You died. But you came back. You return to your home village with little memory of your past, save for a burning desire for revenge. But against whom and for what reason, you cannot remember. Piece together what happened to you and find out who is responsible, before tracking them down and seeing them answer for their actions. Were they really to blame for your death? Who else is going to be caught up in your search for answers? Will you follow a quest for justice or a path of wrathful vengence?
A story of revenge and manipulation. Choose from 5 companions, with one romance option per gender (not fully explored in this chapter). Find out more about this mod at my blog Link
SUMMARY
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The philosophy behind Dark Avenger is to provide a story-driven adventure, where the focus is more in interactions between people, and to steer away from humanoids in caves or rats in warehouses, but still retaining a D&D feel. I wanted it more to feel like a story about the growth of a hero/villain, rather than the standard adventurer that starts out skinning rats in someone�s basement. A story the player could shape and unfold around his PC.
Dark Avenger is designed for a PC of any alignment/gender/race/class with an ECL of 4. PCs with less than 6000 XP will be levelled up at the start of the game. Equipment will be stripped, but can be reacquired at the end of the introduction � up to the player how much is used. By the end of the chapter (~2-3 hours), you will have gained roughly 3 levels, depending on how much you explore.
Please check out the ReadMe/Walkthrough before designing a character.
INSTALLATION
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Unzip the file to your NWN2 Campaigns directory, find the dark_avenger.mod file in that folder and move it to the Modules directory. Start the game from the New Campaign section.
02/01/08 - Forgaging incorporated. Plants can now be gathered and used to produce items that may be helpful. Smear Extract of Brown mold on your weapon to give the enemy a suprise. Gather Retch Plant spores for use as choking powder. System uses a combination of Craft(alchemy) and Survival, with varying difficulty. See plant descriptions for more information.
NOTE TO PLAYERS - if you are hoping to play the rest of the series with a character from this mod, please keep a copy of the save game. I will however, be releasing a revised version of chapter 1 with chapter 2 to incorporate some changes required for the campaign series.
Enjoyed the hellsteed companion and the sword, and how you defined yourself through "flashbacks" making for quite wide an array of backgrounds and motives. Companions and the way you met/recruited them were quite fun overall, would have wished to have been able to bring more of them at a time though, wouldn't have been a luxury toward the end. Not much free roaming or extra stuff to do beside the central plot, which on top of the limited number of companions may make the end fights somewhat drawn out and tedious with a non-powerbuilt main character.
Posted by Zadrotino at 2009-11-0203:36:56
How to get Black Death as a Companion?
Posted by Aardvark at on09/09/09
We need more Manowar mods! Black Death is probably my favourite companion in all NWN-dom.
Posted by Wyrin at 2009-08-1100:27:08
Thanks for the great vote and comment! _________________________ Wyrin Legacy of White Plume Mountain - A Faerun sandbox classic DD adventure! Wyrin's NWN2 blog
Posted by DSenset at on07/28/09
Splendid. Some of the best writing I've seen in quite some time, vision and utter command of the toolset (i've always been afraid of horses.) Ambient sound is too loud :) ... Periods, nah, that's arguable, it's not bad here... As good as NWN modules get. Thank you, we all had a marvellous time. DSenset - Inventing systems people don't need since 2009 _________________________ Five Flagons Inn: Link - ds-tl Theater Scripting Language: Link - dstl NWN2: Link - NWN2 one-click GUI away (except chat-windows): Link - NWN1 small file extensions for SP (and General MIDI): Link - Suggested Naming Conventions: Link - DS Sneaking: Link - DS Base (Pseudo-)Maze: Link
Posted by Wyrin at 2009-07-1902:55:41
Thanks for the support guys! _________________________ Wyrin Legacy of White Plume Mountain - A Faerun sandbox classic DD adventure! Wyrin's NWN2 blog
Posted by Lhaeo at on07/16/09
Well, all the years and I never played a NWN2 mods. Now I played a few and there are really some good ones (Pool of Radiance Remastered, Subtlety of Thay 1+2, Fate of a City, Harp Chrysanthemum...). But this one... it's just great. First of all I liked the flashbacks as a meaning to keep me curious as well as a way to shape my characters background. They - as many dialogs too - gave me more than a "medium" roleplay feeling. All of the NPCs (party/villains/others) had distinct personalities that enriched the story. Regarding the party the way you can switch between all the available party members by just talking too you all-time companion who is acting as a "roster manager" is really cool. Nice idea! I played a rogue, but I think all classes (and alignments) are well "supported" - e.g. a ranger, druid etc. even might collect plants in the wild to brew custom (at least I think they are custom) potions. Also it offers quite some possibilities for tactical (ranged) attacks. I'm not a big fan of tactical combat (I'm more for the story and less for tough fights), but even I recognized the mod offers such opportunities and this with a real advantage ;) Well, my english is not really up to write a good and eloquent review, but these are some of the things I really liked. I give it a ten. One might complain that some settings are a little bit too green ("plain"), but on the other hand the story is good, I encountered no bugs (even the steed found its way most of the time) and I just didn't have the feeling anything would be missing at any time. So... many thanks for this great work! :)
Posted by Alhxor at on07/08/09
I've same problem as CWASI and cynehelm. It seems that it's caused by scr_roster script, cause i typed "rs scr_roster" in console and game crashed. But there's a way to add gork to party - when in conversation with him type in console: DebugMode 1 rs ga_roster_add_object("c_gork", "c_gork") rs ga_roster_selectable("c_gork", 1) rs ga_roster_add("c_gork") (well, maybe there'll be enough to type only 1 and 4 lines). Then tell him to go away, after conversation he'll be in party. I tried it with removed party members limit, so if it hadn't work try to remove it first too.
Posted by Spidercat at on07/01/09
Very nice mod. I've never been able to equip the dark avenger though, was a bit frustrating but I guess that's for chapter 2. I see you won't be continuing the series, too bad, but I understand it's a lot of work and we all have a life don't we. Thanks for everything =)
Posted by AngelOfNessus at 2009-06-1507:30:57
I've only played a small part of the module so far so good. Only one thing I can really ask: Please, PLEASE USE PERIODS. It's incredibly annoying to see a mod have a good story and characters and overlook such an obvious and easy to fix issue. Other than that, good job. _________________________ BEEP! Hey, this is Angel of Nessus. Not at the (COMMUNICATION DEVICE) right now; leave a message and go away. I probably won't answer, but I'll let you think I just didn't get the message. Oh, and if you're who I think you are, I have three things to say to you: 1.
10 - A Masterpiece, Genuinely Groundbreaking 9 - Outstanding, a Must Have 8 - Excellent, Recommended to Anyone 7 - Very Good, Deserves a Look 6 - Good, Qualified Recommendation 5 - Fair, Solid yet Unremarkable 4 - Some Merit, Requires Improvements 3 - Poor Execution, Potential Unrealized 2 - Very Little Appeal 1 - Not Recommended to Anyone
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