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One more reason to install both

is the bug fix applicable for English version as well? Will play iwd2 with this mod soon..

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I have to agree with this, I don't think I notice anything wrong with the mage after finishing bg2 with 33.7. The only time that I noticed something slightly weird was during the mage vs mage duel in Underark, as the enemy mage stand still after a long fight, and I considered it normal that time because he run out of spells, didn't bother and just continue my game. I probably won't remember it if I didn't see the bug report here.. I guess it is more obvious in BG1, but I think don't mind if the mage run around or stand still after run out of spell...since he is useless then..and I always kill mage ASAP

Glad to know someone feels enjoyable I should be the one who say thanks, enjoying your MOD very much (including those I have played in IWDEE), I always prefer MODs that look like original content, really amazing. Athkatlan Grounds MODs are in my "definitely will play list" for my next playthrough Not sure if you have any quest mods with interjections from your NPCs (I will bring Verr'sza next time).

Thanks for your advice, I can't imagine some mods have to be installed like this (different components from same MOD have different install order) if you didn't mention here. Really appreciate it. Is there any reason IWD spells component has to be installed before item randomiser? I thought spells should be installed after item.

I have updated the following: - How I rate mods- added Area Art - updated 5 new reviews for Quest MODs And so I finished all my reviews for 2021 BG playthrough. To be honest there were moments I thought I could not finish these reviews due to poor writing. It is like taking forever for me to finish it. Million thanks to all MOD authors. I like all of the MODs installed this time, including tweaks, UI, portrait, SCS etc which significantly improved my experience. I should probably write something for SCS (I installed it in BG2 only) as the gameplay has improved so much that I can't really go back to vanilla now. I think I might not be able to finish this BG2 playthrough without it because I played BG2 too many times. Perhaps I will leave it until the day I play a complete BG1 to TOB playthrough with SCS. === The next reviews will be IWDEE mods. If everything goes as planned, I will probably write for the NPC mods for IWD2 and some modules for NWN. Hopefully I won't get jaded or stuck somewhere.

reserve for NWN and NWN2

I have updated the install order, red colour is newly added one. I am playing IWD1 now and quite like the casting and spell graphic. Included IWD spells (via SCS) may also make the gameplay feels new. Not very sure whether the install order is appropriate though. According to author of cosmetic enhancement mod, they should be compatible with each other. I would probably finish IWDEE, IWD2 and some modules from NWNEE first before returning to my next epic BG playthrough, so probably will still see and add something that I find interested.

I didn't experience this weird mage behaviour in BG2 with 33.7, probably because they never finish their spells.. I guess it is recommended to use 33.4 for bg1 now?

Is there any way to use the BGT map (clearer version) in the OP for non-eet game? If I install the BP-BGT-Worlmap v10.2.6 from Spellhold, the one I have is quite blurry. If I replace the with the WORLDMAP.MOS file K4thos uploaded here, the map is nice but the locations are wrong...

G) IWDEE NPCs To update following after completing current game: - Sird Nord - Hildury - Diriel - Rizdaer - Peony

E) IWDEE NPC 1) Dusky (from Dusky NPC for IWD EE) Overall Experience: B Lore friendly: B+ Screenshots: 2) Holvir (from Icewind Dale NPCs) Overall Experience: B Lore friendly: B Screenshot: 3) Nella (from Icewind Dale NPCs) Overall Experience: B Lore friendly: B+ Screenshots 4) Karihi (from Karihi, a fire genasi pyromancer NPC for IWD:EE) Overall Experience: A- Lore friendly: A Screenshot 5) Orra (Orra NPC for IWD EE) Overall Experience: B- Lore friendly: B+ Screenshots F) IWDEE Quests 1) Tale of Our Lady Dreamless Overall Experience: B Lore friendly: B Area art: A+ Screenshot 2) Below & Below Inn Overall Experience: A- Lore friendly: A- Area art: A+ Screenshots 3) Night of the Blinking Dead Overall Experience: A- Lore friendly: A+ Area art: A- Screenshot 4) Terror of the Skin Eater Overall Experience: B+ Lore friendly: B+ Area art: A- Screenshots

