Mods Options

[Shadan]

Since I don't want to play BG2 over and over (I am not able to do due to my time limit), I would like to put into my game as much content as I can with mods. I am searching, checking mods since 2 weeks while I am playing BG1 still. I would be crazy if I would find my game screwed due to incompatibility at middle or end of my game. So I made a mod list from wanted ones in installation order. I would like to ask Sikret and/or any mod expert player to check my list and pls inform me about any possible incompatibility, wrong installation order, or anything what is a somekind of cheat in game balance.

1. TOB Official patch
2. Baldurdash TOB fixpack-1.12 (Non-weidu version)
3. Herbs and Potions
4. Ribald’s Genie
5. Tower of Deception
6. Banter Packs
7. BG2 Tweak Pack
Cosmetic Changes
Viconia Skin Color Change
Avatar Morphing Script
Commoners Use Drab Colors
Icon Improvements
Force All Dialogue to Pause
Content Tweaks
More Interjections
Alter HP Triggers for NPC Wounded Dialogues
Improved Athkatlan City Guard (Andyr)
Breakable Nonmagical Armor, Helms, and Shields
Improved Kick-out Dialogues (Weimer)
Add Bags of Holding
Exotic Items Pack
Add Map Notes
Stores Sell Larger Stacks of Items
Gems and Potions Require Identification
Multiple Strongholds (Sabre, Baldurdash, Weimer)
Bonus Merchants (Baldurdash, Weimer)
Rule Changes
Two-Handed Bastard Swords
Two-Handed Katanas
Weapon Styles for All
Change Experience Point Cap
Expanded Dual-Class Options
Wear Multiple Protection Items
Shopkeepers Have Limited Identification Ability
Multi-Class Grand Mastery (Weimer) ???
True Grand Mastery (Schumacher, Weimer)
Change Magically Created Weapons to Zero Weight
Make +x/+y Weapons Consistent
Description Updates for Make +x/+y Weapons Consistent Component
Un-Nerfed THAC0 Table
Un-Nerfed Sorcerer Spell Progression Table
Alter Mage Spell Progression Table
Alter Bard Spell Progression Table
Alter Cleric Spell Progression Table
Alter Druid Spell and Level Progression Tables
Triple-Class HLA Tables
Convenience Tweaks and/or Cheats
Higher HP on Level Up
Maximum HP Creatures (the bigg)
Easy Spell Learning
Bottomless Bags of Holding
Remove Fatigue from Restoration Spells
Shut Up "You Must Gather Your Party ..." (Weimer)
Change Effect of Reputation on Store Prices
Unlimited Ammo Stacks
Unlimited Jewelry and Gem Stacks
Unlimited Potion Stacks
Unlimited Scroll Stacks
Faster Chapter 1&2 Cut-Scenes & Dreams
NPCs change
Adjust Evil Joinable NPC Reactions
ToB-Style NPCs
Change Jaheira to Neutral Good Alignment
Make Montaron an Assassin (Andyr)
Change Korgan to Neutral Evil Alignment .
Give Kagain A Legal Constitution Score of 19
8. Victor's Improvements Pack
Victor's Wizards Know Better (have more Lore) component
The Djin Merchant (Are these lvl 9 spells and new items somekind of cheat?)
Lydia's Scroll
Special Encounters
Improved Irenicus Dungeon (only if I find Improved Ilyich too hard.)
Grandpa's Shield quest
9. NPC Kitpack
Anomen will gain the Priest of Helm kit on passing his knighthood test.
Imoen & Nalia get an Adventurer kit and/or specialist mage kit.
Minsc's kit title to be changed to Rashemaar Ranger.
Sarevok gets a proper Deathbringer kit, instead of the one ability he has now.
10. Tactics:
Improved Ilyich
The Ritual
Improved Sahuagin City
Improved Bodhi
"Kuroisan", the Acid Kensai
"Red Badge" Poison-Based Encounter
Gebhard Blucher's Improved Mae'Var
Gebhard Blucher's Lich in the Docks
Kensai Ryu's Gnome Fighter/Illusionst in the Docks
Kensai Ryu's Improved Crypt King
Ishan's "Always Toughest Random Spawns in Dungeons"
Gebhard Blucher's Random City Encounters
Kensai Ryu's Random Wilderness Encounters
Improved Undead
Improved Golems
Gebhard Blucher's Improved Mind Flayers
Smarter Beholders
Kensai Ryu's Smarter Vampires
Göran Rimén's Improved Nymphs
Kensai Ryu's Improved Copper Coronet
SimDing0's Improved Oasis
Mike Barnes' Improved Small Teeth Pass
Mike Barnes' Improved North Forest
Mike Barnes' Improved Marching Mountains
Slightly Tougher Demons
Tougher Druid Grove
Tougher Fire Giants
11. Unfinished Business
The Kidnapping of Boo, by Cliffette
Kalah and What He Was Promised, by Andyr
Cat and Mouse: Bodhi Hunts You in Spellhold, by Ghreyfain
Gorje Hilldark and the Extended Illithium Quest
Restored Crooked Crane
Restored Encounters
Artemis Entreri in Bodhi's Lair
Corrected "Xzar's Creations"
Gorf the Squisher Fix, by Gebhard Blucher
Item Restorations
Yoshimo's Original Portrait
Anomen's Original Portrait
NPC Portrait Restorations
Corrected BAMs and Scripts
Corrected Character Names
Restored Minor Dialogs
Restored Bhaalspawn Powers, by David Gaider
Extended Throne of Bhaal Item Descriptions
Throne of Bhaal Minor Restorations
Sarevok's Remorse for Yoshimo and Tamoko, by Sovran and Winterine
12. Quest Pack
Additional Shadow Thieves Content
Alternative Xzar/Harpers Plot
Extended Fallen Paladins Material
Intrigue In The Copper Coronet
Rahul Kanakia's Potion Quest
Saving Sanik In Brynnlaw
Burglary Of The Bookkeeper
The Tragedy Of Besamen
Sending The Solamnic Knights Home
Nazarial The Lich
Reward Negotiation
Infernal Thievery
13. Improved Anvil
14. Auramaster
15. Tortured Souls ???
16. Never Ending Journey ???

