It's nice to hear that you like it. About BG1 BAMs... heh, have to say that I don't like BG1's icons mainly because of colours. Also some of the bams looks strange. As most of people I do love BG1 papperdols and animations (thanks god we have Erephine!), still, icons personally aren't so good. I do like BG2 inventory icons drawing style - but design of many items sucks. And in BG2 you can see few icons which are just ported from BG1 - non-enchanted and +1 crossbows are really terrible in comparison with +2 and the rest.What about shields, I'm always using Erephine's legacy shields because bucklers/small shields were terrible in vanilla BG2. But still I think that BG1's shields are still far from ideal. BG2's small and tower shields are fine. Many people do like BG1's tower shields - but they're inappropriate in historical meaning. It looks exactly as ancient Rome's legions shields - and they were useful only in Turtle formation, they were too heavy for 1on1 fighting. In medieval ages it was refined to shape smiliar to this from BG2. It was easier to handle, still it granted great defense against missles.
I'm thinking about complete revision of medium shield - because both, BG1 and BG2 aren't so good.
