More Testing and Another Playtester.

Today is my birthday! 45 today... boy... enough about that already!

I'm pleased to say I've had another playtester come on board, in the form of Kira'athu, another respected Neverwinter community member, better known to some over at the vault as gpudney. Thanks to some constructive comments from him I've made a few cosmetic changes to further enhance the immersion of the module, and progress is going well.

One of the more significant changes is that I've now upgraded to the latest version of CEP. I was initially against this, but a bug surfaced where a newer versioned player would witness a couple of minor aesthetic flaws, so decided to take the plunge. So as of now, "The Relbonian Chronicles" will require CEP 2.2.

Another reason for taking the plunge is that my earlier DM sandbox work "Muddles in Milton" is now going to receive an official review. As such, a request was made to update the work to CEP 2.2 and DMFI 1.09, so I figured if I was going to update the work for one then I may as well do both. My biggest fear with doing so was that the Relbonian specific tlk file would require re-working to perform with the latest CEP, but thanks to a program I found on the vault, I was able to merge the existing tlk file with the latest CEP one without problems.

Having made the upgrade, I thought I should test the existing work again myself, and in the process uncovered a couple of bugs missed by my playtesters. Minor issues - a spelling mistake and malfunctioning journal that had a conversation behave strangely, but it's nice to have caught them and they are now fixed.

I've been doing more work to my henchman, placing triggers that activate certain conversation nodes, which incidentally, contain different reactions depending on the reputation the player has with them, so expect some amusing arguments. ;) I've also started work on the final journey that will have the player venture to a castle for the final part of the module and expect to start populating it soon with combat encounters, so overall progress is good.

Right. I have to go now. My son wants me to build his trainset!

Tata for now, and happy gaming all. :)