Sanctum of the Archmage - The Sight and The Quest

It looks very promising, but there is a problem which currently (april 2020) prevents playing it on Linux with the EE client.

https://support.baldursgate.com/issues/40364

Hopefully this can be fixed in the client soon.

Hi there. New to NWN and so new to mods etc. I installed everything as specified but I can't unlock the front door...I'm certain there is something I didn't put in the right folder !!

I downloaded the latest CEP (2.65 I think). I noticed after greeting the companion when I went upstairs to talk to Len I could neither talk to him nor get out of the room. 

Certain it's my fault but can you give me some guidance as I really like it so far........

EDIT: Apparently didn't install CEP properly...still can't find an erf folder so I put those with the other erf files - apparently subscribing to CEP via Steam doesn't work

@thirstyman "apparently subscribing to CEP via Steam doesn't work" - not quite true - see my reply on the CEP page.

Tried to install using NIT but it didn't pull most of the required files and did not install the mod files in the correct folder either.

There is a big list of requred files to install (CSP etc) but NIT is not picking these up.

Does this mean I need to install these separately with NIT?

Is this the reason the module files are not being placed in the module folder?

Thanks, I did that and now everything works. Thanks for all the help.

Absolutely loved both modules! Well done Andarian! 

Just started this module and it's amazing so far. As a previous poster mentioned (@thirstyman) I also had issues navigating to other zones. I was also using the Steam version of CEP, and I literally couldn't enter any building. (There were no doors at all) I was also stuck in Len's room. Further on, I cannot progress the story after the picnic scene as I cannot access the Lodge front door after the fight. So I uninstalled the CEP Steam version and currently downloading the CEP linked to this page. I'll give an update on how things go lol :)

Made an account here just to comment how much I would LOVE to see the next part of this series in module form! I first discovered it years ago around 2011, and it's stuck in my head since then as one of my favorite stories. Rediscovered it now and eager to play again in EE :) It would be an incredible joy for the next chapter to finally see the light. Many thanks to you for all your hard work thus far. 

Please help! I am really enjoying this module but tbh i'm terrible at complicated mods without a walkthrough. I am stuck trying to get into Len's lab, I get downstairs into the lab and go to open the steel door and get the message from Len " please speak the passcode to get through". I have no idea what it is!! Am i suppose to guess or is it somewhere in the game??I feel like I have done everything up to this point correctly so I am not quite sure what I missed. 

I started playing this Module and it's pretty good.

Anyone have suggestions on Ranger / Harper Scout Favored Enemy? I chose Outsiders as my first one after seeing the theme should be based on some sort of uprising / war with such creatures and encountering several at the very beginning.

Alas, by the time I levelled to Character Level 2 and became a Ranger I haven't encountered any, but that's ok, it makes sense for my Character to have chosen the creature type that murdered his parents and forest-dwelling community, besides, I'm sure there will be some encounters later, perhaps by Chapter 2.

At Ranger Level 5 I picked Undead, which made sense going with clues earlier in the game. It has been pretty useful in the crypts, especially since a few seem to have Damage Reduction due to our lack of proper magical weapons to bypass such defenses, except for Robin's weapon which is pretty nice.

I was curious and could not find any suggestions, including in the Spoilers files.

Thank you

I just finished Chapter 2 and very much enjoyed these modules!

Story-driven, I liked the way we moved forward in the story arc, plus a bit of combat and the romance options I found interesting. Items and gold are kept in check, nothing exagerated, which I prefer. Though I'm sure if I had put more in Crafting and Spellcraft I could have made a lot more money if I wanted, but since I think basic materials are kept in check it wouldn't have "broken" anything (There were a few very expensive items that could have been bought with such money-making endeavours).

I played it for the storytelling and was not disappointed. The world history and concepts are cool, I'll have a look at the books to satisfy some of my questions and curiosities.

I have to admit, near the end after resting in the caves I wasn't expecting the module to stop so soon after, I was all hyped for my adventure to Rayche! So I actually finished 2 days ago when I last saved my game there, waiting for a nice long block of free time before continuing to the next leg of this quest! Which I planned for a nice 4 hour block this evening, haha, turned to less than 5 minutes, but I'm taking some of that time to write this, let's be honest it's the least one can do after playing and enjoying a module someone worked so hard to make, especially such an excellent quality set of Mods like this!

