Throwing an idea here

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So, for some time one question has haunted me. For some time, I have role-played, and came up with quite wonderful little personality here. And now, I've been thinking about actually learning to mod and even make a mod for that character (I know, I know, you don't need to tell me that beginners should be doing simple things, I'm not talkin about next months here).

Now, the question is this: would anyone be intrested to play solely dialogue-based character? When I say solely, I mean it. He will be of absolutely no use in any combat, gaining levels about 1/10 speed of others. And in combat, the aforementioned character will either faint or scamper away for his life. And if you get him to actually kill something, hyperventilation and very much panic would ensue.
OTOH, the dialogues would be VERY excess, possibly leading to some sidequests -seeing this little character could literally scamper over huge hoard of gold, look at it, shrug and continue. A native, you could call him. And not very civilized, albeit VERY good-natured-, loot and even battles.

So, the question is, again: Would anyone have the time and willingness to play something with very excess dialogues but with absolutely no use in combat, other than possible target -and possible, but required trigger for extra content?

But for the time being, I want to see if it's even worth it to bother with this.

If someone shows interest, I can give a little more details about the whole concept.

 

Perhaps, though it is unlikely. While I'm in favour of lots of dialogue, this still is a game where you are constantly fighting for your life. CHARNAME is simply unlikely to take someone with them into dark dungeons and situations where they would be risking their life if they could not cope with battle.

It would have to be very well done for me to consider it.

 

That's absolutely unneccessary. To make a character that is not only useless in combat but also a liability is simply cruel, and I don't think anyone would inflict that on themselves. Look around at what they've done with other dialogue NPCs like Hubblepot and give it another shot.

 

There's lots of dialogue-heavy NPCs around that are still useful in combat (Kitanya, Hubelpot, and so on). I'd strongly recommend doing something similar to that.

I would not take an absolutely useless character into battle with me.

I don't even think that's possible.

 

One idea I've always thought was interesting is the idea of romancing a townsperson or some other non-party member. Someone with whom you would advance your romance by returning to them between your adventures--"Honey, I'm home!"

 

True, it sounds quite stupid, and I admit it. All things aren't made to work in all enviroments.
Adding fighting prowess to this character would, from many viewpoints, alter the character too much to be the same, him being a pacifist.
Of course, two version might be made, the other one that can fight and another one that cannot. Althought the wussy one would be probably never used, by anyone...

Hmmh... well, the focus could shift a little, his brother being the npc and not him. He, in turn, is an able hunter, say level 4-6 or somesuch. And he has no objections about violence when it's needed.

One of the main things I had thought here was that the character's language isn't actually common. It is, however, a mix of common and some little-known language. And as such, PC with more wisdom and intelligence would have more dialogue.
Also, I've already thought out relatively long quest.

All this is, of course, after I've learned modding trough and trough, or at least as much as I need to... Just throwing ideas here, still.

 

A pacifist NPC can be cool, like some sort of cleric-only healer. He will only learn and cast healign spells, and will not use most weapons-NO flails, maces, clubs, even slings, but perhaps a humble walking stick is allowed. (SOME weak staves?)

Will such a character be useful? He/she will have too many healing spells, which is nice, but he/she will only be able to do healing, nothing else.

But the vanilla game is almost drowned with cleric/druids, so...forget about it?

 

It could be amusing for a short time I suppose , but not helpful in the long run.