NWN2 Open Source Rule Set

(Defined here: http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd.pdf)

The NWN2 Open Source Rule Set is also known as "OSRS", the "Wiki Rule Set", "Open Source Rule Set", and the "Wiki Rules". This Rule Set provides a set of public domain functionality for scripting your NWN and NWN2 modules. The Wiki Rules apply the power of the public to a source code base that will yield a much more dynamic product than a managed rule set, in much the same way that Wikipedia has triumphed over standard encyclopedias.

With the Wiki Rules, each person tasks himself with what he is particularly interested in, on his own schedule, and on his own terms. It's success will come from the interests of those people. Those subject areas that are of concern to the public will be addressed by the public, without having to go through any particular approval process. The Wiki Rules is not managed by a single person nor even a group of select persons. The Wiki Rules are managed by the public, and everyone who uses it has an interest in combing the code and reviewing it. In effect, everyone becomes a manager of everything they see. If a graffiti artist arrives to deface some code, the hordes of public reviewers will be more effective than any single manager can be. The Wiki Rules represent a new way of building ERFs for your modules, allowing multiple downloadable systems at the same time, all using the same public code base.

The Wiki Rules provides a list of OSRS Features. Features start out as text descriptions of desired functionality, and evolve over time into fully coded scripts and objects. Anyone can add these features, modify them, or improve them. Features that have little interest from the public will probably remain as ideas, while features that have great interest by the public will go through many changes and eventually morph into fully independent systems. The OSRS Features are where the code is.

Current Status
This section of NWN2Wiki will operate a little differently than the rest of this wiki board. Because NWN2 has not yet been released, it is not pertinent to post scripting information here that claims to be relevant to NWN2. However, because scripting content will be importable from NWN, our work can continue over there, and be pertinent to the NWN game, without endless controversy over what is real and what is not.  When the NWN2 game is released, module work and development will be migrated over from http://www.nwnwiki.org/NWNWiki_Rule_Set. So, for now, until NWN2 is released, please direct your efforts over to the [|NWNWiki Rule Set] over on http://www.nwnwiki.org/.