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[Sergio]

I have played the Grey Clan mod today.

Honestly, I don't recommend it at all.

--> It's mostly fight after fight with an excuse of something big boiling in the pot in the ending, something big that you'll never see because you are reminded that your due explanations will come in following episodes.

--> For anyone looking for the grass key, after you have saved the endangered girl and cleaned the inn from any enemy, you have to go top, near the exit of the level (Follow the white trail to the end). You will meet the husband of the girl.
Don't choose the evil dialogue option, otherwise you won't get the brass key.
This mod punishes you for going evil. 

[Spoiler about a scripted fight with one of the bosses]

Spoiler

--> Note: The boss fight with Gracchius is scripted. Basically every fight will be him always summoning 4 skeletons. When you reduce him to wounded status, he will turn invisible and spawn 4 new skeletons (that are pretty tough).

Repeat this 4x times

Then a dialogue will play and he will be mortal. 

Spoiler for myself related to the story of the mod, in case I forget about it:

Spoiler

you talk with a guy in the hall of wonders and you get ambushed right after by people of grey clan.
You kill them and the guy tells you to search for the leftover assassins, that, in my game, ambushed my party near the mermaid inn. Then you go back to talk to the guy, he tells you to go to a building near silvershield estate. More killings. Then you go to friendly arm inn, cleanse it from bandits. Then, after talking with the mage that is left side of the map and showing him the note (the one that begins with "Verse of Dark Shadow") you go to feldepost's inn where you do the last encounter against two mages\sorcerer and a bandit. The mod ends here

Curiosity: if you have issues beating a certain enemy, you can lure it to other npcs and they will start focusing and attacking each other.

 

Edited by Sergio, 08 May 2019 - 08:54 AM.

[Sergio]

Dark horizons [Bg1] --> I don't recommend this mod.

Spoiler

 

I finished the mod. That's my review. 

The good:
- The idea behind the selene's quest. 
- The idea of an organization that is hired to kill you.


The bad:

- Selene's quest: I would have loved to see a true dragon - and I wonder if it wouldn't make better sense that the dragon is working with the shadow druids. And if you are planning to add a true dragon, I do not think you should add it where the red vyvern is, because that place is full of spiders and with almost no space to move and so a dragon staying there I do not think makes much sense.
It would be cool also if you could add the dragon in human form where he tempts you to work with him to kill Selene while he is in human form. When you piss him off he will just turn into Dragon and murder you.
And he should be the one dropping the ring of protection +3. 


- Smeagol's quest: It isn't said where you are supposed to find the ring. It is just said that you have to find it and that it is near, although even if I found it, I don't know where I found it, seen and considered that when across my travels I came across this ring of power I didn't immediately think that it was Smeagol's ring. Also, it has no description and yes, it was cursed, but from a ring called "ring of power" I expected some sort of bonus. 

- The items. You have added many items; But:

1) like the 95% of them are overpowered. 
2) They do not respect the D&D rules; take the cloak of mystra for example. +3 cloak that can be worn together with rings of protection +x and armor +?; my character now has -18 ac, that's what I'm supposed to abuse because I feel like I won't be able to survive many of the encounters if I don't abuse the stuff you have given us. 
3) Duplicates. There are a tons of duplicates everywhere. How can it be that I sold like 30 Varscona? 
3) The ring of protection +3. Not only I was able to find two of these rings after I've finished the quest, but I guess there should be only ONE and that it should be what you are able to get from the dragon. 
4) Some of the stuff lacks a description. For example - the ring of power; I didn't know it was smeagol's ring; or the lilliana's wardstone. What is it for?
5) The magister's robe is stronger than vecna's robe. 

- The npcs. You have added so many npcs, sometimes I feel like they are too many, and they are so many because you have added overpowered items and so some of these npcs have overpowered items to counter the overpowered stuff you got. Also, most of them gave me 7500 experience, that's quite a lot, considered that I've butchered 160-200 npcs? 

- The items these npcs got. Every inventory I've found was a duplicate - that's the varscona's issue; but also the fact that finished the quest I had like 200 oils of speed. That's too many.

- The story behind some of these encounters. For example, take Najara. You said these are zealots - It felt to me they are paladins but I could be wrong. And you tell me that I can't diplomatically tell them "launch a spell so you can know my alignment"? I have burned a village and killed all the women and children but I've got a reputation of 20, legal good alignment, and I'm so good I save practically even butterflies when I launch fireballs around?

- The second encounter. Tristan and Isolde. I feel like they are too strong, especially if you are heading for nashkel as soon as you start the game.

- The story itself. First it seems that the people you meet in the encounters are mislead and they think you are the ultimately evil. And you have like (I don't know how many encounters) where you are told that you are the evilest ass that has ever walked the Earth, but these do not make any sense, especially if you are good. It would be better if some of the dialogues would be concerning your heritage, but not directly, indirectly. 
I would rewrite them differently.

- The ending. The ending made no sense. I know that they got hired by Koveras, and I agree that this was the only realistic thing you could have done, but certainly, I think you should have executed it differently. The dialogue was lacking and I admit that facing other 12-13 npcs for the nth time was annoying. I did it because I'm farming xp like a mad men. You could even make it so that they take orders from the dragon of selene's quest, so it would make sense if that dragon took an interest in you and your heritage, maybe even tempted by Sarevok himself with goodies. And so the ending's fight could turn out differently with the organization's chief asking you to take care of their chief, in exchange for a reward and the stop of all these attacks.

Well, whatever. Thanks for listening.

 

Other things to note

Spoiler

• 1- You enter the Oversight Estate without butchering anyone because they just let you pass and then as soon as you see the chief, he just starts screaming KILL HIM without not even listening to what you got to say.
  
  Needless to say, the “password” to get through the door was given to you by another component of this group that frankly believes that you are getting so many ambushes and pain you do not deserve.
  So, if the organization is good, you think that you could get through their “main compound” … And that goes right to the point.
  You said in the dark horizons website that the mastermind behind everything is George.
  In Dark Horizons website, you say, under “Oversight Estate” these words: 
  “Fight your way to the cellar and confront George who has been behind this all along.”
  
  The group is mislead by George. But if the group was mislead, it means that what happened with all these ambushes wasn’t supposed to happen. 
  So bear with me, I enter Jones’s room, and the only thing he is able to say is “OH YOU SHOULDN’T HAVE COME INSIDE THIS BUILDING NOW I KILL YOU”; what the fuck, are you serious? And you are the chief of a supposed force of good? 
  
