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Aribeth's Redemption - Chapter One
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Submitted by Daniel Muth on 2014-07-31 22:13.
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| Title | Aribeth's Redemption Chapter 1 |
| Author | Daniel Muth |
| Submitted / Updated | 06-27-2006 / 04-10-2007 |
| Category | Official Campaign |
| Expansions | HOTU-1.67 |
| Setting | Neverwinter, on your successful return from giving Morag a well-deserved heave-ho. |
| Gameplay Length | 5-7 |
| Number Players | 1 |
| Language | English |
| Level Range | 14-17 |
| Races | Any Male |
| Tricks & Traps | Light |
| Roleplay | Heavy |
| Hack & Slash | Medium |
| Classes | Written mainly for Paladins, but any Lawful and/or Good character should work. It ought to be someone Aribeth would be interested in. |
| Scope | Part of Series |
| DMNeeded | No DM Required |
| Single or Multiplayer | Single Player |
| Max Character Level | 17 |
| Max # Players | 01 |
| Min # Players | 01 |
| Min Character Level | 14 |
| Content Rating | Everyone |
| Alignments | Lawful Good; Neutral Good, Lawful Neutral |
| Gameplay Hours | 05 |
| Description | |
| This module is a continuation of the Official Campaign (OC) for Lawful and/or Good male characters interested in pursuing the Aribeth romance. Your character should have saved her at the end of the OC and believe that a fair trial will mean that she gets something other than the end of a noose - and, of course, he has some sort of romantic interest in her. HINT: It's not for everybody. Your chaotic neutral halfling thief will feel distinctly like a dork spouting half of this dialogue. | |
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 aribeths_redemption.zip (3155) | 1.71 MB |
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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...
On the contrary, sir, there are some post-OC modules: http://neverwintervault.org/article/reference/campaigns-and-module-serie...
Psst - shameless plugin :) I have some more to add for post-OC category.
And then sir I have to thank you in return. Really!
I can't count the number of evil characters I put aside in order to use them further. Some of them I put through the terribly difficult "A Hunt for a Necromancer": splendid mod but way too difficult for a non epic character.
As Deekin says when turned from stone to flesh near Ashtara:<<Thank you, thank you, thank you!>>.
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 ...
Regarding the plot and having extra fun... you can play a drinking game with it. Take a shot whenever someone says "Lord" or "Lady". No, wait, don't - you will die.
For statisticians: this module contains 453 "Lords", 400 "Ladies", including 78 "Lady Aribeth"s.
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.
"IHateRegistering" -
OK, so I'm late responding here. Sorry. Regardless, these comments are deserving of a response. I very much appreciate the kind comments and am glad to hear that you generally enjoyed the series. As to your concerns:
1. I get the issue with the ridiculously overpowered monks. I found them difficult if I rushed out and took them all on at once. If, on the other hand, I kept my group in the adjoining room and lured them in one at a time, they're pretty beatable. Let's face it: you have a pretty overpowered group yourself and have infinite heals/resurrections. But, yeah, they're tough. I sympathize.
2. Maybe the rainbow thing is a testament to my engineering background. Every basic physics class on the planet teaches you ROYGBV. I simply couldn't imagine someone not knowing that. My younger brother is a philosophy professor. He tells me that there are people who don't take physics. Oh. My bad. Sorry again.
3. I hear complaints like this and the "Aribeth doesn't help" line fairly often - and always because you have a .hak file loaded (TonyK or something like that) that these modules were not written in anticipation of. Delete it and the thing should run fine - or at least as fine as my limited programming skills will allow.
4. See my first comment above. Try a different strategy. Regardless, I sympathize.
5. My regrets on the clunkiness - particularly early on - of some of the dialogue. I was pretty fixated on matching Tolkien and managed it at times - at others not so much. I particularly regret occasionally mixing up the terms "aught" and "naught" and occasionally misspelling the latter. Duh. Otherwise, as I've said before, I wrote this for me, not necessarily for you and it's no surprise that our tastes occasionally clash. Keep in mind: I prefer Gregorian chant to the Beatles. Just saying.
6. As to the capes, they actually were interesting colors, etc. when I originally wrote the story. Somewhere along the line, Bioware or whoever modified things, washing out the colors. I don't know why. Of course, it could have been on my end. I'm honestly not sure. You can always gather up the cool stuff at the end and use it elsewhere. But again, I sympathize.
I think the foregoing covers most of your other comments. Just a couple of other things:
7. While I freely admit to giving inadequate warnings about the tendency of Bioware to destroy your bags if you leave anything in them when you're stripped for the Ostler's Guild adventure (mea culpa), you get plenty of warnings to not leave anything on Aribeth at the end of each module and when you have her change careers at the beginning of Chapter 3. Plenty. Of. Warnings. This one's on you.
8. Yeah, I screwed up the autosave at the battle where the whole other team joins you. That one's on me. I should fix it. I really should. Some day. Maybe.
On the whole, I appreciate your candid feedback and understand your frustration. I'm particularly glad to hear that your experience was a generally positive one. I try to be clear that this series isn't everyone's cup of tea. It's mine. I did pretty much everything I wanted to with it and am at fault for any and all storytelling issues. And yes, for some of the programming issues as well, though not all of them, as noted at times above. I certainly appreciate anyone who feels strongly enough to take the time to comment at length and grovel in mortification that I didn't get back to you earlier. You deserve a response. I trust that all is well otherwise. Best regards - DWM
i love this mod. i played this thru multiple times. is this compatible with the enhanced edition?
Thanks for responding. I am hating EE so far btw. They screwed up the camera. I wish they wouldve added new lvl cap
Yes it is. I'm currently halfway through Chapter 3. Playing it with NWN :EE on a Chromebok ^_^
What the Shadows of Undrentide expansion should have been and was not. Good story rate 10/10
I loved this mod. Best one I've played of all mods imo. I played it through a few times just because it was so good. My problem now is, I wiped my hd and cleaned up my laptop and can't find a way to get all of these mods and the cep? Can't remember the name of the platform i had that saved all of the mods on. Can anyone help me?
Far too verbose. The dialogues are so long and adorned you have to scroll even in full hd dialogue size. The plot is hamfisted. Anything and everything Aribeth does or did is forgivable. There are also sequences and actions that make absolutely no sense, which I won't share to avoid spoiling. The module is short, clearly old and most probably a first effort by the author. If so, it is a good first effort. He does warn this isn't for everybody, though.
This was a fantastic mod! I basically binge-played it over the past week or so! While some of the dialogue was a bit long, the storytelling was top notch, and the gameplay was addictive. Thank you for building the series!!!!
Thank you for making this modules, enjoying it most of the time. My review:
https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/82259/finished-my-first-playthroug...
I reponded to "marcnivar" over at the Beamdog forum thus:
Smooth transition from the OC makes playing this afterwards nearly a MUST for anyone who loves Aribeth / NWN deducted one point from perfect because of the too verbose dialog which I know was needed for storytelling but it could have been executed better
Maybe it's just me, but I think that if the Hero of Neverwinter (as well as the world, and different alt universes) as a reward for their service would demand release of Aribeth to remain under his/her care, on a condition that she'll be forever banished from Neverwinter, it would have been just fine. They carried survival of that city on their back since chapter one, I'd say that Nasher - and everyone else - owes them a pretty damn significant debt.
Other issues and some exploits:
Regardless - something tells me that if Aribeth would receive a second chance, last thing she'd do is to slip into the lie that made her hate herself and finally snap in the first place and make the same mistake again.