Thanks in advance!

[coaster]

On my last run through BG2 I had quite an extensive mod list, with no real problems. After the official & Baldurdash patches, I had:

Ease of Use and a couple of components from the G3 Tweak Pack
Banter Pack & Flirt Pack
Quest Pack, Unfinished Business & Tactics (a selection of my preferred components, all of which were listed as compatible by Sikret)
Tower of Deception
Oversight (alignment corrections)
Slightly Improved Illych
Ascension
Turnabout
1 Pixel Productions (improved graphics)
Blucher's level 1 NPCs (non-Weidu, so I put this first)
Improved Anvil

I had no apparent problems with any of the above.

Of course as IA expands, the list of compatible mods will diminish. eg. the only bits of Tactics I installed were the Mae'var and Druid Grove components; as I understand it Sikret is making his own changes to Faldorn in 4.3, so I will probably not bother with any Tactics components next time.

[Sikret]

Oversight (alignment corrections)

I trust you meant to write "Alignment corruptions". Anyway, it shouldn't be installed with IA v4.3 and will be in the list of incompatible mods.

More info:

In IA v4.3 more creatures are coded to behave according to their alignments. Evil clerics control undead and turn paladin, good clerics are coded differently, etc...; if any creature's alignment need to be changed, Improved Anvil handles it itself, there is no place for any other mod which tampers with creatures' alignments as that can easily break IA's scripts.

I have always believed that the Oversight mod's changes to alignments are incorrect even before IA v4.3, but, as you can see, I didn't put it in the list of incompatible mods in the previous versions. In IA v4.3, however, the situation has changed and creatures' alignments play a more important role in their behavior. Now, any mod (including Oversight and BG2 Fixpack) which tampers with alignments is incompatible with IA. In other words, I don't say not to install them just because I don't like them (I have never liked them but I didn't list them as incompatible in previous versions of IA); now I say that they are incompatible because they really are incompatible.

This post has been edited by Sikret: Jul 9 2007, 09:35 AM