  From that dialogue , I could be sure, if I only played baldur’s gate, that Nikita was just a imbecile that didn’t realize that the whole organization was indoubtlessly EVIL and she should have intelligence 3 to not notice that.
  
  Now let’s go back to the meeting ofwith Jon.
  If Jon doesn’t know that the group was mislead I would imagine that when you enter his room, he would be surprised, and not angry with Charname. Not angry at all, especially because you didn’t murder all the people inside the building and entered diplomatically.
  So I guess that the current outcome of that meeting should be for the guy that entered the compound and slayed everyone – so basically a without that cheesy password to enter the compound. 
  Or if Johns, right after meeting the bhaalspawn and asking him what happened and why he is there, wouldn’t get any answer because the bhaalspawn attacks him without even talking.
  
  -> And the whole encounter makes even less sense if you think that the organization should be good when the mage just goes away mumbling “oh sorry I gotta go” – with Jones mumbling something like “YOU’LL PAY FOR THIS TREACHERY”. And then he goes back to murder you and your party. Oh yes, you are really a good person.
  
  2- There is a point where right after entering the section beneath the beregost’s room, you get teleported to another place. Now what I want to say is the following: you get ambushed by thirty people and not only that, but Nikita leaves you to your destiny saying that the organization got mislead. Thanks for your help while I deal with 40 people lusting for my blood.
  I have a bad relationship with Harpers, especially because they treat your main character as a piece of crap, without even apologizing for what happened, but this organization has over 130 npcs that wants your blood for I don’t know which exact reason while I’m trying to save the whole Baldur’s gate. What is going on ? Are you all serious? Why did Nikita got redeemed like that? What are the orders? What is going on?
  
  3- If the organization is working for good, why were they hired by Koveras? 
  You said that they got mislead by George, but damn, George is the second, and he is supposed to give orders around and I find hard to believe that Jones is staring the stairs of his room while all this happens. 
  
  4- Nikita: Do not tell me that she is “good”. As soon as you get out of that mess, she asks you to destroy the organization. The organization is supposed to be good (let’s forget that she leaves them fighting you because she realized that she was doing bad when ambushing you where NO ONE KNOWS WHAT YOU’VE DONE OR WHY THEY ARE TRYING TO MURDER YOU? ) What is going on? The redemption is not believable at all. Especially because she asks you to destroy the organization she worked for. Did she have a “sudden” change of mind? It seems that something didn’t work in the mechanism and she just say “ok let’s just destroy everyone because they deserve it”. I do not know what to think. 
  
  

Edited by Sergio, 29 June 2019 - 11:01 PM.

[Sergio]

Tales of Anegh

Spoiler

Okay I've tried this mod and I think it has some merits, but I'm not exactly sure I would replay it and make it a part of my next playthroughs.

The mod has syntax error and the English used in the dialogues reminds me of google translate sometimes. 

So far the merit. It has a few interesting ideas, like the fact that you can persuade the enemy generals to drop the items you're looking for by getting them drunk. Issue is... there is no context about this fact alone, apart from both of them asking to give them wine or you talking about wine while meeting them.

One even confuses you for a cook, but that is weird, given that you are going in the houses with your sword sheathed. The thing is... the fact itself that you make them get drunk has no context. What I mean? The character in game knows things the player doesn't. Why would I try to offer wine to an enemy general, if I got no note or not even a simple tips by anyone that two of the three generals are actually people that like and tends to get drunk often?

The mod is also made of a lot of different fights and skirmishes that drowns you in good equipment and money. Nothing too strange, I would say, because that is the norm in the BG modding, but it could be found as 'annoying' from the people that tends to avoid to have 300k stash of loot to be sold after a quest. At least, that's my opinion.

After going into the mountains, you get a screen (like the dream screen you get in bg, or the chapter change you get in bg2) where the English used is not good at all and kinda takes you out of the game.

When I look for a mod in particular, I'm searching for stuff that can be confused for original stuff. Things that I would actually suggest myself using in the past... a correct language is paramount to that.

A spoiler for the curious about the story of the whole mod:

Spoiler

the story is about a mage that asks to you for help because his city is getting besieged. Turns out that the onslaught of the city was planned by a Bhaalspawn trying to become the Lord of murder. The thing is... the mage that asks you for help is going around draining all the essences of the different bhaalspawn. He is also envious of Cyric (there is a cutscene that shows the fight between Cyric, the mage and another guy) against Bhaal. In fact, Cyric was scared to fight Bhaal and the mage actually encouraged him to stab him in the back, but got pissed that the divinity of Bhaal was assigned to Cyric, instead of him that actually helped in the fight. As such, he is trying to steal our Bhaalspawn's legacy.

The game ends with us fighting the mage (that turns out to be a dragon). No differences between SoA and ToB ending from what I've seen, even if the readme claims otherwise.

IMPORTANT NOTE: No differences between SoA and ToB ending from what I've seen, even if the readme claims otherwise.







Tecnical info here:
http://www.shsforums...anegh/?p=606432
http://www.shsforums...anegh/?p=606443

 

Edited by Sergio, 10 May 2019 - 01:56 AM.

[Sergio]

Fishing for Trouble (http://www.spellholdstudios.net/ie/fft)

Spoiler

So I've finished FFT.

The good:

- The new areas felt natural. I mean, I could have confused you for a BG developer. They are really well-done, and even if you re-used some of the stuff, and painted them to be "new" (like the fortress that is nalia's keep redone), the illusion is well-done.

- The beginning.

The bad:

- Some bugs
- The story felt way too complex but at the same time not complex? What I mean to say that it was not that clear and it was kinda a mess understanding it most of the times. For example: the halfling beneath the tomb holding the sphere; he didn't tell me anything, but my character knew that the sphere belonged to a green dragon and w/e but it seems I knew all these details but they are non-conclusive. Why do I need to know all this lore if these are items that I'm bound to not use? Even the details of the power of the sphere, why don't you make it so charname could unlock it and get a +1 to whatever attributes? There must be a why the girl wants it.
- No loot, and if there was, most of it was duplicate (eg: necklace of missiles)
- Seriously, there are no marks on the map; this would make sense if the stuff was well explained, if there were more easter eggs, if there weren't so many generic npc; but that isn't the case. You are going to frustrate many players, including me
- Seriously, no hidden place. For example Silver hall, or the place where you have to get the key for the lighthouse. At least add pointers.
+ points because at least for the silver hall you added a kid telling you where to go. But it is annoying.
- Not using the map markers doesn't mean that the players have to explore, but means that you are forcing them 1) to explore, 2) to add themselves markers. Do you think that a new player would not explore every room you made? Yeah he would, don't worry. Just make them less "generic".
- Genericity: In the village I would add more stuff inside the houses. You could even add a inferior level with some people hiding so you can give more hint, and not only the diary from the fisherman.
- I wasn't able to find the thief supposed to be near aran's room having stolen the ring :|
- Why did you make the cavern to have a second level? I mean, I thought for a second that I had to go out where the waterfall is looking for the plant. I know that I was a fool, but it was like that since I didn't realize there was another area in the lower part. The second area, according to me is overdone; why did you add that? You could put it in the first level, with one exit to the plant's level, and one to the waterfall itself.
- I doubt Jaheira would use the word "retarded".
- Also Anomen banter seems out of place. I doubt that he would insult the guy, he would mostly insult charname for following orders around.
- Ah, I admit I wasn't able to find Earl because I didn't know the keep had a third level. I thought all were going down. So I would add a dialogue to the caravan master telling that Earl is inside the third level.

