Character origins

You know how in some games they give the player a choice during character creation of the character's background and starting location? I just finished implementing the basics for that into Feign. I was going to add just an extra button during character creation to give the player the option of starting in the old tutorial cave with Nyth if they wanted to. But then figured while I was in there I might as well set it up correctly rather than needing to go back and fix it again in the future. So the feature supports adjustments to character stats, starting location, status effects, and starting equipment. There's also space for a short blurb about the lore behind the character start. I was thinking a lot about how in games like Arcanum they have some really interesting character origins like "Frankenstein's monster" that makes the player really weak against fire but super strong and with a bunch of extra resistances. That combined with some of the alternate start mods I've seen for Skyrim. But for this next build they'll be relatively barebones (road to Redtree, tutorial cave, monastery) and I'll flesh them out and customize them more as I add more locations, factions, and lore.

I also went back and updated the old grapples to the new grapple system for nearly all existing NPCs. The succubus is a fringe case and needs an extra set of animations and scripting to be fully supported but she should be working now.

Then I've been detailing up the map area around Redtree more, mostly around the farm just south of town. This is part of where Beldon's quest takes the player.

And speaking of quests!!! I'm still chugging away. The 2nd screenshot above is roughly what I'm looking at all day. These are the main characters with dialogues to trigger the different quest stages. So I don't need to run across the map each time I add some new quest trigger or change something in dialogue. And this is just for the first chunk of Beldon's quest line. It's getting there!