Some nitpicks Options

[Sergio1992]

1) You write in the readme:
My present compilation comprises the following components:

[...]
Baldurdash Fix Pack for SoA-ToB, v1.76 WeiDU
Tortured Souls v7.06
Keldorn Romance v1.0
Third Path
[...]

When you try to install Vlad’s compilation, the first component you are asked to install is named “My compilation” and I guess it’s the four mods above. Any chance of splitting them?
Especially because TS actually locks you into doing TS. See here: http://forums.blackwyrmlair.net/index.php?...ost&p=25113

2) Third path: when you meet Drizzt, he tells you that you killed Bodhi and his guild. But that ain’t true. I went third path.


3) When installing Vlad’s compilation
- you get asked to install first “Cromwell in Brynlaww and item upgrade”
then
- item upgrade
Is there a reason these two components are splitted?








TORTURED SOULS

4) I understand your idea of chromatic dragon (chromatic demon a la Watcher’s keep) but... the player has no informations on how to beat him.
I mean... if you were in Watcher’s keep you would get the following informations:
[taken from here: https://sorcerers.net/Games/BG2/Walkthrough...ental-level.php
From the four Library Notes you can learn that:
- Ice is vulnerable to Fire.
- Fire is vulnerable to Ice.
- Slime is vulnerable to Electricity.
- Air is vulnerable to Acid and Poison.
- And also quite important: The Chromatic Demon is next to invulnerable to physical attacks and he regenerates quickly].
But here you are not in Watcher’s keep and there is a chance you haven’t even played it.

Also, Chromatic Dragons are a subtype of dragons. https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Chromatic_dragon
I found the name of the dragon weird, even if I understood that it was related to watcher’s keep chromatic demon.

5) Any chance to remove the death effect if you leave the dueling area with the katana(s)? Just being greedy with loot ahah.

6) Tortured souls: Can you actually touch the content of TS? If you enter the asylum as a patient, then wait for Irenicus, when he appears, he spills his beans and tells you everything about him. I don’t like this, because it totally diminishes the impact of Irenicus by making the player carefully sum each clue he is finding during his playthrough. Reading Irenicus saying that he hates her (referring to Ellesime), that he was an elven mage, etc etc, that he studied necromancy falls short and make the game feel like those bad movies where things are told rather than shown. There is a video here that shows such a phenomena:
https://youtu.be/IcWn3nnJyDI?t=360






7) last but not least important. I would like to install NEJ in my next playthrough, but it seems that Vlad's compilation is a requisite. I wonder if it is due to the fixpack contained inside Vlad. Can you make it possible to install Nej without having to install TS + KR?

8) Any chance you could be making the Gui contained in Vlad's compilation optional?
Some informations on why I'm asking this: http://www.shsforums.net/topic/60658-compa...oject-infinity/

9) Any chance of adding mod metadata inside both Nej and Vlad? See here: https://github.com/ALIENQuake/ProjectInfini...etadata-for-mod

10) Don't forget about this, please: http://forums.blackwyrmlair.net/index.php?showtopic=5457

11) Would it be possible to split Sime romance (given that it has no ToB) and why not, also Valygar romance?

12) Leina's romance issue: https://ibb.co/vxtQHT3
Some more informations of what I’ve done on that game:
1) Bodhi path
2) I spared the father
3) I killed Duvaine right when leaving the labyrinth area


This post has been edited by Sergio1992: Jul 10 2020, 12:27 PM

[Sergio1992]

1) What I meant is that it felt to me like here Charname felt in love at first sight with Keldorn, but I may
- remember wrong
- or just have experienced the romance differently from you: first because romances are subjective (that's why no matter what I think about them I always recommend to players to play them), second, because I don't have a frame of reference with male-girl romance. I mean, I always play male and I never experienced Anomen's romance or any other female-to-male mod romance (apart from berelinde's keldorn Romance and only for ToB)

2) Okay thanks

3) Okay got it.

4) Yes, there was the journal line. But the implementation was not that elegant, that's why I wrote about it. Rather than reading what happens, I would have preferred to see it shown.

5) About Sendai: I get your idea, but I will be sincere with you: Sendai is evil, she is a murderous drow, she conspires with Ilithid, and I can make a longer list if you wish. In my mind, I doubt even that Keldorn would let you spare her. What I like about the third path is that it respects the ethos of paladins in AD&D. Paladins are not supposed to consort with thieves and you kill them all. But you leave an evil bhaalspawn alive - and that bhaalspawn was also planning a massacre (or at least it's hinted) against Amkethran.
If there was to be an added option, it would be Keldorn talking with Balthazar to actually stop him. Balthazar has a point, but his suicide is stupid and I think that he would listen to the voice of reason, that of Keldorn's one.

6) About the daughters. What can I say.... maybe my sensibility is different from the other people.
I remember to have found their deaths believable. The thing is... Keldorn may have a blood link with them, but his duties are to the order first.

If you don't nurture it, love slowly decays. Unless it has really solid foundations.

And judging by Keldorn's personal quest, I truly much doubt he was as good to the daughters as it was to the order. In the end Keldorn's life was that of a lone paladin doing his duties. Knowing about your daughters living or not may crush him initially, but in the end he would come out at worst (slightly) scathed.

I'm a pragmatist, am I not?

This post has been edited by Sergio1992: Nov 18 2019, 03:48 PM