More technical info here: http://www.shsforums...d-fft/?p=571073

[jastey]

Thank you for your reviews. Very interesting!

In case you want to elaborate on bugs you encounter, feel free to do so (or post them into the mod's fourm, of course).

[Sergio]

The Vault. -->  I don't recommend this mod

Note from Maximus2001 (found here: http://www.shsforums...eased/?p=530990)

Spoiler

The "Vestibule quest" is tricky. You should not kill the group of red wizards in the forest east of Beregost or it will mess things up (they are part of the plot). When you start the quest, and the demon shows up and you kill em, be careful with the two priests there. Have a save before starting, because if one guy(can't remember his name) gets killed the other has "nothing more to say" without continuing the plot. Then you have to set some globals. The area you want after is the one with the red wizards.

The "Return to Nashkel" starts after you get the book for candlekeep from Duke Eltan. A guy approaches you to buy it (decline and he steals it) follow the clues to find him and it continues from there.

The "Return to Gullykin Quest" was probably my favorite (you'll see what I mean...) It starts when you go back there after Nashkel. There is a reception party waiting for you.

The mystery one requires you to have the vampire's revenge sword and talk to people who might know about its history. Try the temple in Beregost for info. Then you follow the clues.

I can't remember if they are also level dependent. 

 

 

 

More informations (found here: http://www.shsforums...eased/?p=530990)

Spoiler

1)Gullykin revisited - (level 7 to 9) You have to kill the ogre mage in the dried up riverbed in the Firewine Ruin map (Khark the ogre). Then when you next go to Gullykin you will be attacked by continuously spawning ogres (at different locations on the map) and ogre mages. When you get tired of whaling on them (I killed more than 400 for target practice heh, heh) find the boss in the ravine on the right side of the map. No reward from the town, just tons and tons of loot and high level spells.

2)Vestibule quest - I think this can be done at any time but is meant for level 9 to 11. Enter the vestibule (building on the side of the Beregost temple) without Edwin in your party. Talk to the two priests there. A big fight ensues, afterward talk to them again, then talk to priest in main temple (you have to stop a great evil). Then you go to the map east of Pelvdale where the red wizards are, talk to them and a big fight ensues. Return to the temple to get your reward from the main priest, and also speak to the priest in the small building again.

3)Return to Nashkel - You finish the Iron Throne building in Baldur's Gate, and talk to Duke Eltan at FF HQ. He gives you the book to go to Candlekeep, and you get transported to the BG Bridge map. Zernan the "scholar of Amn" walks up to you and tries to make a deal for the book. Say no and he will steal it (answer #3 and then answer #2) and ambushes you with his buddies then flees. The chase begins. Goto FAI map, wander over to left middle side of the map. Zernan comes up and talks and ambush number two follows, he flees. Goto Nashkel, he shows up third time with cronies, amush three. Pick up the "undeciphered note", which gives you the clue. Goto Nashkel Fair, on the right side next to the hill (4910x/1845y) there is a mysterious man who comes up and talks. (After several different tries it seems he always goes hostile no matter what answer you give him) Kill him and your journal (not your quest log) should be updated. Goto the Nashkel Mines, a fight ensues outside. Go inside and kill everything - lots of spiders and drow thieves, fighters, and a few mages. Lots of traps that cast poisonous cloud and web. I'm in the middle of it now...

4)Vampire sword quest - Get the idol from the coast and the armor from Firewine Ruins, goto Ulcaster Ruins and have mage make "Vampire's Revenge" sword. Talk with priest in Beregost Temple to start the ball rolling. (Haven't gotten there yet) You have to travel around to speak with knowledgeable people and get more clues. Eventually you figure out the secret location of the vampire hoard and travel there.... 

More information, personal edit. To start the vampire quest:

Spoiler

You need Ancient Armor, Idol and History of the Nether Scrolls.

You can't do this before you get History of the Nether Scrolls from Duke Eltan at chapter 7. And you must do Vault quest before revisiting to Candlekeep because you lose History of the Nether Scrolls when you enter Candlekeep.. 

 

Carnival location for the nether scrolls

Spoiler

 - Travel to the Carnival and you'll meet a Mysterious Man near the eastern edge of the map in the vicinity of a tent (x/y coordinates: 4945.1855).

REVIEW

Spoiler

First of all, the mod should be absolutely modular. Right now it is not worth installing.

I will break every component down:

---> The "Vestibule quest".
First of all, the quest happens in a area that in a vanilla game is totally unused (the little building near the beregost temple). This is a really bad spot, because you are not going to enter this building unless you know a mod added content for it.
(Just for reference --> https://baldursgate..../wiki/Vestibule)

That happens because you don’t even get any informations by Keldath, that could at least point you to the vestibule, by telling you that there are two people inside the vestibule that may need your help or from which you could get some good services (the last suggestion seems to be the strongest suggestion, given that they offer to upgrade a weapon as soon as you finish the quest for them).

Compare this with the quest in Beregost Temple Area that added by Northern side of the sword coast... you are going to meet a guy telling you there is something weird in a cave further the road, and as such, you are pointed here and you may or may not investigate. It’s up to the player, but at least, the content is not forgotten or simply avoided because it is to the player ‘unknown’.

So... let’s continue: the execution of the quest is really weird, because you have to talk with the two guys inside the vestibula more than once, while they don’t provide any valuable informations – that means that, as a player, you absolutely have to know that something will be happening. Otherwise you’ll talk with them once then forget about them.

Then you go to the spider area and face the red wizards (Warning! It seems that if you killed them before starting this quest, you are not going to finish the quest itself; found this info inside Vault official topic) and then face the the demon.

