Good aligned parties.

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I see all these posts for evil alligned parties out there and I have to wonder: where did all the good-doers go? I'm a Cavelier myself and the rest of my party is good alligned also...is it just me? Or am I just a fool taking the hard path...

[ August 06, 2002, 19:41: Message edited by: Blackthorne TA ]

 

Actually all the people posting about evil is because it is probably harder than good so you are not taking the hard path yet the easy path.

 

I always play good (well nearly always), playing evil is annoying.

 

I'm a goodie-good-too-shoes. I love paladins and since I 've recently gotten over my inquisitor hatred I some times tae a partie of only Pallies!

Anyway evil parties suck. Well if you're fighter you should just be evil from the start since in hell the path of evil are alot better.

Anyway the best party to play as is a good party that hides under it's good conversation and helping attitude while in reality it does some nasty sh*t.

 

Trouble is all the good NPCs have rubbish stats. Why have Nalia when you can have Edwin? Wy have Anomen when you can have Viconia? And Korgan is far less trouble than Keldorn, who is so up his own arse that often you have only one option in a quest or he goes crazy.

Minsc is good I'll grant that but he can't specialise past two points. Thus by ToB you'll want to drop him for Sarevok who is generally awesome.

Mazzy and Valygar are mediocre, but then I don't use archers that much because I make use of Jan's crossbow and slingshots for Mages. That leaves us with Imoen is ok but should never have been dualled to a mage.

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If you think to yourself that you can change Viconia and Sarevok's alignment though that means you could have a party of...

Keldorn
Sarevok
Viconia
Valygar/ Mazzy
Imoen/ Nalia/ Airie

and Yourself

Not bad I'd say (although I'd still take Edwin anyday over Imoean or Nalia.)

 

For the most part, my characters are good. I tried running a NE thief but as I went along, he was more like CN. Just more proof that evil characters are tougher to play, unless you're CE, then you just kill everyone (yawn). That, and I hate to hear my good characters complain.

Speaking of good characters, I really don't understand why everyone rags on Nalia. Sure her thief skills aren't for squat, but I don't use her for that. She's my mage, tried and true. She has proven herself on many occasions. Much like Jaheira, I couldn't imagine any of my parties without her. Truth be told, I just can't stand Edwin.

 

*applaudes Spelladonna* Cheers! Edwin is good...sure...I'll give him *some* credit. But he always degrades your intellegence and is an all around jerk. And Keldorn? Heck...he's an awesome fighter when given the Carsomyr and gauntlets of dexterity. Viconia? Her spells are good, but Anomen is even better being both a cleric and fighter...he's got some fire-power which is always handy when spells don't help. Between him, Jaheira, Nalia, and Imoen, they handle enough I think while still being good. But I think I may start a game of true nuetral allignment and see how it works out... (and even for gits and shiggles, I might go evil paladin on everybody!)

 

I'm just one of those that doesn't HAVE to have the best of anything. Half of the challenge of this (or any RPG) is to work with what is given to you. Nalia has her weaknesses (they all do), but she has strengths too, if you know how to work with them. Armed with her Tuigan Bow and spells, she is a force to be reckoned with.

Anyway, don't want to get too far

 

"Bah! You're worthless lives end here!"

 

I'm the same way. I'd rather play with weaker chars. Gives more of a challenge. I have never taken Edwin, never will. My main character is my mage, or if not, Aerie and Imoen together are more than enough. How good each NPC is is really your own opinion and play style, and we could sit here all month debating this.

 

Bah!
[Do not resurrect an old thread with a post such as this in the future - BTA]

[ August 30, 2002, 06:39: Message edited by: Blackthorne TA ]

 

I've played good parties so far just because I'm a relative newbie and friends suggested I take a good party through because it would be easier to get the hang of the game with them and I wouldn't risk cutting myself out of quests by randomly killing people.

I'm saving that for later

 

I always play good myself, but I just started an evil party. Truth be told, it's boring. Granted, I'm probably just bored of the game in general, but being evil just prevents you from doing so many things, and I don't have half as much experience as I'd like...randomly killing people gets dull quick, not to mention that everything costs so much in stores. And I haven't found many quests aimed at evil people.

 

I was sort of surprised to see how little there is for evil characters to do. I was under the impression that there were "good" quests and "evil" quests so that you had opportunities to get money and XP with both types of parties. The game is pretty biased towards the goody-goodies.

Also, does killing peasants or named NPCs (like the storekeeps and the nobles in the street) even yield any XP? It seems like th fun would wear off fast if you weren't leveling up from the constant chunky death

 

I've got a druid=true neutral and its SO cool when it comes to talk-fighting betwen Evil NPCs and Good ones .

But mostly i play more neutral partys, Jan, Haer'dalis,... This way i can do both evil and good as i like at a time

 

I play 2 Evil parties, 3 neutral parties and 3 good parties

 

I think that there are much more possibilities in the game for good-aligned parties. If you play with an evil-aligned, the game can be boring, because you have to kill a lot. If you do not kill a lot, then why are playing with an evil party?

 

BTA - but hark look at the new responses it has garnered. Hooray for old threads!

[That's irrelvant. It didn't get any due to your worthless post, only due to its prior quality.] -Tal

[Yes but the ressurrection of the post was my doing and even if the comment that implented such as a ressurrection was both inane and as you quite rightly stated "worthless" the benefits of its subsequent effect cannot be overlooked... In essence the presence of "Bah!" is the cause of several new reponses to an old issue, whilst not directly enhancing the thread it brought about a second flourish of interest in its previous content and that cannot be denied.]

[Ok. Keep in mind though that next time you do it that way, you'll be made IOTW for not playing by the forum rules. Just FYI.] -Tal

[ September 02, 2002, 13:30: Message edited by: Taluntain ]

 

It gives 7 or 8 experience per kill, so can you level up from killing them? No, but it can help if you really want to do this. Note that storekeepers do not drop their inventory if you kill them, so it might be pointless to beat up merchants.

 

My explanation for why people want to play bad guys: Take a fantasy book. Leaf thorough it. Nine times out of ten the main chars are good guys. They might not be all goody-two-shoes but they are good. It gets boring! With books such as Servant of the Shard we get a respite from the goody-doers, but such books are far and few between!
So,people want something different, thus, given the chance, they do the EVIL thing.

Ara
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