Caps and limits

Every number in this game stops somewhere. This page collects the ceilings a character actually runs into - level, ability scores, attack bonus, armour class, saving throws, skills, and what a single item is allowed to give - and says for each one whether A Dawn of Heroes uses the standard Neverwinter Nights value or a different one.

Three different things get called a cap, and they do not add up together:

What an item property may hold. An item cannot be built past it, whatever it costs.
What an effect may give. Spells, potions, bardsong and anything else that lands as an effect.
What the rules count. The +20 attack bonus cap is this kind: the bonus is really on you, the attack roll simply ignores the part above the line.

Character

Limit	Here	Base game
Character level	40	same
Classes on one character	3	same
Hit points gained on level up	always the maximum for the class	rolled
Ability score bought at creation	18, before racial modifiers	same
Negative levels	100	same

A natural 1 on a saving throw is not an automatic failure here. In the base game it is.

Ability scores

Limit	Here	Base game
From one item property	+12	same
From effects	+12, and -30 for a penalty	same

Ability bonuses of the same kind do not stack: the highest one applies, and the rest are wasted. Ranks bought at level up are not a bonus and are not capped by either line above.

Skills

Limit	Here	Base game
Ranks in a class skill	character level + 3	same
Ranks in a cross-class skill	(character level + 3) / 2, rounded down	same
From one item property	+50	same
From effects	+50	same
Spellcraft ranks per +1 to saves against spells	99 - out of reach at any level	one per 5 ranks

That last line is the one to read twice: because 99 ranks cannot be reached, Spellcraft gives no saving throw bonus on this server. It is still a skill worth having for what else it does, but not for that.

A cross-class rank costs two skill points where a class rank costs one, and the game does not track half ranks.

Attack bonus

The whole of how an attack roll is put together is on the attack bonus page; this is only where it stops.

Limit	Here	Base game
Magic attack bonus counted on the roll	+20	same
From one item property, attack or enhancement	+20	same
From effects	+20	same
Attacks in a single flurry	5	same

What the +20 counts is narrower than it looks. It counts the higher of your weapon's attack bonus or its enhancement bonus, plus spells and spell-like abilities - and an activated feat counts as a spell-like ability. It does not count passive feats such as Weapon Focus, Epic Prowess or Epic Weapon Focus, nor feats spent on a single attack. Those stack on top with no ceiling at all, which is why two characters with the same "+20 capped" gear can still land very differently.

Armour class

Limit	Here	Base game
Dodge AC from every source together	+20, measured after penalties	same
From one item property	+20	same
Armour, shield, natural and deflection AC	do not stack - highest of each kind	same

Dodge is the only kind of AC that adds up, and the cap is on the net figure - so dodge above +20 is not entirely wasted, it absorbs a dodge penalty such as a taunt before the cap bites.

Saving throws

Limit	Here	Base game
From one item property	+20	same
From effects	+20	same
A natural 1	is not an automatic failure	fails

Damage and defences

Limit	Here	Base game
Damage bonus from one item property	+1000	+20
Massive criticals from one item property	+1000	+20
Damage bonus from effects	+100	same
Spell resistance from one item property	60	32
Damage resistance, the X/- kind	50	same
Damage reduction, the soak kind	50	same
Damage immunity from one item property	95%	100%
Regeneration from one item property	20	same

Two of those matter more than the others. Item damage and massive criticals run to four figures here, which is what makes high end weapons look nothing like the base game's. And damage immunity stops at 95%: no item on this server can make you completely immune to a damage type, because the 100% step was removed from the table items are built from.

How these layer on each other - what absorbs before what, and what stacks with what - is on Damage and stacking.

Movement

Limit	Here	Base game
Speed bonus	1.5x	same
Speed bonus, monk	2.5x	3.0x
Slowest a penalty can make you	0.125x	same

Feats whose numbers we changed

These are not caps on a character so much as ceilings written into a feat, but they are the other half of the same question.

Feat	Here	Base game
Epic self concealment, ranks 1 to 5	20 / 30 / 40 / 60 / 70%	10 / 20 / 30 / 40 / 50%
Epic toughness, per rank	30 hit points, to 300 at rank 10	20, to 200
Defensive stance	+6 Con, +6 dodge AC, +4 saves, +4 Str	+4 / +4 / +2 / +2
Dwarven defender damage reduction	6	3
Extra stunning attacks per day	5	3
Dirty fighting bonus dice	8	4
Epic bane of enemies damage dice	3	2
Epic overwhelming critical die	2	1
Improved power attack, to hit	-5	-10
Quivering palm base DC	12	10
Two-handed weapon Strength multiplier	2.0x	1.5x
Taunt modifier	6	same

Party, items and storage

Limit	Value
Henchmen slots	8
Associate slots in total	12
Items stored in the vault	100
Charges on one item	250, where the base game allows 50

Where these numbers come from

Nothing here is quoted from a description. The character and combat lines come from the server's own ruleset settings and from ruleset.2da in the module; the item property lines come from the cost tables an item is built from (iprp_meleecost, iprp_bonuscost, iprp_damagecost, iprp_srcost, iprp_immuncost, iprp_resistcost, iprp_soakcost, iprp_skillcost); the base game column is the same file as Beamdog ships it. Where a number moves, this page moves with it - tell us at the foot of the page if you catch one that did not.