Your prize will be 5k gold an upgrade on a weapon, provided that you find it – I probably have sold it and I’m not going to search where I sold it. It would be better if the weapon was provided differently.


--->  Gullykin Revisited.
I would not visit Gullykin again, if I didn’t know something was happening. In fact, you are not alerted by anyone that the village is being besieged by ogres, and as such, you go there only by reading the readme of the vault. Well, I went there, and I faced a tons of ogres and a boss.
The gullykin major asks for your help but when you kill the enemy chief he doesn’t even acknowledge it.
In the end, it was just fighting after fighting after fighting until you face the enemy chief and you kill it. Worth it? You decide. For me it wasn’t.
 

---> THE VAULT.  Now the final and most important quest. The vault!

I will be honest, this was the quest that I liked the most, that has the most potential, but that is hindered, sadly, by the quality of its execution.

-STORY-
The quest starts as soon as you get the book by Duke Eltan. You are greeted by a thief that actually, no matter what you answer, steals the book. You can’t stop him and you are railroaded to face him three times (right when you meet him, left-center of Friendly Arm inn, Nashkel) before going further the questline.
You get a note and you discover that the thief was supposed to meet with someone in Nashkel Carnival. You meet the guy near the eastern edge of the map in the vicinity of a tent (x/y coordinates: 4945.1855)

You kill him, but he doesn’t drop any relevant informations. You discover where to go next from the journal, not your quest log. Next stop is Nashkel mines. You go into the nashkel mines to face a tons of spiders, drows, traps. You find the book (it’s located in Nashkel Mines Level 3), and then you go to Ulcaster ruins and give it to the ghost there.

Then after you get the vampire sword:
> you first bring it to Taerom the Smith,
> then to the gond Priests inside the hall of wonders in baldur’s gate,
> then to the diviner in the center of baldur’s gate,
> then you go to bear river (https://baldursgate....wiki/Bear_River) and in the little island in the center there is the sentry ward, the guardian of the vault.

You enter the vault and you face everyone, then get your money (honestly I was a bit disappointed by the money I got; after all, by the way the vault is described and the actual measures the vampire took to preserve it, I would have expected way more from him).

Now onward to the flaws I found:

> When you reach the nashkel mines, you start to face spiders. The thing is: no soldier tells you at all that there is something weird going on. They hit the spiders, but they don’t have any relevant banters where they ask charname what’s going on and why he appeared right after these spiders started to roam the area.

> The Nashkel mines are really really crowded with spiders, drows and traps. Someone may like it (yeeeeee precious xp!!), but having to kill generic npcs for the nth time, without even the minimal banter from them is not immersive; it’s grinding.
There is no dialogue from any drow, no insults, not even the minimal banter where you can offer (hopefully with success) money to the drows to leave the area. They don’t even spill insults to you. They are all generic npc(s) looking for your head.

> Nashkel mines are full of hostiles ... but ... the irony is that you find beggars amongst the drow and not only that, the “room” in Nashkel Mines level 2 (http://forgottenwars.../bg1/ar5402.htm) with Kylee and the racks was left preserved! This actually ruins the immersion, because drows are leaving people alive around.

> The usage of Nashkel Mines is not innovative. What I mean is, that there are other mods that use this area. Bad? Good? You decide. But... at least find a way to persuade the player to go in or, why not, avoid completely the area (while hopefully getting anyway the xp you would be getting if you cleaned it personally).
I’ve got over 100k gold coins, why can’t I ask the temple to help me in my quest? Or why can’t I actually hire the temple to do my bidding and actually even get the xp and the loot there?
Maybe you could even choose different options like:
> 15k to get the artifact
> 30k to get the artifact + the loot

Etc Etc. So one can skip the area.
 

> When you find the Vault, you actually need to have a key (the vampire sword). This key is used with the sentry ward. But... even if the sentry ward realises you are the master, because you have the key, every time you ask him something he will always cast sunfire harming you and your party.
 

After you kill the vampire (well, you almost kill the vampire given that he flees in mist form), you can now use the sentry wards as a servant. The servant can identify stuff for you, give some cleric services and even teleport you around provided that you pay him with jewels or money. The idea is good but the potential is not unlocked. I hope the cost of the services he offers is just an error given the amount of mods that I installed. The sentry ward offer these services:

> Identification (1500 gp per item)
> Remove curse (5000 gp)
> Cure disease (200 gp)

The services are way too limited for a servant of a powerful vampire. And too costly.
The servant can also teleport you around (provided that you pay 5k), but before teleporting you he will be casting sunfire on himself harming you and your party.

I even thought he did that as a failsafe given that I was not equipping the vampire sword, but the test I did right after proved that my thought didn’t match reality. Even with the sword equipped, the ward would harm me.

So in the end...
> add the possibility to kill the thief at once, instead of having to do the three forced ambushes.
> Provide clues from misterious apparition, no need to be forced to read the player's journal.
> Find a way to avoid the player to enter the nashkel mines, given that in the current iteration it is neither fun, nor realistic
> Remove the sunfire casting from the sentry ward, if you own the key to talk to him
> Actually move all the spawned riches right after you kill the vampire into the shrine he owns.
> Add the possibility to call the servant everywhere and to make him provide a plethora of different services, instead of two scarce services.

 

 

Edit made 18/05/2019: I was thinking about another detail. After you kill the vampire he turns into gas and flees from his abode. But....
1) Given that this is his "home", shouldn't a coffin be inside this protected sanctuary?
2) Wouldn't a powerful vampire hunt you after "regenerating" ? After all you got his treasure.
3) Why isn't the player given the chance to terminate the vampire and be done with it? Where is he going in gaseous form? As <charname> I would follow him because surely he will come back to get me unless I completely destroy him.
 

 

---> Last component that should be absolutely splitted is Taerom (smith in beregost) upgrading items
Taerom can upgrade items, but they are no match for Thalantyr item’s upgrade and these two mods clash conceptually. If I had to choose one or the other, I would always choose Thalantyr.
 

Edited by Sergio, 19 June 2019 - 01:28 AM.

[ChitownWillie]

Sergio,

 

Thank you so much for your reviews!

 

Keep 'em coming!

[Sergio]

Dark Side of The sword coast. ---> I don't recommend this mod.

