Aribeth's Redemption - Chapter One

Since there were not so many "post-OC" modules this had to be a must try. Good module to further your lawful good character especially if you are a fan of the elven paladin.

The very verbose dialogues can be a little annoying playing the module a second time and the fact that the sentences are not placed for being properly clicked with your mouse you find yourself moving the pointer all the time in order to progress faster.

The mod is well balanced apart from the second encounter which I found a little bit hard but the encounters (at least in the church's basements) were a little bit repetitive.

Surely the mod was able to make me feel guilty everytime Aribeth was to be resurrected if she died in action...

I've played the module now and I found it to be more enjoyable and well-balanced than many others out there.

I may have found a bug though or perhaps I did something to disable a necessary trigger... I can't find the Dwarven heirloom halberd "Spike" or "Smike" or whatever it's called. I have looked everywhere but to no avail. Does anyone know how and/or where it can be found?

After you bear through trial and first few encounters it gets better and better.

- there are walls of text, followed by walls of text written in hard and official if not pompous tone. Typos all around as well(in conversation, if not prompted otherwise): "servent" - Lord Nasher; "canker"(should be cancer? I am not sure.) - Darene Fettian; "ought"(should be "nought"?) - Tulduil (trail conversation); "my L.ady"&"it is to hoped" - Aribeth; "siince" - Delinus mountor; "the"(should be "she") - aarin gend; Possibly many more typos and grammar errors, I advise to use NWNSpellchecker.
- one door in city core is openable but with no transition
- can't make stakes by smashing WOODEN doors, chests etc. on the 2nd level of basement
- vampire cultists attack gaseous forms..
- undead trolls ain't undead
- no black market to sell traps to

I fully agree with Werelynx, but would like to add that I find the story interesting. I would have hoped the trial to be conducted more like in the OC, where you had to find clues and convice the jury (I didn't look in the toolset if there were any conditional scripts, but often the dialogs have only one reply).

Anyway it's well-balanced and nice to play (even if your PC is not a paladin. Mine is not even Lawful Good [actually, I started the OC Neutral, but ended Neutral Good because of various subquests]), although some encounters were quite difficult.

If you'd like to know what happens to Aribeth, don't hesitate to try.

Must agree with the others, And I am an Aribeth fan. Top mod still.

Some walking, but great!

Re-playing this great series after a long time, and it's still one of my favorites!

Onwards to Chapter 2!

Played the series with a half-orc barbarian (CG) from the OC. :-) There seams to be no restiction. Well, taking the plot not too serious could be some extra fun ...

I enjoyed this a lot, it is a good way to continue the story of your character from the OC, and of course, I love Aribeth - don't we all?

It is hard to rate this love / almost hate module.

                                                        Storyline - LOVE

New designs/New character NPC types/ -LOVE

New environments.                                        Overjoyed with LOVE.

The care put into the storyline and the  feeling of adventure .    LOVE

Not starting at level one.  Oh thank you!                                           LOVE

Ability to equip followers with cool items.                                        LOVE

Epic for sure.  Love it.

All three mods:

1.  Some areas were not balanced...attacking monks with ridiculous AC when I had 32 to hit , epic spell casting...nothing harmed them.  There were no tricks or observations to figure out how to bypass.

2. I am uncertain why rainbow levers are supposed to be so easy when no instruction was given, no rewards  or clues given to the observant adventurer either.   When in our childhood have we learned which colors of a rainbow are first, let alone in which order?  I had to give in and read the walkthrough.

3. If I had 4 people in the group and I wanted to check inventory on the 4th follower, I would have to ask the the same character to see the inventory 4 times.  Every time I asked, it would 'unhire'  the previous party member until the npc I wanted to make a transaction with, was the only one left.  I would then have to 're hire' each member.

4.  At the end, I had 73 AC and they were still hitting me.   It was easier to just let everyone die and wait out the enemies buffs, then resurrect the one guy who could actually hit them every 1 minute.....oh my goodness...

It took 3 seconds to kill the main objective (trying not to spoil it) and it took 40 minutes to come close to defeating the adepts, then dying, then trying a new tactic that would take at least another 30 minutes.

5. Dialogue demeanor and flowery narration are good, then not so good.  In other words, the same flowery notation from each npc talking in the same conversation; is a double whammy and lessens the good experience.

6. All three mods  had limited uninteresting capes, magical items and bags until the end of the story.  At the very end there were interesting and fun items      including bags, but who cares since the game is over.

I played a lawful neutral druid.  I am a female and I was aware this mod was written for young males to fantasize adventuring with a controversial character.  I thought that would be the only thing I had to deal with.  I was wrong.

      1.  Scripts didn't trigger and I had to replay an earlier save after I realized I had nowhere to go and out of desperation went to the only logical place that I had already been to; and the scene changed because dialogue finally 'fired'.

     2.  The entire story was based on the love of two people and immersion so easily broken because I had to single play for the entirety of the third mod.                    I couldn't even advance faster because I was sharing with another and was afraid to let her leave the party in case I might miss parts of the story with             her not there.

    3.  I had built up Aribeth in the second mod and the third mod and even went broke. All the gear I labored for was stripped after agreeing to quest for the 'Holy Order'.

        When I went to reclaim original gear..... +4 regen ring-gone     Aribeths upgraded avenger sword--GONE.....Aribeths shield-gone.     Aribeth's body  armor----gone.    At one point my ring of power was downgraded to lesser (even though it was obtained legally in one of the earlier mods).

Other items-gone.    I was very unhappy. 

   4.   In the third mod, I had to reload because towards the end, I had died in the epic battle where I had at least 8 people joined with me.   The issue was

when I reloaded, they were not joined with me and were 'red' enemies inside the area they were supposed to be attacking.

I deleted that save game and loaded an earlier one an the guy who is in charge of the entire operation attacked his second in command.  So I had to delete THAT save,  Much time wasted.

I finally got past that part only to have the issue reappear, this time I didn't die to trigger it.  Once I lost camera control and the Lord Nasher was making his speech, everyone went crazy, killed Lord Nasher (WHILE I was reading his dialogue). 

I reloaded the ending part again with same conclusion.  On the thrid attempt, I had to PAUSE, read dialogue, pause, read,pause; etc ) and that was how I managed to get around it.   But then, the epilogue had the same issue of people attacking, distracting me from reading.

Much frustration over fighting bug monsters. 

All 3 mods together made one lovely story and is easily more than 15 hours.  I must have played for at least 30 hours for just the third mod, if not more (minus glitches).

  This is a mod that deserves attention because it is a litmus test for other modders to measure up with.

This mod series has soul.