Well. it was my birthday last week and the family bought me a copy of NWN2, so I just had to finish my run through NWN before I could start the new game.
I took a Paladin through. I took some advice from various internet correspondents (including people here) and multi-classed as a Paladin/Fighter to get discipline and exotic weapons to use the Bastard Sword amd Shield
I really like the writing and some of the voice acting is good, although I suppose in the end much of its pretty mediocre, but it improves in the last chapter and the story becomes a story rarher than a bunch of episodes strung together. I like the variety between wilderness and dungeon. I like the tightness of the plot, in that we don't suddenly find Mindflayers, Drow and Githyanku mucking around in what is a tale of the ancient ones. This also means working the dragons in isn't so hard. I like the look and feel of fighting the dragons and Balor.
I miss the party features from BG2, I resent that you can only have one henchman. I think the Paladin has been mucked around with, it ought to be the most powerful fighter in my book and it just ain't, although the immunities are good, I'm not sure that it replaces a permanent protection from evil, but I could learn to do something about it.
I used the Game Banshee walkthrough; I had found that its very easy to miss stuff and you end up at a permanently too low a level to complete the game. I found the fighting easy most of the time, which is good for me, as I don't want to be very good at this and I find if the fights are too hard, I loose concentration on the story.
I used the
Henchman Inventory & Battle AI mod v1.07, which I have written about on my wiki in an article called
NWN Henchmen. I found this well worth installing. Other articles you might be interested in include
NWN Playing a Paladin &
NWN Walkthroughs.
Happy Xmas and thanks to you for your help in getting through. Now its on to multi-player and/or NWN2.
