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The Elven Pantheon [/cs][/size][/color] Aerdrie Faenya (The Winged Mother, Lady of Air and Wind, Queen of the Avariel, She of the Azure Plumage, Bringer of Rain and Storms) Alignment: Chaotic Good Portfolio: Air, Weather, Avians, Rain, Fertility, Avariels Domains: Air, Animal, Chaos, Elf, Good, Ren...

The Dwarven Pantheon [/cs][/size][/color] Abbathor (Great Master of Greed, Trove Lord, Wyrm of Avarice) Alignment: Neutral Evil Portfolio: Greed Domains: Dwarf, Evil, Hatred, Luck, Trade, Trickery Berronar Truesilver (The Revered Mother, Mother of Safety) Alignment: Lawful Good Portfolio: Safety, H...

The Drow Pantheon [/cs][/size][/color] Eilistraee (The Dark Maiden, Lady of the Dance) Alignment: Chaotic Good Portfolio: Song, Beauty, Dance, Swordwork, Hunting, Moonlight Domains: Chaos, Charm, Drow, Good, Moon, Portal Ghaunadaur (That Which Lurks, The Elder Eye, The Ancient One) Alignment: Chaot...

The Dragon Pantheon [/cs][/size][/color] Aasterinian (Messenger of Io) Alignment: Chaotic Neutral Portfolio: Learning, Invention, Pleasure Domains: Chaos, Dragon, Illusion, Luck, Travel, Trickery Astilabor (The Acquisitor, Hoardmistress) Alignment: True Neutral Portfolio: Acquisitiveness, Status, W...

This topic contains a fairly thorough list of Forgotten Realms deities, as well as additional information on some popular subjects. You may worship any of the deities listed here if suitable to your character, even if they are not featured in the Amia Deity System. Deities from outside this list may...

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This is the current In Game year for the Amia campaign setting: 1392 DR (2024) ------------------------------------ Amia-Specific Year Names: 1388 DR - The Year of Desolation 1389 DR - The Year of Rebirth 1390 DR - The Year of Tumult 1391 DR - The Year of Schism 1392 DR - Undecided ----------------...

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Underdark Drow House Insignias [/cs][/size][/color] Underdark-Only Drow House Insignia Powers List Established/Recognized Underdark drow House factions may request a Drow House Insignia for their faction item. Drow House Insignias may have one power from each of the 3 groups below (uses per day and...

Faction Forum Moderation [/cs][/size][/color] Moderating your Forum What's a Moderator? A moderator helps maintain the threads in your faction forum. He/she has no control over who is added to your group, who's deleted, or the faction’s preferences. What the moderator can do is merge topics, delete...

Faction Settings & Controls [/cs][/size][/color] How to control your faction [/b] First, UCP. UCP, otherwise known as the User Control Panel, is your place of call to moderate the groups your leader of. To access this page in the UCP, you must click the left menu link known as "Usergroups&...

New Faction Proposals [/cs][/size][/color] You can submit proposals in the Faction Proposals sub-forum in the Requests section of our forums, or you can copy the form that populates there and send it to a DM instead, if you would rather your proposal is kept private. These proposals will determine ...

Factions Leaders [/cs][/size][/color] There are certain rules and expectations that leaders of recognized factions face. Whether a faction is "recognized" is determined by the Staff after a request is submitted. You can see these guidelines here. The leader of the group must be a frequent...

Factions: General [/cs][/size][/color] Creation: Starting a faction does not require DM permission. At the most basic level, a faction is a group of characters interacting with each other for some common goal. You must ask DMs if you want NPCs to acknowledge or interact with your faction, however. ...

On Amia, players can freely start IC factions for their characters, whatever their goal may be. This thread includes vital information and rules regarding player factions. Factions: General Faction Leaders New Faction Proposals Faction Settings & Controls Faction Moderation Underdark Drow House ...

Out of Game Harassment & Harassment via Unofficial Channels [/cs][/size][/color] The staff reserves the right to enforce our rules with players who harass others players using third party platforms, channels, and mediums (such as Skype, Discord, E-mail, unofficial but Amia-related forums, etc.)...

Vampire Player Characters [/cs][/size][/color] Contract agreement for how Vampires as Player Characters shall be handled within the Amia PW world setting: NOTE: As any special undead character, Vampires require a request for approval to play. Vampire PCs are considered an Amia-custom Greater Vampir...

Racial Gates & Blanket Bans [/cs][/size][/color] You will find that some settlements of the server, such as The Dale, have banishment listings that are not supported by our racial lock system. This is intended, as there are some things that guards cannot magically know about your character. If ...

Pickpocket [/cs][/size][/color] The Bioware built-in pickpocket system has a couple of serious flaws, which make it impractical for use in a multiplayer system. Players can lift containers full of things from other players. Players can steal a 50-pound full plate armor off someone. Players can lift...

Resurrecting the Dead [/cs][/size][/color] When a person dies, he goes to the Fugue Plane to await being picked up by servants of his patron deity. On the material plane, the body does what bodies do: it becomes stiff, cold, and eventually it decomposes. However, the gods' power can be called upon ...

Greater Sanctuary [/cs][/size][/color] The default description of Greater Sanctuary clashes with how it actually works in-game, which often confuses the roleplay surrounding Greater Sanctuary users. So please ignore the description entirely. On Amia the spell is considered, for RP purposes, to be a...

Subdual [/cs][/size][/color] When someone uses Subdual , they are generally considered to be using non-lethal force to subdue the opponent, as in blows with the pommel of the sword, the fists, the elbows, etc. When you are subdued you are unconscious and on the ground on the brink of death. The per...

