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Perdue's Sword

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edited March 2013 in Archive (Feature Requests)
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  1. Perdue's Sword53 votes
    1. Yes. Perdue's Sword should be a +1 weapon
      28.30%
    2. No. Leave it as it is.
      71.70%

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  • VortakaVortaka Member Posts: 173
    For the purpose of the quest, yes, it would be good...
  • AnduinAnduin Member Posts: 5,745
    Only reason is that you would end up with people charming Perdue to take him into a corner and killing him... After you got and gave back the sword...
  • ajwzajwz Member Posts: 4,122
    Not for me. The game has already introduced the tab key to make spotting things a bit more brainless
  • IecerintIecerint Member Posts: 431
    Oh, gosh, I actually just realized that I probably sold his sword to a random merchant this playthrough XD
  • scriverscriver Member Posts: 2,072
    tilly said:

    Maybe it just needs a slight colour/outline change to be recognised as not a plain sword? Not necessarily magical +1 to do that. n.n

    This. I agree.
  • Awong124Awong124 Member Posts: 2,642
    tilly said:

    Maybe it just needs a slight colour/outline change to be recognised as not a plain sword? Not necessarily magical +1 to do that. n.n

    Yes, it does need to be more unique just to make it easier to recognize. But making it a +1 would give an incentive to keep the sword for yourself, instead of it being just a boring item fetch quest. Or for evil parties to return the sword then kill Perdue. It might make it more interesting for RP reasons.

    I think I kind of voted wrong though. I don't really want it changed officially, because I'm not a big fan of messing around with the original content so much. But maybe as a mod or something.
  • DinoDinDinoDin Member Posts: 1,622
    I think its just supposed to be a fetch quest. There's already like 3 +1 short swords that are pretty easy to get chapters 1-3
  • bill_zagoudisbill_zagoudis Member Posts: 207
    i don't even remember who's Perdue...
  • PhyraxPhyrax Member Posts: 198
    Some premises: most adventures doing this quest will be poor. My neutral good FMT for instance carries with him a whole bunch of Xvart-short-swords to sell for 2gp (yeah, I know, he's real cheap!)

    If they give it a different color, it would stick out in the mud of Xvart short-swords.

    But making it +1 seems pointless, I guess most poor adventures would just sell it for some more coin (all but the lawful do-gooders..., blast 'em!).
  • TomeTome Member Posts: 466
    But restrict it to Halflings only. :P
  • VortakaVortaka Member Posts: 173
    The best thing, in my opinion, would be to make it "unidentified" (at start) so that it would be "different" by itself... Is there an option that can do that at least, I dunno...
  • artificial_sunlightartificial_sunlight Member Posts: 601
    We need masterwork sword like IWD!
  • NyxlNyxl Member Posts: 34
    edited March 2013
    artificial_sunlight said:

    We need masterwork sword like IWD!

    Ahum.

    We - and by 'we', I actually mean 'ME, ME, ME, MEEEEEEE!!!' - mostly need IWD:EE. After BG2:EE, of course, we are not completely unreasonable. (Edit: Meh, I just read the Overhaul manifest about what can and cannot be done. I guess I'll just have to be vewwy patient.)

    Regarding the poll at hand, I also agree with @tilly, that a simple design update for Perdue's sword, instead of buffing it to a +1 short sword, would fit better. (And it would be easier to implement, I think.)
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  • VherdelVherdel Member Posts: 40
    Just a different look to it would be ok.

    Make it +1 and you're better off selling it for a good price than the loosy 50 coins the halfling offers.
    Or keep it, if you're using short swords, it would be relatively easy to get a +1 weapon early.

    I do have a question I never tested out though...is perdue's short sword breakable?
    If not it would still be decent enough for the starting period to use.
  • JalilyJalily Member Posts: 4,681
    Vherdel said:

    I do have a question I never tested out though...is perdue's short sword breakable?

    Yes.
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