Review

Spoiler

FIRST QUEST (YOU ARE FORCED TO DO THIS ONE BEFORE THE OTHERS, NO MATTER WHAT)

-> The mod starts right after you flooded the cloakwood mines. You meet a cleric in Friendly Arm Inn, that asks you for help to find his sister. She joins your party.
You get three new areas unlocked:

- one is pure filler, being only inhabitated by a lot of orcs that you may or may not kill and honestly this area could be cut without any issue.
- second area contains powerful mobs (skeleton lords) that will probably destroy your party. You meet 4xSkeleton lords all together, casting (or should I say spamming?) lightning to everyone of your party. So... be careful.
Apart from that, you also meet some ghosts fighting each other. The problem is, you don’t get any informations from the area, nor from the quest log, nor from the journal, nor from dialogues between your party about what is going on. Nothing at all. This means that unless you read the walkthrough you wouldn’t know you have to explore this area right after finishing the first quest.
- Third area: you meet the sister and it’s a banshee. She casted Wail of the banshee (level 9 spell) but luckily I was able to save vs spell. There is a little banter between the sisters, but when you kill the sister, there is nor journal entry, nor any reaction from the sister. You know where to go next if you read the description of the necklace.

The quest is pretty weak, honestly. And I dropped the sister as soon as I finished the quest.


SECOND QUEST

You go back to these phantasms in the second area and one of them tells you that the Dark one, a powerful mage, is using them to prolong their life. They tell you the Dark one is near and in fact, he is very near, left to them, in front of the entrance of his “home”.
Honestly I don't know if the quest fizzled in my game. It went like that:
> You kill the dark one once, but he keeps respawning every time you kill him.
> As soon as I killed him once I was able to enter his house (because he doesn't follow you inside), get the philactery, and then finish the quest.
> Meanwhile, given that I entered the house only with imoen and used potions of invisibility for my charname, the mage kept  killing himself with the fire rain he casted (he was probably casting it before I entered the house with Imoen to search for his philactry), but kept respawning and respawning.
> He even summoned a glabrezu without casting on himself protection from evil - and you know already what happened next. The Glabrezu killed him, then the mage respawned again. Endless respawning of the mage.

> I brought the philacteries to the phantasm that asked me to kill the mage and he destroyed the dark one.

Note: you only get 800 xp for killing the lich. 

THIRD QUEST

They added a dragon that is going near a city (Nashkel!) and actually threatens it! And you CHARNAME! You! You were chosen to take care of him!

When you go to the dragon, there is not a dungeon with 6 rooms or a place where you are going to find 500 npcs that actually work for the dragon. Many big mods throws 300 useless npcs at you working for the big bad because the big bad is mighty, strong, etc etc.. But here, well, here, the dragon doesn’t need these.  Well, in fact he needs someone, a gnoll! And what is the gnoll doing?  Providing the dragon with food. And which better food if not these gullykin gnomes that the dragons just murdered because they tried to stop him?

This is the quest that I enjoyed the most even if it is a bit rail-roaded (no way to actually ally yourself with a dragon or feed him yourself with the most delicious meat you can find L)
For example, what about druid meat, nimph meat and so on? Please, o mighty dragon, give me a chance!

But...All that glitters is not gold.

> The cave where the dragon resides is a copy of Abazigal's lair.
> As soon as you kill the dragon, to reach his hoard, you go through the entrance thanks to a wardstone the dragon dropped from his body, where you find some enemies and behind them the little lake with the gold and jewels.

I don't think there is any need for a cave to be honestly, the dragon could even stay in the right side of the map simply awaiting or searching around for victims.

And also, he could drop stuff off his body.




FORTH QUEST

You are greeted by a girl that asks you to go see his mother. His brother was kidnapped. You find more information by going north Nashkel, where you meet CúChoinneach and his dog. You are given the location of the place the evil that is supposed to have kidnapped the child reside in. You go there and it's a mashup of following locations:

Durlag fortress + the mage house where you find herdalis in BG2 + the catacombs under Candlekeep.

Luckily, you can skip the whole dungeon and go right to the boss if you go with the babysitter. 

 

 

FIFTH QUEST

You do this quest because you need to find Otho's nephew. He tells you he went south, so you go to North Nashkel Road (AR4300) and you go to the campfire. Here you find:
> a cave entrance on the right
> an "invisible" entrance on the left -> you go there.

Then the grinding starts and you go to a mashup of different dungeons. You go through:

Cave (that is also used inside the catacombs of forth quest) + Nashkel mines 4° level + the cave location you go in after you've (almost) escaped Candlekeep Catacombs + Nashkel mines 1° level + Nashkel mines 2° level + Cloakwood mines level 3 + Flaming fist headquarters level 1.

In the flaming fist headquarters you finally find a friendly face, that asks for your help, because he is being attacked by more duergars. You face around 50+ duergars that keep spawning and spawning out of thin air. Boring.
Right when you killed them all he asks to join you again and well, here we are back again. Another mashup:


Cloakwood mines level 1 + Cloakwood mines level 2 + Firewine ruins + The storage building near the cloakwood mines + Cloakwood mines level 4.

There you find a drow boss, kill him and go through the exit of cloakwood mines.


And it begins again:

Ankheg cave with double exits where the 

> first exit, right down the center, brings you to another copy of the ankheg cave with no exit
> second exit (just check the bottom right side of the cave) brings you to another of these cloned caves I already mentioned earlier.


So.. here we ago again:
Second exit - cloned cave - Gnoll cave in bandit's camp - 

THE EXIT 

We made it boys.

I'm sorry, but I didn't like this quest.

 

WOULD YOU GIVE IT ANOTHER CHANCE, SOMEDAY?
Maybe, if the refined version that was hinted here gets released:

https://forums.beamd...s-etc-please/p1
 

 

Walkthrough

Spoiler

There is a walkthrough here: http://www.sorcerers...walkthrough.php 

 

Edited by Sergio, 12 November 2019 - 02:09 AM.

[Sergio]

Stone of Avaskar  ---> I don’t recommend this mod. Don’t read the review if you’ve never played BG1

Walkthrough: http://www.baldursga...hp?topic=4657.0

Spoiler

Story: it is said that a powerful stone resides in a place that can be accessed only if you have 5x talismans.
People are interested in the stone, hence they are hunting for the talismans. You go get these in 5 different areas:

> First area (bluebell wood): area has a few random monsters and just three people automatically attacking charname as soon as they see him. No dialogues before they attack.

>  Spider cavern (North Nashkel Road:AR 4300)
The dungeon is well crafted and has a proper identity. I’m wondering if it is made by the Author or it is taken from IWD, that I never played?

> Lizzy. Nothing to be noted.

> Beggar in beregost. Cool riddle.

