Strongholds--has a SPOILER

[ElfBane]

I have EoU installed and multiple strongholds enabled. Are there any duties tied to these strongholds aside from the thief one? I mean, will I be wandering around Amn and have a messenger show up saying "Minister Lloyd needs your help with saving the world"? Also, the thief stonghold requires micromanagement every 5 days or so. How strict is Renal about this? If you are in the Spellhold/Underdark sequence there is no way you can get back every 5 days.TIA

[Vedran]

When you are not on the mainland, stronghold quests (and other quests) are waiting for your return.

[Neomi]

Yes, if you accept all the strongholds at once you will be bombarded with requests for assistance seemingly all the time. At least until you finish the stronghold quests.

As far as I recall:
- the thief stronghold never stops, just goes on ad nauseum and really doesn't give any great loot
- the bard stronghold takes forever to complete but is pretty fun, sometimes a little quirky
- the fighter stronghold is of moderate length and is more fun if you keep Nalia
- the mage stronghold takes a while to complete but doesn't really require much of you and you can potentially get some nice items
- the ranger stronghold only requires a few forays back to the umar hills and gives a nice item
- the cleric stronghold is more leisurely and more based on thought than confrontation
- the paladin stronghold quests can be finished quickly, one after the other
- the druid stronghold was the least well-developed and not that interesting

I found that EoU "all strongholds" was fun the first time, because it spiced up the initial chapters with the goal of getting all the quests done. But after a while it got kind of overwhelming. After doing a couple of run-throughs trying to get all the strongholds I decided to uninstall that particular feature of EoU since it tended to make things a little buggy.

[SixOfSpades]

IMHO, the All-Stronghold mod is a lose-lose situation. The Stronghold quests are one of the major sources of Replay value in this game ("Man, I'm getting sick of the Keep. I wonder what Clerics get? I think I'll try a Priest of Talos next game...."), and of course Multi-Stronghold flushed that right down the toilet.

Then there's the "All my stongholds need me at the same time!" issue, one that I'm glad I don't have to deal with.

And, of course, All-Strongholds is known to cause bugs in some of the weirdest ways.