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Kit Tomes for BGT, TuTu & BG:EE v1.0
by Smeagolheart
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This mod adds a merchant, Panver the Loremaster, outside of the Friendly
Arm Inn who will sell you his magical career tomes. These tomes can add a
kit to a character.
Why does this exist? Well, when Baldur's Gate 1 was originally created,
there were no kits. In Baldur's Gate 2, characters start out at a later
level and can have a kit. So if you start a character without a kit
in the first game; they gained the kit somehow by the time the second game.
Why not from a magical career tome they came across in their travels?
The first game is already compelling to play for continuation of your
character due to the Stat Tomes that you come across and this mod aims
to expand that philosophy.
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HOW IT WORKS:
In the testing I performed, characters can pick up one (1) kit. A multiclassed
elven Fighter/Mage was able to toggle between Fighter/Enchanter or Berserker/Mage
but was not able to become a Berserker/Enchanter for example. If that same
character was a dual class human (instead of multiclass), they should be able
to pick the same classes (so Fighter/Enchanter or Berserker/Mage but not
Berserker/Enchanter.)
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KNOWN ISSUES
Bard and Thief tomes are are not for sale. There are probably problems
with Lore points and skill points as most of the classes modify these. If
one were to pick up Assassin kit after so many straight thief levels, their
skill points would be off. I don't expect the game to be able to retroactively
subtract skill points. Barbarian and Wildmage, while technically Fighter
and Mage kits didn't work in the limited testing that I perfomed as well so
those tomes are not available either.
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THE FUTURE:
I'd like to at some point expand this mod to add "class experts" that can teach
skills. So you can go see these masters and learn a trade. This could
almost be a feature along the lines of a strongholds in BG2 where the fighter
goes to apprentice in the fighter school and learns how to harness berserking.
That is for another day though.
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To Install (For BG:EE):
At the moment the Weidu installer semi-works with BG:EE.
Unzip the mod to your 00766 folder.
Make a backup of your chitin key and your dialog.tlk (lang\en_US) Only in
English at the moment.
Take your dialog.tlk and place it in your 00766 folder.
Double click the SETUP-kittomes application.
Follow the install instruction from that.
Now that is done place your dialog.tlk file back under your lang\en_US folder
Play the game and enjoy.
To Install (For BGT, Tutu):
Unzip the mod to your game folder.
Make a backup of your chitin key and your dialog.tlk
Double click the SETUP-kittomes application.
Follow the install instruction from that.
Play the game and enjoy.
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Thanks everyone for the help, especially ulb & Argent77
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Forum:
http://www.shsforums.net/forum/234-miscellaneous-released-mods/
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Link:
http://www.shsforums.net/files/file/1065-kit-tomes-for-bgt-tutu-bgee/
Kit Tomes for BGT, TuTu & BG:EE v1.0
by Smeagolheart
======================================================================
This mod adds a merchant, Panver the Loremaster, outside of the Friendly
Arm Inn who will sell you his magical career tomes. These tomes can add a
kit to a character.
Why does this exist? Well, when Baldur's Gate 1 was originally created,
there were no kits. In Baldur's Gate 2, characters start out at a later
level and can have a kit. So if you start a character without a kit
in the first game; they gained the kit somehow by the time the second game.
Why not from a magical career tome they came across in their travels?
The first game is already compelling to play for continuation of your
character due to the Stat Tomes that you come across and this mod aims
to expand that philosophy.
======================================================================
HOW IT WORKS:
In the testing I performed, characters can pick up one (1) kit. A multiclassed
elven Fighter/Mage was able to toggle between Fighter/Enchanter or Berserker/Mage
but was not able to become a Berserker/Enchanter for example. If that same
character was a dual class human (instead of multiclass), they should be able
to pick the same classes (so Fighter/Enchanter or Berserker/Mage but not
Berserker/Enchanter.)
======================================================================
KNOWN ISSUES
Bard and Thief tomes are are not for sale. There are probably problems
with Lore points and skill points as most of the classes modify these. If
one were to pick up Assassin kit after so many straight thief levels, their
skill points would be off. I don't expect the game to be able to retroactively
subtract skill points. Barbarian and Wildmage, while technically Fighter
and Mage kits didn't work in the limited testing that I perfomed as well so
those tomes are not available either.
======================================================================
THE FUTURE:
I'd like to at some point expand this mod to add "class experts" that can teach
skills. So you can go see these masters and learn a trade. This could
almost be a feature along the lines of a strongholds in BG2 where the fighter
goes to apprentice in the fighter school and learns how to harness berserking.
That is for another day though.
======================================================================
======================================================================
To Install (For BG:EE):
At the moment the Weidu installer semi-works with BG:EE.
Unzip the mod to your 00766 folder.
Make a backup of your chitin key and your dialog.tlk (lang\en_US) Only in
English at the moment.
Take your dialog.tlk and place it in your 00766 folder.
Double click the SETUP-kittomes application.
Follow the install instruction from that.
Now that is done place your dialog.tlk file back under your lang\en_US folder
Play the game and enjoy.
To Install (For BGT, Tutu):
Unzip the mod to your game folder.
Make a backup of your chitin key and your dialog.tlk
Double click the SETUP-kittomes application.
Follow the install instruction from that.
Play the game and enjoy.
======================================================================
Thanks everyone for the help, especially ulb & Argent77
======================================================================
======================================================================
Forum:
http://www.shsforums.net/forum/234-miscellaneous-released-mods/
======================================================================
Link:
http://www.shsforums.net/files/file/1065-kit-tomes-for-bgt-tutu-bgee/