This Chapter is not strictly alignment orientated. Chapter 2 will be.
Gameplay Hours
08
Description
The first instalment of an epic tale.
You have just reached your adulthood and today you are to be declared the heir apparent of the King of Gaeldornia. Just one simple ceremony and you can leave the castle and put all the skills you have learnt to the test. You wake on the morning of your investiture, your destiny awaits...
Chapter One is Sudden Death be prepared to save regularly. I've built in an auto-save feature after the level-up routine, so be careful what abilities you choose.
It is designed to be played STRICTLY as a fighter. Not wanting to give too much away a certain item you acquire will eventually enable to indulge in other types of gameplay.
The Mod is now finished (fingers-crossed). I hope you enjoy playing it. Chapter Two shouldn't take as long now I've got the hang of the toolset.
Now Updated for CEP 2.1.
Gameplay tweaked considerably. It should be less easy to get stuck in this version. The convo's & journal entries have been smoothed out.
The thanks for that goes mainly to Melody for her excellent input during playtesting. XXX toots.
PS: Follow the conversations & journal carefully and try not to rush it. You'll stay alive longer that way...
PPS: Thanks largely to Lord_Frederic_DQ I think I've got all the worst bugs out.
PPPS: VISTA USERS, do all your downloads and unraring from a fully priviledged admin user account. [THX AXE ;)]
PPPPS: The comments contain a lot of spoilers. You might want to avoid them until you've played the mod.
An optional GUI (Game Interface) I created using the brilliant Gothic one the bods at Ravenloft created. I like it but then I'm biased. Just bung it in your override folder if you fancy a change. Link
More convo based typos I think... Glad you liked it despite them. _________________________ Stuff I've done.
Posted by Bhictoo at 2009-02-01 19:25:14 Voted 9.00 on 02/01/09
I had fun playing this. Did as advised, took my time, and didn't have any problems.
****Spoilerish****
Did you change the story line? At first, I thought my PC was either adopted or born out of wedlock, and I sort of sympathised with the Uncle losing his claim to the throne. But as the game progressed, my PC clearly was the King and his wifes child.
I think I may have played this earlier, and was put off either by my PC being referred to as male, or feeling that this was made for a male. At that time I think I kept checking to see if I'd missed the bit saying it was for males only, and stopped playing. Now though, apart from being called master a couple of times, I don't really get that impression any more. Though when I go to save my fiancee, the female fiancees name came up, and not the male (sorry, forgot their names).
I loved my PCs interactions with her father in the family vault, I got the impression that my PC wasn't above complaining, was a bit wilful, and generally acting like a proper Prince/ss.
****End Spoilerish****
Turning out to be a great story. I'm glad I played and am looking forward to part II.
Thanks for the vote Jael. I'm still working on part 2, It's getting huge though so it will be quite a while arriving. I'll have a look at it again and fix the convos and such. _________________________ Stuff I've done.
Posted by jael_53 at 2008-12-03 09:21:41 Voted 9.00 on 12/03/08
Really enjoyed the story, can't wait for part 2 - you are still working on it, right??
Couple of things - is it deliberate that my human fighter didn't get the ususal number of feats when levelling? If I'd known I was only going to get two at level 1 and only one more at level 3, I would have changed my selection somewhat.
Also, I think I managed to break the henchmen by disbanding them at certain places. At one point I got a message that said something like 'please contact the module writer, this conversation is broken' and then later on they just seemed to stand in the inn when they should have gone elsewhere. Not game-stopping, by any means, but quite funny as we were supposed to be hiding!
A few other minor glitches, but all in all, really enjoyable.
Fixed. Just DL the modules .rar again. I'm hope the problems haven't put you off too much. I've no idea why the on-acquire script should fire on module load but it does. Messed things up badly. _________________________ Stuff I've done.
Typical, I fix one thing only to break another... I made the tome auto transfer the player when they first get it. The On Acquire script fires on module start if you have the tome already. Thinking time again... _________________________ Stuff I've done.
forget about the last post. I've found it. Now, however, I run into a game stopping bug. Everytime I reload game I end up at the Hall of Antients. Return portal doesn't work for some reason, and every savegame seems to be corrupted. Perhaps I will give it a try later, after some new version of mod is released.
Doh! I moved the start position to test the fix and forgot to put it back Sorry. You Don't have to re-play the prelude as it's only for story building. Fixed now. _________________________ Stuff I've done.
