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The effect of death on romance and other character interactions

ZaknafeinBaenreZaknafeinBaenre Member Posts: 349
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Does death and resurrection of a party member have any effect on dialogues, character interactions, or romances? I remember this being an issue long ago, but I assumed it was fixed. But Jan is completely silent now :(. Before his death and revival I couldn't get him to shut up.

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  • CantabCantab Member Posts: 56
    Yeah it killed all my romance and restarted my dialogues...

    Didn't realise until it was too late :(
  • HeindrichHeindrich Member, Moderator Posts: 2,959
    @Cantab

    It shouldn't. Unless your romance got Petrified or Imprisoned (and thus removed from party).

    Aerie was so squishy in my playthrough that she died every time somebody throw a Horrid Wilting at my party (until I gave her that uber cloak), but that never disrupted romance. I did have to reload once cos she got Petrified my an Elder Orb.
  • TwaniTwani Member Posts: 640
    Death and resurrection should have no effect on anything, as Heindrich said.

    Removal from the party for any reason will break romances in BG1 (at least with the original four- not sure how it works with the new four). This behavior is changed in TOB, but in BG1, if you lose, say, Jaheira to stone to flesh, your romance with her will break and you'll have to reset it using globals.
  • SharGuidesMyHandSharGuidesMyHand Member Posts: 2,584
    In BG:EE, there appears to be a bug where, after Rasaad is killed, his quest timeline "resets" and he starts all over again with the 2 dialogues that are supposed to appear before his quest eventually triggers. This was especially annoying since Rasaad is so damn squishy and probably died about 7 different times before I finally completed his quest and got rid of him for good.
  • AristilliusAristillius Member Posts: 873
    @Twani there is no Jaheira romance in bg1, I assume you were thinking about the unenhanced bg2?
  • TwaniTwani Member Posts: 640
    Ah, yes, @Aristillius, you are correct. I meant BG2.

    For the romances in BG1- I think that's the six from the BG1 project, Gavin, and White (am I missing anyone?)- I think they operate like ToB romances. If one of them gets lost to petrification (imprisonment, thankfully, shouldn't be possible unless you're playing with some crazy mod I don't know of), I believe they'll just restart the romance when you get them back in your party. Don't quote me on that, though.
  • ZaknafeinBaenreZaknafeinBaenre Member Posts: 349
    Thanks for the knowledge guys.
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