SecretMonkey

By the by, I did the auto install this time and everything is groovy.

Quick question: Will all of these mods work in Multi-Player? Not over the net obviously, but I like to create my parties with 2 PCs and then pick up 4 NPC's along the way. The only way I know how to do that is in the Multi-player game.

As a once avid Pencil and paper gamer, for me it's all about the story and the characters involved. You always, however had someone trying to Min/Max their character and ruining it for the pure gamers. Pure gamers plan every encounter no matter how trivial, especially when resurrection costs almost as much (whether in gold or favors) as they are likely find on their quest. Everyone hates the guy who shows up with the 18 17 16 15 14 13 guy because generally all he can contribute is, " Screw it, beef me up with your spells follow me into the fray." 90% of the time, out smarting your opponets is far more rewarding than walking strait up to them and hacking them to death with your hackmaster6000*. And sometimes surviving an encounter is it's own reward. Consequences, in role-playing as in real life, must be directly proportionate to Actions taken and gains recieved otherwise you are just another 18 17 16 15 14 13 God among men. And THAT to me is boring.

I understand that in this age of doing what sells, anyone in any kind of business has to pander to the masses and the gimme society that is America (and soon to be Western Europe). I understand and accept that fact when I sit down and play my closest substitute for pencil and paper RPG's; Shadows of Amn. What I can't accept is being able to purchase power on a quest to raise my stats to slay increasingly more powerful beasties to get more gold to buy more power etc... If I want to do that I'll go play Dungeon Siege.

Don't get me wrong here; Baldurs Gate has existed on my hard drive in one form or another since 1999. That in itself is a testament to how awesome an experience it is. I am not sharp shooting anyone here or belittling anyones contributions. I salute all of you for your Dungeon Mastering. But a Dungeon Master is first and foremost a storyteller. And any good storyteller knows that what makes a good story is Human (or other racial) struggle, reward and consequence. Remember, even Hercules, Horatio, Achilles, Richard Couer de Leon and Patton died tragically. Oedipus had his misfortunes as did Arthur. And all good Vikings die in glorious combat.

That said I'll stop now before I write a book. Happy gaming. I'm off to check out all of these awesome looking mods for the first time.


*Stole that label somewhere

My thanks Hlidskialf. I was in this process of doing a mad C: hack and slash of any and all files Baldur. I added your advice to the carnage, did a reinstall of SoA, TOB and the TOB patch and I appear to be up and running. I will of course be attempting to reinstall TDD, SoS, TS, and BP, but for now I think I will just caress my mended program.

Thanks again; I have taken the liberty of adding some Good Karma to your pool.

I hope this is the right place for my question. As I have installed TDD, SoS, TS, TOB and the BP with all of their latest patches and BP brings them all together, I assume this would be the correct spot.

   Whenever I launch Baldurs Gate SoA it allows me to make a character in accordance with having TDD and BP installed. When I complete the process and click accept, it moves to the loading screen, loads half way, and then crashes to the desktop.
   When I installed everything, I followed the instructions put forth by Yazzuie to the letter. But that's beside the point as I must have made a mistake somewhere. In an attempt to correct whatever I messed up, I uninstalled everything and loaded BG SoA alone. Again, a crash to Desk top. I went searching for whatever rogue files I might have lingering about, and found a lot of TDD files hanging out in my override folder and other places on my harddrive. I erased them... still no luck. I couldn't find anything else labeled TS, TDD, BP, SoS, or otherwise MOD. I was planning on Formatting my harddrive anyway, so I did. When it came back up, I re-installed BG-SoA alone to see if it would run. Again Crash to Desk top in the same place. And low and behold if those damnable TDD files hadn't shown back up in my override folder.
   I am now at a loss as to what to do. I am no computer/Mod expert (a novice at best) and I could really use a hand. If any of you could spare a moment I would greatly appreciate it. I'll pay you back in Karma...

Some further information that might be useful:
I just reinstalled SoA with TOB and the TOB patch cause my skull refuses to let the wall win :bash:
This time I got an error message with my crash. As my other machine is not on-line I can't post it for ya, but is says;

Error Signature:
AppName: bgmain.exe AppVersion: 2.5.0.2 ModName: bgmain.exe
ModVersion: 2.5.0.2 Offset: 006523fb

I forgot to mention as well that I did the manual install from Yazzuie's Guide.
Also, I just upgraded from Win98 to XP recently. Could that have anything to with it?