quests. It never stacks beyond 2× — a personal boost and a server boost do not multiply together.

What is not boosted. Withdrawing gold or XP from a bank (the Bree gold bank, the family bank, or the XP bank) is not boosted — banking just moves value you already have, it does not create it. Selling items to merchants is not boosted either. (Separately, several merchants had their per-item buy cap doubled, so a genuinely valuable item can now fetch its full price — but the sell rate is unchanged.)

Queueing — boosts never overlap. Running two boosts of the same kind at once would waste one, so extra purchases queue instead of stacking:

• Buy a second boost of a kind you already have and its time is held in reserve; it starts counting down only when the current one runs out.
• A live server-wide boost pauses everyone's personal boost — you are already getting 2× from the server, so your personal time is frozen and resumes, undiminished, once the server boost ends.
• Server boosts from different players queue into a single server-wide chain, one after another.

When you log in, the server tells you every active and pending boost — server-wide and your own — who bought each, and the estimated date the whole chain ends.

Vanity & swag

Merit	Reward
5	Permanently graffiti the Well of Eru: add a floor/wall placeable with your name & description (within reason, DM approval)
10	A piece of Tournament gear — pick one from the curated list below, delivered on the spot
25	A real, hand-made duct-tape wallet mailed to you — pick up to 3 colors and a logo/design
100	Become a DM

Tournament gear (10 merit). The shop opens a picker with one solid piece per weapon type plus armour, a tower shield, gauntlets, and bows. You choose one and it is created in your inventory immediately. Each links to its full stats on the item wiki:

• Tournament Longsword
• Tournament Short Sword
• Tournament Greatsword
• Tournament Bastard Sword
• Tournament Scimitar
• Tournament Dagger
• Tournament Kama
• Tournament Kukri
• Tournament Club
• Tournament Mace
• Tournament Morningstar
• Tournament Warhammer
• Tournament Battleaxe
• Tournament Greataxe
• Tournament Halberd
• Tournament Scythe
• Tournament Maug Double Sword
• Tournament Longbow
• Tournament Shortbow
• Tournament Darts
• Tournament Armour
• Tournament Tower Shield
• Tournament Gauntlets

Player Housing

Turn an unused town door into your own home. Claim any unoccupied locked door in any town as your home (1 per player / CD key; moving or upgrading later refunds nothing). You build the area in the toolset and send the file; a fast-travel option to it is added to your rest menu. You teleport in, and leave through the front door to your chosen city.

Cost scales with area size (Length × Width). An area may be split at no cost across up to 2 areas with transitions (basement, attic, arena, etc.).

Area size (L×W)	2	4	8	16	32	64	81	100
Merit	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8

Optional add-ons:

Merit	Feature
2	Persistent storage chest shared across your characters
2	A Well-of-Eru store with a 100K max buy limit — you pick the NPC name & appearance
5	Add a Tagget-tier forge to your home
10	Add a Rivendell-tier forge to your home
15	Add a Balrog-tier forge to your home

MeaningWave Philosopher Guides

Eight philosopher NPCs are scattered across Middle-earth. Answer each one's questions to unlock them as a powerful summonable companion that persists between sessions. See the dedicated MeaningWave: A Guide to the Guides for routes and details.

Instant Resting & the Rest Menu

Resting is fully custom. There is no rest cooldown — you can rest whenever you are not in active combat, and each rest is an instant full rest (HP and spells restored immediately, no waiting). Resting opens a custom rest menu that also lets you take other actions from the same place, including teleporting to key destinations and summoning henchmen and Legend companions.

Party Loot Rolls

When you pick up a valuable item and other party members are in the same area, a clickable Need / Greed / Pass window pops up for everyone in the party — a fair way to decide who gets the drop, with no out-of-character arguing. It is loosely modelled on the loot roll from MMOs.

