Discord
Changelog
08-24-2009, 10:11 AM
In essence the Spectral Red Wizard in the Fugue is now the NPC contract you have who can ressurect your PC at the cost of XP - also there is at least one NPC Healer who can ressurect PCs for almost half that of other places *coughs*Nethjet*coughs*.
But I can understand any disappointment (or joy) over this change. This is a very controversial subject depending on who you may talk to. Like HTF, permadeath evokes a lot of pretty strong responses in the NWN community. And while I understand it will not be possible to satisfy everyone in regard to how death & dying is handled, that is part of the reason why, like HTF, I decided to give players the option to ‘turn it off’ if they want.
By this I mean that even though you will now have the option to get your character out of the Fugue Plain - you absolutely don’t have to. However, now you don’t have to leave it there if you want to continue playing it. Or you can retire it and give a new PC a starting boost.
For me, with the characters I play (and yes - I *do* play under a different alias ;) ), if any one of them ends up in the Fugue, I personally will not be using the option to bring them back as I like/believe that when a PC ‘dies’ and ends up in the afterlife, it is gone. But for players that don’t like/believe that, they can continue using it.
In the words of Al Pacino (well...technically the Devil in ‘Devils Advocate’) -
Free will; it is a bitch.
But I can understand any disappointment (or joy) over this change. This is a very controversial subject depending on who you may talk to. Like HTF, permadeath evokes a lot of pretty strong responses in the NWN community. And while I understand it will not be possible to satisfy everyone in regard to how death & dying is handled, that is part of the reason why, like HTF, I decided to give players the option to ‘turn it off’ if they want.
By this I mean that even though you will now have the option to get your character out of the Fugue Plain - you absolutely don’t have to. However, now you don’t have to leave it there if you want to continue playing it. Or you can retire it and give a new PC a starting boost.
For me, with the characters I play (and yes - I *do* play under a different alias ;) ), if any one of them ends up in the Fugue, I personally will not be using the option to bring them back as I like/believe that when a PC ‘dies’ and ends up in the afterlife, it is gone. But for players that don’t like/believe that, they can continue using it.
In the words of Al Pacino (well...technically the Devil in ‘Devils Advocate’) -
Free will; it is a bitch.