> Dystra’s old watch tower.  Lot of enemies in the exterior area, a few inside the tower. Luckily, it doesn’t seem like you have to explore area after area, given that you find the boss as soon as you enter the building.


You now have 5xtalismans and you alert your quest-giver that gives you the the last quest.

Obviously (who would have guessed) the place that you need 5x talismans to open was already breached without these amulets. You are also said that the place you should go to, is in the wood of sharp teeth (and there is a location in my worldmap having this name). But it’s not there.

It’s in the bandit camp even if the guy tells you otherwise (or maybe the bandit camp is part of the wood of sharp teeth?). 

The entrance to the breached place is invisibile. I wouldn’t have found it if Roxanne didn’t tell me (See here: http://baldursextend...9/#Comment_1999)

 

 

 

So... What do I think about the quest?

> The quest didn’t make me invested in what was going on. It is said there is a danger, but it is not felt by the player.
The danger is only talked about: if they get the stone things will be bad. But why are they going to be bad? Only because this stone is supposed to have marvelous powers? Which kind of powers?

> You are assigned a quest that seems so important by people working with the harpers. Surely they were alerted you are a Bhaalspawn, and as such, they would actually avoid giving you such a quest, unless they got some sort of insurance.

> There is no evil path in the story. I wasn’t invested into the mod to care, but... you get the stone and it has no special property. It's completely useless.

> You don’t even receive a chance to follow Bane’s followers. I mean, you brought them all 5 talismans. Surely they would at least propose. They are Bane’s followers and Bane is not Cyric. Maybe they could truly work with you.

 

Edited by Sergio, 19 June 2019 - 01:32 AM.

[K4thos]

Sergio, thank you for taking the time to write these reviews. Very informative. I'm looking forward for more.

[Sergio]

"T'was a Slow Boat from Kara-Tur” --> Not recommend for now, as of 10/05/2019 (day/month/year).
Could be worth a play when “fixed”.

Review:

Spoiler

Story. You meet a monk in Friendly Arm Inn that narrates to <charname> his story. The monk boarded a ship to reach baldur’s gate, where he planned to sell the treasures he collected. Unluckily, the ship crashed into the shores. He was able to get to safety most of his ‘treasures’ but left an unvaluable red bag into the cargo.
He then asks <charname> to get his red bag, but gives him a warning: someone else is interested in the bag. You go to the shores, find the ship, find the enemy, beat the enemy, then go back to the monk.
He then gives you a reward, the left eye of genzo (an artifact you place into the helm slot that upgrades itself) and also opens a store for you: you are now able to buy the items he was planning on selling in Baldur’s gate.
The quest is straightforward and I guess someone could play it once and see if it matches your taste.
 

But why I don’t recommend it? Unluckily it is hindered by a few problems that have to be mentioned:

1) The enemy “boss” has a golem that deals non lethal-damage.
2) The enemy “boss” will not move (nor attack) after the dialogue is over. In fact there are times where the enemy boss talk will fire, but the enemy boss is invisible (?).
3) The store has ‘void’ items. I mean there are invisible items that cost 0.
4) There is no clear explanation on how you’re supposed to upgrade the left eye of Genzou. I discovered it thanks to a post I’ve found in beamdog forums made by Darkcloud: whenever you are near-death, the left eye of Genzou will upgrade itself, until it reaches level 4. Innovative, but not clear at all neither to <charname> neither to the player.
5) In my game the abilities of the “left eye of genzou” didn’t work. When using it, it would always say “item drained”.
6) [subjective opinion] I would tone down a bit the amount of enemies you face when getting the red bag


Another note: in the description of the left eye of genzou there are references to a right eye of genzou in the left eye description. I wonder if, currently, this item exist?

By the way, here, https://forums.beamd...s-release-90/p2 some more bugs are claimed to exist.

 

Edited by Sergio, 10 May 2019 - 10:20 PM.

[Sergio]

Ajoc Minimod, BG2 --> I definitely don't recommend this mod

Review

Spoiler

Ajoc minimod

Story. Brus the child, while you are in the copper coronet, alerts you that a guy is looking for an escort to get back to his village. You go to this guy (named Loron) and agree to his escorting request.
While travelling, you get ambushed once and you have to kill some bandits.
You bring him to the place he asked, but in a cutscene, Lorion gets ambushed there by a powerful coterie of mages and he gets kidnapped. You then search for clues of what happened to him.

You find a letter that tells you that a friend of Loron is currently residing in the inn in the city gates. You get there and he actually teleports you to the place where the enemy coterie is residing.
You face some npcs, enter a grove where you find the enemy boss (named Corpae) that actually spawns a few npc, then flees, kill the spawned npcs, find Lorion.
He tells you that he is too weak to give you your reward (WAT) and you have to go for the enemy boss that fled to a cavern.

You enter the cavern. You kill some dwarves there that are allied with the bad guy. But these tell you (obviously) that they have betrayed Corpae and are going to actually cast your dead body in a pit to kill Corpae*.  (for the explanation about the asterisk see notes after the story)

You then go deeper in the cave and there is a mage that actually tries to murder you with his creations, but the mage obviously portal out.

Then you go deeper and Corpae tries to kill you together with his followers. You get rewarded with 8900 gold off the body of Corpae + 6500 gold from Loron when you go talk to him.









Issues
> In the first ambush, you are supposed to kill all the bandits that ambush you. One didn't come to me and given that I thought there were no more bandits, I tried to talk with Loren. This bugs the quest. You are not supposed to go to talk to Loren.

It is Loren, after you have killed everyone, that starts a dialogue with you. 

> When you bring him to the place he asked you to, you can’t fast travel straight to city gates because the game thinks you’re still there.

> There are some dialogue errors. E.g:
“your” instead of  “You’re/you are”
“[...] restore my followers if you suceed [...]” = whole statement has no sense. §
“Sacrafice” = sacrifice
“you killed thembefore” = needs a space between them and before

> The guy tells you he is too weak to give you a reward, yet asks more from you. Get lost, old man. You’re not even showing any sign of affliction – he is standing still while he could be flat in the floor to actually prove he is weak.

> There is no explanation on what’s going on. Really. You are just trying to help this guy for absolutely no reason and you aren’t even explained why you should be helping him. His friend, the one teleporting you to the enemy coterie, doesn’t even try to help. He doesn’t care.

> Railroading. You can’t quit the quest – I mean, you tell the guy who kidnapped him that you don’t care anymore about Loron and that you are going away and he tries to murder you (but telling you right before that he has a justification he won’t tell you) for kidnapping Lorion. He then flees, not before spawning X npcs to kill you.