• Need beats Greed: the highest Need roll wins; if nobody needs it, the highest Greed roll wins. Pass bows out and can never win.
• The finder rolls too and keeps the item if they win. Otherwise the item is handed to the winner automatically.
• You have 30 seconds to choose; no answer counts as a Pass.
• The window shows the item's type (e.g. Scimitar, Wand, Heavy Armor), its gold value, and a grouped list of its magical properties.

Unidentified items. If the item is not yet identified, every player who would roll first makes a Lore check (your Lore skill plus a d20 against a difficulty based on the item's value — the same rule the Rod of Fast Lore uses). The results are shown in your combat log. If anyone succeeds, the item is identified for the whole party. If nobody does, the popup reveals only the item's type and marks it Unidentified — its name, value, and properties stay hidden, so you roll on a mystery.

Configuring it (rest menu → Party loot roll settings).

• Any player can opt out of party loot rolls (you will never be prompted, and rolls won't trigger just for you).
• The party leader sets the minimum item value that triggers a roll (default 10,000 gp; choose 5k, 10k, 50k, 100k, 250k, 500k, or 1M), or disables party rolling entirely.
• You get a green confirmation message of the current settings whenever you join a party, become a party leader, or the leader changes a setting.

Boss Respawn Tracker — the Roll of the Fallen

A billboard in the Well of Eru (next to the Recent Updates sign) that shows which of Middle-earth's great powers are currently slain and when each will walk again — so you can plan a boss run instead of hiking to an empty lair.

• Only bosses that are dead right now are listed, sorted mightiest first (by challenge rating), with the time until it returns at the end of each name — e.g. The Mighty Smaug — returns in 12m 30s.
• Click a name to see the boss's lair and the player or party who last slew it (party credit uses the same damage-contribution rules as the Bestiary).
• Every unique boss is tracked — the board covers each of Middle-earth's named great powers (formally: any creature with a challenge rating above 60 that exists as a single, unique foe rather than a repeatable spawn).
• The full list of tracked bosses is on the wiki under Creatures → Bosses — the page is generated from the very registry the game loads, so it always matches the board. Think a boss is missing? Suggest it on Discord.
• A server restart revives every boss, so the board starts each session empty.

Boss Enrage on Retreat

Retreating from a great boss makes it stronger. Disengage from one of the Roll of the Fallen bosses and it will taunt you by name, grow in power, and claw back part of the damage you had done. This applies only to those unique bosses — ordinary creatures you walk away from behave exactly as before.

• You are "in the fight" from the moment you damage the boss — in melee, at range, with spells, or through your summons, animal companion or henchman (their damage counts as yours).
• You have "retreated" if you leave the boss's area, move more than about 40 metres away, or log out — and stay that way for roughly 12 seconds. Landing another hit resets the count, so an archer or caster fighting from long range stays engaged as long as they keep contributing.
• What the boss gains, each time: a shouted taunt naming you, +2 to all six ability scores for the rest of its life, and an instant heal of 25% of its missing HP.
• The enrage stacks — every retreat is another +2 and another quarter-heal — and it cannot be dispelled.
• It fires per player: if you run while the rest of your party keeps fighting, the boss still enrages.
• Dying is not retreating. If the boss kills you, it gains nothing.
• The enrage never carries onto a respawn — a boss that returns to its lair is back at its base statistics.

Caster Signature Gear

A planned line of boss-drop gear that boosts specific spells, giving Clerics, Druids, Sorcerers, and Wizards a real way to threaten high-tier bosses instead of relying on damage shields and lucky epic-spell rolls. Each piece pairs top-tier stats with one signature effect — amplifying a spell's damage, retyping it past an immunity, or supercharging your summons — and every item grants a stronger version to pure single-class casters.

• Twenty items (five each per caster class), each looted from a thematically matched boss already in the world — see the full catalogue with stats and drop sources on the Caster Signature Gear page.
• Builds on Scaled Summons (for the summon-boost pieces) and the same spell-effect machinery as Doubled Spell Duration.

