If you could create any NPC...

[drewal]

as annoying as all-caps are, no caps can be similarly annoying, so i apologize, but i have destroyed my shift buttons in some mysterious fashion...[twighlight zone music plays]

six - i like the idea of transient npcs, that way you could interact with some powerful folks, like varlen, without it unbalancing the game. additionally, it could expand the scope of the game dramatically. while you can add several full-time npcs, and use them, you could also add a dozen or so minpcs to interact with throughout the game.

i've been reading through the tutorials on various sites, and i believe i'm getting a handle on this mod creation stuff. i'm going to make a few dozen items and creatures before i start working with dialogue and scripting. then i'll have a go at our insane half-orc barbarian. i have got some ideas that will make playing with this insane orc spawn a truly viscious experience. if i can get it all clicking with the mod creation utilities, i think i might slap a parental advisory sticker on him.

[Draven Drakehorn]

Well first of all, I would have to refer to the Dragon Lance campaign, and it would have to be a lawful good minotaur paladin, maybe not playable in a party but maybe hes fighting in a dungeon that you enter in. (im refering to Kaz the Minotaur), well thats my jolly ol saying...

[Morgan_Corbesant]

i tried and tried, but cant make my npc's. i just cant get he hang of it. i have the characters made, just cant script, dialog, etc. so i give up. here is the character that i would LOVE to see, if someone could make it.

Elf, Male
Kensai
Lawful Neutral

Str-13
Dex-18
Con-15
Int-13
Wis-13
Chr-14

He has armor too. its the shadow armor, minus its abilities, but it has an enchantment so that it weighs 0 pounds, thus allowing the kensai to use it. it offers the protection of studded leather (ac 7)

His skills are as follows:

Katana- ****
Single Weapon Style- **

i didnt put his biography on here ,because if someone else makes this character an NPC, then it is their character to write. i only ask that his stats and skills remain the same. if not, oh well, ill figure out how to do it myself, lol. i usually just make him and bring him into my game, or my thief/mage. i too would like to see a half-orc barbarian, though i would rather him be neutral than evil.

[Vlad Tepes]

I'd like to have one of those Orcs in the Windspear Hills, it would be a fighter with a lot of constitution also he should be funny like Minsc but instead of being a good guy it should be an evil dude so Minsc and him would always be fightning and discussing I'd like to see that Soulafein Drow as well he should be an wonderful fighter with an Chaotic Evil alignment that would make him as bad as he should be, i think that would be the npc's I would like to have, perhaps a mage too like the cowled wizards but with a nicer design... and good biographies.

[Maxamus]

Heres an Idea.

An Evil Druid (listen)

He's a shapeshifter, but he's a fallen one. Somehow (he had forgotten) his inner energies became dark, and he can't help being evil. Instead of Transforming into a werewofl he coudl transform into a Lesser Demon or Lesser Dragon.

To get him you would have to be totally evil though. His inner energies go insane when around Good Eneriges, so if any Good aligments are in the party or are friends, then he transforms and goes berserk.

This would be a nice NPC, but right before some huge quest he betrays or goes awal and leaves, you can get him once your at a new level or ahev completed so many quests. repeat the rpocees after he's been in for so long.

Maybe a bit broken, but it would add alot of coo-ness int he game

[The.Relic]

I would like to see a wider variety of the different classes and kits available as NPC's. It might even be a good idea to have a couple of more turncoat NPC's that aren't tied into the game plot per'se, but betray you in some way at some point nonetheless. Several other threads have mentioned that it would be nice if there were NPC dialogue interaction enhancements.

[Willard]

I agree with you, Relic. A drow or Duergar as races would be nice, (I can't remember the names of the other sub-races) I am thinking about Elminster having an apprentice, but THEN someone from the Zhentarim kill him and the apprentice seeks you out. There are two apprentices. If you are a male character then the apprentice is a woman and you have a chance at a romance. Vice versa for a woman pc. The apprentice could be:
Zorayna
Chaotic Neutral (tutored by elminster since childhood
DROW
Mage/Cleric
has magic resistance, special spells only
known to her house, etc.

Ardanthil (the black sheep of his family)
Neutral evil
Wood Elf
Ultima Conjurer (working on that)
magic resistance also, able to wear family elven
chain mail, special spells, special abilities,etc

Are these good starts? I am going to try to make mods for these, but I don't know how.

[masteraleph]

I'd LOVE to have Spectator as an NPC. But that probably wouldn't work, because no one could right good enough dialogs, he'd be too hard to implement with his abilities, and he shows up again later (not saying where tho!)

[Maxamus]

Willard, Eliminster is too inportant a character. You could have a palce were you meet a mage, then after a certain point in the game,t he aprentice comes up to you and says he was killed by Shadow Thiefs or something.

Here some ideas for more races. Vampire, Draco (Half Dragon man), and soem sort of Half Goblin or Half Ogre, or an Artifical race of some sort, clone maybe

[The.Relic]

Nice plot touches Willard, you have a good idea there, except as Maxamus pointed out, Elminster is a far too high profile character to kill off. Perhaps the wizard trainer who is killed could be a very dear friend of Gorian. Someone you looked up to when you still lived in Candlekeep so the death will have a personal affect on you and inspire involvement on your part, there are a lot of possiblities. The addition of a possible romance option tied in is also a nice touch. We have such a wide variety of members here and are seeing more and more interest expressed in same sex romances as well, so if you do decide to create a mod like this, you may want to consider leaving the romance option available to all preferences.