Welcome to the second edition of the fortnightly news on Infinity Engine modding. Today I have several updates with far-ranging implications for the land of Faerun, other lands, and even other planes. Be sure to read them carefully, for they may affect you in subtle ways.

Knitting up those holes in Classic Adventures
Classic Adventures is a total conversion for Baldur’s Gate II that re-creates the experience of many classic pen-and-paper modules from Advanced Dungeons and Dragons. Recently, a juicy version 0.43 to 0.44 patch was made available by Sir BillyBob. You need the full 0.42 archive and the 0.42 to 0.43 patch for this patch to install correctly. Be sure to grab them all here.

Dealing with the hard of hard-coded
I recently generated two executable patches for Baldur’s Gate II: one allows the player to speak to charmed and dominated creatures and characters, the other corrects the giving and reporting of experience. The former not only enables charm-specific dialogues for Tutu and Baldur’s Gate Trilogy users, but future modifications and updates to modifications may now begin to introduce charm-specific dialogues. More details and download links can be found here and here.

Restoring harmony within the Planar Sphere
Buried within the forums is a fix to the Planar Sphere mod generated by ScuD. This mod was a derelict mod that extended and expanded the Mage Stronghold of Baldur’s Gate II, adding new quests, encounters, items, and spells. In recent times, the mod has been converted to a more compatibility-friendly format and several bug fixes made. Find out more about the mod in the Mod Resurrections forum, find version 2.6a here, and grab the version 2.6a fix here.

A deeper, more nefarious Ariena
Ariena is a female Aasimar-blooded half-orc non-player character that forms part of an evil-centric project called the Mod for the Wicked. Deathsangel has updated her to version 2.0. Find out more information at the Mod for the Wicked forum, and grab a copy of this plane-touched non-player character here.