Good/Evil/Neutral Parties
miker60
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For people who watched the twitch tv demo videos closer than I:
We already know the "canon" party which begins BG2: Minsc, Dynaheir, Jaheira, Khalid, Imoen. It seemed to me from the demo that party (plus Safana replacing Imoen for an early quest) was the Good party for the beginning of BG: SoD.
What did people notice about which made up either the Evil or Neutral parties you have at the start of SoD?
I'm assuming Edwin and Viconia are party of the evil party.
Anyone have any better info? I'd like to do a good/evil/neutral playthrough of BG to prepare for SoD and I'd like to use the same NPC's they've chosen for my playthroughs.
We already know the "canon" party which begins BG2: Minsc, Dynaheir, Jaheira, Khalid, Imoen. It seemed to me from the demo that party (plus Safana replacing Imoen for an early quest) was the Good party for the beginning of BG: SoD.
What did people notice about which made up either the Evil or Neutral parties you have at the start of SoD?
I'm assuming Edwin and Viconia are party of the evil party.
Anyone have any better info? I'd like to do a good/evil/neutral playthrough of BG to prepare for SoD and I'd like to use the same NPC's they've chosen for my playthroughs.
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Neutral party: Khalid, Dorn, Jaheira, Safana, Neera
Evil party: Dorn, Safana, Viconia, Edwin, Baeloth
I still can't find any evidence that Imoen is in the Good party, even though that'd be the obvious supposition. I've re-checked the announcement video and the trailer, and every time the Good party is shown, it always has Safana and never has Imoen as a member, even though Imoen is seen talking to the party (as a blue-circled neutral). It also appears that the snippets shown come from widely-separated sections of the game, so it's not merely that all the gameplay demonstrations were recorded during a brief period when Safana substituted for Imoen.
I therefore wonder if it's possible that Safana is actually in all three default starting parties!?
If so, then that supports my earlier speculation (in another thread) that Imoen is not available in (or at least for much of) the new game, but instead has some separate role in the plot ... as she also did for a chunk of SoA, of course.
This might provide a natural opportunity for Imoen to be away from the party and "force" her dual class into Mage thus preserving her canonical class.
I do hope that she is eventually recruitable and playable (as a mage a few levels below the rest of your party still getting used to her newfound powers).
Near the beginning of SoD one of the Baldur's Gate mages (who is the sorcerous sundries guy?) identifies Imoen's magical talent and takes her on as an apprentice. When the player heads off for Dragonspear Imoen has her own parallel adventure, uncovering Irenicus' plot to capture the PC. She rushes to save him/her, collecting any out of Minsc, Dynahair, Khalid and Jalhera on route if they aren't in the PCs party. They arrive just to late. Dynahair dies heroicly, defeating the SoD boss.
I wonder if its possible to play as Imoen, without the PC?
I sometimes try but it's just inpossible.
The player is walking through the city at the start of SoD:
"Haya! It's me, Imoen!"
"I thought I told you to go back to Candlekeep?"
"Yeah, when have I ever done what YOU told me to?!"
"Well, since you are here, you better come with me."
"Sorry, but I just met this great wizard guy, and he is going to teach me to do real magic! Gorion would never let me near anything magical."