farmerjohn

I recently bought both the entire BG series specifically to play the trilogy with Big World.  I am trying to turn them into a trilogy and add as much non-munchkin content as possible.  It appears as though BWS is now out of date and that this community is saying to manually install the mods that you want.  Is that the only way to get the content?  I would rather avoid installing 400 mods by hand if that is possible.  Is the following idea going to work:

Run BWS.  Get as much content as possible from it.  Then install the missing mods by hand.  Finally run BWI and let it clean up the install.  Is this "close enough" or am I just going to wind up with an unplayable mess?  Also, is there any fix on the horizon?  I can put off playing the trilogy for 6 months if the community has something up their sleeve.

Right now BWS is reporting that the following mods are missing:

BG2 Fixpack
Item Revisions
Baldur's Gate Trilogy
BG1 Mini Quests and Encounters
Gavin NPC
Amber NPC (SoA)
Kivan and Deheriana Companions
Auren Aseph NPC
Sarah NPC
Angelo NPC
Haldamir NPC
Gavin NPC for BG2
Spell Revisions
Sword Coast Stratagems
Alternatives
Crossmod Banter Pack (BG2)
Sword Coast Stratagems II
BG2 Tweak Pack
IA Content - Miscellaneous NWN Animations I
Level 1 NPCs

I appreciate any help that you can provide as well as the huge amount of content that this community has created.  As a fan of huge mod-packs and total conversions I was pretty sad to see BWS die off.