> Graphical glitches (the lines covering the screen that usually happens for mod-added content).

> the sceneries behind the characters are really low definition.

*= an asterisk for a special thing: these dwarves may plan this, but it is highly unlikely they don’t know that bhaalspawn actually crumble into dust as soon as they die. Also there are ten thousand bhaalspawns in the whole game, and you couldn’t actually “test” your plan by killing one or two bhaalspawns already? Mmhhh,  

Another thing: why do they need to do such elaborated plan, if I was able to kill Corpae without any issues just by meleeing him in a normal battle?

> When you face Corpae, he doesn’t tell you why he is trying to kill Loron. He just taunts you a bit, you kill him, get 8.9k gold off his body, then you have to backtrack to Lorion (no cutscene with automatic backtracking, sadly, or Lorion coming to you).
Lorion gives you the gold 6.5k, then flees. No one gives any explanation whatsoever about what is going!

 

Edited by Sergio, 17 May 2019 - 09:37 PM.

[Cahir]

Sergio, are there any mods out there you actually recommend? I mean the story content, mostly. I didn't play most megamods since I suspected it might not suit my expectations, but boy, are there any story-oriented mods (except Lava's mods) that are worth installing at all?

[Sergio]

@Jastey <3
@K4thos <3
@ChitownWillie <3

 

@Cahir
Just install everything that is from Jastey, Kulyok, Lava Del Vortel and your playthrough will turn out fine. I also recommend every mod and dog ( I remember to have played it as a kid and liking it very much, but my memories about it are kinda evanescent).


Expanded thief stronghold [BG2] ---> I don’t recommend this mod

Spoiler

Story. The story begins with Lathan informing you that new thieves are coming to the guild and they are two old acquaintances, Black lily and Narlen (you already met them in BG1).

As soon as you meet Narlen, he informs you that....

[first quest] Black Lily was captured by a band of orcs. You meet with him at the city gates and you are teleported (mmmh, you fast travel) to the place Lily is imprisoned. You kill some orcs (luckily you don’t meet them in a huge level).

[second quest] A captain that seems to be incorruptible waged war against the guild: you are tasked to kill him. You are said to not delay for too long, otherwise the guild gets closed. I waited a lot just to see if it would happen, and sadly, it didn’t.
So, you go into the garrison guard and you enter the place, kill all the guards there, enter in another dormitory (a clone of the first), kill them all, enter in another dormitory (a clone of the first) and the quest is done.

So....

> It’s a thief stronghold, but the quests you are assigned are for a butcher. Also seems strange that you can’t just send other people to free Lily.
> What if you’ve killed Black Lily and Narlen in BG1? I guess they come back as usual, but... there is a dialogue by Black Lily where she tells you that they moved because they were persuaded by the behaviour of bg1 guildmaster, because Narlen defied his will when he helped <charname> you against the thai wizard. So if you’ve killed them all in bg1, you are told another story...

Edited by Sergio, 13 May 2019 - 09:33 AM.

[jastey]

Just install everything that is from Jastey, Kulyok, Lava Del Vortel

Thanks for the kind words!

[Sergio]

Expanded Mage stronghold [BG2] , named "Mage stronghold" in BWS-EE ---> Mod not recommended.

Spoiler

Story. As soon as you finish the planar sphere stronghold, Teos proposes you another collaboration with the cowled wizards. The sphere will now become a college for the cowled wizard apprentices.
This is the main “flesh” of the mod. The sphere gets inhabitated by a lot of people and different folks and you are given tasks, if you wish to do them

> You encounter Melicamp, he tries to uncurse the bracers that turned him into a chicken in bg1, but fails and gets turned (again!) into a chicken
> You are asked by a tutor to bring him with a scroll of magic missile (fetch quest)
> You are asked by a cowled enforcer to kill someone inside the sphere because she is currently plotting with the red wizards of thai.
> You are asked by a devil to actually steal a scroll from the mind of one of the mages that are inside the planar sphere, then to kill that guy because just stealing the scroll is not enough for his plan.
> You are asked to go get back a powerful artifact that Mystra safeguarded. You get it from a mage in the inn of seven dales, then bring it back to Teos. Then you give it to the cowled wizards, and they start using the artifact to conjure a powerful spells to destroy the red wizards of thai island. But all they are able to conjure, while using the artifact, is just a rabbit. <Charname> tells them to get away from the sphere. Mods end here.
> Well, not really. I had another cutscene with a mage fighting a broom and dieing at the entrance of the planar sphere. You go there and you find 15+ brooms that try to kill you. Luckily they didn't infest the planar sphere.
> And another ambush, this time from Degrodel (BG1). The ambush happens at the entrance of the planar sphere (you get alerted by an apprentice that hostiles are entering the planar sphere).





Notes:

> No journal or quest logs update
> Mod is incomplete and the author doesn’t hide it – there is one cutscene where a professor together with his assistant open a portal to (supposedly) Sigil but they disappear out of thin air and you get notified that the author still didn’t complete it.
> The mod tries too hard to be funny and falls short – it is funny to see a gag once, but twice starts to become dull, third boring, forth you dislike it, etc etc.
For example: You are tasked to watch over an exam of various apprentices and while casting spells they all die (not before telling you what they are supposed to conjure\summon\do with their magic). Then... later, a party of adventurers tries to enter the planar sphere and charname actually pits other apprentices (you see this happening in a cutscene) against the adventurers. They all die or cast spells that turn them into horses, or rabbits.
Before the miscasts happen, <charname> tells the adventurers,  “YOU ARE GONNA DIE AHAHAHAH” (the text appears over the head of <charname>). Meh.
> I couldn’t tell anyone about the devil plotting.
> There are too few dialogues choices when talking with people (and sometimes they talk to the player, instead of being something charname would say. E.g: I’ve decided not to help demon scum such as yourself (did I overdo that?) .

 

Edited by Sergio, 13 May 2019 - 01:03 PM.

[Azazello]

Just install everything that is from Jastey, Kulyok, Lava Del Vortel

Thanks for the kind words!

I initially read it as what NOT to install!

{joke, friends, j/k'ing}

 

Expanded thief stronghold [BG2] ---> I don’t recommend this mod

First, thanks for the reviews!

They are your opinion, and I and many of us appreciate them, even if we don't agree.

I disagree with you on this one.

(I'm 'typing' from memory...)
* The rescue is just an action transition to justify getting access to her store items. I do agree we players should have been given a choice to opt out. Still, many mods do this, the base games do it, so I don't see what's bad here.
* BiG thing we ALL should remember about most mods - they were created years before there was a method to merge BG1 and BG2. No way Blucher, during his era, could have anticipated needing more dialogue options for MegaInstall players.

