Having read the start of @typo_tilly 's Adventures of Tilly Thistlebottom, I got in the mood for reading and writing roleplaying playthroughs, like @deltago 's Storied Playthrough: Sahil and @Lemernis ' Let the Fates Decide.
This playthrough is about experiencing the game from the eyes of Gorion's fosterchild, as I have created her. It has the purpose of avoiding meta-gaming, by making decisions as Deirdre would take the, rather than from @Son_of_Imoen's metagaming knowledge and foremost, about writing a story that's [hopefuly] fun to read [and write].
As a IRL person, I'm very bad at drawing lines for myself and as the point of the game is having fun, I won't go through the struggle of trying to limit my chronic reloading habit. This is not a minimal or no-reload playthrough. If a particular fight makes me reload, I guess I'll make use of 'Deirdre had a sense of foreboding' as an excuse to take a different approach, although from the same save-game she would technically and RP-wise have the same knowledge as the previous time I entered the fight.
Some info about mods though. As I already have two campaigns going and unlike with vanilla BG, I don't know of a way to create a separate install with each it's own mod-setup, the setup is the one I already had but run from a different user account [using Shift-Rightclick on the shortcut 'run as a different user'].
My bread-and-butter mods are BG2Tweaks, Rogue Rebalancing and Swordcoast Stratagems. I have not however installed all difficulty enhancements of SCS and should note that from BG2Tweaks I always play with the NWN-style level-up and 100% chance of learning spells to make the game less frustrating. NPC-wise the banters of NPC1Project will enhance roleplay and Finch will be present in Candlekeep and later on somewhere on the road. I also added quests from the mini-quests and encounters and Sirine's Call mods.
If I as an author want to add something to the posting of the playthrough, I'll use italic to seperate my own writing from Deirdre's.
These are Deirdre's stats:
name : Deirdre Bookchild
race: gnome
gender: female
class: Illusionist
STR: 8 - hey, she's just a tiny gnome
DEX: 17 - quit nimble I hate having my mages drop like flies
CON: 15 - luckily, she's healthy and hardly ever ill again, I hate having my mages drop like flies
INT: 17 - mostly from studying a lot
WIS: 8 - most she knows about the world stems from books, real people are very strange, in Deirdre's opinion, making it hard to know how to deal with life
CHA: 14 - though she's not apt at dealing with people, her cuteness and looks mostly cause people to react favourably to her
Having read through my own post I now realise why sometimes I find the game to be too easy... But now I'll quit writing and let Deirdre Bookchild have her say. I hope you enjoy!
This playthrough is about experiencing the game from the eyes of Gorion's fosterchild, as I have created her. It has the purpose of avoiding meta-gaming, by making decisions as Deirdre would take the, rather than from @Son_of_Imoen's metagaming knowledge and foremost, about writing a story that's [hopefuly] fun to read [and write].
As a IRL person, I'm very bad at drawing lines for myself and as the point of the game is having fun, I won't go through the struggle of trying to limit my chronic reloading habit. This is not a minimal or no-reload playthrough. If a particular fight makes me reload, I guess I'll make use of 'Deirdre had a sense of foreboding' as an excuse to take a different approach, although from the same save-game she would technically and RP-wise have the same knowledge as the previous time I entered the fight.
Some info about mods though. As I already have two campaigns going and unlike with vanilla BG, I don't know of a way to create a separate install with each it's own mod-setup, the setup is the one I already had but run from a different user account [using Shift-Rightclick on the shortcut 'run as a different user'].
My bread-and-butter mods are BG2Tweaks, Rogue Rebalancing and Swordcoast Stratagems. I have not however installed all difficulty enhancements of SCS and should note that from BG2Tweaks I always play with the NWN-style level-up and 100% chance of learning spells to make the game less frustrating. NPC-wise the banters of NPC1Project will enhance roleplay and Finch will be present in Candlekeep and later on somewhere on the road. I also added quests from the mini-quests and encounters and Sirine's Call mods.
If I as an author want to add something to the posting of the playthrough, I'll use italic to seperate my own writing from Deirdre's.
These are Deirdre's stats:
name : Deirdre Bookchild
race: gnome
gender: female
class: Illusionist
STR: 8 - hey, she's just a tiny gnome
DEX: 17 - quit nimble I hate having my mages drop like flies
CON: 15 - luckily, she's healthy and hardly ever ill again, I hate having my mages drop like flies
INT: 17 - mostly from studying a lot
WIS: 8 - most she knows about the world stems from books, real people are very strange, in Deirdre's opinion, making it hard to know how to deal with life
CHA: 14 - though she's not apt at dealing with people, her cuteness and looks mostly cause people to react favourably to her
Having read through my own post I now realise why sometimes I find the game to be too easy... But now I'll quit writing and let Deirdre Bookchild have her say. I hope you enjoy!