Playing IWD as BG characters
SharGuidesMyHand
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Back when IWD was initially released more than a decade ago, I basically treated the game as a "spiritual sequel" to BG, and I used to "recreate" characters from the BG series to be in my IWD party. For example, I once did a playthrough with Safana as the party leader, imagining that she recruited a bunch of "strong men" and continued her swashbuckling adventures after the events in BG1. I also did a playthrough using Kirian's party that you meet in the basilisk area. I felt that doing this gave greater meaning to characters and events in BG1, and consequently, also gave greater meaning to my own BG character's actions.
Then one day I checked the dates in my respective journals, and realized that the events in IWD take place about 100 years before the events in BG. And that ended that. :-(
But now, with the upcoming release of IWD:EE, I've been thinking of other possible ways to tie the two games together. For example, I've been thinking of playing IWD with Tamah as a party member - she's the fighter-looking character that you meet in the basilisk area and release from petrification. She's apparently been petrified for quite some time (the submerged and derelict house that you come across south of Beregost is hers), so I imagine that perhaps she actually lived during the IWD era, and has spent the subsequent decades "frozen" in petrified form after having encountered some basilisks on the way home from IWD. I'm also thinking of using Ariabel as a party member - she's the paladin referred to in the Harrower's description, who eventually died heroically while saving the realms from a vampire queen named Zerafex.
Anyone else have any similar ideas and/or intentions?
Then one day I checked the dates in my respective journals, and realized that the events in IWD take place about 100 years before the events in BG. And that ended that. :-(
But now, with the upcoming release of IWD:EE, I've been thinking of other possible ways to tie the two games together. For example, I've been thinking of playing IWD with Tamah as a party member - she's the fighter-looking character that you meet in the basilisk area and release from petrification. She's apparently been petrified for quite some time (the submerged and derelict house that you come across south of Beregost is hers), so I imagine that perhaps she actually lived during the IWD era, and has spent the subsequent decades "frozen" in petrified form after having encountered some basilisks on the way home from IWD. I'm also thinking of using Ariabel as a party member - she's the paladin referred to in the Harrower's description, who eventually died heroically while saving the realms from a vampire queen named Zerafex.
Anyone else have any similar ideas and/or intentions?
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I personally connected my main IWD playthrough to my main Neverwinter Nights 2 playthrough, making my main character from the first one the grandmother of my main character of the second one.
So, I don't know, you could maybe headcanon some ancestors of characeters from BG?
And, if you wait for Legends of Baldur's Gate and we see how exactly Minsc is still the same age as back in BG even though he should be dead when the story takes place, you might be able to bring him in as well, if he indeed became a time traveler.
I'm definitely interested in doing that too (regardless of whether it ties into BG), but I'm basically technologically illiterate and merely glancing over the directions on how to create a modded character makes my eyes bleed.
Yes... That could work very nicely, actually. Hehehe... I might do that.
I'm just HAPPY! Maybe I need a few days in order to start thinking constructively again
Icewind Dale - 1281DR
Icewind Dale 2 - 1310DR
Baldur’s Gate series - 1368/ 1369 DR
Neverwinter Nights series - 1372 to 1374 DR
Hrrrm, I am actually tempted to bring Ammon Jerro from NWN2 into my IWD:EE playthrough now ~ Or Daeghun and his wife, maybe.
Hey @Dee, can we get warlocks as an additional class, please?
If he was here right now, he would roast you where you stand for this insolence :P
My last party had a thief/illusionist gnome named Jony Jansen (one of Jan's distant relatives in the future)
I've made a psycho necromancer named Xzarina (Xzar's daughter)
I have made NUMEROUS paladins from the famous Firecam lineage
I made a fighter/thief who was named Yoshimo after his grandfather (who had a child with a courtesan in the Dock's District)
I even made a young Gorion one time XD
I was also recently reminded of the character "Babette Maelestrom," who apparently used the Helm of Infravision to good effect "in her dungeon excursions."
I think that kind of background fits right in with being an IWD party member.
Timeline wise, that doesn't even make remotely sense x'D
1. They were all in separate parties
2. Gorion was in Icewind Dale TWO which makes even LESS sense
3. Screw timelines, I am having fun here!