Dungeon Solitaire

A custom card-game-style encounter arena: a sequence of drawn challenges with its own creatures and dialogue, distinct from the open-world encounter zones. It is an in-game port of Dungeon Solitaire — which can also be played stand-alone on any computer with the .NET framework.

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Player Appearance & Alignment

Visit the Appearance Changer and Character Modifying Area in Bree to open an appearance menu with 315+ creature forms. The change is free and permanent until you change it again.

The same area also lets you change your alignment (good/evil and law/chaos). This is how you set up otherwise-impossible class combinations — shift your alignment to qualify for builds like a monk/barbarian or a paladin/blackguard.

Item Appearance Crafting

Armor, cloak, shield and weapon appearance can be remodelled with the CEP crafting system (the Craft Armor / Craft Weapon options). There is no fail chance — every appearance change succeeds automatically, regardless of your skill ranks. Reshaping the model of a piece (shoulders, boots, weapon parts, shield model, etc.) is reached from the Dye Studio via its Reshape appearance… button; recolouring is done in the Dye Studio itself.

Dye Studio — Recolour Your Gear

The Dye Studio is a point-and-click colour picker for your armor, helmet and cloak. It's free, instant, and can't fail, every colour is previewed live on your character, and dyeing never changes an item's stats.

The window opens beside your character so you can watch the preview. Work through it top to bottom:

• Pick a piece — the top row of buttons chooses which equipped item to dye: Armor, Helmet or Cloak. The active piece is highlighted.
• Pick a colour channel — the two rows below are the six tint channels: Cloth 1/2, Leather 1/2 and Metal 1/2. Each part of a piece uses one of these; the active channel is highlighted, and there is a separate palette for cloth/leather versus metal.
• Pick a colour — click any swatch in the grid to apply it instantly to your character. There are 176 colours per channel; use Prev colors / More colors to page through them. The line above the grid names the current colour (e.g. Color #88 — Red).

The buttons along the bottom:

• Revert — undo everything back to how the piece looked when you opened the window.
• Reshape appearance… — switch to the model editor to change the shape of armor/cloak/shield/weapon parts (see Item Appearance Crafting).
• Copy colors / Paste colors — copy a piece's full six-channel colour scheme, then paste it onto another piece so all your gear matches. Your copied scheme is saved to your character and stays copied across sessions and reboots (until you copy a different one).
• Save and Close — keep your changes and close the window. (Your colours are already applied as you click, so simply closing keeps them.)

Weapon Renaming — Engraver's Chisel

The Engraver's Chisel lets you give your weapon a name of your own — turn Longsword +5 into Goblin-Cleaver or Sting. Renaming is purely cosmetic: it never changes an item's stats, and the new name is saved on the item itself, so it survives logouts and server reboots.

How to use it:

• Equip the weapon you want to rename in your main hand.
• Use (activate) the chisel from your inventory.
• Speak the new name in chat — your very next chat line becomes the weapon's new name. The line is not broadcast to other players.

Forge of Wonders — Item Enchanting

Four Forge of Wonders locations let you permanently add or replace magical properties on any equippable item, for a gold cost equal to the increase in the item's assessed value. Each forge is staffed by a smith NPC. Place exactly one item on the nearby anvil, then speak to the smith; pick the property you want and the smith quotes the cost before you confirm. When a property of the same type is already on the item it is replaced, not stacked.

Each tier enforces a maximum item value and a maximum number of properties. Refusals are graceful: if an enchantment would push the item past either ceiling the smith says the item is already as fine as that forge can make it and no gold is charged. Forges only enchant an item upward — they never apply a change that lowers its assessed value, and replacing an existing property is always allowed even at the property cap (adding a new one past the cap is not). Each forge enforces only its own ceiling, so taking an item to a higher tier raises the limits.

