Baldur’s Gate Trilogy (BGT)-WeiDU is a modification for Baldur’s Gate II: Throne of Bhaal, that allows the player to experience the Baldur’s Gate and Tales of the Sword Coast storyline using the improved functionality of the Baldur’s Gate II engine. Improvements include higher resolution, updated graphics, grouping of journal entries, map notes, and other extended user interface options. The conversion between the Baldur’s Gate I and Baldur’s Gate II engines is made as faithful as possible to preserve the original game. However, using an improved engine, BGT-WeiDU adds a number of new features that provide a more satisfying journey. These include:

- Compatibility with a large number of other modifications made for Baldur’s Gate II, including the mega-modification (Shadows Over Soubar, The Darkest Day, Tortured Souls), as well as modifications made for the parallel projects BG1Tutu and EasyTutu
- Continuity from Baldur’s Gate and Tales of the Sword Coast into Shadows of Amn, presenting a seamless experience into the world of Faerun
- Accessibility to Tales of the Sword Coast without having to finish Baldur’s Gate
- Dynamic journal system to keep track of quests in Baldur’s Gate and Tales of the Sword Coast
- Improvement of the effects of iron shortage by allowing all standard weapons, armor, and shields to shatter
- Introduction of map notes to Baldur’s Gate and Tales of the Sword Coast to assist in marking important locations

Full support is provided here at SHS for installation, usage, and compatibility issues that may arise in the use of BGT-WeiDU. Featured is a working compatibility list that is constantly updated to reflect developments within the Infinity Engine modding community. Modifications that are not yet currently compatible can sometimes be adapted for use if requested.

You can download BGT-WeiDU 1.02 here and view the forum here!

Baldurs Goth is now on BGT, for all those who play BGT and were waiting for a little gothification of their Biowarian NPCs!

Baldur’s Goth enhances the graphical side of Baldur’s Gate. It is an attempt to make the modded and some of the Bioware NPCs more “gothic” and fit in more with the original Baldur’s Goth mod for BGII. This version features edited portraits and paperdolls for all but one of the modded and some of the Bioware NPCs for the BGT expansion of Baldur’s Gate I. Read the thread here!

A clever new minimod by modder GeN1e has just been released - the Store Prices mod! This mod specifically targets those who play with a variety of larger mods installed; by the end of Chapter 6, often you’ve accumulated more than your fair share of coins and are sometimes even carrying around in excess of 600,000 gold coins. This mod seeks to rectify this problem in several ways:

1) Reduce selling values - will make stores to sell items at lower price
2) Raise selling values - will make stores to sell items at higher price
3) Reduce buying values - will make stores to buy items at lower price
4) Raise buying values - will make stores to buy items at higher price

Download it now from the Forum Thread!

Another new mod release by Zyraen of the Pocket Plane Group is Zyraen’s Misc Mods V2, which adds several new components to this already very useful mod - the Auto Sell script, the XP Evener script and Halves To Hit & Damage Bonuses. You can download Zyraen’s Misc Mods here! 

Firstly, I’d like to each and every person for the wonderful ‘welcome’ I’ve received – the support has been wonderful, and greatly increased my enthusiasm for continuing the development of such a fantastic community like Spellhold Studios.

Secondly, there are is a news announcement which has been sadly delayed due to it taking time for me to gett used to the software, and for that I greatly apologise!

Sword Coast Stratagems, a recently released mod for Tutu on G3 by DavidWallace, has been converted to Baldurs Gate Trilogy by ronin69hof and pro5! Sword Coast Stratagems is a compilation of several additions and fixes to Baldurs Gate, the most important being major AI improvements which make playing the game a totally new experience! Other components include bug fixes and tweaks which will make playing Baldurs Gate Trilogy a more pleasant experience.

I’d like to make extend a big welcome to SCS (BGT)! You can download SCS (BGT) here, and view the forum here. You can take a look at SCS for BG1TuTu over at Gibberlings 3.I will be updating the website as soon as I can, but I’m still working out the various kinks and twists of it, so it may take several days.

- Liam

Hi everyone,

After eight rough hours of moving SHS and everything in it to another server, I’m finally done.

At the same time, I also wish to announce my retirement as administrator and owner of Spellhold Studios. It’s been one hell of a ride during this time I’ve been in charge of SHS, but I feel I no longer can remain as an administrator with good conscience. I barely have time to check the forums these days, and doing so has started to feel like a burden. Keeping SHS running became an obligation, instead of hobby, and that’s why I’m now leaving my position here - to move on to other things.

My successor in my position will be a new name to the SHS staff, although maybe not to the community. Please welcome K’aeloree, also known as Liam (as is his real name), as new owner of SHS. He’s got all the passwords now, and I just pushed the SHS domains to him. I’m absolutely sure that he’ll do a great job in my place, and he’s the only person I considered for the role. He was and still is my own choice.

I won’t disappear forever, though. I’ll be around, both on the forums and on #spellhold. After all - I still have Khadion to finish. The difference will be that I’m finally able to visit beacuse I want to, not because I feel obliged to.

Best wishes,

Sebastian

As previously announced, SHS is moving to a new server. While we are doing this, the forum will be offline and at times also inaccessible, as the database is being copied and domains repointed.

If everything goes as planned, the estimated time of the move is roughly 6-24 hours.

Should there be any questions or issues, you can in the meantime contact me at sconrad [-at-] spellholdstudios.net

- SHS Administration / SConrad