Bard Arcane spell Failure. What the hell?!

[Toothygrin]

OK so I've been playing neverwinter nights for years. I had a copy of the physical game when it came out. I got diamond edition on GOG and I now have purchased this so I'm wondering what the deal is because I thought that NWN was 3.5 in ruleset. I've also played D&D for about 16 years so I know what I'm talking about and I know what spell failure is and how it works and what it does and why. Now, I normally play melee characters I have never really played a caster in NWN that wasn't a Divine caster so spell failure wasn't an issue. But I thought for fun I'd play a bard. And here I am thinking Oh bards don't get arcane spell failure if they are wearing light armor. AT LEAST THAT'S HOW IT'S SUPPOSE TO BE! I get 5 lvls in I'm wearing studded leather and no I don't have a shield I know that still counts. and my spells are failing from wearing armor. If this is because NWN uses the 3.0 ruleset I can live with that but if that was just left out of the game because the devs didn't know it was there I'd like to know if there is a mod out there to fix this because I should be able to walk around wearing a mythril chain shirt and force people to dance with pure Joy.

[Flying Fox]

Yes NVN uses 3.0 ruleset. Only NVN2 uses the 3.5 ruleset
3.0 is way harder than 3.5 and is way less forgiving..
I know there have been mods that put it into 3.5 yet with bigger problems in a lot of other areas (only recommended if multiplayer)

[jimbobslimbob]

Originally posted by Toothygrin:

OK so I've been playing neverwinter nights for years. I had a copy of the physical game when it came out. I got diamond edition on GOG and I now have purchased this so I'm wondering what the deal is because I thought that NWN was 3.5 in ruleset. I've also played D&D for about 16 years so I know what I'm talking about and I know what spell failure is and how it works and what it does and why. Now, I normally play melee characters I have never really played a caster in NWN that wasn't a Divine caster so spell failure wasn't an issue. But I thought for fun I'd play a bard. And here I am thinking Oh bards don't get arcane spell failure if they are wearing light armor. AT LEAST THAT'S HOW IT'S SUPPOSE TO BE! I get 5 lvls in I'm wearing studded leather and no I don't have a shield I know that still counts. and my spells are failing from wearing armor. If this is because NWN uses the 3.0 ruleset I can live with that but if that was just left out of the game because the devs didn't know it was there I'd like to know if there is a mod out there to fix this because I should be able to walk around wearing a mythril chain shirt and force people to dance with pure Joy.

Another reason why Bard's are so much better in NWN 2.

As Flying Fox says, NWN 1 is 3e, not 3.5 - and unfortunately for Bards - they get Arcane Spell Failure in armour.

http://nwn.wikia.com/wiki/Bard