Completed my second full playthrough of Aielund, as a heavily CHA-based Paladin 11 / Champion of Torm 26 playing on whatever the minimum difficulty is because I'm a wuss.
This time I had a pretty smooth ride compared to the first one, which was a monk.
>Chapter 1 is kinda mediocre, I can see why people get turned off by it
>Chapter 2 is 50% sewers and 50% comfy globetrotting
>Chapter 3 is 95% good, but the final battle SUCKS if you're not a godlike minmaxed character
>Chapter 4-1 is mediocre as fuck, just an excuse to strip the player of their items and kill some waves
>Chapter 4-2 is kino but the hardest fight being the nether elves in the Undermarch is weird. Also a potential softlock if you didn't buy knockdown immunity boots in 4-1
>Chapter 4-3 is bullshit but not as bullshit as the first time, and I didn't mind the time pressure on the second floor of the final dungeon because I know now you can just skip all the golems and bash the door. It's still a really bullshit move to pull on you this late in the campaign though.
>Cheesed the final boss by pulling the important things into the corridor on the side and tanking with my easymodo powers and heal potions while my allies killed stuff
I'll replay as a magic user next I think. I've never used one in NWN before and there looked like there were lots of opportunities for spells to shine. Thank you for reading my blog.