Introduction
STR: 10DEX: 18
CON: 15
INT: 14
WIS: 16
CHA: 15
Total: 88
This mod makes Pai’Na, the true neutral half-drow druid in the Graveyard tombs, a playable NPC with banters and interjections. She has a unique hivemaster kit.
I originally started working on this mod while writing Sirene BG1 and long before Sirene BG2. The writing's not my favorite, but I hoped she'd be a simple, unique NPC that'd be fun to write during my free time. Now I've bothered to finish the bulk of the writing I had left and now she's a fully playable NPC with roughly Bioware-NPC levels of content (though still silent).
The mod is compatible with Unfinished Business now... sort of. It doesn't mesh very well due to the different tone of speech, but you can recruit her after completing the Spider's Bane quest by talking to her a second time after receiving her reward.
Biography
“PAI’NA snarls when you ask about her past, telling you that it is none of your business and that it is enough to know that her half-drow heritage has made her an outcast from any form of civilized society. As a hivemaster druid, her duty of tending to the arachnids of the land is foremost, though she has decided to travel with you for now.”Personality & Background
Pai’Na is the progeny of human and drow parentage – her mother was a human slave of the Underdark who escaped by some unknown means. Though she did not survive after reaching the surface, the newborn Pai’Na was taken in by a woman in the forest of Tethyr. Though a witch by reputation, the woman was actually a powerful hivemaster, and tutored Pai’Na in her ways. For reasons unknown, Pai’Na left her foster mother’s care not long after coming of age, before her training was complete.Well, what else can I say about Pai’Na… her original BG2 character did not have much in the ways of personality, aside from her devotion to her spiders – her children, as she likes to call them. Therefore, much of her character as written is my own creation. She is very much unlike Jaheira and Cernd – don’t expect her to preach on about the importance of balance, as her foremost concern is for the safety of her own charges. Personality-wise, she can be moody, unsociable and temperamental, but she isn’t that bad of a person if you get on her good side. In short, she’s less of a druid and rather someone looking out for herself and her ‘family’, so to speak. She also despises drow, whom she blames for making her a social outcast, and doesn’t care much for humans either due to their lack of care for where they step. If you’re not charismatic enough, she will come to blows with Viconia.
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Pai'Na NPC Mod for BG2:EE by Artemius_I
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Introduction & Details
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This mod makes Pai'Na, the true neutral half-drow hivemaster druid in the Graveyard tombs, a playable NPC with banters and interjections. She has a unique hivemaster kit.
STR: 10
DEX: 18
CON: 15
INT: 14
WIS: 16
CHA: 15
Total: 88
Vanilla Pai'Na stats:
STR: 14
DEX: 18
CON: 13
INT: 13
WIS: 15
CHA: 15
I shifted her stats around to favor a pureclass druid but kept the total the same.
She has interjections, banters with every NPC and a few talks with the PC. She may fight Viconia, but a sufficiently charismatic PC can prevent it if he/she so wishes.
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Hivemaster Kit
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HIVEMASTER: The Hivemaster is a druid that focuses on fostering and protecting insects and arachnids, including giant versions thereof. Most commonly stylise themselves after either communal insects, such as ants or bees (hence the name), or predators like spiders, scorpions and dragonflies.
Advantages:
– Gains immunity to poison.
– May cast Web and Spider Spawn as 2nd and 4th level priest spells respectively.
– May use the Poison Weapon ability once per day. Gains another use at levels 7 and 14.
– 5th level: May shapeshift into a huge spider once per day.
– 8th level: May shapeshift into a sword spider once per day.
– 14th level: May shapeshift into a wraith spider once per day.
Disadvantages:
– May not shapeshift into default animal forms.
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Widow's Kiss
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This obsidian ring is quite large and embedded with a large spider-shaped gemstone. It is Pai'Na's most (and only) treasured possession and she refuses to even remove it.
STATISTICS:
Combat abilities:
- Once per day, may summon a swarm of 12 spiders under Pai'Na's control. The spiders are weak but have a powerful poison and can be extremely dangerous in a group.
Equipped abilities:
– Can memorize one extra divine spell of each level
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Installation
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Unzip the files into your Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition folder (usually C:/Program Files/Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition/Data/00783) and run Setup-Sirene.exe
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FAQ
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Q: Voicing?
A: No.
Q: Hey, she feels really out of character!
A: There's really not much character you could've derived from the, what was it, three lines vanilla Pai'Na had? I took a bit of creative license in the writing.
Q: What parties does she fit in?
A: All sorts. She doesn't particularly like any NPC over another, except for Viconia, who she hates.
Q: Why does she fight with Viconia?
A: She despises drow. You can stop them with a Charisma of 15 or above. Go pick up the Ring of Human Influence.
Q: Isn't she a bit overpowered?
A: Maybe. I always felt druids tapered off with level so she'll at most keep up with your other characters, but she certainly is a step up from Cernd and maybe even Jaheira. She won't break the game's difficulty, that's for certain. Be thankful I didn't keep her vanilla 50% magic resistance.
