Chat Commands and Roleplay Systems

Chat Commands

Examples of in-game text.

Standard Conversations and Text Emotes

The chat system will automatically punctuate sentences and place spoken words into quotations. In these examples, we will assume the character you are playing is named "Yasia"

/talk i am talking normally

Outputs:

"I am talking normally."

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Asterisks (*) between words indicates an action your character is emoting.

*waves to you*

Outputs:

Yasia waves to you.

Capitalizing the first letter in the emote removes the character's name from the emote.

*Waves to you*

Outputs:

Waves to you.

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These can be combined into a single message:

/talk i am talking normally *waves to you* here I am

Outputs:

"I am talking normally." Yasia waves to you. "Here I am."

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Spoken words your characters can hear from a distance are indicated by grey text - this text becomes lighter depending on how far away the character who spoke it is.

Bohemond Ventris: "I can't find Yasia anywhere..."

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The shout channel can be utilized to make your character heard from a greater distance in the same area. Shouts are not registered server wide like default NWN behavior.

/shout i am now shouting

Outputs:

[Shout] "I am now shouting."

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Changing How Your Chat Is Written

Clicking the compass opens the Options window. Its Chat tab controls everything the formatter does to your typed lines, and your choices are saved to your character.

My chat is written like picks the style you type in. All four produce the same output - they only change which part of the line you mark off:

Style	You type
Asterisks (the default)	*waves* Hello!
Colons	:waves: Hello!
Brackets	[waves] Hello!
Quotation marks	Yasia waves. "Hello!"

The first three mark off the action and speak everything else. The last one inverts that: you mark off what you say, and everything outside the quotation marks is narrated as an action.

Automatically add has a checkbox for each tidy-up the system performs, so you can switch off any you would rather do yourself:

• Missing Names and Pronouns
• Missing Punctuation
• Missing Capitalisation
• Missing Quotation Marks

Colour My Actions controls whether your emotes are rendered in green.

OOC Communication

Out of character information can be communicated by preceding the text with "//" or "/ooc".

Animated Emotes

By inputting a "/" followed by a emote, your character will perform the appropriate animation in the game world. The following emotes are available:

/bow /duck /dodge /drink /wave /lookleft /lookright /bored /scratch /read /salute /steal /taunt /victory1 /victory2 /victory3 /conjure1 /conjure2 /proneback /pronefront /getlow /getmid /nod /lookfar /pray /stand /sit /spasm /rage /laugh /talk /plead /worship /headache /cross /beckon /crouch /point /think /sleep /sexydance

You can chain these animations with regular chat using the systems above. For example, you could input "/wave hello" and Yasia's model would wave and say "Hello." in the chat window.

Every emote above is shorthand for /emote NAME, which can be abbreviated to /e NAME. /e wave hello and /wave hello are the same thing.

System Commands

The following commands are available for use at your discretion. Where a command has shorter forms, they are listed beside it and do exactly the same thing.

Several commands can be issued on one line by separating them with a vertical bar, for example /wave hello | /roll d20.

Roleplay

Command	What it does
/roll ROLL /r ROLL	Makes a public roll that everyone nearby can read. ROLL is either dice - /roll d20, /roll 4d6, up to 100 dice of up to 100 sides - or the name of an ability, a saving throw, or a skill, which rolls d20 and adds your bonus. Names can be shortened as long as they stay unambiguous: /roll str, /roll will, /roll athletics.
/mark TEXT /m TEXT	Leaves a written note on the ground. Your cursor changes; click a spot, and your character walks over, kneels, and leaves the note there for anyone to examine. Notes persist.
/commend /com	Awards another player a commendation for their roleplay. Your cursor changes; click the character you want to commend. They are told that they have received one, and what their new total is. You cannot commend yourself.
/desc TEXT	Replaces your character's description - the text other players read when they examine you.

Appearance

Command	What it does
/hide cloak	Toggles your cloak model between hidden and visible.
/hide helm	Toggles your helmet model between hidden and visible.
/portrait NAME	Queues a custom portrait. You will not see it immediately - it is added to the NWSync data with the next server update and applied the first time you log in afterwards.

The cloak and helmet settings are also on the Appearance tab of the Options window, and the two stay in step with each other.

Allies

Command	What it does
/rename TYPE NAME /name TYPE NAME	Renames your summoned creature, companion, or familiar. TYPE is summon, companion, or familiar, each of which can be shortened - /name com Jerry names your animal companion Jerry. The ally has to be out for this to work, because the name is stored against that creature. The Options window can rename any ally you have ever had out, at any time.
/yank	Teleports every NPC ally you have in the area to where you are standing. Useful when a companion is stuck behind geometry or has fallen a long way behind.

Information

Command	What it does
/time	Reports the current in-game time and date.
/timers /buffs	Reports the remaining time of any Combat Time effects present on you and your associates, along with your remaining Metamagic duration charges.
/vitality	Reports your current Vitality, your Vitality cap, and the percentage between them.
/dr	Lists every Damage Resistance effect on you and your associates as Threshold/Absorption Type (Name), and opens a tracker window showing the same.
/ret	Lists every Retaliation effect on you and your associates, with its damage limit and the damage it deals.

Windows and Interface

Command	What it does
/quickcast /qc, /qcast	Opens the Quickcast bar, the spell interface that sits outside the standard hotbar. Spellcasters only.
/atmenu	Opens the ability menu for your archetype, for those archetypes that have one - Spellsword, Evoker, Eldritch Knight, Storyteller, Lorekeeper, Warpriest, and Ascendant.
/skillfree	Opens the widget tracking your free skill uses.
/lockgui	Locks the Grit and effects tracker widgets in place. A locked window loses its title bar and can no longer be dragged.
/unlockgui	Unlocks those widgets again so they can be moved.
/resetstabilitybar	Returns the Stability bar to its default position. Use this if you have dragged it off-screen.
/guireset	Returns the Evoker window to its default position.

Skills and Levelling

Command	What it does
/autolevelskills	Toggles automatic skill point spending on level-up on and off. It tells you which state you have just switched to.
/autolevelskillcap SKILL NUMBER	Stops automatic levelling from raising a skill past NUMBER ranks, up to a maximum of 10. /autolevelskillcap list shows the caps you have set, and /autolevelskillcap clear removes all of them.

Utility

Command	What it does
/attack /atk	Attacks the nearest hostile creature. Useful if you have the invisible model bug.
/unstuck /unstick	Moves you to the nearest safe spot. Use it when you are wedged in scenery.
/save	Saves your character to the server immediately, rather than waiting for the next automatic save.
/suicide /respawn	Kills your character so you can go through the respawn process. There is no confirmation prompt.

Comfort

Command	What it does
/nospiders	Toggles arachnophobia mode. While it is on, every spider model is displayed to you as a badger. The setting is saved to your character, but a change only takes effect the next time an area loads.