Nalia & Imoen Options

[Sikret]

Are you happy with Nalia's class (= A weaker duplicate of Imeon)? Or do you prefer her to be a sorceress? Of course, she says things about lockpicking in her dialogues, but perhaps they are not really too many or too important. Another alternative is to increase her level in thief class to make her a better thief for those who want to save a slot for a party member (though in this way she will become even more identical with Imoen).

Another option is to leave Nalia as she is and change Imoen to a Sorceress when you find her in Spellhold. The justification can be that through the rituals and experiments performed on her, amazing and radical changes have occurred in her mental status.

A last and moderate choice is to leave both of them as they are but just re-distribute Nalia's thieving skills to make her a better trap finder/disarmer. 10% of her pick pocket skill can be safely moved to her remove trap.

Any comments?

This post has been edited by Sikret: Jul 3 2007, 07:33 AM

[sturmvogel]

I refuse to suffer any penalties when adding in a new NPC and will always even up the NPC's XP with my PC's. This has the great result that I can select spells/weapon proficiencies as I prefer. Can this be automated via script? If so that would alleviate many people's concerns about new NPCs in mid-game.

I will always prefer to have a sorceror in my party and would have no problems with Immy being transformed by Irenicus into a sorceror (player's choice). A few lines of dialog might be in order to explain the change. Maybe something along the lines of "Look at this, <charname>, somehow I can now throw spells without a spell book!"

I'd take Nalia along in my party if her trap finding and lock-picking were on the order of Immy's since that's all I ask a thief to do. That would allow me to ignore Yoshi in favor of Valygar or some other melee-type from almost the beginning of the game.