A Strange World III - Diary of an adventurer

A Strange World III - Diary of an adventurer

A Strange World III - Diary of an Adventurer is a single player story driven module for a level 1 male player character (human, half-elf, dwarf or elf) of any alignment in a custom world. (Need to play a male character - the story won't make sense with a female character. Sorry!)
Most of the dialogue choices assumes you're not an evil character. This is a standalone adventure and you don't need to have played A Strange World or A Strange World II before this one. However, I would recommend you playing the those two since some characters from those might appear, and there is talk about the events that happened which you may not understand. And if you plan on playing the first A Strange World or A Strange World II later you will be spoiled in this module. It's a light hearted module with focus on romance, story and characters.

This module took about 1 year and 6 months to complete. A lot of hard work was put into it, so please be kind and respectable if critizising. I've really done the best I can, but I'm neither a writer or coder. I do this just as a hobby. NWN2 is a bit buggy still, and everything may not work perfectly all the time. I've only used prefab areas, just as with my other modules, so no areas you see have been done by me, only modified by me. See further down for details.

The playing time is about 8 hours, maybe more. Use a level 1 character to start with. You will be levelled up to level 3 at the beginning of the module. For roleplay and dialogue purposes please play either human, dwarf, half-elf or elf. This one is a bit more linear than ASW2. This module is set in the world with no name that the characters went to in ASW2.

WARNING : This module contains Adult content. Even if it's most of the times skippable, don't play if you are young and uncorrupted. Don't let your children play it. Patch level 1.23. Requires both extensions MotB and SoZ.


Story Synopsis:

Almost 30 years after the events of A Strange World II, the king of Dolsea, King Menglen I, finds his daughter being kidnapped by the evil wizard Septimus. The daughter, a warrior princess - who was leading a raid against the wizard's tower at the time - underestimated the enchanter's superior forces and were captured. Chancellor Julovius of the royal court, put forth a call for all heroes and adventures in the region, summoning them to the small village of Fallbrook, in an attempt to stage a rescue of the princess. Princess Elvera - beloved by all - is said to be as beautiful as she is mild and just. Her older brother, Auboron, the heir to the throne, is abroad conducting business of trade with the neighbouring countries, thus not being able to help at this time. Available or not, everyone knows Auboron is a peaceful man, not made for fighting or staging a rescue.

Installation:

Read through this. I'm serious. It's really annoying when people have trouble because they haven't installed things correctly.

I'm sorry for the extremely large override folder. I've downloaded so many things from the vault (I think I've downloaded almost every new head there is and all new armors I could find) that I use that I haven't been able to keep track of what I don't use in this module, therefore I put everything here to be on the safe side.

So the first thing you should do is make a backup of your own override folder before putting all the stuff there.

    
All files must first be uncompressed with 7zip. Then put the contents of each folder into Users\...\Documents\Neverwinter Nights2\ (10, 8, 7, Vista) or into My Documents\... \Neverwinter Nights2\ (XP)
    In detail:

        1. Put the contents of the Music folder into ..\music\
        2. Put the contents of asw3hak folder into ..\hak\
        3. Put the ASW3 folder called  into ..\modules\
        4. Put the contents of the override files (first unpack the 3 zip files, and then right click on the 7z.001 file to unpack the 7z.001,7z.002 and 7z.003 files) into ..\override\  (If for  some reason your own version of the game (if you have a french version for example) can't use Tchos HD  Panels, remove that folder from the override)
        5. Put the asw3Intro.bik file into ..\movies\
        6. Put the ASWIII folder into ..\Campaigns\
        7. Put everything in the Terrains folder to C:\Program Files\Atari\Neverwinter Nights 2\NWN2Toolset\Terrain (or NWN2 Complete\NWN2Toolset\Terrain if that other folder doesn't exist)
        8. OBS! When starting running the game: Select OPTIONS at Game Startup Screen ==> Then GRAPHICS (TAB) and uncheck Normal Mapped Terrain.
        9. When you're about to play for the first time: Choose New Game, New Campaign, A Strange World III

Patch 1.04

- A small bug in the conversation with Bianca where there was a line your character could choose that said "TEST We can go now". If you chose that line she wouldn't be recruited as a henchman. That line must have been there for some kind of testing at some point. Removed that line of conversation.

Patch 1.03

- I found another small thing in the same script I dealt with in Patch 1.02 that could be an issue. Solved that.

Patch 1.02

- One player found a bug when you reenter Dein having Bianca in your party, a conversation is supposed to trigger. If you at the same time don't have Reitherion in your party this conversation wouldn't trigger and broke the game. This is fixed now.

Patch 1.01

- One player found a bug where the quest regarding the captain's first mate wouldn't progress.

External sources used in this module:

Path of Evil areas by Kamal

Arabic Town by Kamal

Kamal's Random Maps by Kamal

Kamal's placeables pack by Kamal (just one from this pack)

Baron's prefabs by Baron RWS

Fallbrook Village by Zarconus

New beautiful cloaks by cuiilv

Shop_Tavern_001_4x4 by Ugly_Duck

Swamp_003_8x8 by Ugly_Duck

Interior_Church_001_5x5 by Ugly_Duck

Lush_Cave_002_6x6 by Ugly_Duck

Mines and Caves by PhD_Zaius

Grey Manor by Ayrik

Custom NPCs by Ayrik

Warehouse by Wyrin

SoZ Walkable Ship Placeable Prefab by MokahTGS

Witcher 3 Armors by Rashi

DA2 Armors by Rashi

Rashi hairstyles by Rashi

Custom handheld mirror model, in combination with drunk animation, by Rashi

Custom parchment/paper model for reading animation by Rashi

Orino's Robe and the Staff of Violation (from Modgames website through Rashi)

