The canon party should be half orcs!
Grum
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Proof? You want proof? Fine.
(1) The people of icewind dale are racist jerks. IWD2 is all about how a pair of tieflings were driven to a life of evil because the people of IWD couldn't get over their heritage.
(2) Nothing gets you any reputation increases in the game. Nothing! Save villagers and get them sent back to the town? No rep increases. Save Conlan's son? No rep increase. Clear out their undead problem? Destroy the thieves who took their hearthstone gem? Kill a damned dragon out to kill everyone and stop a war that will destroy the ten towns? Nothing.
(3) Reputation is a thing. Mercy killing a paladin ruins you're. Killing a villager ruins it.
(4) The only people who ever acknowledge you being heroes are...
* The halfling who has a job to trick adventurers into dying within a cursed castle
* A shaman whose God told him about you
* The arch Druid who asked for an army and is left with just you. Notice that he never helps you in any way, rewards you, or does anything but send you to places where you will likely die? You'd think that if he cared about you he'd offer to have some acolyte Druids heal you for free, scout for you, etc...
Put it all together and half orcs make the most sense. They are civilized enough to not be killed on sight, but racism against them will have them be mistreated and taken for granted like in icewind dale. In Baldurs Gate you at least get a cool title to be remembered by in history. IWD? Just...the adventurers. It's like the survivors were too embarrassed to admit who saved them.
(1) The people of icewind dale are racist jerks. IWD2 is all about how a pair of tieflings were driven to a life of evil because the people of IWD couldn't get over their heritage.
(2) Nothing gets you any reputation increases in the game. Nothing! Save villagers and get them sent back to the town? No rep increases. Save Conlan's son? No rep increase. Clear out their undead problem? Destroy the thieves who took their hearthstone gem? Kill a damned dragon out to kill everyone and stop a war that will destroy the ten towns? Nothing.
(3) Reputation is a thing. Mercy killing a paladin ruins you're. Killing a villager ruins it.
(4) The only people who ever acknowledge you being heroes are...
* The halfling who has a job to trick adventurers into dying within a cursed castle
* A shaman whose God told him about you
* The arch Druid who asked for an army and is left with just you. Notice that he never helps you in any way, rewards you, or does anything but send you to places where you will likely die? You'd think that if he cared about you he'd offer to have some acolyte Druids heal you for free, scout for you, etc...
Put it all together and half orcs make the most sense. They are civilized enough to not be killed on sight, but racism against them will have them be mistreated and taken for granted like in icewind dale. In Baldurs Gate you at least get a cool title to be remembered by in history. IWD? Just...the adventurers. It's like the survivors were too embarrassed to admit who saved them.
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I think later I will make it so some quests you complete will increase your REP for doing so ( like saving conlan's kid for example)
Have a bard with 16-8 Charisma and the spell 'friends.' This gives him +5 Charisma, boosting him up to 23. This allows you to get the full 25% discount from prices. Rather than think of it as a spell, think of it as your bard bringing up your party's heroics to get a good discount. It's like reputation...the bardic way!
Or, if you are doing an all dwarf run, have a dwarven cleric with 16 Cha. There is a magical item you can buy which lets him cast friends once per day, which will give your dwarfs the full discount.
1- there is so much gold in this game what else is there to do with it? ( and I also added in some new items that cost quite a bit, so mix that in with the million +2 bullets that you can buy at the severed hand, in the end it might be worth it)
2- when teams in my game hit 20 REP, it doesn't say heroic, it says *True Hero* I don't mind spending the extra cash for a cooler title