About the caves: no they have no impact on the plot.

Yes I could increase the potions amount of ratmen indeed since it will be the most useful thing!

Ah the Daronas/guards don't heal since aren't really included in party (in game code). Will make sure they're healed too then.

would play only in one case, if you killed Rowinda, and not if Jariel did it. Now works in both cases.

What happens when you select the suicide? Since I played as Shea, the choice didn't affected my ending

It changes only Althea's ending with Jariel (if she is in love with him). Speaking of the talk leading to the CG scene though, nothing more.

Common, tell me what happened there, someone stopped her? Did Rowinda throw herself? Someone three her?

no surprisingly Jariel pushes Rowinda!

Indeed in the ending he is quite shaken by it, though he tries to justify himself that he did it because he loves Althea so much:

jar "Althea - I was about to lose you. I- I could not stand that thought. That I'd never see you again, that I'd lose the most precious person in my life..."

jar "I would have doomed the world to eternal damnation if it had allowed me to stay with you."

If you want more details you'll need to replay it. With the menu choices at beginning of DLC is faster (though I still need to upload the latest version with working Jariel/Althea CG in this case).

My volunteers at level 25 have 17 magic. The guard has 73. The gnolls have 100. The gnoll shaman has 234.



The opening round of Riley's wave (saving the council) usually goes 263 Ice Spike followed by a bomb which KOs a volunteer before I even get a turn. Not every time, I can keep restarting six or seven times until they do something else, but it does seem a pretty stark difference.



I have the Palisade buff, my Guard has Defend up, and I still lose a full HP guard (and also a volunteer in the back row with the defense bonus) in a single wave of Gnoll attacks. Without the Palisade, this would be an absolute horrible nightmare, though I bet fabula could do it.



Also, Vaelis' Finishing Blow can't be used on targets above 30% HP but the Gnolls can spam it on my full HP characters?

The music bug is back. I repeatedly don't get music on waves 2-4 of the gnolls, but it comes back for the boss fight.



I'm sure it's supposed to be easier to kill the council than to save them, but there is a HUGE difference in difficulty. I had party members die during the boss fight with the council dead, but it was much more doable than the one party + weakling volunteer battles. (By the way, what about just giving two Guards instead of one when the council is alive? Having four characters that are mostly effective at shooting arrows seems odd.)



I'll let some of the other nightmare players comment on the living council route, but I'm not really inclined to spend more hours on it. Maybe if my Riley had Ghost Form, but I struggled the one time I got to Krimm's as well.



Weird note: when Althea asks Jariel about how his writing is going and if he wrote it all, I noticed she's carrying her sword. Perhaps she really doesn't want him to write about Rowinda? (It's also a little weird for him to carry his harp thing when he's writing.)

I romanced Chalassa and chose to kill Rowinda, who jumped into the lava.

But in the final talk of our lovebirds, it looked like Chalassa killed Rowinda as well after she tells Althea about killing a friend and finding out that the world keeps turning.

I just checked and there is only one variable associated with that possibility (Althea killing Rowinda), and in the final part I check that one if is true/false. I really don't think it's possible.

I see the final CG and then suddenly Chalassa is in front of the picture and the conversation continues with Chalassa telling how she had to choose. And then the final CG is in front again.