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ROMANCING GUIDE BG2: Shadows of Amn Version: 1.0 By Extremist with HUGE help fr

ROMANCING GUIDE BG2: Shadows of Amn Version: 1.0 By Extremist with HUGE help from Slappy, 2001. No, no, this doc would suck if there wasn’t Slappy’s slaps on my wrists – so he is coauthor, OK? OK thanks Extremist. Slappy’s comment No mail, for any questions go to http://www.sorcerers.net/ and post on SoA forum! However, if you don’t want to post but prefer to mail me, you’ll still have to go on that forum and dig up my mail address from any thread I posted within. :p CONTENTS Introduction..............................................1 Romances in general................................2 Romancing NPCs – profiles.....................4 Romancing NPCs – major variables........5 Aerie.............................................7 Anomen......................................22 Jaheira.........................................51 Viconia........................................80 Phaere...................................................100 Bodhi....................................................101 Areas....................................................102 Illegal Issues (Cheats)..........................104 FAQ......................................................105 Credits..................................................107 INTRODUCTION The whole thing about romances finally got on my nerves. Always questions, endless questions. I bet that most questions in SoA forum are about romances – not Kangaxx or Firkraag or anything else. Whatever, I always succeeded with romancing. I never got stuck with a romance glitch or anything else. So I mainly thought that people with questions about romances are imagining things or just joking. But when you see frequent questions about the same thing – the old one comes in mind: “if something is named by people, there is a root of it”. No, I’m not talking about UFO. I’m talking about romance problems. Ok, some things in romances are not so clear. But in the real life romances are complicated, so why do you expect that in the game it will be different? That is the question I asked myself. And downloaded existing “romancing guide” from Sorcerer’s Place (http://www.sorcerers.net/). Some folks say that the worst thing is to criticize everything. But when I started to read that other guide I got pissed so much that I decided to write a new guide. So if this text helps you in any way, don’t thank me, thank the author of that other “guide”. If there weren't him, I would never write this. I’ll probably get his lawyer on my neck for these words, but then again, I’ll sue him for deceiving the world. Whatever. And why do I mention this “guide”? Because the answer on romancing questions in forums was mostly: - Go get that romancing guide! And then folks said: - But I can’t find an answer there :( 1 Romances in general ROMANCES IN GENERAL (important!) Romances are not something you must do to finish the game. They are there only to relieve possible boredom, or to spice up the game a bit. I guess romances are there also to make the game more realistic. I mean, our heroes are of flesh and blood, don’t tell me they are not interested in love. Anyway, if you think romancing is a lame idea, then stop reading this text. This is for all players who got stuck in romances and for those who want to learn more on how it all works in the game. The most important thing about romances is that their progress depends on the time you spend in front of your PC. The real time – not ingame time. About every 30 mins to an hour of playing, the next romance dialog will appear (not exactly true – depends on chapters, locations and NPC you are romancing). So if you want a romance DO NOT rush through the game. Walk slowly and explore everything. The more time you spend – the more chance that you’ll successfully finish the romance. OK? I won’t be amazed if you finished the game within 20 or 30 ingame days. I will just say: - What an idiots, they missed so many things... You see, there are game subquests related to NPCs and Strongholds that also occur if you use enough real time. The more time you spend, the more quests you get. You don’t like quests? You want fight, fight and always fight? Then uninstall BG2 – this game is not for you. Get some FPS or Diablo. Legal game rules on romances: 1. There are four NPCs available for romancing: Aerie, Anomen, Jaheira and Viconia 2. Any NPC you’re romancing must not be left out of party MORE THAN 3 (THREE) ingame days or you’ll ruin the romance, except for Jaheria who shouldn’t be ever kicked out of the party, although she will leave the party temporarily of their own will. 3. Female heroes can romance ONLY Anomen 4. Male heroes can have more than one romance simultaneously – but at one point they must choose only one female NPC 5. No homosexual romances 6. Racial (lame) issues: Dwarves and Halforcs can’t get any romance Humans, Halfelves and Halflings can romance anyone of the four romancing NPCs depending on gender. Male Elves can’t romance Viconia. Male Gnomes can romance Aerie ONLY. Female Gnomes can’t romance Anomen. 7. No romancing in Chapter 1 8. When a romance is broken by using a wrong dialog option or under certain circumstances – no second chance is possible 9. If you’re romancing two or three females at the same time, the moment you choose one over the others, the other females stop romancing. This means if you never started a romance with one of them and finish a romance with another one – you actually CAN start another romance. But you have to remove the NPC you were romancing out of the party before you can start another one. Also, if you are planning to try this, remember how long a romance takes. It is not very practical to try to complete two romances in the same game. 10. No romancing in dungeons!!! There are some dialogs that don’t follow this rule and those are ONLY dialogs that are triggered with REST button. See dialogs for details. 11. Besides dungeons, Aerie, Anomen and Viconia won’t romance in the open space around de’Arnise hold (AR1300), only Jaheira will. 12. No romancing if hostiles are within sight, nor if any neutral creature is 10 foot or closer to the NPC. 13. Remember that romance related quests (spawns) wouldn't take place in chapters 4, 5 and 7. This means i.e. if you haven’t finished with Terminsel’s second appearing in chapter 6 – Jaheira romance will never get to its proper ending!!! For a list of all areas that are considered dungeons go check the Areas section in this doc. Basically, when inside a dungeon the romance is put on hold. If it seems to have gone nowhere for a while – go outside. Within the Areas section you’ll also find a list of all areas that are marked as outdoors. All legal game rules can be cheated around as you can see in the Illegal Issues section. 2 Romances in general Generally each love dialog that is not triggered by the rest button should appear after a same amount of real time has passed. Of course, if you are in dungeon for all of that time, the dialog will appear as soon as you exit the dungeon. Also, some dialogs will appear only when certain creatures are spoken to. Anyway, the timers are different for each NPC and there is a “delay” timer that is used when first timer expires. General timers (in seconds) are: NPC Dialogue Timer Delay Timer Aerie 3200 30 Anomen 3600 10 Jaheira 3600 30 Viconia 3000 30 For example: You had a love dialog with Aerie. The next dialog will take place after at least 3200+30=3230 seconds of game running. For details on these timings see Romancing NPCs – major variables section. A final note on dialogs: There is no such thing as choosing EXACTLY ONE dialog to make romance continue. Most of the dialog options won’t break the romance nor will they have any adverse consequence. But THERE ARE (some) dialogs that break romance or have certain consequences. Since that is the case, I won’t bother you with complete dialogs – where a dialog choice has a significant consequence, I have shown the consequence in brackets in bold type. If a dialog ends without consequences, there will be no comment in brackets. When I say there “romance screwed” that means no more romancing that NPC! Even if he/she remains in the party or you get he/she back in the party later. You’ll also see that I left in certain dialogs bolded in brackets settings of certain variables and I never speak about them later. You shouldn’t be worried about that, I wrote those because I’ll need it in possible future revisions or because I’m not sure what are those variables for. For example, there is AnomenIgnore variable that is increased by one in some occasions – but the game never tests it!? It is a bug or it is never finished or is left to be used in Throne of Bhaal. Whatever. If there are no consequences in dialog, I won’t display that dialog, OK? “Special” dialogs, for example when the romancing women turn their claws on each other or when a special romance- related uploads/Litterature/ romancing-guide.pdf