Ernie Noa's RPG Blog

Keep on the Borderlands broke 10,000 downloads within the past 24 hours. I am very pleased, but I'm also surprised. I think it's solid, and fun but not a great mod. I think Tomoachan is a much better module, but downloads are coming MUCH slower. Either way it's all good.

Dormammu has reviewed Tomoachan on NWVault. He gave the mod an overall rating of 7.43 and I am very pleased with the review. You can read the review here . This review was particularly meaningful as Dormammu had reviewed my NWN1 conversion of Hidden Shrine of Tomoachan once upon a time. If you want to see the old NWN1 review it's still up over here . I think Dormammu is a very fair reviewer, and it was a pleasure to have him revisit this remake of a conversion. It feels like things have come full circle. Here's a short clip from the review: Much like the first installment in NWN1, Tomoachan relies upon the atmospheric content of the module to set the stage for all the events. The author took great pains to artificially generate an “ancient Aztec-like” atmosphere that seems very genuine. For example, it becomes very believable when you have a group of spear wielding natives in loincloths coming after you in a grassy jungle-like setting. It is almost like Indiana Jo...

Many thanks to Dirtywick for posting some kind words about Tomoachan on his blog . You can read his comments on Tomoachan and a number of other excellent modules here .

I wanted to give a shout out to Gront (Gront0307). I've been corresponding with him on the NWVault forum about Tomoachan. He mentioned he'd posted about the mod on a German forum and sure enough on the Planet Neverwinter German Forum there is a thread about many mods. Keep on the Borderlands is mentioned but Tomoachan got a very nice mention with some screen shots. Check it out in German here . Babel fish did a so-so translation job, some of translation reads a little funny, but here's the text in English: Before the module corner sinks completely under the bubbling waves MotB threads, and for all, which do not trust that 1,10 Patch yet over the way, here fast a further beautifully made Mod (nearly as good as the Conan Chronicles): "Tomoachan" (level 3-6) leads us from the high north down there into the tropical south, offers a story-constituent romance (jaha.. with influence change!) Indian temple and stufenpyramiden as well as a migration by the probably-tur...

Version 1.0.3 is live. It has too major fixes. 1) The ship board battle should work better now. It was often over before it finished loading. 2) The fixes from 1.0.2 were never live, I screwed up an uploaded 1.0 again. We're now compatible with NWN2 verison 1.10. Thanks to Fred who gave me the information to figure this out. Take care all! ENoa4

I placed an ad/new item for Tomoachan and Keep on the Borderlands yesterday. I liked the ad for Tomoachan well enough that I thought I'd post the picture here. Here's the picture/ad.

I've got Tomoachan v1.0.2 out. Very small but important changes. Version 1.10 of NWN2 was causing some neon red textures. Hugie helped me out and told me the very easy solution was just repainting the tiles. Thanks Hugi e! I'm playing Hugie 's mod, Moonshadows , and if you haven't checked it out it's loads of fun! I'll write more about his mod when I've finished it, but it's worth a look. The bug fixing was very relaxing and therapeutic. It's making me want to write again. (uh oh)

Tomoachan seems to run in 1.10. I've been reading on and off about what would change, but wow it performs better on my computer, or at least it seems to. The mouse was almost too loose and responsive. I also liked the change to the journal system, where journal updates are quickly splashed on the screen. (see below). Makes me want to play a few mods again.