Quests with Journal

Using the journal is enormously easy in NWN2, compared to NWN1. Using the Journal allows you to set up a quest, with steps, each step marked so Player Characters can progress through it, and then not repeat it (at least, until the server resets. For doing so for Persistent Worlds, please see the links at the end of this article.)

Advantages:

• Easier/faster to use once you get it,
• Enormously easier to debug
• More fun for players - they get a perhaps not VERY helpful, but helpful reminder of what they need to do next.
• It automates some things
• It creates no new scripts for each quest

It is much more fun than setting variables for quests via custom-build gc_ and ga_ scripts for each quest, once you wrap your head around it.