I just wanted to return to the point I tried to make in the other thread ("on returning characters') that Vlad the Inhaler made a few weeks back

https://forums.larian.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=890609#Post890609

*Spoilers

If I could recruit Viconia into the party then I would care much less about her reveal/re-introduction. That was the big fail here in my view. That and not being able to put a thumb on the scale in any way to tell the DM what we remember so the game can key off that.

I don't mind her BG3 visualization or VA, but I want to be able to have her along for the final final somehow, ideally with Shadowheart in the same party along at least one path.

This is what makes it so much harder for me to meet her again than Jaheira. It would be like meeting Jaheira or Minsc with no way to have them tag along, and then they basically die at your hand while you watch. It's just a bummer. They shouldn't tease her without that option being in there. All she needs is that and I'd be pretty stoked for another chance to play around with Viconia in a BG game, and it would make Shadowheart's questline so much more satisfying for me, even if it wasn't the default standard path and I had to do some serious legwork in conversation to get that option.

Once she is in the party I can do most of the heavy lifting myself, in terms of what her motivations might have been for some of this stuff. Just try to make her barks/banter solid for that, and she'll be as popular as Jaheira was probably. Returning players would appreciate how they had Shadowheart along for the ride in the first 2 acts, because that is a huge payoff for her story arch and everything we do that touches on Sharran themes throughout the early portion of the game.

Ps. I think the title still shows with Viconia in the main forums directory, though it was edited to say (spoilers), or at least I saw 'delete Vico...' as the last word before the clip there.

Pps. Oh and I still think she should have a more unique NPC haircut! If they did want to change anything in the look there. But I'd be happy enough using the mirror for that if needs be hehe

Last edited by Black_Elk; 28/09/23 03:56 AM.