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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 (209) | 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 think the problem is that finishing the predator quest does not (always?) change the variable nJacobsonSonQuest. At least that's what has happened in my case: nJacobsonSonQuest was 1 still, never got the caravan quest, found the letter, went back to Kart but he's still asking for the head of the predator. Setting nJacobsonSonQuest to 2 using the console fixed the problem.
Thank you, I will take another look at this. What version are you using?
The date of the Tales of Everwood.mod file is 2020-11-18.
I wasn't able to determine how this bug arises. It looks ok when I examine the conversation branch. However, I moved the script to set the variable to earlier in that conversation branch to be safe. Hopefully that will solve it. I'm going to do some other minor clean up and upload a new version. Thank you for the report.
I have to agree, there seems to no reason why this should not work. Also there's only the at_023 script that sets the variable to 1 and the script is called only in the Kart dialog and only when you accept the quest.
The only problem I see is that you're using three scripts for finishing the quest: one (well, actually two) script for giving XP/gold, a second script for taking the head and a third script for changing the variable. This could leave the quest in an invalid state if for some reason the dialog is canceled (by the player, by accident, whatever). I don't remember if that happened to me but it seems to be the only way to break the quest. Why not put this all in one script? Then regardless what the player does the quest is always in a valid state.
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.
Hello Sharlock,
I believe I've run into a few bugs you may want to look at. These are spoilers, folks. I'm running NWN:EE v81.8193.16.
If that last is a feature, not a bug, then, well, oops - nevermind! Still seemed a bit weird though, since what one typically expects from rifling through a wizard's stuff right under his nose is an opportunity to practice reflex saves, not enough XP to level!
Dustin
Haha, thanks! No, the barrel is probably left over from a test run. I'll check on the others too. I'm working on another version with an alternative ending if you let the orc chief go. Thanks for playing and reporting on the module!
One other thing I spotted yet forgot to mention is that after leaving Ye Olde Magic shop, the PC enters the Everwood Inn to find minor magical items (potions, scrolls) and copper necklaces strewn about the floor. As the PC collects them, more appear.
That's very strange and not intended. I've never intentionally introduced anything to cause that . . . is this after killing the orc chief?
Yes, the Orc Chief (OC) is dead at this point & the PC has his head. The actual sequence was to encounter the OC in his throne room, agree to leave him alone, go back to Ye Olde Magic Shop to buy the scroll of Acid Fog, then go back to the OC's lair and use the scroll to kill the OC.
The point at which I clicked the barrel in the magic shop was after that, before giving Duncully the head and ending the module. At that point I knew there were other opponents that I had not vanquished, so I was planning to attempt those.
I can send you the saved games to analyze if you wish.
You did mention above that you started development under NWN and completed under NWNEE. I don't know much of anything about module building, but I wonder if the change of build versions could have introduced strangeness. FWIW, I ran the module as a multiplayer game even though there was only the single PC. I've no idea if that would have an effect.
I don't know enough to analyze the saves
, which is one of the great features of the toolset - a person like me can design and build a working module! Like you, I wonder if my using the two versions of the game to build the module could cause these issues.
One can probably ask on this site's forums. I went there and searched on "version" and got 50+ results. I've not looked at all of them, but this one popped out:
https://forum.neverwintervault.org/t/how-much-is-known-about-compatibili...
Sifting for clues in the forums is sort of retro, but I get the impression that is where experienced builders are active. (;->
Nice!I also had the issue with Kard and the priest never wanted to know that i found the amulet.Sweet little module.
Enjoyable mod with multiple quest lines, sometimes morally ambiguous, and meaningful choices about whether and how to pursue them. I appreciated the low-key equipment and loot (finishing with mostly +1 equipment, and no high-powered items in stores)--this was one where I could carry the character on to other mods without it feeling like cheating.
Despite playing version 1.2, I still encountered in one game the bug reported previously of the Jacobson son continuing to ask for the predator's heart after the quest was complete. This didn't happen with every playthrough, and I wonder whether it was related to finding the caravaners' remains before being assigned the quest. Aside from that most things seemed to work as intended, apart from a character named Johan respawning endlessly behind the inn and attacking after I turned the smugglers' faction hostile.
One quest I could not finish by any legitimate means was the one involving the blackguard. Even with maximal use of the meager buffs my PC had at hand, I could hit him only with a natural 20 and he seemed to have an endless supply of healing potions to undo my occasional lucky blows. Is there some trick to this that I missed? Another not-completely-welcome quirk was being whisked away to the captain's manor after completing the orc chieftain quest, which prevented selling loot and finishing any remaining quests, except by resorting to the console to get back to town.
All in all an impressive mod lots of personality and attention to detail, varied quests, and a few wrinkles that could be ironed out to further improve. Thanks to the author... and if there is a reasonable way to defeat that blackguard, I'd be interested to learn it.