Forge	Location	Access	Tier	Max item value	Max properties
Tagget's Smith Shop	Taggets Smith Shop (Bree)	Open to all — no key required	Low	250,000 gp	4
Rivendell Smithy	The Smithy of Rivendell	Elrond's Writ must be in your inventory to access the forge option	Mid	500,000 gp	5
Moria Forge of Wonders	Moria: Forge of Wonders	Forgekey (dropped by the Balrog of Moria)	High	750,000 gp	6
Kallrist Crypt forge	Kallrist Crypt (lower level)	Solve the elemental-pillar riddle for the Kallrist Crypt Key, then defeat the crypt guardian and carry its Horn of the Fell Beast	Signature (crypt-only)	750,000 gp	6

Available enchantments by tier:

Property	Low (Tagget's)	Mid (Rivendell)	High (Moria)
AC Bonus	+1 to +4	+4 to +8	+8 to +12
Attack Bonus	+1 to +5	+1 to +10	+10 to +16
Enhancement Bonus	+1 to +5	+1 to +10	+9 to +14
Ability Bonus (all 6 stats)	+1 to +4	+4 to +8	+8 to +12
Mighty †	+1 to +5	+1 to +10	+10 to +15
Damage Bonus — types	Slashing, Bludgeoning, Piercing	Slash, Bludg, Pierce, Fire, Cold	Slash, Bludg, Pierce, Fire, Cold, Acid, Lightning, Sonic
Damage Bonus — dice	1, 2, 3, 1d4, 1d6	1d8, 1d10, 1d12	2d6, 2d8, 2d10
Massive Criticals †	1, 2, 3, 1d4, 1d6	1d8, 1d10, 1d12	2d6, 2d8, 2d10
Damage Resistance — amount	5, 10 per round	15, 20 per round	20, 25 per round
Damage Resistance — types	Slashing, Bludgeoning, Piercing	Slash, Bludg, Pierce, Fire, Cold	Slash, Bludg, Pierce, Fire, Cold, Acid, Lightning, Sonic
Damage Immunity — %	—	5%	10%
Damage Immunity — types	—	Slash, Bludg, Pierce, Fire, Cold	Slash, Bludg, Pierce, Fire, Cold, Acid, Lightning, Sonic
Damage Reduction	/+1 to /+5, soak 5–15	/+5 to /+10, soak 15–25	/+10 to /+15, soak 20–30
Spell Resistance	—	SR 10–22	SR 22–32
Improved Saving Throws	—	Fort / Reflex / Will	Fort / Reflex / Will / All
On-Hit Properties	7 effects; DC 14–20 — see list	12 effects; DC 14–26 — see list	12 effects; DC 14–26 — see list
Miscellaneous Immunity	—	—	Fear, Disease, Paralysis, Poison, Level Drain
Haste	yes	yes	yes
Keen	yes	yes	yes
Darkvision	—	yes	yes
Light	—	yes	yes
Vampiric Regeneration	yes	yes	yes
Freedom of Movement	yes	yes	yes
Weight Reduction	10–40%	10–60%	10–80%
Arcane Spell Failure	—	—	−10% to −30%
Skill Bonus	+1–+5	+5–+10	+15–+20
Bonus Feat	—	yes	yes
Unlimited Ammo	yes	yes	yes

On-Hit Properties — available effects

On-hit properties trigger a magical effect each time you land a physical blow on an enemy. After picking the effect, you choose a saving throw DC and a probability/duration pair. All forges offer the same five probability/duration options: 75% / 1 round, 50% / 2 rounds, 25% / 3 rounds, 10% / 4 rounds, 5% / 5 rounds.

