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  1. A Beholder as a Easter Egg Recruitable NPC...98 votes
    1. Aye. Me thinks ye be on to something great with this idea ere...
      16.33%
    2. Forsooth, methinks you drank too much Dwarven ale before making this poll!
      52.04%
    3. The Beholder Council, bloated bladder-bags that they are, would not stand for this!
      31.63%
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  • LindeblomLindeblom Member Posts: 257
    A beholder is a vicious creature that deserves to die, and not to be in a party!

    Pretty much like a drow ;P
  • SplodSplod Member Posts: 114
    Beholders are vicious creatures and belong in the dark pits from whence they came.
  • JuliusBorisovJuliusBorisov Member, Administrator, Moderator, Developer Posts: 22,752
    I would like to have a vampire as a recruitable NPC.

    This idea has always been on my mind.

    To be able to become a bat while recovering some health, to be able to drain levels, to have a nice avatar, to have a cool voice, and finally... to bite Viconia's neck...
  • lunarlunar Member Posts: 3,460
    There is vampire npc mod for bg2 called Valen, (even has a mod battle with Van Helsing!) a mindflayer npc is made for bg2 too. Beholder, I don't know, is not humanoid or bipedal and can not equip anything, and will be pretty overpowered with all those gatling gun ray save vs spell or you suck type of attacks.
  • SouthpawSouthpaw Member Posts: 2,026
    He is a vile creature, that should be jailed and punished, if not killed. How could such a noble creature exist next to this abomination? Of course, I am speaking about Korgan...and a new Beholder...
  • LiamEslerLiamEsler Member Posts: 1,859
    Beholders would be too large to fit through doorways, so that kind of rules that out.

    A gauth, maybe?
  • DrugarDrugar Member Posts: 1,566
    The Council of Elder Orbs would be on your ass in moments!
    That's like a hundred eyes, just staring at your ass.
    Gazing at it.
    Glaring at it.
    Covetously licking the lips on their giant mouths.

    So, no, I'd not take one.
  • KamigoroshiKamigoroshi Member Posts: 5,870
    Aye, but only if the Beholder has a large strike zone and sweet talks with CHARNAME from time to time.
  • MathmickMathmick Member Posts: 326
    This is incredibly gimmicky even for an Easter Egg NPC.
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  • ScooterScooter Member Posts: 182
    I don't know if it's a beholder, a doppleganger, some sort of undead, but a joinable NPC thats vastly different in that sort of way I think would be great!
  • KidCarnivalKidCarnival Member Posts: 3,747
    I'll watch this poll with great interest.
  • deltagodeltago Member Posts: 7,811
    Scooter said:

    I don't know if it's a beholder, a doppleganger, some sort of undead, but a joinable NPC thats vastly different in that sort of way I think would be great!

    How about a ghoul? you can recruit one for a short period of time.
  • redlineredline Member Posts: 296
    ajwz said:

    The spectator was a beloved character because it was well written.

    Agreed. If it's well written, I don't care what race/class/species an NPC is. Just being weird or unusual isn't a good basis for an NPC by itself, though, and I'm very much against gimmicks for their own sake.

    Would much rather have the devs work on a "regular" character.
  • The_Shairs_HandbookThe_Shairs_Handbook Member Posts: 219
    edited April 2013
    something about beholders in a party makes me think of japanese tentacle monsters and school girls haha...
  • TressetTresset Member, Moderator Posts: 8,268
    If I wanted a beholder in the party I would just invite @KidCarnival to Multiplayer with me...

    Oh wait... He's just a normal human. Never mind...
  • KidCarnivalKidCarnival Member Posts: 3,747
    Tresset said:

    If I wanted a beholder in the party I would just invite @KidCarnival to Multiplayer with me...

    Oh wait... He's just a normal human. Never mind...

    Yes, I'm a human. A paladin, actually. My fellow paladins call me "the Allseeing Eye of Helm". No idea how I got that nickname tho.

  • SenashSenash Member Posts: 405
    If we all know that there will be an easter egg, can it still be called an easter egg?
    I also think that you kinda ruin the representativity of your polls, by making one of the answers funnier than the others :)
  • NecomancerNecomancer Member Posts: 622
    Serious reply:
    A beholder would be way overpowered. It'd also be akward to fit in properly and most likely boring to travel with. Of course, since hes OP, he'd most likely be a very popular companion. Still, bad idea.

    Non-serious reply:
    Dwarven ale is a helluva drink.
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  • smeagolheartsmeagolheart Member Posts: 7,963
    no. human and demihuman only please
  • PhyraxPhyrax Member Posts: 198
    And while we're at it: why not add the Tarrasque as a recruitable NPC!
  • deltagodeltago Member Posts: 7,811
    @Anduin we've been down this road, and it is called Shadow's of the Undrentide.
  • AnduinAnduin Member Posts: 5,745
    @deltago My furry brother! Deekin opened the way!

    Open your heart! Let the love heal you! Reach out your hands brother and say. I will have an non-humanoid npc! Say it with me!
  • kamuizinkamuizin Member Posts: 3,704
    Finally someone supporting my Beholder NPC idea XD!
  • AnduinAnduin Member Posts: 5,745
    edited April 2013
    smeagolheart said:

    no. human and demihuman only please

    @Smeagolheart Good Gnome. Brother. Why the prejudice?

    Is your heart so shrivelled and empty, that you cannot except the love from your Brother Illithid?

    Are your arms too limp and weak to hug your Sister Gnoll?

    Have you not the will brother. THE WILL! To look at that itsy bitsy baby beholder in the eye and say 'You will be a NPC! YOU WILL!'

    Give me a Hell Yeah! The love train is rolling!
  • SouthpawSouthpaw Member Posts: 2,026
    Actually, to have a Beholder or other non-humanoid as a joinable NPC is a quite good idea.
    But now a serious question arises - how would the devs tackle the romance option for this NPC?
    Would "it" go both ways?
    Would "it" restrict the CHARNAME to only some race/sex possibilities?
    How to tackle the physical intimacy between a humanoid and a squid/beholder/snakeman/whatever sensibly enough? And to still keep the ESRB rating?


    (going from experience, that since BG, every Bioware game had a "romance" of some sort...just look at Mass Effect)
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