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Gothmog, Lord of Balrogs · 04-24-2002, 04:14 PM

there are some interesting problems with Ctrl-Q, however. many of the townspeople and NPCs (not ones that can become party members, but named people who are plot-related) are defined as having "no class" (kinda mean, really) and so crash the computer when they level up. Also, while some main NPCs have small portraits (Bodhi, Irenicus, Balthazar, etc) none of them have large portraits. So, anybody with no portrait gets a weird silhouette-question mark picture instead. For instance, Naljer Skal has a ridiculous amount of 9th level spell slots, but weird stuff happens when he joins the party. people in the party that were never intended to be that way don't have a lot of things defined. They get no NPC interactions, and cause nasty problems with plot events, and even worse stuff I won't even mention here.

(SPOILER- it is possible to save Yoshi in chp.6 if you never took him to spellhold with this, but it makes stuff nasty)

So, if you feel the need to use Ctrl-Q to add anybody to your party, beware.

04-24-2002, 04:14 PM	#2
Gothmog, Lord of Balrogs Elminster Join Date: March 23, 2002 Location: Lynchburg, Virginia Age: 40 Posts: 460	there are some interesting problems with Ctrl-Q, however. many of the townspeople and NPCs (not ones that can become party members, but named people who are plot-related) are defined as having "no class" (kinda mean, really) and so crash the computer when they level up. Also, while some main NPCs have small portraits (Bodhi, Irenicus, Balthazar, etc) none of them have large portraits. So, anybody with no portrait gets a weird silhouette-question mark picture instead. For instance, Naljer Skal has a ridiculous amount of 9th level spell slots, but weird stuff happens when he joins the party. people in the party that were never intended to be that way don't have a lot of things defined. They get no NPC interactions, and cause nasty problems with plot events, and even worse stuff I won't even mention here. (SPOILER- it is possible to save Yoshi in chp.6 if you never took him to spellhold with this, but it makes stuff nasty) So, if you feel the need to use Ctrl-Q to add anybody to your party, beware. __________________ Yar!