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In P#Scenery.tra line 318 should read: @318 = ~You will never see it, carrion. I'll kill you for thinking this.~

Well, you are right, if it is not implied directly, it can be assumed, but then other people assume things as well.... Ultimately for me the decision is in the story-arc. Ie in Dynaheir's romance a couple of plot points makes it more interesting to romance a male (ie Dynaheir associating their relationship with Fyrra-Hathran relationship, which are gender-dependent roles, and Dynaheir's initial infatuation with the image of Bhaalspawn imbedded in Sarevok) - hence the roamcne for a female PC would have been quite different. And the same, only reverse was true for Shar-Teel with both her previous Czars not liking the far too primitive stereotype, and to me the idea of a 'reverse' of the abusive male who thinks all women are fools but will sleep with them right and left was more interesting. My point is, the author writes a romance that makes sense to him/her, and simple pronouns substitution, much as I admire and respect Wes Weimer is not the way to go. I have an experience with writing a romance for a bisexual NPC, and to start with I paid attention to the fact that the NPC will be bisexual, and then I talked and discussed at length what sort of options are needed for the same-sex romance as opposite to the hetero-sexual romance, and went through every talk updating the options, substituting the talks, putting new ones in.... I think unless one does it properly, one kind of sells the whole romance short to both the male and the female player. No, I don't play my own mods, apart from testing and bug-fixing. I do tend to forget the texts I've written because I write so much, so, sometimes I get pleseantly surprised, and sometimes unpleasently surprised when I test my stuff. But, yes, absolutely, my jollies with modding come from creating and the anticipation of a new project, finally getting into the new project, and upgrading the skills. I blush when I think of my early works, and I evolved from writing for someone else's characters because someone wanted me to, to writing for 1 non-original character because I wanted to, to writing for a bunch of non-original charcaters because I wanted to know if I can, to writing for a bunch of original characters 'cause I wanted to play a game other than BG1-BG2 in style, and I am finally scratching the surface of building s small story all of my own. It's an amazing feeling to know what you can do, and what you still need to learn. Modding also gives you a critical eye. You play other people mods and commercial games, and you know what was done great, which makes you applaud the author (and envy him or her a bit in a good way), or yes, yes, it makes you roll your eyes and mutter 'been cuttin' corners, eh?' Modding is an amazing hobby, both creative and technical, and basically holding an endless potential to evolve to the higher and higher level, the way you see those levels (ie my own progression from one non-original NPC to multiple original NPCs to a short story to a long story is not the same as the next modder's).

A poisoned throwing knife, I am sure! I think both Hildury and Nord look pretty much on the money. Fun stuff!

Oh, looks cool. Dare I ask what is that thing on Jaemal's head :) ? And, heh, I doubt that there is a single engine out there that can make Salomeya less than seductive

Opinions and interpretations differ; to be honest I can't see neither of the characters you mentioned as homosexual, from the way they were written. I feel that it's kind of stratching things too far in favor of what a player 'ordered'. It's like searching for a romance by the elimination method, and then just adding it to the last standing NPC (ie Jaheira is married -- out, Coran is a womanizer -- out...). In other words, yes, Garrick has a fling with Safana, and is smitten by Skie, but why can't he also fall in love with a man, even if he never indicated interest in one before? Montaron kills Xzar on an instant, Xzar has a fear of being touched, and the two hate each-other, but they travel together, and Khalid and Jaheira travel together, so... maybe they love each-other? In my view, this is a wastly inferrior method to introducing a new character who is a gay or bisexual from the start. Romance, I think, should always come naturally to the NPC's author. Oh, there are many more reasons than that to start modding! And if you will, G3 has tons of resources to get you started and we're friendly folk with someone always out there to answer questions etc

It's no biggie. I think he looks really blond on both the portraits, but as I said, it's your creative license!

