![]() ![]() The level of Undermountain that's at sea level (noting the city sits atop fairly high seaside cliffs) is called Skullport, and it's a whole city of its own, largely run by the Xanathar Guild. So under Waterdeep there's this single massive sprawling dungeon complex called Undermountain, which starts with the city's sewers, then proceeds down through ancient dwarven ruins ("the Underhalls"), before eventually turning into the lair of the Mad Mage Halaster, and possibly darker secrets below. One of these days, I'll play through it with a chaotic evil fighter with Charisma 3 in the lead and see what happens. Presumably alignment and Charisma makes a difference too. I always thought it was a shame they didn't play around with the Gold Box model a bit more before it was on the way out. did not go well for Siulajia, who went full on Fatal Attraction, with camp messages describing some increasingly creepy behaviour like staring at him as he tries desperately to look in the other direction, before she finally announces that her presence is causing trouble and that she's leaving.īeyond blatant cheating like this, I'm not sure exactly how you'd cause such a situation to develop by accident, but it's certainly an interesting mechanic they introduced. I was curious once, so I tried with a level 11 party that had already played through the game. No relationship developed at all until I started actually fighting the battles. And once when I lost my saved game about halfway through the game, I used the debug code so I could use the "win" button to get me through the combats to get me to where I was before. ![]() A party starting at the default level sees the attraction about even. When the party is transferred from Gateway, the NPC seems to become attracted to your PC far more quickly than it's reciprocated. At a guess, it seems to be a function of your effectiveness in combat. Your actions outside combat seem to have no impact on the relationship. ![]() That would have been an epic example of trolling, although I can't picture my teenage self circa 1992 being amused.Ģ. I was wondering if there would be a gay romance there, but no. If you have a male lead and reject Siulajia, Jabarkas joins the party, but the game acts as if there isn't an NPC there. It's rare even in random combats that I can just ALT-Q the battle and write a couple of blog paragraphs while my characters duke it out.Ī couple of interesting things I've found on this subject from experimenting around and using Gold Box Companion to peek at some of the mechanics:ġ. All of this means that my fighters and clerics take a much greater role in combat, including (as I mentioned before) using ranged weapons to keep enemy mages inert, spreading out to avoid vulnerability to "Fireballs" and "Ice Storms," maximizing back stabs, making better use of cleric spells, and so forth. I haven't even had a chance to memorize "Haste" yet-and I haven't seen a single mage scroll that would allow me to memorize (or cast) spells outside of the normal leveling-up process. And while she has the typical complement of useful spells, Treasures doesn't offer any Rings of Wizardry or other mechanisms for getting bonus spells, so I don't feel like I have quite the arsenal that I usually do. My plans to dual one of my clerics to a mage were stymied by low intelligence for both characters, so I'm going to have to solve the game with just the one. I'm enjoying combats in this game even more than the typical Gold Box title, partly because my mage capabilities seem so nerfed. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |