Baldur's Gate : The Sword Coast Chronicles : NWN2 Persistent World

When planning for a 3 or 4 episode plot (such as I did with my Toecutter Gang plot), I deliberately write out alternative outcomes depending on the three alignments: Good, Neutral & Evil, even if one or more of these paths are not followed through by PCs.

When I initially started the Toecutter plot, most of the PCs involved roleplayed out mostly Good/Neutral intentions to the point where I had almost actually striken the evil option out. Then this happened at the request of an evil PC. I admit running that event was a logistical nightmare, but in the end it turned out to be such an excellent twist that so very nearly paid off for team evil (only the sheer dedication and determination of the elven tracker gave team good the final upper hand). The best part was that half of team evil were not evil aligned characters, so crafty was their manipulator!

The epilogue event following it I ran for two players who wanted to follow up the loose ends left by the plot and, despite being an epic long-haul event, it was probably the most exciting good vs. evil encounter I've personally witnessed on the server, although I was terribly disappointed when both players ended up joining team just to 'search for loot'; in the end they came to blows in a fully moderated PvP although I could perceive that, as players rather than as player-characters, neither wanted the other to potentially lose out on lewts because of a PvP. I would have preferred them both to stick to their guns earlier; it would have made for a much shorter event!

If you're ever in one of my planned events (less so my 'one shot ad hoc' encounters), know that I've already thought through a variety of good/neutral/evil options and you're quite welcome to pursue one, or more, of them, although there will be times when it is a logistical nightmare to deal with two parties at the same time and I may not permit some action simply for the sake of saving a DMing headache!

Just remember that all actions have consequences and I will enforce them. For good, neutral or evil.

<3 Ninox

Akroma666 wrote: I tried doing with the Zhents, it got nowhere. Although a specific agent did try to recruit me, SK that was nice. Other than that, yheybstayed locked up in their ebon tower not lending aid or even talking to me as I promoted chaos more so than anything else.

Since the thread is opened again to address unaddressed statements, I will address this one. You know, I tried solving this through PM's, but your arrogance is still at an all time high it seems


You never once provided any sort of IC contact with the guild, you kept insisting that the guild has to find you and recruit you. Even though your character wasn't known and even though you yourself claimed that your character "doesn't take orders from anyone"... You were constantly reminded that you can approach the guild in an IC manner, either by sending in an IC letter on the forums or by informing yourself in character about one of the few public members of the guild. You still refused to do so. You kept claiming how the Zhentarim is super secretive and how you can't find the guild... Do we need to place road pointers on the tradeway, pointing towards Darkhold?


You were obviously not informed on who and what the Zhentarim is, and judging by your post here you still have no clue. That is fine, we are here to provide such information and help people with their character concepts should they wish to make a zhentarim character from the get-go. But instead of asking directly and informing yourself properly, you proceeded to brag about your "insane power builds" and your intentions to "kill Thedran and every other zealot on the server." once you reached high epic levels.

Do not pin your own faults on a guild which was more than open to your approaches, and gave you several opportunities which you refused to take.

Thids wrote:

Akroma666 wrote: I tried doing with the Zhents, it got nowhere. Although a specific agent did try to recruit me, SK that was nice. Other than that, yheybstayed locked up in their ebon tower not lending aid or even talking to me as I promoted chaos more so than anything else.

Since the thread is opened again to address unaddressed statements, I will address this one. You know, I tried solving this through PM's, but your arrogance is still at an all time high it seems


You never once provided any sort of IC contact with the guild, you kept insisting that the guild has to find you and recruit you. Even though your character wasn't known and even though you yourself claimed that your character "doesn't take orders from anyone"... You were constantly reminded that you can approach the guild in an IC manner, either by sending in an IC letter on the forums or by informing yourself in character about one of the few public members of the guild. You still refused to do so. You kept claiming how the Zhentarim is super secretive and how you can't find the guild... Do we need to place road pointers on the tradeway, pointing towards Darkhold?


You were obviously not informed on who and what the Zhentarim is, and judging by your post here you still have no clue. That is fine, we are here to provide such information and help people with their character concepts should they wish to make a zhentarim character from the get-go. But instead of asking directly and informing yourself properly, you proceeded to brag about your "insane power builds" and your intentions to "kill Thedran and every other zealot on the server." once you reached high epic levels.

Do not pin your own faults on a guild which was more than open to your approaches, and gave you several opportunities which you refused to take.

Your problems with me are in no way on topic or appropriate for this thread or any public thread.

I have problems with you spreading misinformation, based on your very selective memory. Which you have done in this thread. It is very fitting for this thread, seeing as you are the one presenting "facts" from the past, and demanding "more epic DM rewards" for "evil characters" based on those "facts". "facts" which are skewed by your own selective memory.

Now let us all look back upon this thread and contemplate about the mysterious reasons as to why you received no DM support in the past when all you wanted to do was pvp half the server.

Locked.

DM Pun-Pun