Effect	Low (Tagget's)	Mid (Rivendell)	High (Moria)	Save DC options	Notes
Ability Drain	yes	yes	yes	Low: 14 only; Mid/High: 14–24	Low drains CON/INT/WIS/CHA; Mid/High drains any of the 6 stats
Blindness	yes	yes	yes	Low: 14–20; Mid/High: 14–26
Confusion	—	yes	yes	14–26
Daze	—	yes	yes	14–26
Deafness	yes	yes	yes	Low: 14–20; Mid/High: 14–26
Doom	yes	yes	yes	Low: 14–20; Mid/High: 14–26
Fear	—	yes	yes	14–26
Hold	—	yes	yes	14–26
Silence	yes	yes	yes	Low: 14–20; Mid/High: 14–26
Sleep	yes	yes	yes	Low: 14–20; Mid/High: 14–26
Slow	yes	yes	yes	Low: 14–20; Mid/High: 14–26
Stun	—	yes	yes	14–26

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Rod of Fast Buffing

Sold at the Well-Mart at the Well of Eru, the Rod of Fast Buffing lets casters batch their pre-combat buffs into a single action:

• Store spells by casting buff spells at the rod — each one is remembered, in order.
• Activate the rod (out of combat) to re-cast every stored spell on yourself, one after another, in one go.
• The rod cannot be used in combat — it is a setup tool, not an in-fight panic button.

A big quality-of-life upgrade for buff-heavy casters who would otherwise click through a dozen spells before every fight. Based on the Rod of Fast Buffing prefab from the Neverwinter Vault.

Rod of Fast Lore

Also sold at the Well-Mart, the Rod of Fast Lore identifies a whole inventory at once instead of one item at a time:

• Activate it on yourself (or on another player) to scan that character's inventory and attempt to identify every unidentified item in one pass.
• Each item rolls a Lore check — your Lore skill + a d20 against a difficulty based on the item's value (gold value ÷ 100 + 1). Higher Lore identifies more, and more valuable items resist longer.
• Your combat log lists what was identified and what failed (by item type), so you can re-try the failures after a Lore boost. When you scan another player, both of you see the results.

This is the same Lore rule the Party Loot Roll uses to identify unidentified drops.

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Two player-facing factions govern which NPCs are hostile to you as you travel Middle-earth: Good (Gondor, Rivendell, Lothlórien, Helm's Deep, Edoras, …) and Evil (Mordor, Isengard, Cirith Ungol, Carn Dûm, …). See the Factions page for the full list and reputation matrix.

Choosing Your Side in the Well of Eru

Each time you are about to leave the Well of Eru through one of the teleporters, click one of the two orbs to set your faction for the session:

Orb	Effect
Shaft of Light (blue/white)	Declares you Good. Good-faction NPCs treat you as an ally; Evil-faction NPCs become hostile.
Shaft of Light — Red	Declares you Evil. Evil-faction NPCs treat you as an ally; Good-faction NPCs become hostile.

After clicking the orb, use the Guardian of Light (Good) or Guardian of Darkness (Evil) to teleport to your destination. The teleporters each offer a list of faction-appropriate locations.

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Epic Spell Enhancements

The epic spells have been rebuilt to feel genuinely epic. Several summon and ward effects cannot be dispelled.

Spell	This module
Dragon Knight	Summons the Epic Dragon Knight — a level-60 Fighter Red Dragon (CR 123, 540 HP, Str/Dex/Con/Cha 40). 30-round duration. Cannot be dispelled.
Mummy Dust	Summons the Epic Mummy Reaper — a dual-class level-60 undead warrior (CR 212, 520 HP). 30-hour duration. Cannot be dispelled.
Epic Ward	Damage Reduction 60/+20. Cannot be dispelled. Duration = 1 round per caster level (so ~40 rounds / 4 minutes at the level-40 caster cap). It also expires early once it has absorbed 35 × caster level total damage (≈ 1,400 at caster level 40), whichever comes first.
Hellball	10d20 of each damage type (Acid, Electrical, Fire, Sonic) over a massive area. Reflex save for partial reduction; knocks down targets if total damage exceeds 200.
Greater Ruin	500d20 damage to a single target (roughly 500–10,000, averaging ~5,250). Fortitude save (DC = your epic spell save DC). On a successful save the damage is divided by 300 — i.e. cut to a few dozen points, effectively negligible rather than merely halved.
Curse Song (Bard)	Fully custom debuff that scales with your Perform skill and Bard level across 23 tiers, in a colossal-radius (30 ft) sphere. At the top tier: −15 attack, −10 damage, −7 all saves, −15 AC, −18 all skills, and 98 sonic damage. See the full Curse Song ladder below.
Bard Song (Bard)	The companion buff to Curse Song, rebuilt to match: a 23-tier ladder scaling with your Perform skill and Bard level, buffing the bard and nearby allies in a colossal-radius (30 ft) sphere. At the top tier: +6 attack, +6 damage, +4 all saves, +60 temporary HP, +6 AC, +12 all skills. Tuned conservatively (about half of Curse Song's magnitudes) so a party-wide buff stays fair. See the full Bard Song ladder below.

