Gorion

Hello,

I am soon to start playing BG1 & 2 after so many years. An individual (Leomar I think) has told me about this website and I am very interested in installing BGT due to all the excellent things it provides (i.e. the BG2 engine present in BG1).

However, I have three questions that I was unable to find (and please direct me to the forum/thread/answer if it has already been asked/answered).

Before I ask the question: I just wanted to mention that I know BGT is mainly involved with combining BG1/2/TOB into one big chunk. Furthermore it adds BG2 engine into BG1 and improves the look and feel of BG1 up to BG2 standards. Furthermore it allows for the smooth transition of the BG1 character into BG2 and it also allows some of your party members to retain their BG1 stat into BG2 (whcih I think is nice ). So hence BGT is not mainly an addition mod per se (like there are mods that actually extra quests and items etc -- while to my knowledge, BGT does not do this). Correct me if I am wrong.

So I had a look at this link http://www.spellhold...e/BGTReadme.htm and I was able to find much information for BGT. I was just wondering (I flicked through some of the revision history but most appeared to be of the bug fix/tweak fix nature and not an actual change to the game itself) so I was wondering if there has been any actual changes been made to the the BG1/BG2 games. I am not talking about a bug fix change where for example, a mage casts the correct spell that he said he cast or for example fixing a bug where some NPC says give me this scroll and I will give you 500 gold and when you do the quest he only gives you 400 gold.

By gameplay changes take for example: Imoen is no longer a thief but a mage!!! Now I know you guys havent done that (or everyone in the BG community will have a heart attack!) but I am interested in those kind of changes (if any) that BGT does to BG1/2. Maybe you guys havent done anything of that magnitude and any changes are very minor? So any changes in terms of quests/items/spells/NPC's/dialogue. I heard that you guys have added/improved dialogue but I was worried if it was changed/altered to be something completelly different :s.

Second Question:
I have not played BG2/TOB fully the last time I played it (so I have not gotten all the way to the end). Does BGT make any changes to BG2/TOB? Or is BGT mainly the joiner of BG1/BG2/TOB and it just gives the nice BG2 engine to BG1 among other things to BG1?

Third question:
When will 1.07 of BGT be comming out? If it's sometime in next few weeks, then I will be happy to wait a bit . Also with every new update to BGT will there be a need to start all over again? (i.e. uninstall and re instal and make a new character?)

Thank you for your time.

edit: I also just wanted to mention that I am still quite new to this modding community and the amazing level of modding that occurs still to this day with BG1/2/IWD1/2/etc! So sorry if something I said is extremelly obvious/wrong .

Cheers!