Has anyone tried being a critter PC?
Jessica
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I was thinking, cause regardless of the mod or anything I attempt to do, I always have a difficult time with trying to play BG2, EE or otherwise, more than just the initial warp out of tutorialzone and going straight to de'arnise. I remembered a thread where someone made a paladin beholder, and I remember enjoying a great deal of BG1 trying to emulate that as well as doing BG2 till internal stuff came about and distracted me from it, and I never returned to it.
I'm now attempting to come up with ideas of what critters (that the game supports) I would play as. I'm wanting to go with a premise of just pretending to get sucked into the game, but as a critter/mute-ish so you can't talk about where you're from, and what kind of playstyle would arise from being stuck as a wolf or as a rabbit or a small wyvern.
so while I'm figuring out what kind of character I'd be most like as a wolf, Tell me what you guys would limit yourselves to, what critter would you pick and how would that artificially limit how you could play? (for the sake of simplicity, I'm assuming no limits on weapon handling or casting issues, being absorbed to your form or whatever because reasons)
If you guys want to tell me what you'd do in my shoes, I'm open to that kind of fun discussion too.
I'm now attempting to come up with ideas of what critters (that the game supports) I would play as. I'm wanting to go with a premise of just pretending to get sucked into the game, but as a critter/mute-ish so you can't talk about where you're from, and what kind of playstyle would arise from being stuck as a wolf or as a rabbit or a small wyvern.
so while I'm figuring out what kind of character I'd be most like as a wolf, Tell me what you guys would limit yourselves to, what critter would you pick and how would that artificially limit how you could play? (for the sake of simplicity, I'm assuming no limits on weapon handling or casting issues, being absorbed to your form or whatever because reasons)
If you guys want to tell me what you'd do in my shoes, I'm open to that kind of fun discussion too.
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Hmm... I recall long ago that I found a 'mod' where someone turned a variety of creature files in the game into character files, making things like winter wolves and such into playable characters. I could probably arrange something similar for you if you wanted...
a beholder paladin of Helm, a mummified snirvneblin, a mindflayer swashbuckler, a myconid ranger and an oozemaster druid.
You can use the EE-Keeper to change your avatar into critters, and then (if needed) add them speed so that they have the same speed as normal characters do.
If I had to choose a critter race I would go goblin. If you're going to be a critter, might as well be the lowest of the low...
I'm realizing i'm putting faaaar more effort into the char creation process than the actual game by this point! if only i could focus.
I'd love to see how that would work from a RP perspective. Maybe that beholder from Sahuagin City got sick of checking out the ladies, and decided to do some good for the world.
@Jaheiras_Witness Isn't a mind flayer swashbuckler a bit like Davy Jones from Pirates of the Caribbean?
All you need to do is slap VAMP1.itm and VAMPREG.itm on a fighter and you're good to go. Even works if you override them into other EE games. The vamp anims are included in all games and Viconia's bg2 portrait is also somewhat fitting.
Of course, walking during daylight and having no mist mode are flaws but it's certainly tolerable.
To be fair, I heavily debated going the route of paladin, but decided against it. Not only has a beholder paladin happened, but being a paladin just because I was once called the Paladin of Pizza, friend of the Duke of Donuts, rival of the Prince of Pancakes, and enemy to the Countess of Coffee has noooooo bearing on this run.... .... That's for a multiplayer/full-party-creation run
I mean, if Repede can do it...
I used to have a PnP barbarian character who was an 8' tall human (hey, it was a fun game!). So if I use eekeeper to chose an orog or half-ogre animation for my character can I still use the stuff I find? (okay sure, the tailoring bill to fit a suit of "found" plate mail to an 8' body should be terrible; darn shame BG is so much simpler than PnP on things like this...)
If someone could make it compatible...
also, I used a sirine sprite once, and luckily the bow animation worked, but regardless of what melee weapon I chose, she always use the "kiss attack" animation for melee attacks ( although she was still using the weapon)
so if you make an orog, he will use his default sword attack animation when he attacks regardless of the weapon that you give him, but he will still be using the weapon that you gave him
also to note, some sprites can actually have their color changed with EE keeper, for example; sirines ( if im not mistaken) and half-ogres can have different colors with the color settings, but some sprites ( Bodhi and irenicus for example) will keep their default colors regardless of what you change them to
so I say; mix and match up different sprites and different colors and have a ball with it
ALSO NOTE: some sprites have naturally slower movement animation ( like my death knight did for example in the screen shot above) so you may need to add some more movement rate speed with EE keeper to help them catch up to your team
and also some sprites have naturally faster movement animation ( like clay golem sprites) so just be on the look out for that as well
Dawn, the winter wolf and more 'me' except that I feel I would be more a caster and I don't like doing my own casting generally speaking, is a Fighter that's about to turn into rogue now that we've accepted Bodhi's deal (figured with the info I have, it's the lesser of two evils and I suspect we'll dislike her enough to end up killing her anyway, so win-win). Dusk is my otherself, my persona for what I used to be pre-transition if you will, and he is a cavalier, specalizing with the bastard sword partly with editing, as that's the weapon I was most prone to using in my irl swordplay.
Dawn and Dusk come from a current fanfiction I'm writing with my coauthor, and the two stories being told in tandem were accepted into a group with a 90%+ rejection rate. Many happies! if anyone is interested, and doesn't mind MLP, lemme know. ^.^
I will also occasionally post status updates on my progress, as I've gotten farther than before with accepting Bodhi's deal. So I apologize in advance for the necrobumps.
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Lone kobolt without a bow are also super weak.