Player Resource Consortium's PRC Lite

I was always interested in new classes, feats, spells and mechanics. PRC was like a godsend to me. But it came with lot of issues too.

I used PRC in my early days of building in NWN. Those were great times, but we suffered from PRC issues and limitations and balance problems a lot.

And the more time passed the more bloated PRC become. Balance was nowhere to be found and the whole package was unusable for serious Persistent Worlds.

Ever since then I was using parts of PRC I liked with my own scripting. Recently I started over using newest features and technologies from Community Patch 1.72 and mainly nwnx_patch/nwncx_patch plugin.

WARNING! This Package requires Community Patch 1.72 (latest version) and NWNX_Patch or NWNCX_Patch plugin (latest version). Download here.

Without Community Patch 1.72, some of the Archmage feats won't work.

Without NWNX_Patch or NWNCX_Patch, you will be unable to comply minimum spell level prerequisite of new prestige classes.

While this can be easily modified to work without NWNX_Patch, this project is supposed to use the newest technologies that nwnx_patch provides and even that these technologies aren't required for the classes included, they would be essential in future thus running without NWNX_Patch is not recommended. Feel free to make NWNX-free and CPP-free version if you want - I am not going to do it.

Also, without NWNX_Patch or NWNCX_Patch, the smite good feat of Champion of Bane will not count properly.

Current version 2.8, classes included:

Favored Soul
Warlock

Acolyte of the Skin
Arcane Trickster
Archmage
Black Flame Zealot
Duelist
Eldritch Knight
Elemental Savant
Frenzied Berserker
Harper Mage
Champion of Bane
Mystic Theurge
Loremaster
Red Avenger
Red Wizard of Thay
Sacred Fist
Shining Blade of Heironeous
Stormlord
Tempest

IMPLEMENTATION NOTES:

This is not mere copy of PRC. Almost all scripts has been recoded from scratch. Therefore the whole project is easier to incorporate or take stuff from. This project is designed to use with NWNX/NWNCX + nwnx_patch/nwncx_patch and therefore doesn't aim to work properly without it. Almost nothing will work if used without NWNX/NWNCX and it is not in my plan to make it work - as that would mostly require ugly workarounds, workarounds because of which I stopped using PRC and started this project.

Also, lot of stuff works differently than in original PRC. Often because PRC had to use workarounds, but also because PRC choosed 3.0 version of the class when there is 3.5 version existing or they implemented their own custom feats/bonuses because they didn't have tools or knowhow or just better idea how to code what the feat should really do.

Significant changes in content over original PRC:

Elemental Savant - single class (not 8 versions), player chooses elemental type on first level. Feat progression changed, Stun immunity is no longer granted (pre 10 anyway). The class now works as closely to the description from Complete Arcane 3.5 DnD. Class gains additional abilities and bonuses at epic levels too.

Tempest - only 5 levels class now, doesn't provide more offhand attacks anymore (that now grants general feats instead).

Archmage - unlike original PRC, the Spell Shaping doesn't show visual effect of spell mantle on protected targets. Also Spell-Like ability works differently than in original PRC (I think).

Arcane Trickster - the Ranged Legermain feat no longer disable trap+picks locks at once. Now only one of the two will be handled. Ability is also not instant anymore and will require longer casting. The ability will also not disarm trap with DC higher than 35 without levels in Rogue class. Also, the range of feat is higher than it should be a bit as a compensation.

Harper Mage - feat list changed significantly, added brand new feat that allows to extend duration of next spell cast.

Warlock - uses vanilla spellbook GUI for learning spells and casting spells. Smaller invocation repertoaire than in original PRC, less feats too, unability to exchange invocations, inability to learn additional invocations. Lord of All Essences is passive feat.

COMPATIBILITY NOTES:

This project is not compatible with NWN:Enhanced Edition! NWN:EE doesn't support NWNCX. This project also won't work on linux server since nwnx_patch plugin for linux doesn't offer required features.

It is also not compatible or rather interchangable with original PRC. Moving from module with PRC-lite into module with original PRC (and vice-versa) will result in class and feat exchanges or loss of the class/feats completely.

This project will also negatively affect any module that uses custom classes and feats or that uses custom TLK file. If installed into such module, PRC-lite will overwrite it. Any custom classes that might have been in module originally won't be available after installing PRC-lite and in case of module using TLK file, some texts in module might be mission completely.

Not compatible with Project Q (because Q is not compatible with CEP I had to choose one and the CEP has much broader use so CEP it is).

And now the good news:

This project will work in every module just by adding hak/tlk into it - no additional steps needed. It might disable some of the original module stuff, but it will always work provided NWNCX or NWNX is used to launch game/server.

It will work in all official campaigns without any issue.

Compatible with CEP (all versions).

This project should work properly with custom spellhook scripts such as antimagic areas etc.

This project should work properly with characters that have extra properties on PC Skin and with modules that implements such systems like subraces, templates etc.

The project should work properly with custom forges and similar systems which adds itemproperties on equipments.

This project should work properly with other nwnx plugins used.

HISTORY:

UPDATE version 2.4-2.8:

+ Loremaster, Duelist, Frenzied Berserker, Red Wizard of Thay prestige classes
+ epic progression for Black Flame Zealot class
+ Lingering Damage, Two-Weapon Rend, Epic Resilience epic general feats
- lot of fixes and improvements

UPDATE version 2.1-2.4:

+ Warlock base class
+ Favored Soul base class
- lot of fixes and improvements

UPDATE version 2.0-2.0a:

- bugfixes
- compatible with CEP

UPDATE version 1.7-9:

- bugfixes

UPDATE version 1.6:

- added new classes: Acolyte of the Skin, Red Avenger, Shining Blade of Heironeous
- fixed feat uses calculation after relogging
- fixed feedback message when casting Sacred Flames or Inner Armor
- Sacred Fist unarmed damage will now calculate with bonus from Shou Disciple too

UPDATE version 1.5:

+ Sacred Fist
- corrected several description grammar/typo issues
- corected Epic Mystic Theurge description to match with actual implementation: bonus feats ever 6 levels after 10, spellcasting progres rotates odd-arcane, even-divine
- added additional requirement to the elemental savant class: any 2 metamagic feats
- debugging messages turned off by default
- added option to turn debugging off/on by typing "PRCDEBUG" into chat
- added missing support for epic divine might/shield
- casting prestige classes can now select epic spells in epic bonus feat selection
- added +5DC penalty to the Arcane Tricker's Ranged Legerdemain (as per DnD 3.5)
- improptu sneak attack will no longer works with ranged weapons used from longer distance than 15m
- improptu sneak attack will no longer works on sneak/critical immune creatures
- racial type change from elemental savant class will now work properly

UPDATE version 1.4:

+ Arcane Trickster
+ Black Flame Zealot
+ Elemental Savant
+ Stormlord
+ Tempest

UPDATE version 1.2-3:

- fixed archmage abilities after casting stored spell-like ability

UPDATE version 1.1:

- fixed spellcasting prerequisities
- spellcasting prerequisities should also properly calculate arcane/divine spellcasting level combined with any prestige class improving arcane/divine progression
- fixed archmage feats not working
- fixed Spell Power I-V feat description