Should I carry over items to IA? Options

[pacman7654]

I'm pretty close to finishing with BG1, and I'm gonna bring my wild mage over to a IAv5 game. I was thinking of using that trick to carry over some items from BG1, like a dagger of venom, a claw of kazgorath, and maybe a cloak of balduran. I know taking these items probably won't make the game noticeably easier, but my question is, are these items added into IA already? I saw in the item readme that you can forge a new cloak for Cernd from the cloak of balduran, so I would assume it is added to the game, but what about the others? I think it makes sense that my character could hide a dagger on his person if Minsc can hide Boo, and maybe Irenicus couldn't pry off the claw of kazgorath.

[Sikret]

I'm pretty close to finishing with BG1, and I'm gonna bring my wild mage over to a IAv5 game. I was thinking of using that trick to carry over some items from BG1, like a dagger of venom, a claw of kazgorath, and maybe a cloak of balduran.

You know my general opinion about using any kind of "tricks" (or cheats or whatever term we prefer for them). I'm certainly not encouraging doing such things, specially because you won't receive any technical support from me in the future and during the game if you use such tricks. You will be on your own.

Cloak of Baludran (albeit, a revised version of it) is added to the game by IA. The other two items aren't added.

A couple of items aren't really worth the risk of being on your own for the entire game; so, I say 'don't do it'.