Dstone

Aha, well I have tried your fix from the thread you linked too and now the game crashes when I attempt to convert. Well at least its doing something now!

Any ideas? Its not a massive issue if I can't use this kit but it would of been cool to run through the game with it.

go to start -> run type 'dxdiag' disable directdraw and direct3d under the display tab, try that see if it works.

^^ Sorry i thought it was a good mod. The best out of any of the big mods i've played. I said with divine remix you don't see many TDD cleric spells (you rightly said about sorceror's though, hadnt thought of that hardly ever play sorcerors), the wizard ones seem to be few and far between. The xp for quests is ok, say 150k unless i'm really mistaken across the whole party by the end of a big quest (not for each party member, so around 25k each in quest xp), the same as if you had done any of the other quests like windspear at the beginning of the game. That is without the xp balancer, even less if you have that on.

I wasnt aware of any cutscene with vicona, i don't think i've taken her in any of my big world parties thusfar.

if you guys hate it so much, especially you bigg because you must know far more than me about the various big mods, why is it in the recommended install for BWP? The spells i've seen from tdd seem to mostly be useless, so i don't use them, there are other mods that have crazy spells that are far more detrimental to the game in my opinion anyways.

The DSOTSC is pretty overpowered itemwise, but has some good action packed dungeon crawls which are lacking in BG1, and if you install it with the bp-balancer you don't get any of the cheesy items.
I havent played ntotsc yet (even though i always have it installed) and secret of bonehill is ok, but its a bit dull for my tastes. There are loads of new areas however and apart from the ridiculous 'mspaint' guardhouse, they are actually all pretty well done.

Out of the new big mods for BG2 i've only really played the TDD but i can say its definitely worth it the quests are good and of a decent length, no crazy XP and the items are nice and balanced. You don't actually see that many new spells, and if you have divine remix installed you should only see the new wizard spells, in which case you can choose whether to have them or not.

Just wanted to say thanks for the new version, i'm sure there are loads of people like me that don't post much but are eagerly anticipating each release! Doing my biggest megamod yet at the moment. Waiting for biffing I hope Baldurs Gate modding continues for a very long time to come (after all there has been no better games as of yet!)