{"id":440,"date":"2007-06-25T07:18:15","date_gmt":"2007-06-25T13:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andarian.net\/TheSanctum\/?p=440"},"modified":"2011-12-04T18:18:21","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T01:18:21","slug":"some-early-sanctum-2-milestones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andarian.net\/TheSanctum\/?p=440","title":{"rendered":"Some Early Sanctum 2 Milestones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Work on Sanctum Chapter 2 is proceeding apace, now that I&#8217;ve finally made a decision to continue building in NWN1. I&#8217;ve worked out and implemented several important features that will be used in the new mod, and thought that an update about some of them might be of interest to my readers.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><em><strong>Module Transfer and Starting Options.<\/strong><\/em> Chapter 2 opens in the same &#8220;waiting area&#8221; with the talking portal where Chapter 1 ends. I want to encourage everyone to\u00a0hold on to their final savegame in the portal room from &#8220;The Sight&#8221; (<em><strong>not<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0from the placeholder module!), because that will enable a smooth\u00a0transition\u00a0to\u00a0Chapter 2 &#8212; preserving information about your game state\u00a0such as items, companion relationships, permanent abilities,\u00a0and so on. If you don&#8217;t transfer from a Chapter 1 savegame, you&#8217;ll\u00a0only retain your items (if using an exported character), but will\u00a0have to accept default\u00a0values for the rest of your game variables. Plot-related items will be re-created or\u00a0upgraded automatically for you, if necessary.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong><em>Configuration Interview.<\/em><\/strong> The portal will talk you through what you need to do to configure your preferences for Chapter 2, and includes an\u00a0extensive &#8220;troubleshooting&#8221; interview\u00a0if you encounter any problems when starting. It will also let you select\u00a0a\u00a0class for the sequel&#8217;s new companion, to enable\u00a0you to better balance the game for your character and personal playing style.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><em><strong>Character Upgrades<\/strong><\/em>. I learned a great deal about designing effective characters and levelup packages in the year since I built Chapter 1, which\u00a0I wanted to incorporate\u00a0into Chapter 2.\u00a0The sequel will give you the option of &#8220;upgrading&#8221; Robin and Orion to take advantage of these new packages, which include\u00a0improved class, skill, feat, and spell selections\u00a0that are also optimized for\u00a0Chapter 2. Robin&#8217;s build in particular (in keeping with my vision of her) is a little more &#8220;roguish,&#8221; and includes a level of the custom &#8220;spy&#8221; package that I created for the series.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong><em>Merging the Male and Female Robin Versions<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0I&#8217;ve now\u00a0worked out a way\u00a0to support Robin as a male <em>or<\/em> a female character in the same module, eliminating the need for two different\u00a0versions.\u00a0The configuration interview will\u00a0give you the option to\u00a0choose which version of Robin to play with or upgrade to &#8212;\u00a0<em>even if<\/em> you played the opposite gender in Chapter 1.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><em><strong>Travel.<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0Chapter 2 will involve traveling significant distances across the eastern part of the World of Glorn. This in turn required me\u00a0to develop an approach to making that extensive travel possible, both in terms of the story, and in terms of game mechanics.\u00a0I&#8217;ve now implemented and tested a fairly\u00a0elaborate system for this, which I think turned out to be\u00a0surprisingly authentic and that players may get a real role-playing kick out of.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong><em>Dialogues.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0I&#8217;m currently writing the early &#8220;extended dialogues&#8221; with Robin and Orion that I promised at the end of Sanctum 1. I just finished Robin&#8217;s, and at just over 6000 words, it turned out by\u00a0far to be\u00a0the most\u00a0complex and ambitious conversation that I&#8217;ve ever written. And while I won&#8217;t spoil what you talk about, I will hint that it does include a long-overdue discussion\u00a0(if you&#8217;re playing the romance) about what&#8217;s really going on with your relationship&#8230;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve worked out and implemented several important features that will be used in the new mod, and thought that an update about some of them might be of interest to my readers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-22-thequest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andarian.net\/TheSanctum\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andarian.net\/TheSanctum\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andarian.net\/TheSanctum\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andarian.net\/TheSanctum\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andarian.net\/TheSanctum\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=440"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/andarian.net\/TheSanctum\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":504,"href":"https:\/\/andarian.net\/TheSanctum\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions\/504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andarian.net\/TheSanctum\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andarian.net\/TheSanctum\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andarian.net\/TheSanctum\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}