I know you've heard it a lot but I have to say it, I'd really love for you to make more, to continue the story we had with Robin, Orion and Diana. There's so much more that can be had!

Just to let you know about my playthrough.

I didn't know anything about your modules beforehand, I mean I've seen some people mention it here and there but never looked into it, I think it was because i had read somewhere it was a Wizard-only mod and whenever I saw mention of it afterwards I just skipped it. I was more into playing Paladins back then, always telling myself one day I'll try Wizard but never did.

A few months ago I started playing again.  I've been seeing these mods pop up on To Play / Favorites lists and finally decided to try it out. Boy am I glad I did :)

Character-wise it panned out, I started as a Rogue then went on to Ranger (I just recently started playing multiclass, and found Rogue skills to be cool in most modules). I went for dual wielder but of course I didn't know it would not mesh very well in these modules, still no biggie. In fact in Mount Cassandra I used the bluesteel ingots to make Pure Bluesteel Chainmail Armour (in-game it's spelled Armoir), finally letting go of my ideals of dual wielding and going with a Medium armour(Little did I know there would only be a few battles after anyways).

Talking about bluesteel, I tried making a Towershield and it took the bluesteel but could never get the shield itself. I tested and could get everything else, only the tower shield would never appear.

In the end I had a Pure Bluesteel Short Sword, Longsword and Chainmail plus I hanged on to several gems.....I was not planning on using the Short Sword much, since no dual wielding, but that Pure Bluesteel Longsword was highly enchanted by those gems ;)

Andarian, I have to say these mods you made are incredible. Some really cool mechanics at work and the modules are very fun to play. I played the original Neverwinter Nights years back and now that I'm back into the Enhanced Edition version I decided to checdk out the community mods for the game. I was blown away by the sheer amount of mods made.

I was really hooked after your first module and I've just completed the second chapter and now I crave chapter 3.

You probably get asked this lots but any idea when you might be finished with chapter 3? I'm absolutely hooked and would deffinetly love to see how this saga goes. Please don't say you've shelved this as you have created an epic adventure story. It needs told and it needs an epic continuation to an epic conclusion. So many questions left to answer... what happens to the protagonist? Do they succeed or fall? What of the realm itself? What happens to the romance with Robin? What happens to the romance with Diana? Is there a love-triangle? How does Robin react when she learns of the protagonist sleeping with Diana...? Does Robin see that pushing you to Diana thats she regrets it and she realises her true feelings? Does a child come of the union? What happened to the fear of heights... as I don't recall my protagonist getting over it but suddenly can ride a pegasus without issue? XD

So many questions and I hope you continue the saga to answer the many more questions we all have :)

Thanks for this mod. Truly impressive in many ways, and if Chapter 3 is ever ready I'm absolutely interested.

While I found the module deeply satisfying in some ways I I found some design features equally deeply aggravating. I know I'm just one data point, but for what it's worth:

1. I loathe undocumented crafting systems: just give me the manual please! At least let there be a low-consequence method of figuring out how it works. Maybe it's just my unfamiliarity with expansion material (or CEP?), but irrevocably failing to craft a superior weapon with superior materials, only to later discover that there would be no further opportunities in that regard, was a major turn-off. By the time I got to chapter 2 I had lost all shame in consulting the editor and/or quicksaving before making any crafting decisions (hello, hidden bluesteel options).

2. In addition to crafting, there were other irrevocable pass/fail tests where the player has to choose between reloading from a previous save (sometimes hella previous), or going forward with a sense of failure. In a non-mission-critical quest that's fine, but that's a nasty choice when it comes to, say, a major romance plotline.

For me these kinds of design decisions broke the sense of immersion in an otherwise really fine story. After an ugly first playthrough and some judicial spying with the editor I was able to redesign my main character and run the module again with far fewer reloads.

My second playthrough was much more satisfying, and also revealed some of the item-randomization and plot-branching features of the module which I thought were excellent. A++ on the earthen child quest with multiple possible endings, and on the cutscene in the cave just prior to the end of Ch. 2.

