Comic relief party! Who are your most amusing NPCs?
Genryu
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I played the originals to death back in the day, and now that I have become hooked on the series all over again thanks to the enhanced editions, I was thinking I would do something different on my next playthrough.
I've always loved the npc interactions, and so I'm going to run through with a party consisting of the more fun and colourful characters the game has to offer.
1) Main: Jester (obviously!)
2) Minsc
3) Jan
4) Edwin
5) Neera
6) TBA
I'm more interested in funny, interesting banter than party balance. Any possible problems I am likely to encounter? I've never kept Minsc and Edwin in the same party before, will they eventually come to blows? If so can I keep them from leaving?
Also I'm stuggling to decide on my final member. Wilson looks pretty fun, but as I have never tried him before I have no idea if he has any kind of random banters with myself, or the other NPCs, does he respond to situations and conversations I have with other NPCs like Baleoth did in BG1? Or is he just a novelty NPC with no real interactions beyond letting him join?
Anyone else you find funny? Who may have amusing interactions with the above mentioned NPCs? I've always liked Korgan too, especially when teamed up with Mazzy.
I've always loved the npc interactions, and so I'm going to run through with a party consisting of the more fun and colourful characters the game has to offer.
1) Main: Jester (obviously!)
2) Minsc
3) Jan
4) Edwin
5) Neera
6) TBA
I'm more interested in funny, interesting banter than party balance. Any possible problems I am likely to encounter? I've never kept Minsc and Edwin in the same party before, will they eventually come to blows? If so can I keep them from leaving?
Also I'm stuggling to decide on my final member. Wilson looks pretty fun, but as I have never tried him before I have no idea if he has any kind of random banters with myself, or the other NPCs, does he respond to situations and conversations I have with other NPCs like Baleoth did in BG1? Or is he just a novelty NPC with no real interactions beyond letting him join?
Anyone else you find funny? Who may have amusing interactions with the above mentioned NPCs? I've always liked Korgan too, especially when teamed up with Mazzy.
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I managed to play through SoA almost to the end with Korgan and Aerie in the party before he chased her off. You may or may not run into actual conflict depending how fast you play through the story and whatever random element will trigger the actual come-to-blows event. Of course it's highly probable you can cheat the game variables to keep anybody together if you're so inclined.
You probably should have a divine caster of some kind. I'm going to go with Viconia...(because you can't have Neera and Edwin in a group).
He has a wicked, dry sense of humour and provokes interesting reactions (the only problem is that you don't meet him until level 4 or 5).
PC: Fighter->Assassin
1.) Edwin
2.) Viconia
3.) Keldorn, replaced fairly early (apparently his "KILL THAYVIAN AND DROW" script triggered damn early) by Korgan
4.) Aerie, replaced (due to schoolyard bullying from the dwarf and drow) by Imoen
5.) Minsc, later replaced by Anomen (in time for both of them to hit on Edwina)
I'm just big fans of Edwin, Viconia, Imoen, and Anomen, but I can't stand Jan's stories. He just strikes me as tremendously unfunny.
So mine would probably be: PC Mage, Keldorn, Minsc, Anomen, Jaheira, Jan Jansen.
Haer'Dalis's modded romance is probably my favourite, though, and I love playing a Blade and having the two of us as the only tanks. #livingdangerously
I also think Dorn can be a pretty funny character. People who are perpetually cheesed off tend to lose their filter and say the darndest things. Like "Let's kill all those people," and "I really think we should kill all those people," and "I can't help but notice we haven't killed all those people yet, which, you know, I REALLY THINK is something we should do. I mean, I can do it myself, if you're not interested. No trouble at all. My larger point here is that those people aren't dying horribly by my hand and that... it just really bugs me, you know?"
I know you and @LiamEsler were the primary writers for BG2:EE (let me know if I missed someone) and I just wanted to say that some of the stuff you guys wrote was hilarious! I mean, I got the impression that some of it was trying to be like the original writing for the games and wasn't necessarily always succeeding, but, despite that fact being a little off-putting, you guys probably did a lot better of a job than I could have! I think I should try to bump my shameless developer appreciation thread and try to get it back on topic (even though I was the one that kinda derailed it...).