Custom apple eating animation by Rashi and rjshae

Merchants - Mage, Pawn & Smithy by Lady Lilia/Shimmer

Temples - Evil, Neutral & Good by Lady Lilia/Shimmer

3 Small Interiors by Vekin

Rustic Tavern and Shrines by Cloud_dancing

Temple Prefab by Daelos&Ungros

Vordan's Shop Wizard by Vordan

Teper's Misty Mountain Treck by Teper's or aadatepe

Wooded Path by Osvaldus

A split road by Liau

KEMO Custom Animations v2 by Kemo

Custom elven city by raymondseabas

Custom love animations by 4760

Custom salute animation by 4760

Custom modifications of heads from Jude Inc.'s The Faces of Neverwinter Project c 2.0 by 4760

Custom modifications of armor by MorgothPalantir

Dragonmount by Puychaud

Angelica Tavern by paf

Yawning Portal tavern by dutch206

New beautifull armors, hairstyles and weapons by MorgothPalantir, PhantaNeko and Antras

Amraphael's Placeables Pack #1 by Amraphael (just one from this pack)

Tchos' Visual Effects for Characters by Tchos

Custom scripts for sitting on chairs by Lance Botelle

Althéa Weather System (LB) (only used in one area) (v2.0) by Lance Botelle

Giant frog by Kalister68

The Adult Overhaul Project by Trinital

Rogue Dao - Lip Flappers by Montgomery Lee Markland

The Faces of Neverwinter Project c 2.0 by Jude Inc.

AkavariBladesArmor armor from Jude's Outfit Pack by Jude Inc. (athornforyourheart) & LivT

GyeonHui_outfit outfit from Jude's Outfit Pack by Jude Inc. (athornforyourheart) & LivT

nameless_knight armor/outfit from Jude's Outfit Pack by Jude Inc. (athornforyourheart) & LivT

commander49_uma armor/outfit from Jude's Outfit Pack by Jude Inc. (athornforyourheart) & LivT

ds_swordsman_outfit from Jude's Outfit Pack by Jude Inc. (athornforyourheart) & LivT

Tag-playing children scripts by Ralf Schemmann from NWN Scripts Archive

Visible Breath Effect by Dann Pigdon

Anduraga's VFX and Light Pack by Anduraga

naiades by Orlondow

Trinity - Custom Placeables Pack by Daronas (Gaming Parents Studios)



Notes about the module:

1. Story driven module for a level 1 human male player character of any alignment, even though the module expects you to be good and not evil (Need to play a male human, elf, half-elf or dwarf character - the story won't make sense with a female character. Sorry!)

2. Animations work most of the time, but since NWN2 is not really fond of animations in general, you might be unlucky and things could sometimes look a bit weird. It has mostly to do with characters sitting down or doing some other custom animation.

3. There are a few known bugs. For example: in one area when one of the companions has left the party and you search for that companion, the companion should be standing at a certain place. However, 50 % of the time the companion comes running towards the party instead. I have no clue as to why the game behaves like this. This thing doesn't break anything though, but it's not as I intended it to work out.

4. 4760 reported this sadly: "Many CTD (crash to desktop). The game froze for many combats (had to kill the process) or some transitions just sent me back to Windows. Possible bug fixes:•Install “Client Extension”•Change the sound settings to “Direct3D”, “no EAX”."
I myself have only had a few crashes when testing, and that's when you come to a certain city area. I made some auto saving there. I'm really sorry about all this. I haven't been able to fix it. 4760 reported that you can use the NWN2 Client Extension to solve these things. However, in my experience, this module, when testing the NWN2 Client Extension on my laptop, it crashed at the first scene in the module (not so on my main computer though). So use that at your own risk. You can find the NWN2 Client Extension here on the vault. Just search for it. As a precaution: Remember to save often.

5. Save often! And keep your save games until completion of the module! If you find bugs that I can correct it will be much easier if you can replay from just before the bug happened! NWN2 is still generally buggy and this could save you from having to replay too much.

6. If the game somehow stops and you can't do anything, it might be because a cutscene dialogue is about to start. Just wait for it to happen. Sometimes it can take, if you're unlucky, up to two whole minutes before a dialogue starts, but I've never encountered any situation where it didn't start eventually. Most of the time it just takes a few seconds for the conversation to run though.

7. All the female companions are romancable, plus one female NPC.

8. There's quite a lot of talking. If you don't like that, this module might not be for you.

9. The fights can be quite easy for a hardcore gamer. However, I think it's a bit more of a challenge at certain areas than my other modules, but I don't know. For me, fights are not the important aspect of this module. It's all about characters, story and light hearted fun.

10. There are a few minor puzzles in the game. They aren't that hard, I think, but you might get stuck in a few places. I've provided a hints guide for these things.

11. Since this is a custom world not everything might work the way you think if you're an expert on D&D and its rules. If you get stuck, try to think outside the
box or check the hints document.

12. If you romance a character, please do not try to romance another at the same time. I think you can romance all those available, if you have enough influence, as I haven't prevented it this time around. It can be quite complicated to prevent this. So if you think it's fun to break the game then by all means, but you have been warned. If you ignore this the game might possibly break, things plays out weridly, and in the end and then you might have to replay a large chunk of the module.

13. When I've tested the module I've always used the Exploration Mode when it comes to camera.



Scripting and toolset help from:

Lance Botelle (a special thanks for convincing and helping me convert my module to campaign)
4760
travus
My brother
kevL_s
kamal
rjshae
Everyone at the nwvault forums
Everyone at Discord's NWN 2 Creator Channel

Beta tested by:

4760 (a very thorough beta testing I might add, so I'm very grateful for this)
My brother
bradcom