Tarlonniel

How is this? I didn't dare touch his import states, but I added resourcefulness and skulduggery. Will it work? Heck if I know, but I'll put the modified file up on my mod page if anyone wants to try it out.

There's at least one person looking into modifying companion dispositions, but it seems rather complex. I hope they figure it out.

The guy is really playing hard to get.

And if she defies orders but you don't strengthen the Dyrwood, then it's no surprise that she decides trusting her own judgment is a Bad Idea and she should just follow orders - once she's given an opportunity to follow orders again, that is.

Thank you, I'll pass that along and add instructions to my page.

Extra bonus question - most (all?) of the shanties have two versions, one with a male soloist, one with a female soloist. Do you prefer one type over the other? I like them all about equally, except for Faithful Sailor, where I love to death the female-led version.

I assume it's the guy going on about his carving being real old, blessed by Ngati herself.

I agree, and this is the one thing I find really interesting about Edér. He seems to be deeply disturbed on some level, but we don't get to explore it in the game; we just watch the consequences play out. We chase down some woman he used to bang twenty years ago (but was not in love with, nope), watch him try to adopt a nearly grown stranger on the basis of "your mother and I used to bang," and talk with him about Eothas a little. And for the record, I have no desire to see my Watcher romance the guy. I just want a reason not to leave him on the ship the whole game. Which I currently do (sorry Edér).

In games where the option exists, I like to do an outsider first run and a native follow-up.

Yeah, it's unbalanced, but a Deadfire + Island Amaua run is so much fun. Mine was a raider - seemed appropriate.

So, apparently Rekke's language is most similar to... Ixamitl. Why the heck would that be, I wonder.

Poking around in the files, it looks like taking the romance option at -2 puts you in the same state as kissing him at +2 but deciding not to pursue the relationship. I think this state does result in the "he loves you" slide at the end, which is... interesting. One kiss and the elf is yours!

Why are you assuming that the Watcher is a high-class, highly-educated woman (or man)? In many of the backgrounds that's not true. At all. I get no sense that Edér considers the Watcher in any way his superior. He's just a laid-back, easy-going, sort of brainless guy. Yes, he does have a type - we've seen two examples of it - but it's entirely possible to play a woman of exactly that type. And we know he's not suddenly decided on celibacy - he's quite ready to mack on Iselmyr. Saying that he's not interested in a serious relationship? Completely understandable; he's never really been interested in that, apparently. Saying he's not attracted to any type of Watcher at all? Don't buy it.

Most excellent: Graphics Reactivity to class/race/background Humor Sea Shanties Nemnok Concelhaut Insane archmages in general Rekke Pallegina Aloth Soon to come: choosing eye color, better hats, and, oh yeah, bring on the DLC, baby

There's not enough combat! Is a thing I have never said about any game, ever.

Seconding the above question, someone asked me for a Mac version of my mod, saying the file formats are different. Are they? Can I convert somehow without having a Mac myself?

Ekera, flowcharts are amazing.

Be aware that you'll be purposefully gimping yourself - passionate is a disfavored disposition for priests of Magran.

I think this is asking for an old-style Dyrwood'n lynching. Here, I'll dislike Edér so y'all can have a convenient scapegoat... oops, no, I already picked Serafen. Imagine Edér gets my second place vote

Thanks for the guide! I've been fumbling around based on my limited experience with the Infinity Engine, scared to death I'll break something. Now I can start studying up a bit.

I was hoping for much more on that topic in this game - what it means to be a god, whether it really matters if the gods were created or (in whatever sense) natural, how the various religious sects would respond to revelations about the gods' true nature. Next game, I guess?

I haven't done a Magranite playthrough yet - waiting for patches - but I've done several different paladin variants, and there were times when I had to "eat" a response in a disfavored disposition because there was no other option. But normally there was at least one choice open to me in a neutral disposition if my favored ones weren't there.

I love them too, but I'm no good on the extraction front. I wish Obsidian would release a DLC which included all the shanties as .mp3 files (both the male and female lead singer versions!).

More seriously, a Rekke romance would be fun. Ship-Rekke? Rekked ship?