I'm trapped in the King's Chamber at the beginning of chanpter 1, I cannot find a wardstone and am trapped. I have downloaded the latest release and it appears it is the same bug as before. Very disappointing
Sorry Peeps, the problem was the wardstone wasn't destroying the Trap. (A small typo in the tag by yours truly) Now fixed. I'm surprised no-one raised that earlier as it was a bit of a game killer. _________________________ Stuff I've done.
The portal sends you back to the position you were at when you last activated the tome. If you save in the hall you get stuck there. I haven't worked out a fix for this yet. Perhaps if I save the position data on the tome and not the PC. I'll have a look at the shield door. Looks like it failed to be destroyed when you turned the power of in the room in the dungeons. Unless you found a way past it that shouldn't exist. _________________________ Stuff I've done.
The shield door. And ever time i save and load the game back up it sends me to the hall ancestors and then I can't get out that. I click on the portal to get back and it wont let me .I think there is glitch there
Which magical door? the exit from the hall of ancestors or the shielded door to the room behind the king's chambers? _________________________ Stuff I've done.
Hey need help how do I get out of the room that Heir get stuck in . There magical door the really hurts when try go through it. I talk to my dead father and the people before him and got the heirlooms. What do I do next?
Thanks for your vote ericdoman. I'll have another look at the last scene in the cave. The heirlooms are a it powerful but since you don't really get chance to use them in the first chapter I think this is forgivable. You'll need them in chapter 2. Getting your throne back won't be easy (hint) I thought I'd replaced the gem sword for a longsword +1. Oops. fix on the way. _________________________ Stuff I've done.
Posted by ericdoman at 2008-03-24 09:25:09 Voted 8.00 on 03/24/08
My mistake there didn't even notice I had notpicked up and then used it, VG.
So return to Evannah. Spent quite some time escaping with her, you have to take the quickest route to my room, otherwise she'll wait outside king's chamber, if a guard got in the way she'd wait there. Finally into my room and then combat. Part of the dialogue says I take my mask off when I speak to cousin so he can recognise me but my player still looks like the diguise (old man/bard in blue costume). The equipment you receive from vault is very powerful ie +3 hasted full plate, the cousin drops a +3 long sword and after killing guards (best to run back into one of the small rooms so at the max only 2 are attacking you) go back to my room.
Pick up camping eqpt and then remember the magical graetsword in weapin rack. Originally could not identify ot but I see it immediately as the Gemsword, way too powerful for 4th/5th lvl.
Combats were very tough early on as I play hardcore had to reload quite a few times but the usual let the enemy attack one at a time was used, even so they would generally attack altogether (makes perfect sense).
Released half orc and found ? other fighter and used these. There was no option to take any eqpt, potion from them when they left.
Carrying on. When I used my secret exit, dialoge comes up about me donning mask and then giving it to Evannah for her to escape. Had to replay this a few times as my character would become the old man etc again.
When I leave and appear outside by stump, Evannah is not with me she had left before and disappearss as soon as she reaches exit. Anyway i say keep low .... as I am outside but to whom. There is no Evannah. Anyway as I mentioned had to reload a few times so that my charcter looked like my character and then the chase and end.
Not bad apart from what I have mentioned the eqpt is way too powerful (then again is it being the adopted son and heir apparent, difficult one).
Have been playing NWN 2 quite a bit but returned to NWN due to lack of NWN2 mods and those mods I have played have been OK.
Just thought. I'll make the tome activate as soon as you pick it up. That will stop people missing it's useability. _________________________ Stuff I've done.
The tome is the key. Use it. _________________________ Stuff I've done.
Posted by ericdoman at 2008-03-21 17:00:34 Voted 8.00 on 03/24/08
Prob half way through this and am having some problems. Not bug related but possibly myself, maybe not following journal, although sometimes the journal isn't very clear for us normal people.
Prob at mo is I have managed to enter power room and shut it down. Go back to king's room. (Before this going into king's room some cultist guy, did not disappear or teleport away, unless I am supposed to do this.) Find out display cases are all empty, something came up in chatbar but I was moving. I think you are then led to tome but I got stuck. The journal entry about going to power room is still in the to do things.
I had wandered into library before this and got zapped. I saved game before geas and carried on.
Gone to fiancee's room and then it mentions that I should take royal hoard.
Just wondering if you have to go about this in the exact way to carry on
Hi Borden, I think you may have erased your module files. All I can find are haks and movies. _________________________ My book: "Rojuun" Link
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