D) BG2EE Quests: 1) Tales of the Deep Gardens Overall Experience: B+ Lore Friendly: B+ Area Art: B+ Screenshots: 2) Innershade Overall Experience: B Lore Friendly: B Area Art: A Screenshot: 3) The White Queen Overall Experience: B+ Lore friendly: B+ Area art: A- Screenshots: 4) I Shall Never Forget Overally Experience: A- Lore Friendly: B+ Area art: A Screenshots: 5) The Sellswords Overall experience: A Lore friendly: A+ Area art: A Screenshots: Fading Promises Overall Experience: B Lore friendly: A+ Screenshot: Back to Brynnlaw Overall Experience: A Lore friendly: S Screenshots: Heroes, Thieves and Moneylenders Overall Experience: A+ Lore friendly: A- Area art: B+ Screenshots: Ooze's Lounge Overall Experience: A- Lore friendly: A+ Area art: A+ Screenshots: Southern Edge Overall Experience: A Lore friendly: A+ Area art: A- Screenshots: Tangled Oak Isle Overall Experience: A+ Lore friendly: A Area art: A+ Screenshots: Foundling: Between the Shades (As a Quest MOD) Overall Experience: A- Lore friendly: A- Screenshots:

C) BG2EE NPCs: Adrian (from Adrian, a renegade Zhentarim sorcerer with a taste for decadence) Overall Experience: B+ Lore friendly: A+ Screenshots for Adrian Isra (From Isra, earnest, engaging female paladin of Sune for BG2:EE) Overall Experience: B+ Lore friendly: A Screenshots for Isra Sirene (From Sirene, a tiefling paladin of Ilmater NPC for BG2:EE) Overall Experience: A- Lore friendly: A- Screenshots for Sirene Xan (From Xan BG2 NPC) Overall Experience: A Lore friendly: A- Screenshots for Xan Yoshimo (Vanilla NPC with MODs- Yoshimo Friendship + Yoshimo's Remorse) Overall Experience: A- Lore friendly: A Screenshots for Yoshimo Imoen (Vanilla NPC with MOD- Imoen Friendship) Overall Experience: B+ Lore friendly: A+ Screenshots for Imoen

B) BGEE Quests (with SOD) Baldur's Gate Romantic Encounters Overall Experience: B+ Lore friendly: B+ Screenshot: The Stone of Askavar Overall Experience: B Lore friendly: A+ Area art: B+ Screenshot: Balduran’s Seatower Overall Experience: A+ Lore friendly: A+ Area art: S Screenshots: Baldur's Gate Mini Quests and Encounters Modification (BGQE) Overall Experience: A+ Lore friendly: A+ Screenshots: Shades of the Sword Coast Overall Experience: A+ Lore friendly: A- Area art: A+ Screenshots: Ascalon's Questpack Overall Experience: A- Lore friendly: A+ Screenshots:

A) BGEE NPCs (with SOD) Sirene (From Sirene, a tiefling paladin of Ilmater NPC for BG:EE and SoD) Overall Experience: B Lore Friendly: B+ Isra BG1 (From Isra, earnest, engaging female paladin of Sune for BG:EE) Overall Experience: B Lore Friendly: A Screenshots for Sirene Screenshots for Isra Drake (from Drake, a human priest of Tyr NPC for BG:EE and SoD) Overall Experience: B+ Lore Friendly: A+ Screenshots for Drake Aura (From Aura, a gnome artificer NPC for BG:EE + SoD) Overall Experience: A- Lore Friendly: A- Screenshots for Aura Xan (Vanilla NPC with MODs- BG1 NPC Project + Xan’s friendship path) Overall Experience: B+ Lore Friendly: A- Screenshots for Xan Beambod's NPCs (SOD part only): Corwin: B- Baeloth: C+ Viconia (Vanilla NPC with MODs- BG1 NPC Project) Overall Experience: BLore Friendly: A Screenshot: Dave (from Glam's NPC Pack) Overall Experience: BLore Friendly: B+ Screenshots: Flara (from Glam's NPC Pack) Overall Experience: B+Lore Friendly: A Screenshots: Vynd (from Glam's NPC Pack) Overall Experience: B-Lore Friendly: B Screenshots: Ajantis (Vanilla NPC with MODs- BG1 NPC Project + Ajantis BG1 Expansion) Overall Experience: B+Lore Friendly: A+ Screenshots: Jaheira and Khalid (Vanilla NPC with MODs- BG1 NPC Project) Overall Experience: A Lore friendly: A+ Screenshots: Imoen (Vanilla NPC with MODs- BG1 NPC Project + Imoen 4 Ever) Overall Experience: A Lore Friendly: A Screenshots:

