Preview Undrentide class info on Harper at official site

[Saint_Proverbius]

Tags: Neverwinter Nights: Shadows of Undrentide

The <a href="http://nwn.bioware.com/shadows/">official Shadows of Undrentide site</a> has updated with word on the <a href="http://nwn.bioware.com/shadows/prestige_harper.html">Harper prestige class</a>, uncluding starting feats, special abilities, and this explanation:
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<blockquote>Harpers are members of a secret society dedicated to holding back evil, preserving knowledge, and maintaining the balance between civilization and the wild. Harpers learn arcane spells and many skills to help them in their duties of espionage, stealth and reporting information. Many Harpers are bards, but by no means all. Ranger, rogue, sorcerer and wizard are common vocations for Harpers, as these classes tend to have versatility and mobility. All have some skill at manipulating others, a resistance to outside mental influences, acute abilities of perception, and a talent for solving problems.
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Not all Harpers are members of the Harper prestige class, and rank within the organization does not depend upon a character?s level in this or any other class. However, most of the higher-ranked Harpers have at least one level in the Harper prestige class.</blockquote>
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<i>Fighting evil, promoting culture, and preserving knowledge</i>.. No one likes an overachiever!
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Spotted this at <a href="http://rpgvault.ign.com">RPG Vault</a>.
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[Spazmo]

Wow! Cool top-secret information that's been availible for reading in the Forgotten Realms 3E Campaign Setting for over a year now! Thanks BioWare!

And Saint, the Harpers pwn j00.

 

[Jed]

Wow! Cool top-secret information that's been availible for reading in the Forgotten Realms 3E Campaign Setting for over a year now! Thanks BioWare!

Reading books? Why, that's as outdated as 2D or turn-based combat...

J

 

[Psilon]

On the other hand, reading a scorched fragment of some corpse's journal is, like, so much better than actually figuring out the puzzle yourself! I mean, totally! Of course the previous owner didn't make it out alive--he couldn't read his own handwriting!

Personally, I think BioWare should use the "corpse memoir" approach for even their official strategy guides. Keep the foolishness of little minds consistent, even if hobgoblins are going to wait for XP2.

 

[Spazmo]

Personally, I think BioWare should use the "corpse memoir" approach for even their official strategy guides.

You mean we should kill BioWare employees and steal the strategy guides from them? Works for me!

 

[Saint_Proverbius]

On the other hand, reading a scorched fragment of some corpse's journal is, like, so much better than actually figuring out the puzzle yourself! I mean, totally! Of course the previous owner didn't make it out alive--he couldn't read his own handwriting!

I have to agree that this is one of the funniest examples of a designer lacking the ability to obviously think things through to totality. It's also right up there with the first and second chapter of NeverWinter Nights where they send some level 3 nobody to recover the missing monster bits needed for the cure and search for the evil cult when they have a perfectly good ultra high level paladin just sitting around doing nothing.

I often find it amusing when people call those games "immersive" when they have such silly things that should make anyone with a lick of sense say, "Uh? What? That's just ludicrious."