Nathraiben
|
NPC DevelopmentMy job deadline is drawing near (yay for getting rid of 5 months worth of headache), so I'm looking forward to spamming your board with lots and lots of NPC background stories. 
But when I though about dedicating my favourite character from our NWN1 PW (a NPC I liked even more than Nathraiben himself  ) to Rhydin, a thought crossed my mind: that character would be completely useless if the players KNEW his background story, and on second though so would be Cimbrin and Baengrar - and probably your NPCs, too.
So, I wanted to ask - do you perchance plan to open a restricted forum where we could post those background stories (or maybe even just part of them) that are not meant to be read by players? 
|
SorceressAshura
|
| Quote: | | So, I wanted to ask - do you perchance plan to open a restricted forum where we could post those background stories (or maybe even just part of them) that are not meant to be read by players? |
Yes, once the PW is up and running. I plan to close off the Staff Developement Team forum to mods, and staff members only.
If you wanted to make the npcs, and conversations of those characters I'd love to implant them into the world. Set up the conversations in a "step by step" sort of way.. Then I can write scripts that run checks for PCs Lore/Int/Diplomacy/Bluff skills. Even set them as quests.. if you can provide the content of the npcs I can flesh it out. =) That goes for anyone else interested in adding thier own characters.
|
Nathraiben
|
*hehe* Okay, so until then I'll be only posting the non-spoilerific parts of the stories
I can't promise about the dialogues (I hated doing them even more than I hated doing tile transitions, and those already were a pain in the behind  ), but I'll try.
It's a pain that there are almost no new heads out yet, right now Baengrar would be the only one of "my" NPCs that could be made into an actual NPC without totally screwing his description thanks to the very limited selection of heads (where are the innocent young boys, the arrogant "I'm more beautiful than your eyes can take" elves, the pretty non-botox girls, ... *sigh*)
|
SorceressAshura
|
| Quote: | | It's a pain that there are almost no new heads out yet, right now Baengrar would be the only one of "my" NPCs that could be made into an actual NPC without totally screwing his description thanks to the very limited selection of heads (where are the innocent young boys, the arrogant "I'm more beautiful than your eyes can take" elves, the pretty non-botox girls, ... *sigh*) |
LOL non-botox girls. .. Thats hilarious. Yea.. I totally agree. The limited spectrum of heads and hair is real fustrating. Have you tried looking at the NPC Character appearances they used for the game? The section that looks like this..
|
Nathraiben
|
I always thought it to be strange that the NPC heads are not only more diverse, but also of way better quality than the PC heads (hell, look at Daeghun and Duncan... while the PC heads for male elves and halfelves are really terrible, those two look exactly like I would picture an elf and his half-brother!)
But since you cannot choose a hairstyle with NPC heads... 
(It's a shame Blender messes up the names of objects and textures - else I would just remove the hair and/or modify the existing PC heads)
|
|
|
|
