Lou, check out these areas

[slit518]

nwvault.ign.com/View.php?view=NWN2PrefabAreas.Detail&id=290

I don't know if you use prefabs or not, but check out those areas. Maybe they can be used in future updates, all you would have to do is create quests and mobs.

[Loudent2]

Thanks for the heads up, I'll take a look.

To be honest though, I've not had great luck with pre-fabs. The problem is that a lot of them don't take proper steps to make the areas suitable for MP, so I usually have to go through and convert placeables to environment objects, trim the walkmesh, remove tree types and consolodate seeds.

Also, I like wide, expansive exteriors and many of them are rather small (good only for an encounter or two)

And balanced creature creation is half the problem. I think I've done a pretty good job of maintaining difficulty progression in the world (admitedly a few soft spots) but it's a painstaking process to do that.

I'm pretty fair at area layouts, I just suck and the detailed placeable placement. (usually interiors go in bare and I add stuff later).

I'm not sure if I've checked out that prefab before or not so I'll download and see what I can use.

[nicethugbert]

L3DT + YATT is your friend, when YATT gets around to updating it's version to match the toolset's.