Curse Song Ladder (Bard)

Curse Song is a ladder of 23 tiers, not a single formula. You reach a tier only when you meet both its Perform-skill rank and its Bard-level requirement; the song then applies every penalty on that row to enemies in a 30 ft (colossal-radius) sphere. Base duration is 15 rounds — the Lingering Song feat adds +15 rounds, and Lasting Impression multiplies the duration ×15.

Perform ≥	Bard lvl ≥	Attack	Damage	Will	Fort	Reflex	Sonic dmg	AC	Skills
80	30	−15	−10	−7	−7	−7	98	−15	−18
75	29	−13	−8	−5	−5	−5	56	−10	−17
60	28	−10	−6	−4	−4	−4	44	−8	−16
55	27	−8	−6	−4	−4	−4	42	−8	−15
50	26	−7	−6	−3	−2	−2	40	−6	−14
45	25	−7	−5	−3	−2	−2	38	−6	−13
40	24	−6	−5	−3	−2	−2	36	−5	−12
35	23	−6	−5	−3	−2	−2	34	−5	−11
30	22	−6	−5	−3	−2	−2	32	−5	−10
25	21	−6	−5	−3	−2	−2	30	−5	−9
20	20	−6	−5	−3	−2	−2	28	−5	−8
15	19	−5	−4	−3	−2	−2	26	−5	−7
12	18	−5	−4	−3	−2	−2	24	−5	−6
10	17	−5	−4	−3	−2	−2	22	−5	−5
9	16	−4	−4	−3	−2	−2	20	−5	−4
8	15	−4	−4	−2	−2	−2	16	−4	−3
7	14	−4	−4	−1	−1	−1	16	−3	−2
6	12	−4	−3	−1	−1	−1	8	−2	−2
5	8	−3	−3	−1	−1	−1	8	0	−1
4	6	−2	−3	−1	−1	−1	0	0	−1
2	3	−2	−3	−1	−1	0	0	0	0
1	2	−1	−2	−1	0	0	0	0	0
1	1	−1	−1	0	0	0	0	0	0

Bard Song Ladder (Bard)

Stock Bard Song stopped scaling at Bard 20 and gave only modest bonuses. Here it is the mirror of Curse Song — a ladder of 23 tiers reached only when you meet both its Perform rank and its Bard level, granting every bonus on that row to the bard and allies in a 30 ft sphere. Duration rules are identical to Curse Song. Because buffing a whole party is stronger than debuffing enemies, the bonuses are tuned conservatively (roughly half of Curse Song's combat magnitudes) and the sonic-damage column becomes temporary hit points here.

