Neverwinter nights-revisited

[DrSpike]

Thanks all. Since so many have posted to say the original campaign sucked I'll skip it. Obviously if you carried your character through I'd be more inclined to play them in sequence. If you start the 1st expansion from scratch then I'll start there.

[Harovan]

The OC is alright. Both XPs are better, though, especially the 2nd. An awesome atmosphere.

You start level 1 in SoU. You can start with a high level character, but you'll meet very easy monsters, so don't. In HoTU, you start at level 15. You can "recycle" your SoU character, who should finish around that level. If you start HoTU with a lesser character, you'll be given 105,000 XP at the start and have to level up (manually or automated).

[Jamski]

You do indeed start the first expansion with a fresh level 1 character, well at least you are supposed to. A character who had completed the OC would simply PWN the 1st expansion so much it wouldn't be fun.

I do reccommend you play at least the Prologue to the OC though, as a kind of introduction to the game, so you can see what works and what sucks when building a character.

And if you want to start in the second expansion, you can get your character up to almost exactly the level required to start (15th level) by hacking through the Dungeon of Apolyton. Everyone likes that.

-Jam

[DrSpike]

Well I don't have the second one yet. I expect I'll choose to play it when I get it with the character that finishes the first expansion.

Don't worry, I'll definitely try DoA anyway.

[Jamski]

Doc, I must have missed this somewhere, your transformation into a RPG "frieeeack" like me You got KOTOR and BG2 last week, NWN today, and you are trying to get hold of BG1....?

Is that right?

That's about a month of doing nothing but gaming to play all that lot

Make sure you don't lose too much sleep/job/wife/food, eh?

-Jam

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by Jamski
Doc, I must have missed this somewhere, your transformation into a RPG "frieeeack" like me You got KOTOR and BG2 last week, NWN today, and you are trying to get hold of BG1....?

Is that right?

That's about a month of doing nothing but gaming to play all that lot

Make sure you don't lose too much sleep/job/wife/food, eh?

-Jam

Well BG/BG2 has been put on the back burner, though I am sure I will play it after your reviews.

I am almost done on KOTOR now, and I really enjoyed it. Probably I should have looked again sooner at a genre I was put off of a long time ago by the RPG's that were mainstream at that time.

As to the rest, I only need 7 hours a day/ it's holidays so I have no students to teach, and research is drawing to a close since I leave for a new job in July/we're not married yet! Also I am adept at fitting in gaming hours around spending time with my gf/I still have time to eat.

[SirOsis]

Originally posted by Sir Ralph
In HoTU, you start at level 15. You can "recycle" your SoU character, who should finish around that level. If you start HoTU with a lesser character, you'll be given 105,000 XP at the start and have to level up (manually or automated).

Hmmm... I started with a level 13 monk carried over from SoU. Didn't give me any exp. I think if you are level 12 or higher you should be fine.

[Jamski]

It gives you the EXP for 15th level unless you are already 12th or higher. Of course, if you are lower, then the encounters will give you more EXP, bring you level by the middle of chapter 2 or so, and if you are higher, they will give you less or no EXP, with the same result.

-Jam

[DrSpike]

I'm presuming I should just install the game, then the expansion, then the 1.62 patch for the first expansion. Is that right?

[SirOsis]

Originally posted by Doc
I'm presuming I should just install the game, then the expansion, then the 1.62 patch for the first expansion. Is that right?

That is correct.

[Harovan]

Originally posted by SirOsis
Hmmm... I started with a level 13 monk carried over from SoU. Didn't give me any exp. I think if you are level 12 or higher you should be fine.

Yes, if you start the campaign as level 12, 13 or 14 character, you won't be given the XP to level up to 15. Still you'll be able to play the game. I already regret, that I started with a new level 15 fighter/dwarven defender. Right now I'm in the mid of chapter 2, am level 22 (10 fighter, 12 dwarven defender), have 32 strength (with items, I can carry over 1700 pounds), am wielding a dire mace +5, +2d6 cold, +2 regeneration, for which I have epic focus, specialization and improved crit, have more than 300 hit points even without my boots of striding, and there's virtually nothing what can seriously threaten me anymore. Wish there was a bit of a challenge left.

[Jamski]

I thought I was unkillable untill I met some of the "boss fights" in chapter 2 - in particular a certain dracolich and a certain dead-magic infected spide zone. Now Chapter 3 is killing even my girl with the hacked Katana of Jamskianna Mu

-Jam

[Harovan]

Are you a fan of the drow girl too? She's awesome, execopt that she can't deal with traps, what I would expect from a partial rogue. But she made me forget the losers I resurrected in chaprter 1 ßpretty quick.

Ugh, it's harfd to tpye with several liters of bavarian beer inside.

[Jamski]

If its Erdinger I'm managing OK tonight rost:

She's very cool indeed, especially her voice when she says "Gut gemacht!" I told her to concentrate on being an Assassin, not a wizard, and I keep telling her to cast Stoneskin and Invisibilty on herself to keep her alive a bit. Its good that I still have 27 charges or something in that rod of ressurection the babe in the Prologue gave me.

-Jam

[Unspeakable Horror]

Yep, you even get a magical item that´s supposed to be from that previous adventure IIRC...