No, NWN2 doesn't have that flaw. It just gives XP to your main character and everybody levels when you levels. I've always reached lvl 20 before the last battle in the OC and lvl 30 before the last battle in MotB.

Yes exactly; The original two expansions gave you access to your companions equipment. But the original story didn't; it just assumed each companion would update according to their class at regular intervals. Every time I tried to use Tomi he quickly became a hindrance because he effectively was not really progressing. He got more HP each level and other level-based improvements but most of is gear didn't keep up because of the armor/dexterity problem. By the time I got to the first real boss battle with Desther the traitor cleric who steals the cure; Tomi was so crippled I couldn't win that fight after a dozen tries. It also didn't help that I was playing a Druid and eventually discovered that the game gave half your XP to your animal companion if you had it in play; which benefited nothing. A class feature robbed you of half your XP. It would be similar to telling a fighter; "Oh, you are wearing armor? Ok, you get half XP until you take it off." AFAIK NWN2 still has this flaw.

The henchmen got better in one of the expansions, yeah. I've barely played regular NWN. Always with SoU and HotU. They had an inventory there.

Hm, sorry for the long break, I lost the thread for this. And you got me; the penalty in my test WAS switching from light armor to medium with my ranger. Now I'm not sure, I definitely remember there was a problem with Tomi though; so perhaps they fixed it between one of the mods. Probably Hordes.

I hope to see the new version of this masterpiece one day. My favorite game on my amiga 30 years ago! Willy from Concerty

That's from the NWN wiki, not the PnP rules.Below the Finesse entry. https://nwn.fandom.com/wiki...Forgive me, but I find it hard to believe this obvious bug would have gone unnoticed for 20 years. I suggest you report it to Beamdog.Perhaps you're dualwielding and the Chainmail disables your Ranger's bonus dualwield feats?

Sure, that's pretty much the quote from the pencil and paper rules. GO TEST IT IN GAME. I just did last night. I watched my attack bonuses on all attacks drop 2 points. Exactly the difference between my +4 bonus; and the +2 limit for the chainmail armor.

I'll quite the NWN wiki:"The maximum dexterity bonus is a cap on the bonus to armor class (AC) from a character's dexterity modifier.This cap applies only to AC; it does not affect the attack bonus for ranged weapons, the attack bonus from weapon finesse, reflex saves, nor dexterity-based skills (most of which are subject to the armor check penalty instead).It is, however, reflected on the character sheet,which will show the capped modifier if the maximum dexterity bonus applies (and the capped modifier will be in red if it is lower than the character's base dexterity's modifier)."I have never noticed this in my DEX builds. A quick search doesn't support this at all and given how popular NWN was, I'll wager there would have been a small outcry over it, if it was this different from P&P.DEX based skills decrease because of the Armour Check Penalty.The OC companions sucked, I'll give you that.

Officially in 3.x D&D it was; but in play in NWN it affected almost everything related to Dex. Go create a character with a high dex and put on some plate and check all your dex-related stats. I just did a quick test with an L10 Ranger I had in a game-save file. The character had Dex18 and was wearing +2 leather. I put on some chainmail (max dex+2) and not only did my AC drop but so did my Finesse-based attack bonus. I appear to be wrong about the skills and the reflex save; and I can't find anything on initiative bonus on the character sheet; I'd have to find something to fight and check the initiative roll+modifier. It's been a long time since I played so I wasn't absolutely certain of everything it affected; but it crippled Tomi to the point of uselessness. He relies on his high Dex for both his AC and his attack bonus and at the very least his armor crippled him there.

The max Dexterity limit is only in regards to contribution to AC.https://nwn.fandom.com/wiki...