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Yup, I'm planning to try and go through the various postings here and on the Beamdog forums to gather up issues people found and address them in an update. Thank you for taking the time to do this!

Hey I just wanna say I got linked this directly after having sorta thrown myself into self exile from modding and it really made my day. I really poured my heart into this mod over the course of a few months, but after release I had this sort of extreme imposter syndrome kind of feeling like it was bad, my coding was amateurish, I was overwhelmed by my inability to do certain things, and I got so caught in my own head about not being able to update everything or wanting to go back and trash and redo so much of it that I sort of ran away from modding. But yeah, these comments really help. Uh, so if you see this, thank you? Maybe I'll try and go back and find the bugs people reported and fix it. And probably just add an extra option for the mirror quest, that one's a bit narrow as implemented for the 'good' option. I unfortunately just don't have a ton of time for modding lately. But we'll see.

Welcome back @K4thos Figured you got burned out. It's so easy to happen in modding. I'm working on a big BG1 quest mod and 3/4 of the way through I'm feeling the struggle to get back to it. When the IWD portion gets to the point where it's playable and needs testing, let me know. I might want to revisit some of my writing for that (it's been ages since I wrote those interjections...) while I also test. I'm also much more experienced in modding so I might be inspired to do some more in depth things like character specific quests in IWD. No promises, but maybe!

Ah! Thank you again for the clarification (and to you @Grammarsalad!). Still learning some of the ins and outs of weidu modding, but this explains it perfectly.

First of all, thank you so much for the help. Since you're copying an existing area into override though, would that still possibly cause conflict with other mods (say, if they both tried to add a new travel point to that same area)?

I'm currently doing a mod where I'd like to add in some new areas but link them to existing ones in game. I wasn't able to really find too many tutorials or walk-throughs on area editing, so this is all a bit of trial and error on my part, but is the only way to add a new travel point in an existing area to edit the .are file directly and export that into the override folder? I feel like that's just a big no-no and wouldn't play well with other mods at all, but I just can't for the life of me think of another way to do it. Thanks!

I didn't see this multiclass combo in the readme anywhere, but it looks like when combined with the Monastic Orders of Faerun, I got the option to create a Monk/Druid. It makes for crazy good shapechanging with some minor issues which I suspect stem from this combo not seeming like it's officially supported by either mod (and those issues seem to be really on the Monastic Orders mod since they involve the 'monk' side of the multi). Just kinda wondering if this was even intended to be permitted.

I think we are all feeling that one

Yes, XP and treasure are definitely meant to be carried back from IWD

Also fair Although in this case I think the way I wrote the transition for Kathos was a sort of spell to relive the events of IWD rather than literal time travel. I'm not sure if that's still the case since I've not been involved in this project for a while but I thought it was an elegant way to handle it that avoided most of the pitfalls of time travel in fiction.

While IWD is itself removed enough from BG that IWD-in-EET could easily just change a few names and handwave that it's set contemporaneously as BG, IWD2's plot is too interwoven with the events of the first game set several decades later for the mod to do the same with both. My preference has always been to have the plot of IWD1 be a time travel scenario while IWD2 is set during the events of BG. It makes the most sense with the least amount of rewrites needed.

Oh what a great idea! Glad to see some EET specific quest mods in the works.

I check in on this board every few weeks and am also still excited for it to be a reality

Just speaking for myself but when I wrote for this I did it out of a sense of love for the game and not for any expectation of payment. I'm kind of with Kathos on this, it would be weird to accept donations at this point. I cant imagine a few dollars is going to move the project along any faster anyway.

I am also happy to see that this is continued to be worked on

Wow great new look!~

I'm glad to see how things are moving and it's good to see you back K4thos Shoot me a message once the beta for IWD2 is in any kind of playable state. I might be interested in writing more dialogue interactions for party characters if you still think that would be a good addition.

Edit: after further thought, I think I'll just keep my comments to myself. Best to just acknowledge this and move on.

Ah, I didn't know about the other Sarevok mods. One less thing for you to worry about then.

Tamoko is a character who has a really strong conceit that personally resonates with me but she's so barely sketched beyond it it gives you a lot of freedom. I of course always would encourage you exercise creative freedom to do whatever else you want with her because there's going to be just about nothing in the game to contradict you. The Yoshimo-sister angle could be interesting but it also doesn't really add anything to her character so since it sounds like you consider that non-canon, I think ignoring it is perfectly fine. I'm glad for that. I think it also makes sense to add in a conversation with Sarevok in ToB where you reveal what happened to Tamoko and have that reflect on Sarevok in some way. Maybe a conversation earlier on while he's still Chaotic Evil where he dismisses that connection but if you alignment change him later on he admits guilt and a sense of responsibility over it and possible realization that she was the only person who showed actual true love towards him in his life and that was part of the reason he pushed her away. (just an idea anyway )

Just wanted to post to say I'm continually amazed by the work you put into EET and modding Roxanne. I'll probably be starting a new playthrough in the next month or so. I'll give this a try then.

I've always wanted Tamoko to be expanded upon and her death to be resolved even if you spared her at the end of BG1. Yoshimo was supposed to be a relative of hers iirc? I remember hearing that though it's not made explicit anywhere.

Don't worry about it. K4thos hasn't been around because frankly there's very little to do until 2.5 hits. I'm sure he'll be back then and if not, eh can worry about that then. I still see him time to time on other forums I frequent so he's not disappeared off the face of the planet trust me.

I wouldn't worry about it. IIRC IWD-in-EET is essentially already done, he was just waiting to see if there were any code changes in the 2.5 patch that would break anything before releasing it. Assuming nothing broke, it should be pretty simple to just push it as 1.0 and go and finally K4thos will be free of this huge project he undertook

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