Unofficial expansion modules - whats the deal?

[jcompton]

Originally posted by SpiritWarrior: So what do people recommend? From what i've seen 'The Darkest Day' seems to be the most popular and problem free and since i'm looking for new adventures and stuff it's looking like the one i'll download..what did people think of this mod?

Uh, no. TDD is fairly notorious for its bugs. You'll also find it quite inconvenient if you have TOB...because it doesn't work with it. And when the TOB compatibility is finally available, it sounds to me from what they're saying that you'll have to reinstall.

If you really want "new adventures" you probably should go with Solaufein and enable all of its optional modules. It adds several new encounters and makes the AI for a number of existing encounters more clever.

Warning: this makes the game very difficult.

Both Kelsey (link below) and Tashia add some new encounters to the game (not as many as TDD or Solaufein, though) and add a lot of character, I think.

[Darkon Blackblood]

some one said something about the Nalia Romance pack also makes more since of the twisted rune, gaurded compound, etc. Does this add more twisted rune battles or just more of a quest to it

If it does not make more battles then wouldn't it be awsome if someone could make a quest out of the investigation and ultimately destruction of the twisted rune.

If anyone decides to make this ever, especially some one like jcompton because i know he is more than capible

The Twisted Rune is based in Calimshan and has 30 full members most of which are liches Their Leadership is the Rune Council
According to the book THE LORDS OF DARKNESS The 9 members of the Rune Council are
1)Jymahna - NE female human Lich level 19 enchanter, she wears a metal mask with many unknown properties
2)Kartak Spellseer - CE male human Lich level 20 necromancer, his body was destroyed 200 years ago but it was restored and his new one is relatively undecayed
3)Priamon "Frostrune" Rakesk - CE male human lich level 20 wizard, former wizard of Waterdeep but expeled for delving into dark magics. He stole portal-building books from Halaster and is now the primary portal-builder for the Rune. All the portals he builds have secret triggers known only to him that allow him to seal them with a word or to transport the user to an alternat location of his choice.
4)Rhanguan - NE male human lich level 20 wizard. A lich of over 1000 years his body has decayed down to only a skeleton and glowing eyes. owns a staff of the magi
5)Sapphiraktar the Blue - LE male ancient blue dracolich. Made into a dracolich 300 years ago. Maintains appearence through magic so that he is indistinguishable (sp.) from a living blue dragon. He is teaching dragon magic to Rhanguan while he plots to destroou Jymahna, whose network of spies overlap his own
6)Shangalar the Black - LE male tiefling lich level 20 wizard. He is to son of the camion vizier of Calimshan. He eventually slew his ownb father and ruled that country with his childhood friend until the latter was assassinated. He wears a cloak made by the hide of a black dragon, one of a pair that hie slew before succumbing to his wounds and becoming a lich
7)Shyressa - NE female human vampire level 20 wizard. slew the vampire that created her and began to study magic. She gained a Runemaster seat only a decade ago. She enjoys playe cat-and-mouse games with people who draw her attention. She has created many fire spells that give off dark flames in order to be more subtle in the night hours when she is active.
The identities of the other two Runmasters are unkown, but they are certainly powerful undead, such as a phaerimm, a beholder mage, or perhaps an alhoon.
A small handful of living agents are employed to deal with tasks such as recruiting adventurers and interacting withthe subjects of the Rune's evil machinations. These agents change from time to time, as they are killed or turned into undead servants befor they have a chance to make a msitake that chould reveal the Rune
The best allies of the Runemasters are the other Runemasters. Because their lairs are linked to each other, if one is under attack and feeling threatened, he or she can easily escape th the lair of an ally or recive aid very rapidly.

I believe that Vaxall (The beholder mage with the Twisted Rune in the Bridge districts is one of the Runemasters. The 9th may be Revanek or Layene, or some one else, i have no idea and maybe if i find time i'll do some research and find out for certain.

I think it would be an awsome mod to discover the truth of the Rune and destroy it. Just think, fighting a battle with a blue dracolich, it would be great, oh well.

I have no idea how to progam anything, much less make a mod, but if anyone thinks that they might be able to program somthing this extravagant, i would be more than willing to help with ideas, drop a message here or send me an E-Mali at Yeti426@aol.com if you are in any way interested

[SixOfSpades]

Cool--thanks for the clarification, Memnoch. The Nalia romance might be the patch/MOD that puts the connecting thread back into the Slave Lords/Skinner murders thing. (For instance, in a game of unpatched BG2, investigate the Skinner murders and you'll be attacked by Rune Assassins, without any explanation of what the hell the Twisted Rune is doing in the Skinner murders quest.

[EDIT]Oh, and P.S.: Darkon, a battle against a Dracolich would NOT be cool--all he has to do is cast Mirror Image (which all Liches do as soon as they go hostile) and your computer suffers instant Death by Lag.

[ 06-04-2002, 09:50 PM: Message edited by: SixOfSpades ]