Best Custom NPC?

Alson · #1 (**permalink**) 05-01-2002, 06:38 AM

Who is, in your opinion, the best custom NPC?
The canidates are:
1) Kelsey The Sorcerer
2) Tashia The Sorceress
3) Sola The Drow Fighter/Mage.

IMHO, Kelsey's the best, cuz he's the most interactive of them.
Who is your pick?

PS
where can i get all the AI patches and improvments?
I installed all the stuff from http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IEEAIS/ , but i can't seem to find the rest (i.e. the improved Twisted Ruin and Guarded Compound). Can somone post a link or a download for them?

jcompton · #2 (**permalink**) 05-01-2002, 09:14 AM

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Originally posted by Alson
where can i get all the AI patches and improvments?
I installed all the stuff from http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IEEAIS/ , but i can't seem to find the rest (i.e. the improved Twisted Ruin and Guarded Compound). Can somone post a link or a download for them?

Actually, those two AI patches (and several others) are optional installs in the Solaufein MOD pack. In fact, you can download Solaufein JUST to get those, and not actually do Solaufein NPC if you don't want to. So for AI/general game improvement fans, Solaufein is probably the "best" NPC download.

The really nice thing about a "vote" like this is that Kelsey, Tashia, and Solaufein all coexist in the same game very very happily. You don't HAVE to choose. Yes, Kelsey and Tashia are both sorcerers (hey, we started first!

) but even that provides some interesting tactical possibilities.

But thank you for the support.

Baldursgate Fan · #3 (**permalink**) 05-01-2002, 09:23 AM

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Originally posted by jcompton

But thank you for the support.

Thank you for creating them.

Littiz · #4 (**permalink**) 05-01-2002, 11:39 AM

-Tashia is well done, voiced (not original sounds though),
and fun. Plus, she has those lovable comments overhead now
and then (not normal dialogs), as when she wakes up...
Once she told Jaheira "hey, you know, you snore!!"
Short but fun banter followed!

-Kelsey is surely the most complete, all is original too.
Not played it yet, but will do.
It's clear that a lot of work was spent here, plus several
people are involved.
I'm expecting much from this one!

-Sola, they say he has very good dialogs. I've not reached him yet,
but two things are really annoying: he has almost NO sounds,
and BY DEFAULT tries to romance EVERYONE...
In any case, it's A MUST, if only for the improved AI and fights.

But, as JCompton says, you can have all of them at the same time...

Alson · #5 (**permalink**) 05-01-2002, 12:39 PM

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Originally posted by jcompton

Actually, those two AI patches (and several others) are optional installs in the Solaufein MOD pack. In fact, you can download Solaufein JUST to get those, and not actually do Solaufein NPC if you don't want to. So for AI/general game improvement fans, Solaufein is probably the "best" NPC download.

Don't worry.
I'm pleased with Kelsey, and i play a Fighter/Mage myself, so...
Kelsey beats Sola for me, with no offense for the Sola makers, i'm sure they did great work

also

bullions27 · #6 (**permalink**) 05-01-2002, 01:06 PM

They were okay. None of them impressed me as far as character depth goes but the Solaufein mod is a definite must for the number of improved challenges. I have to give proper cheers for the work done on that.

I haven't tried Tashia yet but Kelsey is pretty much a cliched character I've seen and read countless times. No offense to the creator of the mod. I know it takes a lot of work and effort to create a mod and I'll praise you for that but I just didn't enjoy using him. He's the good alternative to Edwin, if you don't have any sort of mage, and I suppose an alternative to Anomen as well.

UserUnfriendly · #7 (**permalink**) 05-01-2002, 01:21 PM

ok, thinking of downloading sola, to go with tashia and bun bun...

but BOO2 IS a must!!!!

DO YOU NEED MINSC FOR HIM????

pls answer....

and heard something about solas rewards, do you have to romance him...ick..to get the rewards, (like moonblade and something about light ray thingie???)

who i pick to go with this party will be very important...rather take jahiera or korgy or mazzie rather than minsc if I lose another party slot to sola...

help!!!

BUT I MUST HAVE BOO 2!!!!!

bullions27 · #8 (**permalink**) 05-01-2002, 01:28 PM

??!!!!

Boo2? Where did you find this mod? Teambg??

jcompton · #9 (**permalink**) 05-01-2002, 02:11 PM

You will need to have Minsc and Jan in the party in order for Solaufein to conjure up "Boo 2" but after that you can dump Minsc if you are so inclined.

bullions27: Boo 2 is a (silly) part of the Solaufein mod.

And as far as Kelsey goes...well, if I set out to make the "perfect boyfriend" I would have failed anyway. I make no bones of the fact that Kelsey is based on a character sketch I wrote at 2 AM back in August...if he did not improve from then to now, of course, then I didn't do a very good job.

UserUnfriendly · #10 (**permalink**) 05-01-2002, 02:17 PM

oh ick...minsc and jan...can i dump jan???

this means I will have bun bun, aerie, minsc tashia and sola....

but no room for immie!!!

grrr.....

how do you get boo 2???

this will make my party serioulsy mage heavy, no tanks, playable, but who will wear all the cool plate armor i get??

besides, really lay in the guilt dumping immie...

UserUnfriendly · #11 (**permalink**) 05-01-2002, 02:30 PM

ok, this time will tak party of major hurt lots...

bun bun, of course, may post ver 4 later, mostly cosmetic changes...
tank...still up in air, maybe mazzie....

aerie. duh...
tashia
sola
immie...

will play with boo 2 later...

but i just want to see that cute little fuzzie wuzzie version2, with the cool d gate ability...giggle...

how do you conjure boo2??may get minsc and jan just to see boo 2 in a throwaway game...so if you have minsc and jan in party with sola, he will conjure him up???

hmmm, after underdark, can make a throw away game, and dump aerie, see boo 2 and then go back to main game...

minsc is so good as archer kit...but need a tank for wearing all the cool armor...wait...use any item!!!

giggle, minsc with holy avenger or robes of vecna...can you see it???

nah, use any item is a bun bun perk only....but wait, keep red dragon plate as trophy, and good armor in tob for minsc...

black dragon scale is pretty nice too...

ok, will make minsc archer as before..he really kills a lot with that kit...and racial enemy vampires is great, though might change to demons...

demons, I hate demons...

Alson · #12 (**permalink**) 05-01-2002, 02:37 PM

Still, Kelsey is a 16MB mod, while Tashia and Sola are both less the 1MB

It seems it is the most invested one...
and with Jan, Korgan and Minsc in my party, i do need a char with some connection to reality

UserUnfriendly · #13 (**permalink**) 05-01-2002, 03:33 PM

korgan is the most grounded and connected to reality type person in soa!!!

first, hes short, so hes near the ground...

and his bloodlust is totally like the hack and slash and shoot the cripples style of play most of us use...

i jsut have a tendency to torture him...made him lawful good once, and aside from his hitting on mazzy..freaked me out, let me tell you..he was cool with it...just wanted to kill more...

ok, does anyone know if you can get the cool sola rewards if you dont sleep with him??? ickkkk...

btw, does anybody think besides me that tashia is much more interesting than any of the regular girls in soa??

dont even mention annoweenie...oops...forgto my regular imprison anoweenie duty after underdark...giggle...

GNGSpam · #14 (**permalink**) 05-01-2002, 04:02 PM

Korgans just badass, he easily has the "coolest" dialogues in the game

Alson · #15 (**permalink**) 05-03-2002, 04:40 AM

Any more Kelsey fans is here?

BTW - i've heard Tashia comes with an amazing item.
Can someone post its description?
Thnx.