Yes, you read that right. I wrote to RA Salvatore and got his permission (as much as he can give) to do this mod. This can be a gathering place for ideas, requests, flames and what not.

It will be based on the same standalone logic that Viconia currently uses.

I wanna ask: Why viconia and drizzt?

Why not Sarevok?
Or one bhaalspawn, not necessarily Abdel?

I did Viconia for my own benefit because she was always my favorite.

As far as Drizzt, more to work with and I've had many requests to do it.

Awesome.

idea: Romance him with Viconia if both mods installed, where the player has to assist them somehow to achieve that?

The two NPCs would have to be in the same mod. It's not impossible, I'm just not sure if I want to go that far.

I believe one mod indeed would have to handle the whole thing but to get to the actual NPC from the other mod is not that hard: getFormFromFile.

I just think this is an unexplored scenario in any other mods that can be fun: player to be the matchmaker for two followers with their story evolving while they follow.

Actually maybe more interesting would be just a like/hate meter between the two of them instead of a quest based story.

Different events may move the meter and the relation could be unsymmetrical between the two of them. Events like:

- player giving better items to one of them

- admiring each-other for the fighting skills, kills, execution of commands like lockpick/attack

- attacking the attacker of the other when one is in difficulty - and you shouldn't script that to happen, only count it if is the result of chance

- stepping on each-other toes because pure vanilla situation: blocking path, dealing a killing blow to an enemy the other did most of the damage

- etc

On different levels they would have different reactions:

- comments

- skill/damage bonuses/penalties when they are together or apart

- refusing orders if they both follow or if the other isn't around when they like eachother

- "accidentally" friendly fire during combat

- refusing to fight

Release the tension:

- player orders them to stop that, resulting in a penalty to the relationship with player

- a brawl if the relation is really low then it will reset

- a hug/kiss animation or something if is high