Between Trinity and Misery Stone

The ante has been upped. Darn you GPS and Bouncy Rock!

Originally posted by ocanthus 'm sure they're well-made, but I've never played any Single Player NWN2 module to completion.

Play Misery Stone. Really, it's that good. Ravenloft.... It ups the ante for area design as well. Makes what I though was good stuff of mine look bad. Now I have to go back and upgrade everything.

Trinity is a great old school PnP module brought to life. But if you only play one SP module Misery Stone gets my vote for the innovative cutscene work, immersion (enforced with the strong consistent area design/lighting) and "feel" (translating a non FR setting that people have strong feelings and definite ideas about).

Originally posted by ocanthus Would you say it's better than any of the commercial mods?

Let's put it this way, I paypaled $50 to BouncyRock.

I played part way through Live Forever. The story line was good, but combat is honkin' tough. If you do play it, PLAY A FIGHTER. I stopped because I was playing a Rogue and the combats just became too tough. Tough is one thing, but the way the mod is set up, you usually need to repeat a really extensive cutscene. With multiple reloads to get through a combat, it got really boring. Then I hit a combat I just couldn't win before getting fed up. So I quit.

I've just started Shaper of Dreams. Initial combats can be tough (noted by the author) but doable if you're careful. They ease up quickly, it seems, but I'm still i the initial sequence.

I wouldn't put TOO much stock in the votes. Grade inflation happened early on in NWN2's life-cycle. Now any vote less that 7.5 usually means "the mod truly stinks". On the other hand, Bouncy Rock is one of the top mod builders, which is good, but may also inflate the votes.

I would tend to judge by the comments and who wrote them more than the average score.

Originally posted by kamal Both have made me rethink things in my own work.   Misery Stone: I didn't know you could do twist cutscene cameras like that. The best area design I've ever seen.

Hi, Folks,
Updating on the mods mentioned in this thread - I finished Planetscape:Shaper of Dreams, but as it is the first of a projected 6 it's kind of hard to evaluate. I'll certainly play succeeding chapters, though.

Trinity was good, disappointing only in that there will be no sequel.

I commented earlier on Live Forever, 'nuff said.

Misery Stone is excellent, probably better than Trinity. I'm only nicely into it, but I can see what commenters are on about. Lots of great production values. As I said before, though, why choose? Play both.

Just to confuse the issue, I have also started The Kitchen Boy, which looks very good, but TOUGH. It is also a series, with 5 of a projected 10 or more mods available now. There are a lot of nice innovations and it is at least worth a look for builders. And the story line so far is quite good.
If you play, though, take the author's warning to heart. It will be very difficult unless you play a Fighter, Cleric or other melee class. To be fair, it is doable, but will require LOTS of reloads with other classes. I've decided to play this one as a series of chapters, although the story moves seamlessly from mod to mod. Right now I'm on a break between 1 and 2, and deciding whether to start over with a different character build or continue with my underpowered build.