Perform ≥	Bard lvl ≥	Attack	Damage	Will	Fort	Reflex	Temp HP	AC	Skills
80	30	+6	+6	+4	+4	+4	60	+6	+12
75	29	+6	+5	+4	+4	+4	52	+5	+11
60	28	+5	+5	+4	+4	+4	46	+5	+10
55	27	+5	+5	+4	+4	+4	44	+5	+10
50	26	+5	+5	+3	+3	+3	42	+4	+9
45	25	+5	+5	+3	+3	+3	40	+4	+9
40	24	+4	+4	+3	+2	+2	36	+4	+8
35	23	+4	+4	+3	+2	+2	34	+4	+8
30	22	+4	+4	+3	+2	+2	32	+3	+7
25	21	+4	+4	+3	+2	+2	30	+3	+7
20	20	+4	+4	+3	+2	+2	28	+3	+6
15	19	+4	+4	+2	+2	+2	26	+3	+6
12	18	+3	+4	+2	+2	+2	24	+3	+5
10	17	+3	+4	+2	+2	+2	22	+3	+5
9	16	+3	+3	+2	+2	+2	20	+2	+4
8	15	+3	+3	+2	+1	+1	16	+2	+3
7	14	+3	+3	+1	+1	+1	14	+2	+2
6	12	+2	+3	+1	+1	+1	10	+2	+2
5	8	+2	+3	+1	+1	+1	8	+1	+1
4	6	+2	+3	+1	+1	+1	4	+1	+1
2	3	+1	+2	+1	+1	0	0	0	+1
1	2	+1	+2	+1	0	0	0	0	0
1	1	+1	+1	0	0	0	0	0	0

Shapeshifting: Full Equipment Merge

Every player polymorph now merges all of your equipped items' magical properties into the new form — stock NWN merged only a per-form subset (druid Wild Shape: armor, helmet and shield only), and never put weapon properties on a form's natural attacks.

• Weapon → claws, bite and slam. Your equipped weapon's properties are copied onto the form's natural attacks (and onto its right-hand weapon for humanoid forms). If you shift while unarmed, your gloves' properties ride the natural attacks instead.
• Everything else → hide. Armor, helmet, shield, both rings, amulet, cloak, boots, belt and gloves merge onto the form's creature hide.
• Applies to: druid Wild Shape and Elemental Shape, all Shifter shapes (Greater Wildshape I–IV, Humanoid, Undead, Dragon, Outsider, Construct), and the arcane self-polymorphs Polymorph Self, Shapechange and Tenser's Transformation (which merged nothing at all in stock NWN).

Scaled Summons & Animal Companions

Your summoned creatures and animal companion grow with you. The moment one appears it gains a single permanent, undispellable boost based on your investment as a summoner — so a high-level druid's or ranger's pet stays relevant on this high-magic server instead of falling behind. The bonus scales with your class level (druid, or the higher of druid/ranger for an animal companion), your Animal Empathy skill, and the Conjuration spell-focus feat line (Spell Focus → Greater → Epic Spell Focus). Summons from other classes (e.g. a wizard's) are unaffected.

Stat	Scales with	Max at the top end
Attack bonus	class level, Animal Empathy, Conjuration focus	+20
Armor Class (dodge)	class level, Animal Empathy, Conjuration focus	+12
All saving throws	class level, Animal Empathy, Conjuration focus	+20
All ability scores (drives HP via Con)	class level, Animal Empathy, Conjuration focus	+24

Other Spell Changes

• Summon Creature I–IX — fixed duration of 24 hours; the duration no longer scales with caster level. (The summoned creature's stats still scale with you — see Scaled Summons & Animal Companions above.)

Soul-fatigue on Heal

Healing is a timed resource, not a button you hold. Being healed by Heal or Mass Heal — including from Heal potions and any item that casts it — leaves a stack of soul-fatigue on you. The order of events matters:

1. The heal resolves in full first — you go to 100% HP as normal.
2. You then take 10% of your maximum HP as damage for every stack you were already carrying, applied after the top-off so the heal cannot erase it.
3. One new stack is added.

• Each stack decays on its own independent 3-minute timer. You are told on screen how many stacks you hold and when each one falls off.
• A heal at zero stacks is completely free — full benefit, one stack, no damage. It is chain-healing that turns dangerous.
• The damage is a scripted cost, not an attack: damage resistance, damage reduction and immunities do not reduce it. It can kill you.
• Casting Heal on undead harms them rather than healing them, so it produces no stack and no damage. DMs are unaffected.

