I have some portal questions.[LIST=1]I was going to ask if the destinations of housing portals are IC or just convenient, but the Portalling page settled that. IC it is.How do characters determine where they go in a portal with multiple destinations? Does the portal read minds, or do characters say the name of their destination, or make a hand sign, or offer a slip of paper with the name, or interact with a floating text box (hehe)?Can any regular Joe determine where a portal goes by looking at it or thinking about it, without having to enter it? Can any caster? Only Wizards? Can anyone at all? (I know players can tell by clicking on it, but I'm asking about characters.)
There is no reason sorcerers should not have the same access to conjuration as wizards. All schools have complicated extremes and sorcery is simply a different approach. If wizards are supposed to be higher orders of the art instead of just learned vs innate then that is grossly and wrongly represented in the world thus far. I have always felt that both tomes and branches should be converted to spells accessible at the appropriate levels with the appropriate restrictions, and still think that kind of casual statement ("Sorcerers in Layo don't really have access to teleportation, and portals are a form of that") is very limiting as it applies not only to the "balancing" of mechanics but GM moderated attempts as well.It also seems strange that the greatest gift of conjuration was gifted to a sorcerer who should by all explained have no ability to access it and no reason to have it run in the blood, no?Just because it has been offered as a potential reason for supposed balance before doesn't mean it is the only answer or that it has to be a certain way.
there may also be some...rune or somesuch that appears on the floor and allows the user to select the destination, say by tapping it with one's toe.
NWN has no intrinsic support for the Teleport or Dimension Door spells, for the simple reason that the developers of NWN could not figure a way to make the spells work without the danger of bypassing essential triggers that keep the OC moving along as it should. Clearly, there's scripting support for it, but in terms of a spell available to Wizards and Sorcerers, it doesn't exist.
i have seen these spells inplemented in other NWN servers..well teleport at any case..