Bishop mod for Baldur's Gate 2: details

Ok so I have officially started on the Bishop mod for Baldur's Gate 2. (project forum: www.infantryclan.net/modforum/…)


First and foremost, I would like to point out that this mod will be full of mature content (if you have played the Tsujatha NPC mod, you'll understand what I mean ).


Now onto the details: Bishop is a Chaotic Evil Human Ranger. His age is around 30 years old. He will be found inside the Copper Coronet, in the Slums of Athkatla, and he will be recruitable only after you destroy the Slaver's Headquarters and only during chapter 2. For the moment he will only join a female <charname> that is Elf, Half-Elf or Human, and has a charisma above 12 (I'll add options for everyone else later, maybe). He will have romance options, and, due to his nature, he will stir conflict within the group, provoking fights or making others leave (that will be depending on what you decide to say too).
He will have about the same build as he has in Neverwinter Nights 2 and I will try to make it so that his animal companion, Karnwyr, is constantly there (if the code allows it, that is), otherwise he'll be summoned.

As he is faithless, I will see if it's possible to remove his ability to cast spells, but I'll make sure to make him stronger, to make up for it, and not make him a horribly useless character.


For those of you who are interested in helping, don't hesitate to give ideas and even a wish list of what you'd want to see in the mod.

Baldur's Gate 2 is a 2D game in which most of the action is described through text (except for combat, of course.. That would be really boring!) so I do have an enormous amount of text to write.
I'll be posting some dialogues in my scraps for you all to comment on, criticize and correct mistakes. I cannot post them all in there because, with the many options given to the <charname>, some dialogues become horrible to read without a dialogue editor.

I'm also gonna need some inspiration and help with a few things. At the moment, I need some help deciding what armor and weapons he will be carrying when he joins, I'm thinking he should have "personal" items, but I have absolutely no imagination for names so.. Help meee pleaaaaase!
Here's the list of slots available in BG2: (www.gamasutra.com/features/200…)
- helmet
- armor
- gloves
- cloak
- boots
- belt
- amulet
- 2 rings
- main weapon -> Duskwood longbow
- shield/ off-hand weapon -> none
- quiver
- inventory -> Bishop's skinning knife


I will start the beta testing for the mod in about a month, maybe two, when I have a sufficient amount of things done.

Creating a mod is very fun, writing the dialogues is the best part of it. I am aware it makes me look like an incurable nerd though.. I guess I'll have to live with it..

If a few people play my mod and like it, then I'll be happy!