Well, he's actually golden-haired, blue-eyed (let no-one tell that I don't do blond elves!) but artistic license is artistic license

As long as Peony is not bald

Hysterically funny, thanks so much! Mind if I add it to the existing fan-art thread? Edwin needs to be bald to look like a proper Red Wizard, dunno if the game allows you that

I am glad that you are enjoying the mod and Dynaheir's romance. The thing about gay romances is that it is a major statement in a character concept, and the character interpretation is a harsh mistress. Growing personality out of Bio's seedling is a tricky bussiness, an excersise in balance between what everyone else thinks, and what works for you (well, at least it has been my experience). Lean too much one way or another and you'll end up with the character that is either unrecognizable, or far too predictable. In other words, I was adamant that without Jaemal's same sex romance the IWD2NPC mod is incomplete, but it could be the 'it'll kill the character' case for, say, Coran. Have fun with Xan, Branwen, Nathaniel, Solaufein and Co

Oh, yeah, Faldorn is not Shar-Teel, but in its way, I think she'll be harder to make believably romanceable, even if her age is left out of the discussion. I knew where I was going with Shar-Teel, and what could possibly work. With Faldorn, apart from failing to concieve/misscarriage story lines... I don't want to go there, I think. See, for me to become interested in the romance, I need a story-arc, a hook, and I don't think Faldorn provides an angle I haven't worked before.

P#HILDB line 17 should read: @17 = ~However tempting, our leader disallowed my eliminating the racially inferior party members.~ (ie replace Charname to 'our leader'.)

I'd like to quickly comment that I don't see Faldorn as a romanceable character; I think she comments on that in one of the dialogues. For her 'love' does not exist as a concept, it's mating to produce cubs. So, while it would make for a refreshingly short romance to write, I just don't see added interest in it (Faldorn is so evil and mad at you in BG2 because she lost your baby is a novel line, but how many would be interested?). Plus, she's 16 or so yo, which is not quite as bold a statement as Saerileth, but still out of my comfort zone.

Yes, I like this option, as well as moving NPCs' starting locations. Gives more freedom of choice. It's interesting how something like closed Cloakwood, which was always in the game, was actually quite unnecessary. I am glad more people will see Faldorn, she was a hoot to write.

It's like third request for Faldorn's romance in that many days after years of everyone pretty much ignoring her (I mean, there was one historic request for her romance right after XVIII did an alternative portrait, and that was it). I am totally caught of guard with this While I am not doing BG2 stuff, and it might not be a romance per se, some BG1 stuff might be forethcoming for her but not as part of BG1NPC at a future date. Stay tuned into G3 And, lookie, Shar-Teel outscores Coran. A romance with a man-hater works better than a romance with a lady's man. Oh, the ironies!

Any text editor will do, Notepad included.

I don't think anyone started it yet; Couronne de Cuivre used to do the French translations, but the site seemed to have been re-orgnized, and I can't see the translator's guild there anymore. So I just don't know. Maybe someone will come along to take the lead on the French translation and you can help him/her out.

Change to JAROM.tra Line 625 should now read: @625 = ~Yes, and I wish to do it.~

Wonderful, thank you.

If you'd like to give one of the files a proof-read, please grab them from the TRA pack available here: TRAs for V1 of IWD2NPC Please, make sure to post in the thread that you are working on a particular file, least I find myself with three versions of corrections for diriel.tra

I uploaded all the TRA files here: TRAs for V1 of IWD2NPC Please, feel free to announce which translation you'll be doing here. I definetly hope that there will be more than one person translating the set. It is 18,000 lines, which is not the biggest mod out there, of course, but still pretty heavy on anyone. Thanks for your interest, and I hope that IWD2NPC will eventually be seen and heard in other languages. If possible, you might want to leave PID.tra for later, because it will be the only file amended when I'll add Diriel's romance (though a couple of new files will also come).

OMG, we have Firefly cast in IWD2 NPC Damn, I am missing Jayne!

I thought Peony looks like Kaylee Does Salomeya look like Inara?

Thank you

I don't know. We have 3 priests' concepts, but it's unknown if there will be time and willingness to develop them.