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Lords of Darkness 1 - The Fugitive (V3.0)
Original description: The Kingdom of Arboril once was a peaceful and beautiful place. 100 years ago, King Edgar the Wise ruled the land and was loved by the people for bringing peace, prosperity and freedom to the land. But that all changed when King lost both his children, leaving the Throne of Arboril without a heir. Full of grief, the King laid the power into the hands of his advisor, the young Lord Gaeldorn. But, full of lust for power, Lord Gaeldorn's first and only intention wasn't to do good for his people. Since after King Edgar died, Lord Gaeldorn ruled the lands with an iron fist. The people's rights were taken away, replaced by a system of oppressive laws getting harsher each day. The more dissatisfied the citizens became with their new rulers, the more oppressive Gaeldorn's laws became. Decades later, it's a day like any other when you start to go shopping on Arboril City's Grand Plaza market. It is a day which will become the last normal day in your life...
Pay attention: CEP1 is needed to play.
| Attachment | Size |
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 Lords of Darkness 1 - The Fugitive (1872) | 1.88 MB |
 Readme File | 26.65 KB |
This is one of my all time favourite mods.
I loved this Module. Absolutely one of the best if not the. The best use of shadowdancer/assassins of any I have played. He actually makes high level opponents which attack you like a human. I love the story line, plot twists, right up there with the best of all time. Challenging and rewarding, masterpiece.
I still recall playing this series a number of years back. It was hands down one of the greatest mod series for NWN!
Now I'd like to play it again. Unfortunately, after downloading everything as per the instructions above, when I try to launch the module, I am told that a required custom talk table is missing. Can anyone help?
Do you have the CEP1 talk table in your tlk folder? It comes with the CEP1 download.
Good point, thanks! It turns out I apparently forgot to extract that. Now I've got it, plus the hakpaks, and I'm all set to go!
(BTW: the link above to CEP does not work, but searching for "CEP" finds a link to the "CEP1 complete" project, which has everything we need.)
Thanks again for your incredibly fast and helpful response!
Thanks for pointing that out - I updated the CEP1 link to the latest version.
I just replayed this mod after many years, and I enjoyed it even more this time around! I'm looking forward to continuing to Part 2, Onwards! :-)
Great mod!
This is the vote for the whole saga. Comment under the 4th module.
relatively good saga
No way :) When you think you played everything that's best on the Vault, another highly-rated saga you've never heard of pops up... I should thank those of you guys who update "Top Modules" list on the main page of neverwintervault.org. Added to my to-do list.
A rating for the whole series. The comment will be under Part 4
Hi, two questions:
1/ Can somebody who completed the saga tell if this story allows for fighter/mage build? I mean does it offer items with negative Arcane Spell Failure?
2/ In spite of installing custom music I keep hearing standard motives in module 2. Is music implemented only in module 3 and 4 ?
I was hoping someone would answer Greg's questions from last year, especially Q 2 about the music. I have experienced standard music accompaniment, after downloading multiple custom music files for various modules, so am very interested if something needs to be "tweaked" to get custom music to function properly for some modules, and if so, what...?
Thank you in advance to anyone who can answer Greg's previous questions.
And Thank all of you who have commented here on this heretofore unknown series that by all accounts, may be my next new fave... Love me some H & S & romance...
Great module, perfect level progress, you never get bored!
Note for whoever is having problems playing this module due to 1) cloak being invisible in inventory and/or 2) game crashes when opening a store:
USE CEP v1.x haks and *DO NOT* use "Cep1 complete (pre-release)" files. Problems just disappeared.
Just finished playing through all four modules in this series, and what a ride! :D Lots of fun and interesting challenges
Suprisingly, I don't typically enjoy hack'n'slash adventures but I found I couldn't stop playing this series. There's enough fun storyline, just a smidge of roleplaying, and romance scenes to sate my need for a roleplaying adventure (dialogue options can be very linear, but ultimate end game choices & relationship determinations are all up to you, which was great!) I ended up loving my character too (i'm so sad to see the story end, but it was a very satisfying conclusion!) and the combat was challenging enough to keep my interest in gameplay from ever waning. :)
LOVED IT! <3 Thank you for your hard work making this series!!!!
I'll repeat here my review added under chapter 1 of this saga:
I've completed the whole saga on level 27 or so (rogue/fighting cleric) and I am suprised how hack-n-slashy game can be enjoyable and challenging. For those, who are into this type of gameplay, I would rate it 10/10 (a perfect choice!), but for those who are all about the story, it would earn 7/10 or 8/10. In general, I believe it deserves 9/10 with a caveat that chapters 1-4 will become increasingly hack-n-slashy by the end and that the game offers many plot cliches. It is also linear - so not too much choices apart from how you treat (romanceable) Alanya and one good/evil choice in the last chapter. In short, it is more of an Icewind Dale than Baldur's Gate, but it's enjoyable and you can develop your character to epic levels and tinker with his/her fighting skills propely.
Sometimes the areas are too bloated (forget looking for some chest tucked away in the map's corner - the corner wil be most likely an empty space not worth visiting), but you can see the author made his best to make player experience rewarding: landscape tilesets are interesting and there is a nice selection of custom battle-encouraging music added - something that is frequently neglected by the module authors but adds a lot to an overall climate of run-run-we-must-prevail! setting of this story. Just as nice selection of armors and weapons suitable for most classes. The modules are also bug free: I experienced only a minor bug by the end of last chapter (if you're not accompanied by Alanya, the officer won't talk to you due to script malfunction and you will have to figure out by yourself her key opens cellar in the castle).
Anyway, the experience is rewarding and I would gladly play another epic hasknslash saga by the author.
I believe that this is the second 10 star rating that I have given. I am not a Module developer but I do know what I like, and this was a true masterpiece.The best part for me was the Henchperson interface, with full control and dialogue throughout the adventure. This review is for all four parts combined. All transitions and quests seemed to work, and I am a fan of the more linear adventure, which this is. There were some very nice items to buy or pick up, especially as things went along. And the twist that happened was unlooked for, but should have been expected!
Tremendous work. Thank you profusely, Fantus.
Many thanks for sharing this most enjoyable series.
Really enjoying this so far. I do feel though that some of the area design is a bit repetative.
This was, by far, one of the best modules I have ever played! Expertly written and created1 Pantheon of NWN Module greatness.