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« Reply #15 on: August 13, 2011, 01:05:08 pm »


               Congratulations, Savant! The Aielund Saga is one of the best of NWN's storytelling adventures, and I'll definitely want to check out your first novel.

EDIT : A Kindle book! Very cool -- something to read on my new Xoom. Did you self-publish it, and if so was it difficult to arrange? I may be trying to go a similar route with Sanctum of the Archmage in the next couple of years, so I'd be very interested in knowing what was involved, if you're willing to elaborate. '<img'>
               
               

               


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« Reply #16 on: August 13, 2011, 02:34:57 pm »


               Jasspere's AI is not really compatable with Tony K's AI (does anyone know if TK includes the improved Dragon AI?).  JAI is really for use in a Mod or PW, for builders IMHO.  The beta version definitely needs work (we had it tweaked up pretty good for one of the PWs I worked on).

DA2 basically "recycles" the ol' DAO models, introducing a few new ones, and some improvements.  But Darkspawn&Co. really take a backseat to human intrigues in DA2.  Whereas in DAO the Darkspawn were the major enemy (The Blight), with human interactions in the background, DA2 is the opposite.

The storyline of DA2 is top notch!  Best that I have ever seen to date, even better than FFTactics, and coming from me, that is saying a lot!  I have been glued to the screen for the better part of two weeks now, and I am still not done!
               
               

               
            

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« Reply #17 on: August 13, 2011, 03:34:31 pm »


               

WebShaman wrote...

The storyline of DA2 is top notch!  Best that I have ever seen to date, even better than FFTactics, and coming from me, that is saying a lot!  I have been glued to the screen for the better part of two weeks now, and I am still not done!


I know this is slightly off-topic, but I just wanted to say that I completely agree. DA2 broke a lot of new ground as an example of how to do story-based RP. 
               
               

               
            

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« Reply #18 on: August 13, 2011, 03:43:16 pm »


               Yeah..ok, back on topic!

Savant1974, is your book part of a series, or a stand-alone work?
               
               

               
            

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« Reply #19 on: August 13, 2011, 04:21:32 pm »


               

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Yeah..ok, back on topic!

Savant1974, is your book part of a series, or a stand-alone work?


Series, I believe, as he mentioned a 2nd book based from the second mod.

But I gotta wonder: How is Savant going to possibly record the surprise, rage, fear, and sadness of the item strip to come in Act IV?!?

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« Reply #20 on: August 13, 2011, 05:42:55 pm »


               That is a good question!  How do you get your reader to feel the same, raw, overboiling emotion that one has as a player, driving one to open the Mod, and remove that?

Hehe...
               
               

               
            

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« Reply #21 on: August 13, 2011, 07:58:06 pm »


               Congrats Savant!  I've started reading it and it's excellent so far!  I will be returning to it tonight after I get the tiny lunatics, er...my kids, in bed.  '<img'>
               
               

               
            

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« Reply #22 on: August 13, 2011, 10:54:28 pm »


               Savant, when I joined the NWN community back in 2004, along with Rick Burton, Adam Miller, and Stefan Gagne, you were one of the modders I looked up to. I'm glad you have realized your dream. Good luck!
               
               

               
            

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« Reply #23 on: August 14, 2011, 01:57:17 am »


               

AndarianTD wrote...
EDIT : A Kindle book! Very cool -- something to read on my new Xoom. Did you self-publish it, and if so was it difficult to arrange? I may be trying to go a similar route with Sanctum of the Archmage in the next couple of years, so I'd be very interested in knowing what was involved, if you're willing to elaborate. '<img'>


I found all the documentation to be completely wrong, and had to figure it out by asking the help desk directly. I plan on writing up a quick webpage for my site detailing how I did it, since I found all the guides I'd use to be inadequate 'B)'


amers1015 wrote...

