Bumping for a second time around. As I had claimed in the thread title, I am willing to trade detailed feedback for mere playthroughs and 'star stickers'. :)
Bumping for great justice. Will only bump up to three times. If I don't get any playthroughs or feedback at all, I'd keep myself to adventuring rather than questweaving... unless an anvil of ideas fall over my head. (And no, this is not an zomgimleavingplznoticeme post. I'm serious! No point in making quests without an…
I was thinking, honestly, the the Foundry by default was something like this. In fact, I initially thought the Foundry was more versatile, like the Aurora/Electron toolset from Bioware NW games, perhaps with much more modernizations such as customizing maps outside of tilesets but with common level design practices.…
I'd just like to chime in that PARODIES and postmodernist things such as self-/out-references (characters talking about real world things, no matter how out-of-character in the Forgotten Realms setting that might be) are considered fair use, and exempt from copyright. :) You still can't name your quest NPC 'Cloud Strife'…
I believe this was somewhat intended so that you could figure out testing your quest when it partly uses NPC's and objects from the game world. (Like as if you're talking to one of the NPC's in a public town instance) It's a little strange though - now you could practically roll an L30 character and experience everything…
There is no way to change textures of terrain for now. I was personally expecting the Foundry would let us customize our own terrain with sculpting and texture painting tools but I had to shoot down my expectations quite a lot. Your best bet really is to use the pre-made city maps. You can configure their layouts a little…
Responding with a similar answer as OP did. This is exactly what's happening to me now as well. The screen just stays at the lava + dragon background from the login screen right after hitting the Foundry button.