Stacks held when the heal lands	HP left immediately after the heal
0	100% — free
1	90%
2	80%
5	50%
9	10%
10 or more	Dead — the hit is 100% of your maximum HP

Doubled Spell & Effect Duration

Every temporary effect you or your companions create lasts twice as long as stock NWN — buffs you cast, potions and scrolls you drink, debuffs you inflict on enemies, and buffs from your henchmen, summons and familiars. Effects that enemies place on you are unchanged.

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Maximum Hit Points on Level-Up

Every character gains maximum hit points on every level-up, server-wide — no hit-die roll, no bad rolls. Your HP per level is always the top of your class hit die plus Constitution. (Set at module load via the administration max hit points play option.)

Maximum Ability Score Bonus from Items

The stock NWN cap on ability score bonuses from items and effects is +12. This server raises it to +24, allowing high-end gear and buffs to reach higher stat totals without hitting an invisible wall. (Set via ruleset.combat.max-ability-bonus in settings.tml.)

No Multiclass XP Penalty

Stock NWN quietly taxes multiclass characters: if your highest and lowest class levels ever differ by more than one, XP you earn is reduced until you level the lagging class back up. This server disables that penalty entirely — every class combination earns full XP, no matter how unevenly your levels are split. With up to 4 classes stackable per character, build experimentation is the point, so there is no XP cost for going wide instead of staying balanced.

Legendary Levels: 41–60

Standard NWN stops at level 40. Once you reach 40 you may continue to level 60 through the Legendary Leveling system — speak to the Legendary Leveler NPC in the Legendary Leveling area (reachable from the Well of Eru). It is built on the Higher Ground Legendary Level System (HGLL).

On each Legendary level you DO gain	On each Legendary level you do NOT gain
Skill points Hit points (from your highest-class hit die) Ability score increases (at standard intervals) One selectable feat per level	Caster level increases (spell power is frozen at 40) New spell slots or spell levels Class progression (no new class features, BAB, or saving-throw gains)

In short, Legendary levels make you tougher and more versatile through raw stats and feats, but do not increase spellcasting power. Stock HGLL charges a steep 1.25x compounding increase in XP per level; this server has reduced that to a 1.1x compounding rate, so the climb to 60 is noticeably gentler than the vanilla add-on. See the Leveling Guide for where to earn XP.

Level	XP Required
41	828,800
44	1,006,600
48	1,338,700
52	1,825,100
56	2,537,700
60	3,581,000

The full level-by-level table (41 through 60) is posted in-game on the Legendary Leveler placeable in the Legendary Leveling area, reachable from the Well of Eru.

Monk Weapons

Three weapons have been reclassified for monks relative to stock NWN:

• Shuriken — counts as a monk weapon; also benefits from Weapon Finesse.
• Quarterstaff — counts as a monk weapon; also benefits from Weapon Finesse.
• Katana — counts as a monk weapon, but still requires Exotic Weapon Proficiency; does not benefit from Weapon Finesse.

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Bleeding Out

When you fall to 0 HP or below you begin bleeding rather than dying instantly. You lose 1 HP every round (6 seconds) and die at −20 HP (twice the vanilla −10 threshold), giving allies a longer window to reach you. Each bleeding round there is a 10% chance to stabilize; once stabilized you begin slowly healing back instead of bleeding. (Expect the usual pained voice-lines while you are down.)

You Cannot Log Out of Death

Logging out and back in does not restore health or spells — and it does not escape death. If you disconnect while dead or bleeding, you are still dead or bleeding when you return; your state is saved across the logout, so there is no relog trick to recover.

Respawn Penalty

Pressing the respawn button returns you to your bind point with:

• 5 HP (not the vanilla 1 HP), then a full effect clear.
• No XP loss — the XP penalty is disabled entirely.
• A 10% gold penalty — that gold is dropped at your place of death in a bag that anyone can loot, so a quick recovery run can get it back.

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