. Why I write this thread? English is my third language, I can read, can write for my work, but I'm not good in writing reviews. It took me much more time than I have expected to write these reviews. Why I am doing something so difficult for me? I found that there is actually quite limited information on how good a mod is when I'm doing own research to find which mod I should try. Is the npc/ quest mod good? Is there many interjection? How is the writing? How is the area art? I have all questions but sometime the answers are nowhere. Those mod that I can find many reviews / opinions are basically either too bad or too impressive. Hence, in my opinion, writing some feedbacks is at least something I should do after enjoying these mods that the authors spent so much effort making them without asking anything for return. I really appreciate it, I can still enjoy this game like a new game after 20 years, thanks to their tremendous works. I was someone who used to dislike any unofficial content because I prefer to keep my games as vanilla as possible (for 18 years) and I thought mod written by non-professionals cannot be good. However, after my 2014 EE vanilla play through, I lack of interest to return to my favorite game because I saw everything, used every vanilla npc. I still want to play, but I don't have motivation. Mods rekindle my passion. How I rate mods: Screenshots Warning You may have a glimpse on the screenshots if you want to know how the writing / area arts are, but some definitely contain heavy spoilers. I suggest do not see the screenshots if you are someone prefer to explore yourself. ==========Scroll down to see review =========

Decided to add for BG1 and Bg2: 20. Shades of the Sword Coast https://downloads.weaselmods.net/download/shades-of-the-sword-coast/ Just reached Kuldahar (IWD1), received 2 quests that I thought they are vanilla, only found out that those are from Lava's MOD when I looked at the world map, because I remember there are no early vanilla quests lead to new areas...Integrated seamlessly in the original game...Some more I remember some of the good quests from his BG2 MODs that I played recently. I know it is still beta, but I will still install it. 20. Reunion https://www.pocketplane.net/reunion/ I like his quests from Xan MOD and Sellswords, more quests from Kulyok are welcome, especially I read something encouraging me to try it, it seems like a good idea to extend the stories in TOB. Hopefully I didn't add too many mods into my list and make the game becomes buggy Updated load order for BG1. sotsc is very new, so I guess it should be installed as last of the quest mod.

I played games on TV, so I have to use widescreen resolution if I want to play with a full screen...(I'm not joking, IE games on TV is stunning) I tried DDrawFix, DDwrapper, compatibility tools, tried lot of settings that I could find online...but to no avail.. Vanilla GOG version is very slow, around 10-20 FPS. I must set NoVideoMemory= 1 to have stable 30 FPS, but it will cause random flickering (can see desktop things for 1 second..). As for the random crash, I'm not sure whether it is related to the DDrawFix. So I guess I have to accept it- the best for me is to tolerate some flickerings (quite random, sometime few minutes once, sometime take longer or less), and hopefully the crash is not getting more as I proceed further. If I encounter any permanent crash in any area, I think I will uninstall widescreen mod temporary and play in window mode in order to proceed. I'm not sure the unofficial IWD2 EE in progress can solve these issues. --- I saw some criticize Beamdog's EE versions, but after trying IWD2 recently, I appreciate the EE version more than ever.

almost 6 or 7 years ago I started iwd 2 with this mod after finishing iwd1ee with iwdnpc mod. To be honest I'm quite impressed with Domi's writing as it looks so professional to me. Unfortunately I gave up eventually somewhere around the ice temple, mostly due to this old game itself (I don't really like 3rd edition rules and the game is slower and lack of convenience compared to those ee version) , rather than the mod itself. I always have regret as I didn't finish the game with this mod, its concept basically has everything I like for an npc, i love the interactivity of npc and I still remember I read lot of threads here and feel how happy to see people praise this mod, voting for most likeable npc or romance etc.. I think I should try iwd2 one more time (after my replays of bg series and iwdee) just to see what this mod offers and I also hope to see all beaufitiful area art from this game. Tried installing everything again in window 8 but has a lot of issues with wide-screen mod, tried a lot of fixes and seems no best solution found for my game. It seems still playable with some random screen flickering and crashes though..Hopefully I can finish this time. Thanks for the detailed review, it give me more anticipation

Thanks for explaining, I think previously I have confused with the notes for npc mod content which may need a vanilla item to trigger a specific talk, I thought it means item randomizer may move mod items.

Updated my load order: - included item randomizer, probably will make the exploration more fun since I won't know what I will get from every store / battle. - Decided 75% experience from quests and kills should be good enough for this playthrough. - Probably will drop the cosmetic enhancements since I have no idea when to install it.

I'm considering to add this mod for my new playthrough. Not sure if it will affect items added by other MODs.

Tried that in IWDEE and I can change the dialogue font without messing up the record screen. However, a different font will make the record screen looks weird in BGEE, it seems like only the default one can fit in the small bar there...I guess that is why you said need to edit the UI menu.