Anphillia Genesis
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| Developed By: | TheMothMan |
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| Gameworld type: | persistent roleplay world |
| Hakpaks: | CEP 2 |
| Overrides: | optional for expanded and new spells/shapes. |
Anphillia Genesis is a popular Anphillia spin-off Neverwinter Nights module.
There are many different versions of the popular module Anphillia.
Anphillia was original created by Vico and Eyesolated. There is currently no official Anphillia on Neverwinter Nights (1 or 2).
But there is a project for Neverwinter Nights 2 which is being driven by a team calling themselves the Anphillia Development Team.
The Anphillia Genesis module stands out in way that it has a strong focus on balance between all classes, skills and feats.
This is achieved by custom scripts and in some cases overrides.
The module is a good versus evil module. That means some classes are limited to one faction.
Unlike hak paks, overrides are not required to log onto the server. Overrides use 2da files to modify the game data. Most 2da's are serverwide - which means they do not require any downloads from the user.
The new and added spells to the various classes have a strong emphasis on being either powerful offensive spells or buff spells. The new and expanded shapes for the shifters are very focused one specific trait, such as hiding or damage resistance against various types of damage.
These balance attempts requires that some of the D&D rules are bend and broken. The emphasis here appears to be on buffing weaker abilities as opposed to nerfing strong ones. Leading to a module with strong characters and very strong NPCs to offer a challange for the PCs.
The PvP presence is high and a big part of this module. But it claims to be a roleplay [module first and foremost.
Customization of the PCs is another big part of Anphillia Genesis. Using a modified version of CEP's own crafting menu, the PC can change appearance and color of any armor, shield, helmet and weapon at no gold cost or dice rolls. Custom functions offer additional changes such as hiding visual effects on your weapons, removing the appearance of your cloak and more of that nature.
As a roleplay module, Anphillia Genesis has much room for DMs to operate in. DMs have many powerful custom functions at their disposal, some of these allow them to change almost anything on a PC or NPC without the use of Leto or other character altering software. Still Anphillia Genesis has DM presence as Optional with the many persistent quests it offers. The creation and maintenance of Anphillia Genesis are both credited to TheMothMan, who seems to be one person and not a team as in most module projects.
As of yet there is no public release of this spin-off module.
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[edit] Current server hostings
Module Name: AnphilliaGenesis
Server Name: MothsAnphillia
Location: Gamespy Roleplay Room.
Uptime: 24/7.
Number of Players: 1-40.
Max Level: Level 40.
Required Expansions: NWN + SoU + HotU.
Required Haks: CEP2.
[edit] Module setup
Anphillia Genesis takes place in the Forgotten Realms universe. It's set on a small island called Anphillia that is the home to three small factions - Axfell, Cleaven and Ranzington. Only two factions are selectable by the player, Axfell and Cleaven.
Axfells have their fort in the northeast side of the island. It houses PC's and NPCs of Evil Alignments.
Cleavens have their fort in the northwest side of the island. It houses PC's and NPCs of Good Alignments.
Ranzington, the third Faction which is not playable by PCs, is located on the south side of Anphillia. They are of a Neutral Alignment.
The island itself is noticeably smaller in size than the original Anphillia but holds many caves and Dungeons to explore. Amongst the playerbase the more infamous Dungeon to explore is Condor's Scream. It holds puzzles, secrets, treasure and Henchmen.
The mobs are strong and plentiful and death by their hands is not uncommon.
Anphillia Genesis has a high difficulty and requires extensive knowledge about the game from the Players side if she or he is to thrive. It offers a challange in PvM even from the first Levels all the way to Epic Levels.
Since Anphillia Genesis takes place a long time after the war begun between the Axfells and the Cleavens, there is little to none curtesy between any of the three Factions. All so often the alarm sounds and one Faction is attacking the other. War is a way of life on Anphillia Genesis.
[edit] Connecting
Anphillia Genesis can be found in the Roleplay room in GameSpy, and the IP address changes often. No password requirements exist for PCs.
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[edit] Criticism
A vast amount of changes to this server are not posted anywhere. Leaving players to build a character under the wrong impressions of how things work.
The Majority of the spells in this mod are changed or nerfed, most notable the cleric class has been made a group only class with 90% of its buffs cast on others only. Making them a poor fighter in solo pvm or pvp with a few heals.
Time Stop has a Cool Down timer and is only Line of sight, Bigby’s has been given a save and its base dc has been lowered in pvp only aswell by lowering the base 10 to 5 in the dc formula in pvp.
True seeing has been replaced with See invisibility and thus hide is completely un counter able skill unless you are the proper class with enough ranks in spot. Also to add to the imbalance Hide in plain sight or known as [Hips] is enabled aswell on this server making it a total bbq.
The most common build on this server is the monk/warrior/rouge build or any variation. If your going to play here make sure you make a monk variation or you will be out classed in pvp 99% of the time, it is suggested monk/rouge to exploit the over powered hide skill aswell.
The 40’s here will kill you at level 15 no problem.
Death system is 200xp per level on death and on a respawn you must take this pent again, at 40th level a single respawn death is 16,000 lost xp people have reported losing 120,000 xp in a single day due to deaths.
The PVM here be ready its scaled to roast you fast some map areas of this mod will require 4-8 max level players to take down going alone you will die to Epic spell Greater ruin spaming npcs, The most common spells cast by npcs,
- 1 Greater dispel magic
- 2 Death spells of any type
- 3 Bigby's
- 4 IGMS
