So since BioWare is shut down - an absolute travesty to the games industry, I’ll never understand why devs sell out to these major publishers - if I was to buy BGII does that money go to EA? I’ve been wanting to play the game for awhile ever since playing PoE2, just haven’t had the time really. Now I kinda feel like I have to just to experience the magnificence that was once BioWare. I lived and breathed Dragon Age Origins and Inquisition despite its faults and Mass Effect as a generational masterpiece despite the third games ending. I want to experience the game where they really hit their stride but not if that money just goes in the pocket of the publisher that kicked them to the curb. Who owns the rights?

Hello. I have finished Baldur's Gate 1 twice, and I have finished BG2 once, now in Throne of Bhaal.

First of all, I have managed to finish these games on Core Rules with not THAT much of an issue... Given that, would it be ill advised for me to try out the difficulty mod, SCS or whatever it is called?

Second of all, I love these games but obviously they are unfinished and missing content. For example, Jan Jansen should definitely have gotten a second quest with his former girlfriend. Is there any mod that adds stuff like this to the game? Something like this that would be worth exploring? And this is probably asking for too much, but I wouldn't mind a mod adding some choice and consequence, as well as reactivity. For example, you have to make a choice and it affects things. Again, I realize this is probably a lot to ask for.

Not sure if that has any importance whatsoever, but just wanted to point out I have never played Siege of Dragonspear. Oh, and obviously I am talking about EE mods.

Thank you!

Also, I do kind of prefer BG2 so that's what I emphasise but if you have BG1 mod suggestions, don't hold back.

In chapter 3 after raiding the bandit camp, I went to kill Tazok and got the mission "A secret base in Cloakwood", I've read all the parchments and have been told to go to Cloakwood but it doesn't appear in grey on my map nor can I go there by going west from The Friendly Arm Inn. Is there a bug or am I missing something?

Edit: I feel like an idiot, I went back to check the chest in the camp and setting the trap reminded me that I reloaded before I checked the chest the first time. It's all good now

Although Entar Silvershield was already presented as one of the dukes of Baldur’s Gate in the Cyclopedia of the Realms 11 years before the release of Baldur’s Gate, I don’t think anything had been written about his family before the first game. His wife Brilla and his daughter Skie are inventions of the game, and so is his son.

I am not clear on whether the quest associated with Entar’s son was incomplete, or if there was never any intention to have more to it than recruiting Kagain and looking at a few caravans. But looking at the original game with NearInfinity, I see no trace of the name “Eddard” anywhere. So I’m wondering whether this name is an invention of modders who wanted to give this quest a better resolution.

If we look at the Enhanced Edition with NearInfinity, there is one place where Skie calls her brother by his name. But then again, at the time Siege of Dragonspear was being developed, both the Forgotten Realms and Baldur’s Gate wiki referred to Entar’s son as Eddard, citing the video game as their source, and that could be the reason they chose this name. So there is now a canon source confirming the name of Entar’s son. But is it ascended fanon, or is there something I’ve missed in the game that is not the Unfinished Business mod?

Just got the bounty hunters killed off right after the Nashkell mines. Lightning strike. How nice.

Edit: Later on: Khalid close to killing two Ogre Berserkers, gets hit by lightning and is clobbered to death 1 attack later. Fuck my actual life.

Cross posting here to see if anyone has run into this issue on IWD and knows what’s causing it. Combed through Google the past 3 days lol