Let me just point out some dialogues and personal impressions of Soulafein,
Thanks for taking the time to share your opinions. Although I am by no means surrounded by sycophants and yes-men, the occasional almost-bitter rejoinder from Jason is about as close as we get to Sola-negativity around here, so your comments make for a pleasant change.
First of, Soula seems to take lots of dialogue which originally was the PCs task to do, into his own hands.
Yes. I'm almost tempted to publish an essay on the subject since it comes up so often. Suffice it to say that I long for the tabletop gaming of yore when all of the party members actually contributed. I believe that Bioware was lax in making all of their NPCs merely reactive.
Second, Soula started a dialogue with Aerie, lecturing her about how she should feel best. He just entered the group and seems so well aquainted with the fears and hopes of her. IMO, that doesn´t seem to fit too well into his "brooding" character.
The big problem here is that there is no easy way to tell how long people have been in the group. It can happen with other NPCs, not just Sola -- for example, depending on how you swing things, Jan and Anomen can come to insulets much faster than seems reasonable, and Valygar can start Driving Miss Mazzy all too soon.
However, you bring up a good point.
Imagine that I changed Solaufein so that he would only banter with party members after he had been with the group for, say, two days of game time or two hours of real-time, whichever came first? Would this seem more realistic to people?
Third, he simply walks up and frees Viconia, after asking her whether she was innocent. Having in mind that victims probably very oftenly stress their "innocence", isn´t that rather naive?
Sure, it's also idealistic. Solaufein knows well what it is like to be an oucast and acts out of imagined solidarity.
isn´t my pc is supposed to lead the group
Is it? I don't recall it ever being decided as an autocratic dictatorship *in character* -- that's just the way things play out because a single human nominally controls all of the party members and because the Bioware NPCs are generally spineless in this regard. Granted, BG2 is not Fallout, and we all know how annoying it is to lack control over your party in a tactical situation. However, I personally believe that a hybrid model would be best: you control them in fights, they have their own minds when roleplaying. BG2 already adopts this model to some degree with their interjections and choices (for example, Mazzy won't join with Bodhi, Jaheira gets mad if you strongarm the svirfneblin) -- I think they should have done more.
Fourth, a dialogue came up, where he "felt" the pcs "looks" on him, which lead to a lecture about who Eilistrae is. Well, my pc has seen already better advances by Noober, and knows a lot about the gods of Faerun (sort
I'm sure you have seen some better advances -- it wasn't meant to be an advance. I actually got a number of complaints from players who had no idea who Eilistraee was, and I was asked to add an expository dialogue. You may have already known about her, but you are in the minority. However, your point is a good one -- I will add an "I already know about Eilistraee" option to that dialogue.
the tales he heard from the pc about the exploits in "Baldurs Gate 1" (that´s a quote). Perhaps Soula should
It may be a quote, but it's a quote out of context. Here's the whole phrase:
While I could not stand to see you unjustly executed, Viconia, based on what CHARNAME has told me about you from Baldur's Gate I am not at all sure that we will get along.
To make things clearer, I have added a comma. This brings to mind one of my favorite PERL jokes:
Q. What does "/\" mean in this code: "my($a,$B)=split(/\|/,$c);" ?
A. What does "nua" mean in this sentence: "Read the manual." ?
has had Viccy in the party in BG1, would tell our newly recruted Soulafein necessarily negative things about her,
Even if the PC just said "She is a priestess of Shar", that would probably be enough to dissuade Solaufein. Remember that he is trying to escape all that evil and this is long before any possible ToB-Vic-Goodness.
Drizzt may be famous to the player, but most certainly not to a Drow freshly emerging from a border Drow city?
The general consesus among FR people seems to be that Sola would in fact have heard of Drizzt, in some part because he was on a border city.
provocatingly, moves his character between infamous boasting Anomen and self-pity whining Aerie...
Well, Darcyfein does have his share of pride (sorry, little joke with another thread), but I would be interested to know where you found him to be a self-pitying whiner. There is a difference between not being sure made the right decision (common for Solaufein) and asking that others pity you because something bad has befallen you (in my memory, non-existant for Solaufein).
Please feel free to take any criticism for suggestions!
Don't worry, we shall.
I would LOVE to see my current pc to fall in live with "a potent male", but this is starting to be rather difficult...
If you dislike Solaufein, you may find Kelsey perfect for your tastes. I cannot say enough good things about him.
Topic: Soulafein Monologues (Read 13559 times)
