DavidW Posted April 10, 2009 Share Posted April 10, 2009 (edited) Obviously, Icewind Dale doesn't come with joinable NPCs, so there's a question of what you do for party members. There are currently 3 options (other than playing solo). 1) You could start a multi-player game and give yourself control of all party members, just as in BG2 when you want to create your own party. This is probably closer to the "pure" IWD experience. It's best to start a game, save immediately, quit, and move the save-game from the "MPSAVE" folder to the "SAVE" folder. 2) The IWD-in-BG2 fixpack/tweakpack ships with twelve joinable NPCs. These are BG1-level (so no banter, not many interjections) and are built out of the portraits and sounds that come with IWD (as well as using bits of class-specific IWD dialog). You can get these NPCs by installing the appropriate component of "ice-tutu-tweaks", the tweakpack that ships with IWD-in-BG2. Seven are in Kuldahar, five in Easthaven. 3) You can use a third-party mod that adds joinable BG2-style NPCs. Currently the only available choice is Kulyok's IWD NPCs mod over at Pocket Plane Group (you need the IWD-in-BG2 version). Edited December 30, 2011 by DavidW Link to comment
DavidW Posted April 19, 2009 Author Share Posted April 19, 2009 I thought it might be helpful to list the Ice-tutu-tweaks NPCs. (Usual disclaimer: these are BG1-level NPCs I built for fun and for testing, they're not fully fleshed out.) Easthaven Ragnar (Male dwarf fighter): in the tavern Vilmar (Male human barbarian): temple of Tempus Eloise (Female half-elven mage/thief): upstairs at Pomab's Emporium Endricane (Male human cleric of Lathander): outside the scrimshanders' shop, by the west lakeshore Marcus (Male human assassin): in the Snowdrift Inn Kuldahar Ilauna (Female human specialist wizard): in Orrick's tower (talk to Orrick first) Moranir (Male human avenger): by the statue (talk to Arundel first) Elyvir (Female elven archer): in the Evening Shade inn Morgana (Female half-elven bard): in the Root Cellar tavern Syleen (Female human undead hunter): in the Root Cellar tavern Arris (Male elven sorcerer): in Oswald's airship Kori (Female dwarven fighter/cleric): in the blacksmith's Link to comment
DavidW Posted December 30, 2011 Author Share Posted December 30, 2011 Updated to mention that Kulyok's mod is now IWD-in-BG2 compatible. Link to comment
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