Congrats Savant!  I've started reading
it and it's excellent so far!  I will be returning to it tonight after I
get the tiny lunatics, er...my kids, in bed.  '<img'>


Lunatics, hehee, I love that. Glad you're enjoying it, I endevoured to make it a good read, even though a lot of fantasy sagas start off a bit slow. I made an effort to make it interesting and witty even when nothing much was happening. Also, chapter 19 onwards is where it goes into 'awesome mode', so keep an eye out '<img'>

WebShaman wrote...
Savant1974, is your book part of a series, or a stand-alone work?


I'm already nearly done with writing chapter 2 of book 2, based on 'Defender of the crown'. I'll be making books out of all of them, though I think act 4 will become two books instead of three, as they were smaller mods.

Book 4/5 will go more into what happens to betray the protagonist, which I glossed over in a montage in act 4 pt 1. As for how I'm going to capture that same feel, well, I haven't fully planned that bit out yet (it's a couple of years away) but there won't be a death involved, for starters (raise dead is a gaming mechanic designed to let players keep playing, not appropriate for a novel) and heading into Fairloch, the main characters won't be covered in magic items, as it's not wartime (again, a difference between the game and the novel). So I guess they'll be pre-stripped of magic items '<img'>

Finally, After book 5 is done and the saga ends, I'll be doing a second saga, the one I originally wanted to do in nwn2 as a new series of mods. I've started laying the groundwork for that already, so you'll eventually get to read what happens with Osric '<img'>
               
               

               


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« Reply #24 on: August 15, 2011, 03:46:57 am »


               

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Yes I'm attempting to strike a balance between monsters, demi-humans and regular human lands for the novels. But I didn't want to do orcs, goblins etc, I felt they'd been done too much in recent times. But there's still dragons and monsters along the way, where appropriate! I figured if there are to many external threats, then humanity would stick together a lot more, and I didn't want that '<img'>
Thanks for the support '<img'>


Savant, im in total agreence with your idea. Im not knocking the whole Goblins and Orcs etc. Me personally in my new mod im bringing a balance for classic D&D and new age RPG's. Introducing and surrounding the player with more then a Friendly Human race, and hostile monsters. doing  my best to introduce a new world and setting.
               
               

               
            

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« Reply #25 on: August 15, 2011, 03:48:02 am »


               P.s Big Congrats on your accomplishment!
               
               

               
            

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« Reply #26 on: August 15, 2011, 06:39:06 am »


               

Omega27 wrote...

Savant, im in total agreence with your idea. Im not knocking the whole Goblins and Orcs etc. Me personally in my new mod im bringing a balance for classic D&D and new age RPG's. Introducing and surrounding the player with more then a Friendly Human race, and hostile monsters. doing  my best to introduce a new world and setting.


Sounds great, richly detailed societies make for good stories '<img'>
               
               

               
            

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« Reply #27 on: September 27, 2011, 03:08:36 am »


               I enjoyed the book. Even though I have played through the modules - and the book really has a flavor of an adventure that is being narrated - I was very interested in seeing the story through the protagonist's eyes.

Anyway, I had fun reading it. When is the next one coming out?
               
               

               
            

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« Reply #28 on: October 05, 2011, 04:31:01 am »


               I remember Aielund very well. I played at the tme, where you had 3 chapters and the 4th was on development, but IIRC, the 4th was then sub-divided into 2 or 3 acts I believe...

I remember the cow 'mooing' in that wolf menace in  the first act, then having a young dragon as a companion in ch 2 or 3.... I liked the mods very much, think reached one or two chapters of the 4th act. Played as an Illusionist, and was doing great.

Good memories...
               
               

               
            

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« Reply #29 on: October 05, 2011, 07:55:44 pm »


               Heh, that "MOO!" cow scene was hilarious. I played Aielund in multiplayer with a friend and I remember the exchange being something like:
ME: Hey, there's a cow that's saying Moo.
PARTNER: Yeah, they're all saying moo.
ME: No - read the log: One of them is saying the *word* "Moo", not just moo-ing.
PARTNER: WTF?
':lol:'

The fourth chapter (in three acts) has been completed for a while now and I think it's great fun and a pretty good treatment of epic levels. If you have your old characters (and even if you don't), I'd recommend playing it.