 

* Extra note--
-- Many BG1 mods were made before BG2 was even released.
-- a lot of BG-2 mods were made before mega-mods introduced a new era.

My own opinion-- I like the mod - a lot: not over the top; not underwhelming; has a nice, well-developed mini-narrative; the writing is acceptable, even enjoyable; no cheese in the fights (that I can remember); has content if you side against the thieves.

 

 

Please my friend, give us more reviews! We don't have enough members doing this, in their own dedicated discussions.

Edited by Azazello, 13 May 2019 - 01:45 PM.

[Sergio]

@Azazello. 

Spoiler

When I played Expanded Thief stronghold, I was expected to be treated as a guildmaster. You are the guildmaster. You do bureaucracy. Or... when bureaucracy is not to be thought about, you plot. You plot to make the guild prosper.

You can’t, as the head of the guild,  do petty things. Are you really tasked to go to a dungeon to find a certain person? I’m the guildmaster, do it yourself.
But the worst was the second quest: actually going inside a garrison dormitory to exterminate every living thing inside. That’s not something that would happen without extreme consequences, especially in Akthalha. Especially when the thieves guild acts more like Bodhi and without the subtlety that one would expect.

You would make yourself, the guildmaster, the target of higher powers in the city.  Really, there is no justification of a guildmaster that actually makes himself the target by entering a building located in the docks, in plain sight of so many people! And as soon as you are inside, the guildmaster starts killing everyone. It’s a massacre. You are going to get targeted, if not by the city itself by either Renal or Aran Linvail.
They would ask you “what the fuck are you doing? You actually made it so that all the eyes of the whole city look at the thieves guild now”. This would ruin the affairs they have.

There are not even hints at subtlety, like the fact that you are tasked to enter there during night, or to actually put some items inside the place to make it appear like someone else may have killed the captain’s guard.

If the author came back and wished to save the path he already made, he should add a "subtle" path where you actually poison the captain's guard or actually threaten or blackmail him by using his family (honestly I can't remember if it is said he has a family).

The violent path (the one inside the mod) should actually ban you from all the work with shadow thieves.

I’m sorry but I don’t agree at all with the fact that the mod is spot on and resembles baldur’s gate. 

 

Azengaard encounter  [BG2] --> I don't recommend this mod

Spoiler

Story. The mod starts right before you are entering the last room where Kalah resides.
You are teleported by an entity to places of your past. 

> Sarevok fight. You fight sarevok under the temple of Bhaal. Nothing at all happens after you kill Sarevok. You are supposed to leave the temple. You do and...

> you are teleported to one of the exterior area of BG2 (can’t remember the name). You meet the time guardian and he tells you that someday you will come back to this place and there will be a final encounter with him.

Basically you have to wait after underdark... here we go! [*Sergio gets 15k*, *crashes Bodhi*, *gets into Imnesvale and cleanse it from shadows because he has to try also the mod “imnesvale invasion”*]

> Okay, finished the underdark. We go face it into the wild teeth forest. You kill him and he drops a manual of bodily health (+1 constitution).


Flaws:

> Sarevok fight. The fight didn’t go as I actually played it in Bg1: I mean, I used SCS and Sarevok was immortal until I killed all of his servants (in the mod Sarevok is not immortal).
Tazok has a orog appearance instead of the Half-ogre appearance I would expect. Mmmh.

> second encounter with the “time guardian”: there is a dot missing in his statement

> the voice acting is not that bad. The issue is that the microphone used has a really bad rustle that takes you out of the game.

> No explanation on why such an entity, that was inside Kalah’s circle, took interest in you. Well you get one: he is allied with Irenicus. But Irenicus is way too subtle and smart to ally with such a bad entity that actually pits you against a fight you won and then tells you where to find him for a final showdown.



I also tried the other component enhanced trademeet crypt. And... all the monsters them had the mantle of waukeen. There should be only one, you know. Anyway, I'm not even totally sure it was fault of this component. Nonetheless, I just won't install it anymore because the work of undead improving is also done by SCS.

 

Edited by Sergio, 14 May 2019 - 08:58 AM.

[Sergio]

Imnesvale invasion [bg2] --> I don't recommend it

Spoiler

You go back to Imnesvale and find a Bhaalspawn actually plotting to conquer imnesvale. He\she narrates her story and then teleports out. You go to the major and he tasks you with defeating the Bhaalspawn (of course).
You are told they have an infinite army coming out of portals and that you have to kill some people to close these portals (namely the son and lietenaunts)
As soon as the talk with the major is over, you face the first guy, Arimayus. He is near the entrance of Umar hills and I actually went back there because I noticed this armed guy as soon as I reached Umar hills (you know, the cutscene started as soon as I arrived here and the guy was in the cutscene, before the screen moved).
So you kill Arimayus (I had to actually changelog him because he actually tries to kill you without even saying you the why: turns out he is from this mod; and he is the son of the bhaalspawn; you are not even told by the Major the names of the lietenaunt you are supposed to face, but hey, he knows they are two).
After you kill Arimayus more npcs spawns near him out of thin air. The Bhaalspawn you met before is mad at you for having killed his son. You kill him and the quest ends.


Flaws

> You go back to imnesvale because you know you’ve installed a mod, not because you are alerted by a kid that there is something bad going on.

> You are said “those that you aided in the past will come to help you” by the Major. What does it mean? I discovered now that if you helped Madulf and other people they may help you. Wouldn’t it be better if the author just told it?

>  The quest weirded me in its execution: the major and the wife joins you as soon as thee (not completely, they got the green circle and you can move them). In fact, I thought it was a bug and I actually asked Roxanne: but nope, this is the “normal” behaviour of the mod: they ‘join’ you so they can become a target of the invading bhaalspawn. But they don’t even tell you that they are going to follow you!

> Trying to force talk with them as soon as they join you, finishes the quest, even if you didn’t kill them.

> Also the reward you get out of the major kinda took me out of the game. You get a ring named “Ring of Amphetamines”.
Description: Vrooooooooommmmmmm! Makes you attack fast!

STATISTICS:    Adds one extra 1/2 attack/round
  Dexterity: +2 Bonus~

 

[K4thos]

Expanded Mage stronghold [BG2] , named "Mage stronghold" in BWS-EE ---> Mod not recommended.

You sadly missed the best part of this mod (Roxanne's release dropped some of the story)

 

Spoiler

Edited by K4thos, 14 May 2019 - 07:48 AM.