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Tales of Everwood
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Submitted by Sharlock on 2020-11-12 12:43.
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2020-11-18 13:50
Tales of Everwood
Greetings! This module is an update of an earlier module I did named "Everwood". It was not complete, but this one is. I hope you enjoy your time in Everwood. It is a place of many possibilities. Depending on your race and alignment, you may find different options available. Those who like to play unusual characters with high charisma or persuade skills may find certain advantages in dialogue (as it should be). I have tried to include enough options in dialogue to make things interesting and allow you, the player, the chance to branch out a bit. The module is not completely open ended. If you are someone who likes to simply kill everything in sight, you may find yourself with little to do. Most NPCs are there for a reason. If an NPC has a name, and is not hostile, I would highly suggest trying to talk to them before killing them. Some will have valuable information, some will not.
I would suggest a total level amount of 1-3 to start the module. It would probably be a little tough for a single level 1 PC, and a little easy for a level 3 PC (for multiple players, the same total level suggestions would apply, i.e. it would be easy for one level 2, and one level 1 PC). A player may respawn upon death. The PC will respawn at a Temple of Pelor in the town of Everwood. Default penalties will apply. I chose respawning in the temple to provide some disincentive to blindly running through areas. Try to roleplay a little, would an adventurer blindly run through a dungeon? There is no teleporting or portals, and the areas are fairly large, so you will waste a lot of time if you continually die and respawn. In addition, you may only rest every 8 hours. I hope you will see this as a dose of realism rather than an unfair restriction.
There are 5 major areas: Town of Everwood, Bogan Village, Foothills of the Foggy Mountains, South Lost Forest(South Wood), and Lost Forest(Lost Wood), and numerous areas accessed from these areas. The Town of Everwood is the starting location. Bogan Village may be accessed to the south, the Foothills of the Foggy Mountains to the north, and the Lost Forest to the east (LF is restricted until certain conditions are met). South Lost Forest may be accessed from Bogan Village to the east.
All quest experience is awarded per party. Because of this, I would suggest no more than 2 PCs play at a time. This will ensure the PCs are of a high enough level to tackle the ending quests. If you are playing with 2 PCs, there will probably be conflicts if you both talk to the same NPCs and accept the same quests. I would suggest one PC does the talking and accepting of quests. If you have any suggestions or comments, or find a bug, please put them in the comments section at the NWN Vault and I will try to address them.
I would estimate total gameplay at around 8 hours.
Some content is of a mature nature and may not be appropriate for all audiences. I would rate it as PG-13.
This module only uses one hakpak: https://neverwintervault.org/project/nwn1/hakpak/orc-females-children
v1.11: Small dialogue, journal, music, and script corrections and edits
v1.2: Bug fix concerning factions
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 Tales of Everwood v1.2 (23) | 482.37 KB |
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Thanks for posting. I've been looking for a low-level short adventure to play with my son. Once we've finished it, we'll let you know how it went and leave a proper review.
P.S. For future projects, please archive your submission with 7zip, WinRar, or WinZip. Thanks! I've fixed this one.
I am just starting this one, and it is well done. However, I should advise that content is for mature audiences, IMHO.
Yes, I agree that some of the content is of a mature nature. I will add a PG-13 warning. Thank you.
Can't rate this content as it won't load on my IPad- it's the 1st module that has happened with, everything else has (after much frantic loading of hak packs and talk files etc)
just thought you might be interested in the fact.
Sorry to hear that! I don’t know anything about various system requirements. The only unusual thing with this mod is that it was started with NWN and finished with NWNEE. It seems to work fine with various Windows PCs I’ve tested it on.
With which version of the EE was it built / last saved? I'm assuming the most recent one? I haven't updated my game since May (Stable Patch .13 - that's after the 64 bit change already -, now it's on Dev Build .19 / Stable Patch .16), and when I try to load your module I'm told it's not compatible with my version.
v81.8193.16 is what the game says when I start it up.
I'm supposed to find tax receipts for Big Bear and i've talked to the beggar who told me to ask the mayor. However when i talk to the mayor there is no conversation choices regarding the receipts. Am i missing something?
Spoiler: Try Kard at the Jacobson house :) Joseph the Beggar should have mentioned both people. He has to mention the mayor in case the PC upset certain people. It is assumed the PC will be working for Nicolas and Kard before Big Bear. I think there also may be a hidden crate outside the Mayor’s house, but you need to have pick lock skills to open it.
Edit: No, you are right, for that he only should have mentioned the Mayor. You may have to do some work for the Jacobsons first and the Mayor before he will give you that choice. I may need to tinker with that plot line if people are going to see Big Bear first.
Thanks!
I'm pretty sure he only mentioned the mayor though.
Edit: I tried talking to Kard, but he wants me to kill the predator and bring him the heart (which i've obviously already done) and has no other conversation options. I did find the receipts in the crate outside the mayors house, but i'm wondering if the Kard 'bug' will give me any trouble in the future?
Spoiler: Have you done the document quest for the Mayor? The Mayor has a quest to deliver documents to Lord Dunnycull. This quest comes up after you complete the predator quest for Kard. Kard should have told you that the mayor has the key to Wolf Cave. Kard should also give a caravan quest.
Yes i've delivered the documents for Dunnycull, gotten the key to the cave, explored it, reported back to the priest and gotten the quest to destroy whatever is down there (haven't done that yet). Kard hasn't mentioned anything about a caravan to me.
OK. I'm not sure what would cause that other than breaking dialogue. The dialogue options are what set the local variables that determine other conversation options. I haven't run into these issues before. You should still be able to do most of the major quests.
Maybe if i can spawn the predator heart in any way, Kard will let me progress beyond the quest?
I'm not sure because the only way you can get the carvan quest is to have the local variable nJacobsonSonQuest = 2, which you get at the very end of the Predator quest conversation. That local variable opens up "I've got more work if your interested" when you talk to Kard again. It should have been available immediately after ending the Predator quest dialgoue when you initiated conversation again. I've tested that one many times.
I'd be interested to know what Kard says to you when you initiate conversation with him.
I ran into this issue as well. I see you've posted a new version. I will download that and try again.
Ok, I finally tracked down the initial bug you reported. When you talked to Joseph it changed the local variable, which broke the Mayor's dialogue option. I uploaded a new mod file and this is now corrected. Thank you.
Incidentally, the reason this doesn't work on Android is that Beamdog haven't updated the EE version on Android to 1.81 yet.
Bug alert and spoiler: The NPC Gingko the Great in the Old Temple has his faction set to commoner. If you have downloaded a prior version, you can change his faction to hostile or persons to be assassinated in the toolset. Fixed in v1.2.
Heh. I thought he was just being friendly so that PC would come closer, giving Gingko the chance surprise attack!
Yes, that is the plan :) I only suggested hostile faction to make it easier for people to find a faction to fix the bug. The persons to be assassinated faction will keep him neutral until conversation.