[Mod Release] Edwin Bromance

[Glittergear]

CURRENTLY FOR SoA ONLY! I haven't played ToB yet, so I don't have anything there.

DOWNLOAD: https://github.com/Glittergear/EdwinBromance/releases

Premise: An Edwin Friendship Mod that features a "barely-tolerated-acquaintances to True Bros" friendship arc.

DO NOT USE WITH EDWIN ROMANCE.
    My interpretation of Edwin and Laufey's interpretation are narratively incompatible.

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//FEATURES:
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- Friendship!
- 9 talks. The first 3 are timed, 2 are Edwina-related, the remaining are main-quest related
- A chance for nonevil Charnames to turn Edwin LN
I see Edwin’s Evilness as a manifestation of his extreme selfishness, unempathetic-ness, and ruthlessness. By making Charname into a genuine friend, he loses (or at least softens) that part of himself, and thus shifts to LN.

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//ASSUMPTIONS:
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Assumes that Edwin already knows you in some capacity and had traveled with you at some point, whether in BG1, SoD, or some headcanon’d interlude.

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//WALKTHROUGH
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3 talks are timered.
A talk happens when Edwin is Edwina
A talk happens after he changes back.

A talk happens when you arrive at Brynnlaw.
A talk happens in the Underdark.
A talk happens after you defeat Bodhi.

The final talk happens in Suldanassalar and ONLY IF EDWIN LIKES YOU ENOUGH. He has a friendship variable that increases or decreases depending on your responses in previous talks. A nonevil charname can change his alignment if desired.

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//CREDITS
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Glittergear
Music by White_Records from Pixabay: https://pixabay.com/music/folk-legacy-of-monteverdi-lamento-della-ninfa-epic-background-music-45sec-246995/

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//THANKS TO
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Moggadeet and BucketfulofSunshine for being my partners in crime
BucketfulofSunshine for helping playtest

Xanos, from NWN, for inspiration

[bucketfulofsunshine]

Woo! So happy to see this released into the wider world. 

Congrats, Glittergear! 

[Prof Errata]

I've put  a look in the dialogs of this mod ; good work Glittergear ! Having said this, have you the intent to add in the future something for ToB ? At least 3/4 dialogs if possible, well the ball is in your camp now.

Edited October 10 by Prof Errata

[Glittergear]

1 minute ago, Prof Errata said:

I've put  look in the dialogs of this mod ; good work Glittergear ! Having said this, have you the intent to add in the future something for ToB ? At least 3/4 dialogs if possible, well the ball is in your camp now.

@Prof Errata Thank you! And yup! I do plan on adding 3 timered talks to ToB, as well as both a Bromance and actual Romance track. I just haven't done the ToB part yet, because I've never actually played ToB! Currently working on changing that though. Crossing my fingers that the ToB portion will be done by end of October

I also have more ideas for SoA talks as well, now that I'm revisiting SoA proper (and not just speedrunning it to test the mod!)

[Prof Errata]

Well, play ToB now (this finale for the whole BG2 saga isn't  great, if you want my opinion), and I hope we'll have your mod complete soon. It's not impossible I'll translate it in French in a near future, I would see. A good thing you could do is to traify the mod if you know how to proceed, it'll facilitate the future translations, and well thank you by advance.

Edited October 10 by Prof Errata