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Theres no conflict with the harper quest if you do all parts of Harper Quest that involve going to hall before doing main quest of Planar Sphere Mod.

It never really bothered me when playing PST that the main character was male.. It would have in BG if there where only male options, but PST wasn't a create your own PC game .. unlike BG.. I always looked on it as a game that explored the story of the nameless one and the rest of the party, not realy a game where you became the main char, In BG your PC is your avatar in the game and in Torment your exploring the story behind the main character .. They're two very different styles of going through a game.. the exploration of the story is the main point of the game and just because it was the story of a man it didn't put me off the game at all.

Sure with a lotttt more work and a lot of rewriting they could have finagled it so that it was optionaly the story of a female nameless one and all the npc's where gender reversals's fo the current npc's and all the plotlines involving relationships where gender mirrors of the male nameless one's relationship's + spend another load of money hiring voice actors to do the gender reversed roles. I've read books where the internal voice of the narrator is from a male perspective and (at least if they're well written) I don't have any problems empathising with them .. I don't expect the author to have written an alternative version with a female internal voice.

I remember how good it felt when I played Ultima & for the first time and had the option of selecting a female avatar (and even a black female avatar if I'd wanted).. though quickly realised that it din't make an in game difference at all (maybe two places in the game (apart from them calling you My Lady instead my lord) where it was even acknowledged and (for the most part) thats what all CRPG PC characters are.. your Avatar in the game.. the half hearted/unfinished female PC romance in BG isn't even worth talking about, without an unmodded game you'll hardly ever be acknoledged as female outside a few banters.

I had a few in game doubts as I started playing Torment, Mort Grated a little bit at first, then first impressions with both Annah and Grace where.. ah.. typical steretoypes.. But soon came to realise that theres nothing typical/stereotypical/ about either of them .. Both of these characters personalitys and their back storys make them probably the two best female characters in any CRPG I've seen.. and was one of the things that truly surpised and delighted me about this game.. I haven't played Torment for a long time, because while it does have some replayability factor I think I ended up playing through till I'd seen every dialogue option there was to see and sadly it hasn't been taken up by the modding community (I believe it's engine makes it quite hard to work with).. But I still remember it as probably the most involving CRPG I've ever played.. It has something that everything else lacked, a real depth to it. and I didn't miss the fact that it didn't have a female avatar because it wasn't an "Avatar" game.

Having said that I'd have been slightly happier with a female nameless one, Gender reversal alternative NPC's and the option to play in 1024 + resolutions/3D glasses/Some minor bug fixes before release and Brad Pitt to massage my back while I played, but that would only happen in a world where the makers had a lot more money/time/better techonology at their disposal .. oh and where I was an international film starlet/heiress .. and then only slightly happier (well obviously a lot happier with the Brad Pitt massage part ) .. since it's the story that makes this particular game what it is and the story wouldn't change.

I'd love a sequel with a female protaganist, if the writing was up to the standard of Torment I'd settle for a neutar Triffid but with the current state of the companys involved I don't think theres ever going to be any sequel at all ever.

Only hope Torment fans have is a finished conversation to another IE engine hopefully one day sparking modding interest in it (Keeps fingers crossed)

Erk, guess I should have paid more attention to the threads *before* I finally managed to get through to the final encounter *whaps self*

I like this mod a lot, finaly a reason to want to get that Planar sphere apart from the once fortnightly potion set that I've never bothered picking up..I'll definitely keep it in any game I'm going to be playing with any sort of mage/mage combo .. Though even when hlidskialf gets the end bugs ironed out and it's fully functionable I don't think I'll be doing thr main quest of it more than this one time, I could possibly see this as a retirement (more likely all dead by the end )quest for a very very high level P&P party or maybe an entire CRPG plot.. it doesn't fit well from a RP play through the game.. still it's fun to do once for the challenge, even if some of it was just a bit to challenging.. taking on Goverment district with everyone at 25+ thaco was certainly um.. well was one of the few times I resorted to the Bhallspawn power of CTRL-R (the entire multiverse was at stake.. I had to .. prob didn't help that I'd taken it on with a lowish level party)

I'm off to try some global hunting

I just had that happen recently as well. Wanted to check something out so had just imported Very high level charater and Imoen did the spellhold banter and got 1 mil QP, actualy it was a bit odder than that now that I remember, I still apparently had the start Imoen in party (though I couldn't physicaly see her and I could select her though I couldn't remove her with reform party) second slot and a new Imoen spawned in the start equipment/golem room who did the Banter and got the QP and joined.

I didn't post a bug since that particular install was pretty well Fubar'd anyway.. TDD + NEJ + Valen + etc etc so it could have been anything.

Just wondering if you started up with an imported char as well? Also if you have any other mods installed, not sure but if there where two seperate continous Imoen type components installed this might be the prob.

One thing that always bothered me at spellhold is all the helpers dying when Jon runs.. (including little girl) .. no matter what you do to try and keep them alive.. for no obvious reason that I can see.