The Fate of Tyrlon and other Dubious Things

Early on when working on the module I realized I would need to learn a lot more about the NWN 2 scripting engine and module development in general.  I have no prior experience working with the NWN toolset (I did not work on any NWN 1 modules).  I am, however, a programmer by degree and training so much of what is going on is familiar, even if the syntax is a bit different than the C#/Java/VB that I am used to.

One thing that was vexing me however was a silly little script called ga_give_item that you usually use during a conversation’s action tab to give an item to the player.  I could not figure out for the life of me why I couldn’t give the player a Scroll I had created!

Well, it turns out, that ga_give_ITEM (emphasis mine) actually means that you can only give uhmm…ITEMS!  As the user Sir Elric on the NWN 2 Builders forums pointed out: You can’t go around putting placeables in the user’s inventory..Is that a table in your pocket or are you happy to see me?

After creating an actual item the script did indeed work as advertised although I still need to tweak my conversation to make it work more consistently for me.

So, to make a really long story short, I’m apparently rather illiterate and don’t understand the difference between an “item” and a “placeable”

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