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Originally Posted by UnderworldHades
I'll definitely be playing Drow (Sorc probably) due to how many cool options they have in Act 1, maybe it'll continue for the rest of the game. Good Person Drow instead of evil lol


Same. laugh Seldarine drow sorcerers unite! wink

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Honestly, no one (among Humans) seems to care that I am a Drow (Lolth sworn in theory). I invent role-play dialogues in my head as almost no one seems worried or distrustful ...

Lucky for them my character is not really evil ... she is borderline decent and tempted by surface life.

Anyhow, hence I never use Disguise Self.

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Originally Posted by Baraz
Honestly, no one (among Humans) seems to care that I am a Drow (Lolth sworn in theory). I invent role-play dialogues in my head as almost no one seems worried or distrustful ...

Lucky for them my character is not really evil ... she is borderline decent and tempted by surface life.

Anyhow, hence I never use Disguise Self.


I did 2 separate playthroughs to test that. First one was seldarine drow cleric of Eilistraee and my 2nd is high elven wizard, and while not every character is fearful of the drow, I did notice that the disposition of a lot of NPCs is a little bit different towards the drow. Some dialogues change entirely depending on the drow factor. For example the entire goblin camp treats you entirely different if you play a normie elf as opposed to drow. Also, a bunch of tieflings do react differently to a drow, Zevlor, if you save the tieflings and slay all the goblins has a special line that basically is something among the lines of 'I didn't think that one such as you would be our savior, but I'm glad I was wrong', my high elf had none of that extra dialogue. wink

What is disappointing though is that none of our companions seem to notice we're drow. Not Lae'zel (for her it makes sense, since all elves/half-elves are the same to her), not Wyll (for being the grand amazing hero, he should at least take notice of the drow not usually being benevolent), not Gale (wasn't Waterdeep invaded multiple times by the drow anyway? afaik the events of NWN HotU are cannon, no?), not Shadowheart (in her case she should see a surface drow as possible ally of Shar maybe?), not Astarion (there should be a line you could throw at him that vampires are not the only ones considered monsters, drow are too and with good reason).

About the disguise self spell tho, it's fun, but it breaks immediately if you speak to your companion, which is a little bit sad.

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On that note there is loads of banter between gale and wyll with Lae'zal trying to get to know her and soften her up and such stuff, but they don't care at all as such if you play a Drow.

I wonder what Wyll says or does if you destroy the Druid Camp, I haven't actually bothered to kill either camp yet as I wanted to start new characters before getting to that point, just tried killing the leaders and freeing Halsim as taking out every single goblin would be too much. But you can have a whole army of goblins march against the druid camp if you want.

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Originally Posted by Baraz
Honestly, no one (among Humans) seems to care that I am a Drow (Lolth sworn in theory). I invent role-play dialogues in my head as almost no one seems worried or distrustful ...

Lucky for them my character is not really evil ... she is borderline decent and tempted by surface life.

Anyhow, hence I never use Disguise Self.


I did 2 separate playthroughs to test that. First one was seldarine drow cleric of Eilistraee and my 2nd is high elven wizard, and while not every character is fearful of the drow, I did notice that the disposition of a lot of NPCs is a little bit different towards the drow. Some dialogues change entirely depending on the drow factor. For example the entire goblin camp treats you entirely different if you play a normie elf as opposed to drow. Also, a bunch of tieflings do react differently to a drow, Zevlor, if you save the tieflings and slay all the goblins has a special line that basically is something among the lines of 'I didn't think that one such as you would be our savior, but I'm glad I was wrong', my high elf had none of that extra dialogue. wink

What is disappointing though is that none of our companions seem to notice we're drow. Not Lae'zel (for her it makes sense, since all elves/half-elves are the same to her), not Wyll (for being the grand amazing hero, he should at least take notice of the drow not usually being benevolent), not Gale (wasn't Waterdeep invaded multiple times by the drow anyway? afaik the events of NWN HotU are cannon, no?), not Shadowheart (in her case she should see a surface drow as possible ally of Shar maybe?), not Astarion (there should be a line you could throw at him that vampires are not the only ones considered monsters, drow are too and with good reason).

About the disguise self spell tho, it's fun, but it breaks immediately if you speak to your companion, which is a little bit sad.

Yes, true, some NPCs and most Goblins react to your Drow face. Still a good reason not to use Disguise Self :P

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So I just tried to use a scroll of Disguise Self inside the goblin underground with multiple characters, in both cases the first click started a spell effect, but the "confirm" click wasn't possible because it just read "Invalid Target". Tried mousing over themselves, other stuff... nothing.

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I used it on Shadowheart and then have her talk to goblin guards - works like a charm!

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Originally Posted by Azarielle
I used it on Shadowheart and then have her talk to goblin guards - works like a charm!

Good tip ! Making use of Shadowheart's strength. Can't wait to try it. If I can, I will make my entire party disguised. :P (i.e. with scrolls)

EDIT: sadly there is no goblinoid disguise in the options (for height, I am thinking orc, gnoll, bugbear). I play Drow, so no need there.

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