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.
/revealself	Steps out of hiding for one character only. Your cursor changes; click the character you want to notice you, and they see you from that moment on while everyone else is still none the wiser. You stay in stealth, so the rest of the area has to find you the usual way.
/search /frisk	Asks another player to let you look through their belongings. Your cursor changes; click someone close enough to lay hands on, and they are asked whether to allow it. If they agree, you see their inventory for a short while, without being able to take anything, and the view closes if either of you walks away. Someone Subdued or Unconscious cannot answer, so their belongings open at once. Items hidden with /hideitem may slip past you.
/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 and Belongings

Command	What it does
/rename NAME /name NAME	Names something of yours. Your cursor changes; click an ally, a bag, a Spellbook, a piece of Powered gear, or a placeable you have set down, and it takes NAME. Leave NAME out - just /rename - to restore the original name instead. The Options window can also 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.
/icon	Changes the inventory icon of a piece of Powered gear. Your cursor changes; click a Powered ring, amulet, belt, pair of bracers, gloves, or boots in your inventory, and pick a new icon from the grid that opens. Boots have a tab for each part. Take the item off first - it cannot be changed while you are wearing it.
/hideitem /smuggle	Hides an item from other players' /search. Your cursor changes; click an item in your inventory. Click one that is already hidden to stop hiding it. A searcher rolls their Investigation against your Deception for each hidden item, and sees it only if they come out ahead.

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.
/scarreport	Reopens the report from the last Scar you completed. It is kept until you log out.

Windows and Interface

Command	What it does
/help	Opens the Chat Commands window, which lists every command on this page by category with a description of each. Its Run button carries out the chosen command for you, with a box for any words the command needs.
/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.
/autolevelskillpriority SKILL NUMBER /autolevelskillpri SKILL NUMBER	Gives a skill a priority, so automatic levelling spends points on it ahead of lower-priority skills instead of working alphabetically. Priority 1 is served first, 2 second, and so on; skills sharing a priority are served alphabetically between themselves, and skills with no priority come last. A skill with a priority is raised even if you have never put a rank in it. Set the number to 0 to remove a priority. /autolevelskillpriority list shows the priorities you have set, in order, and /autolevelskillpriority 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.

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.

Account

Command	What it does
/wellkeeper	Opens a window for entering your 6-digit one-time code, linking your Wellkeeper account to the CD key you are playing on.