Tord

Hopefully this is an easy question for someone out there to answer.

I have a Wild Mage going through Shadows of Amn (SoA) with the Throne of Bhaal (ToB) expansion installed, and she only has intelligence 17. Currently, at 18th level, she has two 9th level spells slots available in her mage book. The problem I'm having is, I can't answer why that's the case!

The Ability Scores table in the SoA manual shows Spell Level as 8th for intelligence 17, and I don't see that it was changed in the ToB manual, or even the readme.txt errata included on the CD-ROM. Did they simply lift the restriction for the expansion and not mention it? Similarly confusing, the Wizard Spell Progression table in the ToB manual shows an 18th level mage should only have one 9th level spell available, not two.

The game is unmodded, except for BG2 Fixpack Version 9 (Core Fixes and GTU Light only). The game is version 2.5.26461 with ToB patch 26498 (not the beta patch).

Thanks in advance for any insight! :)

tmj

I've been looking for a Planescape: Torment mod that would allow the main character, the Nameless One, to be female, but have been unable to find one. So, I have decided to at least look into what may be involved to possibly implement this myself. I don't have any modding experience, but have 10+ years experience programming, so I'm at least comfortable at a keyboard.

The requirements seem simple enough: character portraits, animations, sounds, and references in dialogue text to gender ("he", "him", etc.) would be the only things required to change. All these changes would be aesthetic only, and have no impact on the system or story. Romantic relationships would not have to change, as I'd prefer the female Nameless One to be sapphic. Ideally, new portraits, animations, and sounds could be copied or based on ones from existing females in the game or other Infinity Engine games. Of course, changing the movies would be beyond the scope of the project.

I guess I had two questions, really. Has anyone heard of someone else starting a similar project? Also, is there a hidden gotcha I'm not aware of that would make this an impossibility? Thanks in advance for any information or guidance! :)

tmj