There are a couple of you that I've worked with on customizing your character, such as making sure the toolset has a certain type of clothing, working with you on your backstory, etc. I want everyone to be aware that this is available to you, too. If there's some aspect of fleshing out your character that needs my help, let me know. I can't promise I can grant every wish, but it can't hurt to ask.

Spoiler Alert!

This has nothing to do with Naeldor, or even Neverwinter Nights, but if you don't want to be surprised about what Wizards of the Coast has cooked up for the Forgotten Realms in the future, read no more. With that warning out of the way, I was reading in a NWN2 module author's blog about some HUGE changes coming to the Forgotten Realms. Maerduin's Blog is reporting that Cyric and Shar murder Mystra (goddess of magic), and then magic bursts its bonds all across Faerun and the surrounding planes and runs wild (the "Spellplague"). "Thousands of mages are driven insane or destroyed, and the very substance of the world becomes mutable beneath veils of azure fire that dance across the skies by night or by day. Many planes are shifted or destroyed as well. Only greater deities prove strong enough to maintain their realms against the resultant chaos. Tyr, Lathander, and Sune move against Cyric and successfully imprison the Black Sun in his Supreme Throne, under a sentence of house arrest to last one thousand years . . P.S. Tyr and Tymora get engaged. For serious. P.P.S. Tyr kills Helm."

As Maerduin's Blog indicates, this is presumably to get ready for 4th Edition D&D, due out in 2008. Not being a journalist, I haven't corroborated this story with other sources, other than to Google it, and see that other sites do indeed reference the Year of Blue Fire, and the Spellplague. Or am I late to the party, and this is common knowledge now?

After playing a single player mod for the first time in ages, and fiddling around with the camera modes, I thought this might be an area where we could help each other out. So, I've put up a poll asking what your preferred camera mode is of the two new modes (strategy or character), and a new thread to discuss it in more detail.

The sign up page for next session is up. If you can't make it, please let us know in the Session Availability section of the forums (Anoikis and smkaiser have already let us know that they can't make it on the 23rd). Also, the session summary from the September 16 session is up, as is the roleplay forum for the upcoming September 23 session. There will be a 100 experience point bonus for participating in the roleplay forum this week.

I'm pleased to report that Bigbluepaw will be making his return as co-DM in today's session.  Bigbluepaw DM'd the Naeldor NWN campaign with me for all but the last few months of its run.  Good times, good times.  His return comes at a good time.  The beta patch added some functionality, but also broke some of the DMFI tools that helped a DM carry on a conversation involving multiple NPCs, and broke the DM's ability to force attack an NPC.  Let's hope that's rectified in 107 final, but with Bigbluepaw's talents, hopefully you won't even notice the current patch problems.  {mos_fb_discuss:14}

I'm pleased to announce that Miz will be joining the campaign.  Welcome.  Miz has a really nice character concept, and should be a good fit.  This should also give us a bit more of a buffer for player absences and the like.  {mos_fb_discuss:14}