Q: Any personal quests?
A:No. Yes, sort of. It's not very long and will show up of its own accord.
Q: Romance?
A: No.
Q: Is this mod compatible with Unfinished Business?
A: Yes. The difference in writing may be jarring, though.
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Credits
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Author: Artemius_I
Portrait: Ubisoft
Original Portrait: http://lorrain.deviantart.com/art/Feriel-94342211
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Change Log
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v1.2
- Added EET-compatibility
v1.1
- Spider's Bane (Unfinished Business) can now be reforged by Cromwell
- Spider's Bane's description edited to be more suitable
v1.0 - initial release
- Added Poison to hivemaster kit
- Added inventory paperdolls to spider shapeshifts
- Added extensive ToB content
- Added friendship track to SoA and ToB
- Added mini-quest
- Added UB-compatibility
v0.6
- Hivemaster kit reworked slightly - innates moved to priest spells, shapeshifts buffed
- Dialogues tweaked
v0.5.beta
- initial release of mod for playtesting
Pai'Na NPC Mod for BG2:EE by Artemius_I
---------------------------------------
-----------------------
Introduction & Details
-----------------------
This mod makes Pai'Na, the true neutral half-drow hivemaster druid in the Graveyard tombs, a playable NPC with banters and interjections. She has a unique hivemaster kit.
STR: 10
DEX: 18
CON: 15
INT: 14
WIS: 16
CHA: 15
Total: 88
Vanilla Pai'Na stats:
STR: 14
DEX: 18
CON: 13
INT: 13
WIS: 15
CHA: 15
I shifted her stats around to favor a pureclass druid but kept the total the same.
She has interjections, banters with every NPC and a few talks with the PC. She may fight Viconia, but a sufficiently charismatic PC can prevent it if he/she so wishes.
-----------------------
Hivemaster Kit
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HIVEMASTER: The Hivemaster is a druid that focuses on fostering and protecting insects and arachnids, including giant versions thereof. Most commonly stylise themselves after either communal insects, such as ants or bees (hence the name), or predators like spiders, scorpions and dragonflies.
Advantages:
– Gains immunity to poison.
– May cast Web and Spider Spawn as 2nd and 4th level priest spells respectively.
– May use the Poison Weapon ability once per day. Gains another use at levels 7 and 14.
– 5th level: May shapeshift into a huge spider once per day.
– 8th level: May shapeshift into a sword spider once per day.
– 14th level: May shapeshift into a wraith spider once per day.
Disadvantages:
– May not shapeshift into default animal forms.
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Widow's Kiss
-----------------------
This obsidian ring is quite large and embedded with a large spider-shaped gemstone. It is Pai'Na's most (and only) treasured possession and she refuses to even remove it.
STATISTICS:
Combat abilities:
- Once per day, may summon a swarm of 12 spiders under Pai'Na's control. The spiders are weak but have a powerful poison and can be extremely dangerous in a group.
Equipped abilities:
– Can memorize one extra divine spell of each level
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Installation
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Unzip the files into your Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition folder (usually C:/Program Files/Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition/Data/00783) and run Setup-Sirene.exe
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FAQ
-----------------------
Q: Voicing?
A: No.
Q: Hey, she feels really out of character!
A: There's really not much character you could've derived from the, what was it, three lines vanilla Pai'Na had? I took a bit of creative license in the writing.
Q: What parties does she fit in?
A: All sorts. She doesn't particularly like any NPC over another, except for Viconia, who she hates.
Q: Why does she fight with Viconia?
A: She despises drow. You can stop them with a Charisma of 15 or above. Go pick up the Ring of Human Influence.
Q: Isn't she a bit overpowered?
A: Maybe. I always felt druids tapered off with level so she'll at most keep up with your other characters, but she certainly is a step up from Cernd and maybe even Jaheira. She won't break the game's difficulty, that's for certain. Be thankful I didn't keep her vanilla 50% magic resistance.
Q: Any personal quests?
A:
Q: Romance?
A: No.
Q: Is this mod compatible with Unfinished Business?
A: Yes. The difference in writing may be jarring, though.
-----------------------
Credits
-----------------------
Author: Artemius_I
Portrait: Ubisoft
Original Portrait: http://lorrain.deviantart.com/art/Feriel-94342211
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Change Log
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v1.2
- Added EET-compatibility
v1.1
- Spider's Bane (Unfinished Business) can now be reforged by Cromwell
- Spider's Bane's description edited to be more suitable
v1.0 - initial release
- Added Poison to hivemaster kit
- Added inventory paperdolls to spider shapeshifts
- Added extensive ToB content
- Added friendship track to SoA and ToB
- Added mini-quest
- Added UB-compatibility
v0.6
- Hivemaster kit reworked slightly - innates moved to priest spells, shapeshifts buffed
- Dialogues tweaked
v0.5.beta
- initial release of mod for playtesting