Aggravations aside, great job and thanks. I have some idea how much work went into this.

# WARNING - SPOILERS - WARNING - #

Sanctum was without a doubt quite an interesting experience. The first thing I noticed was all the content necessary to make the modules work, the author certainly did not skimp on content to use and it is clear that he sought to provide a pleasant and consistent visual experience.

It can be a challenge if you are not prepared, there is no shame in reading the readme to avoid bad surprises. I would put it in difficulty above Aielund saga, comparing it with the first two modules of course.

I admit that I also fell under the impression that you need to be a wizard or sorcerer to enjoy the content, but after reading the author's comment in the vault and beamdog forums where he mentions that this is not true, and that he has also balanced the modules with the other classes also in mind, that's when I decided to play the modules, and the result was that I become quite hooked, eager to know what was next.

At the beginning of the module we are offered options that expand the RP and the gameplay experience, which are the option to start romances, which can also be changed at any point in the game (really nice), have fears of heights, although this is not touched at all in the second module, which is strange, since there is an interesting scene where it would have been good, choose the class of one of your companions (second module) and finally the option to choose the difficulty, that can be changed at any time in the game (again, really nice), although I'm not entirely clear what changes each difficulty caused and if they overlapped with the game's own difficulty system. In my case I decided in my playthrough to choose hard.

The author introduces some mechanics that sought to go for realism, such as, rest was not limited, but he put a restriction that makes sense, which is that of food, that although there is not in abundance, you have enough to not having to get frustrated when you want to rest, but not to do it every second.

A very important mechanic that should be mentioned is that of Talent, which is necessary to make the plot move, it works through 3 attributes, INT, WIS and Charisma, which of course can be artificially raised in different ways, but I thought, what melee class could I use to have an easier time reaching talent checks? ... ranger, cleric, maybe paladin? In the end, I choose bard so I can cheese with the classic FTR/RDD combo, and man, I have my ass delivered very well, not even expertise allow me to cheese, it can even happen in easy if you are not careful, something that I liked from a RP perspective, since i consider that we are not the main character , we are the henchmen, with 0 experience in the real world, maybe this is also the explanation why the companions are always one level above the PC and have better equipment.

Speaking of equipment, the author recommends in the readme to invest in crafting skills due to lack of good equipment at the beginning, which I agree with, and I plan to invest in that in a possible future playthrough, I must mention that in my playthrough, the highest I could get as a weapon in the first module was a +1 longsword and in the second a similar sword but with fire damage, both of which served me pretty well until I noticed that some enemies were invulnerable to damage that me and Orion inflicted, in the first module they are really few and that I remember they appeared individually, the most notable were the demons in the second module, the PC, Orion, nor the NPCs, could inflict damage, only Robin, which caused the fight to be less fluid, since if the enemies focused on Robin, he/she would fall like a fly, or simply decide to enter casting mode, reducing the damage to practically 0. It was not until I arrived with the blacksmith of the palace with the bluesteel, that I become independent of Robin, but of course, at this point the module is almost over and there is only one encounter left where the equipment can be used for the first time.

The design of the first module is about exploration while in the second it is about linearity with a narrative focus more towards the relationships between our group, in gameplay it felt almost like a boss rush.

In general, the encounters seemed well designed, although I am sure that the "divide and conquer" will not be to everyone's taste.

The story seems pretty conventional to me at the moment, but what can I say, good versus evil stories are still enjoyable for me.

I like the world bulding of the author, although it is difficult not to make some comparisons with the different races of elves that exist, earth being dwarves and hell being drow. The introduction of the old races and the sci fi elements, early on, is a plus for me, since you don't have to resort to it as a plot twist at the end.

For me the narrative highlights are the discussions about faith, ethics, morals and other things with Orion.

Finally I want to mention that if the author decides that continuing to work on the modules is not worth the time invested, I want to thank him, since we have another medium where we can follow the story and above all, support the author with his new adventure IRL. Thank you for your work and best of luck.

I have a problem with downloading the mod and tlk files - links provided in the PDF file don't work. Is there a possibility of getting them from another source?