Earning XP and Gold [/cs][/size][/color] You can travel the lands and do battle with many different creatures to earn experience and gold, as well as obtain these as bonuses from the DMs for your roleplay. Searching monster's corpses will sometimes reveal an item that can be used or sold for additi...

This topic clarifies the rules and meaning of some game mechanics.

Palemaster IC Consequences [/cs][/size][/color] A Palemaster with more than 10 levels has altered and bent their body to an extent that makes it irreversible. It is a wilful action and decision that the PC has made. Up until level 10 of Pale Master, it can still be changed/removed with a lot of eff...

Dragon Disciple Alignments & Removal [/cs][/size][/color] Dragon Disciple Alignments For characters with 1-10 levels of Dragon Disciple, you may be 1 step out of alignment in any direction - based on the alignment of your ancestor dragon type. If you go past level 10 Dragon Disciple (11-20) thi...

IC Settlement Bans/Imprisonment [/cs][/size][/color] IC Settlement Ban Rules Active guard (and similar) PCs in a city or PCs which share a leading role with NPCs can issue a temporary ban from a city without any DM assistance for a maximum period of 30 RL days. If such ban is issued, the player nee...

Advertising Other Servers [/cs][/size][/color] Do not advertise other NWN Servers on our forums. It is not appropriate and can be considered "fishing" for our players. At the same time, do not flame or needlessly "bash" other NWN servers on our forums. We are here to play Amia, ...

Wings & Cloaks [/cs][/size][/color] The DM staff has decided that characters with wings cannot hide them under cloaks. Wings which are large enough to carry the weight of a humanoid sized creature are by far too large to be hidden under a tiny sheet of cloth like a cloak. They will always stick...

OOC Item Restrictions [/cs][/size][/color] There are a few items in-game with a description that states 'OOC Restriction: can only be used by x'. You may safely ignore these except for Arcane Archer arrows; the rest are outdated descriptions. This does apply to deity rings also. If you have enough ...

PnP Spells & Abilities [/cs][/size][/color] Pen-and-paper (PnP) spells may be used so long as your character would have actual reason to know that spell and the people involved agree to the use of that spell. A DM may also approve use of a PnP spell, and may approve such use regardless of permi...

Homebrew Rules [/cs][/size][/color] Here on Amia, we wish to hold our setting to a high standard to reflect our stance as a roleplay-focused, lore-accurate server. To that end, any Homebrew lore created by players has to be vetted by the DM team to ensure the lore does not conflict with any pre-exi...

IC Spell Visual Effects [/cs][/size][/color] The visual effect results of spells are visible to other PC's and fall under a general WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) rule on Amia. For example, a spell that causes leaves to whirl around a PC or the stone VFX from Stoneskin actually makes the pl...

Alt Characters [/cs][/size][/color] What is an Alt Character? Usually simply referred to as an Alt , these are any number of characters that a player has in their vault and actively plays. Rules: The DM team understands the allure of playing multiple characters that may or may not cross paths from ...

This thread is for clarification on either the more complex or less common rules and guidelines for occurrences within Amia. If you feel that something is missing, feel free to inquire here and the DM team will see if it needs to be added to the list. Alt Characters IC Spell Visual Effects Homebrew ...

A thread for general questions that probably don't need their own topic.

Drow Powers [/cs][/size][/color] Players of all drow characters (noble, commoner, UD, or Surface drow) may obtain items for those characters which emulate drow racial spell-like abilities. Faerie Fire, Dancing Lights, and Darkness are given at character creation now, no formal request is needed. Le...

Drow Nobility Status [/cs][/size][/color] Unless requested otherwise, your Drow PC is automatically considered of Noble Standing. A noble of any other race requires a request. This means that in a Drow-dominated area such as Nec'Perya and some parts of L'Obsul: Drow NPCs will bow to your PC where a...

Drow Slaves [/cs][/size][/color] If you wish to play a drow slave, PM a DM with your slave character's name and other vital information. Because drow slaves may be played by minors, this is a general reminder about our rules on torture and sexual RP . These rules apply both to characters created as...

Naming Your Character [/cs][/size][/color] Amia is a roleplay server, and roleplay depends on a good atmosphere. For this reason, we present a few rules and guidelines for making a good/proper character name. As a rule of the thumb a name should be a name: not a title, a description, a random noun ...

Available and Restricted Characters and Races [/cs][/size][/color] To keep the game world sensible, we restrict the backgrounds and race of Player Characters to an extent. This means if you wish to play something outside the liberal Amian norm, you must send a request to the DMs first. This include...

This topic contains rules you must know regarding character creation.

Forum Features [/color][/cs][/size] Hi, guys! Some of you may have noticed that we have a lot of the same features here that we did on the old forum. The custom BBCode is much the same, since I was able to carry them over. That saves time in copying old topics - which I'm in the process of doing no...

Portrait Pack This is a collection of custom portraits that are made by the players of Amia, for the characters of Amia. Most of these are images taken from other sources on the internet and cropped or edited slightly to fit their characters, so it is entirely possible you may come across an image ...

What is a Guest Story Teller? A Guest Story Teller is a member of the Amia community who is not a DM, but who is able to log in, supervised, to the DM client for the purpose of telling an independent story in the span of 1 to 3 isolated events. - Anyone with an idea for a story/plotline can apply t...

The General Discussion Forum [/cs][/size][/color] This is an OOC forum, for any and all subjects related to DnD, NwN or Amia. Please be polite and courteous in your posts. Please don't refer to specific incidents in-game if you experienced something unpleasant. You can still discuss the type of pro...

Welcome! We have an Official discord server which is run by the DM Team. Because it's an official server which we aim to make an official discord community server, the rules there mirror the rules on the forums. We ask that you read the rules and guidelines and adhere to them, but overall it is a ve...

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I have since adjusted that, but I guess it's not retroactive!

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