Trials of the Luremaster for Baldur's Gate

Overview

This mod makes the Icewind Dale expansion "Trials of the Luremaster" available to BG2:EE (v2.0 or later), Siege of Dragonspear and EET (Enhanced Edition Trilogy).

The quest starts by talking to the halfling Hobart Stubbletoes, who can be found either in the Umar Hills Inn (SoA), Saradush Tavern (ToB), Amkethran Inn (ToB), in the southeastern area of the Coalition Camp (SoD) or Castle Dragonspear (SoD). In the course of the adventure you have the opportunity to explore a haunted castle, test your mettle in challenging combat and lift an ancient curse.

Visit the SHS Forums or the Beamdog Forums if you have questions, or download the latest version from GitHub.

Installation

This is a WeiDU mod, that means it is very easy to install. Simply unpack the downloaded archive into your game's installation directory (where you can find the file "chitin.key") and run "setup-A7-TotLM-BG2EE.exe" (Windows) or "setup-A7-TotLM-BG2EE.command" (macOS). Follow the instructions and you are ready to start.

It is not required to start a new game after installing the mod. However, you must install it before entering either of the potential locations where you can meet Hobart for the first time.

To uninstall, run "setup-A7-TotLM-BG2EE.exe" or "setup-A7-TotLM-BG2EE.command" again and follow the prompts.

Note for Siege of Dragonspear (SoD)

GOG and Steam both install the Siege of Dragonspear expansion in a way that is not moddable out of the box. You must install a mod called DLC Merger on your SoD installation before this or any other WeiDU-based mods can be installed.

Compatibility and mod order

Tipun's IWD-in-EET is largely compatible with this mod. Some of the creature and scripting improvements will not be available, however. IWD-in-EET (IWD1_EET) must be installed before this mod.

Spell Revisions component "Dispel Magic Fix" interferes with the special dying behavior of revenants and trolls, making them unkillable by normal means. To work around this issue, install that component before the main component of this mod.

Importing Icewind Dale spells will be skipped if the following mods are detected:

• Sword Coast Statagems (SCS): Component "Include arcane spells from IWD:EE"
• IWDification: Component "IWD arcane spell pack"

Mod Components

1. Trials of the Luremaster for Baldur's Gate (requires BG2:EE, SoD or EET patched to 2.0 or higher)

   This is the main component. It installs many new areas, creatures, items, spells and everything else needed to enjoy the adventure. (Recommended party strength: level 11 or higher.)

   The mod makes a number of slight changes to the adventure to bring it more in line with the Baldur's Gate universe. Spells and items that are only available in Icewind Dale and have little or no relevance in the adventure have been replaced by similar Baldur's Gate spells or items. Moreover, several events, scripts and creature animations have been expanded, improved or adapted to Baldur's Gate style.

   This component also makes a good number of unique Icewind Dale spells available to the player. They are added to various stores, creatures and containers.

2. Rebalance weapons and equipment (requires the main component; not available for SoD)

   Many items in Icewind Dale are exceptionally powerful. Since the mod allows you to retrieve a good number of powerful weapons, armor and equipment, it may reduce the challenges of the rest of the game. This component replaces these items by less powerful variants.

   List of item replacements

   • Axe of the Minotaur Lord +4: Replaced by Battle Axe +2
   • Legacy of the Masters: Replaced by Xarrnous's Second Sword Arm
   • Bracers of Icelandic Pearl: Replaced by Bracers of Defense AC 4 (SoD: Bracers to the Death)
   • Robe of the Evil Archmagi: Replaced by Knave's Robe
   • Cloak of Scintillating Colors: Removed completely
   • Skullflail +4: Replaced by Flail +2
   • Chautog's Thinker: Replaced by Helm of Brilliance (SoD: Helm of the Noble +1)
   • Black Swan Armor +2: Replaced by Plate Mail +1
   • Shortbow of Ebullience +3: Replaced by Tuigan Bow +1 (SoD: Protector of the Dryads +2)
   • Scimitar +3, Frostbrand: Replaced by Scimitar +1
   • Bastard Sword +3: Incinerator: Replaced by Taragarth the Bloodbrand +1 (SoD: Bastard Sword +2)
   • Fire Flail +3: Replaced by Skullcrusher +3 (SoD: Flail +2)
   • Shocking Flail +4: Replaced by Flail +3 (SoD: Flail +2)
   • Long Sword of Action +4: Replaced by Ras, The Dancing Blade +2 (SoD: Long Sword +2)
   • Morning Star +4: Defender: Replaced by Morning Star +3 (SoD: The Thresher +2)
   • Ring of Greater Resistance: Replaced by Ring of the Princes +1
   • Great Shield +3: Replaced by Large Shield +1
   • Studded Leather of Resistance +3: Replaced by Studded Leather Armor +2
   • Shadowed Studded Leather +4: Replaced by Leather Armor +3
   • Dead God's Dreaming +4, +6 vs. good: Replaced by Adjatha the Drinker +2 (SoD: The Burning Earth +1)
   • Hell's Bane: Flame of the North +2 (SoD: Sword of Ruin +2)
   • Wind of Heaven +4, +5 vs. elementals: Replaced by Rashad's Talon +2

   Note: Because of balance reasons this component is automatically installed by the main component "Trials of the Luremaster for Baldur's Gate" in a Siege of Dragonspear game.

3. Reduce experience from monsters and quests (requires the main component)

   The whole adventure allows you to earn about 300,000 to 400,000 XP which can be too much depending on when or where you start the quest. This component allows you to reduce the experience gained from killing monsters or granted by completing quest stages. You can choose from the following options:

   1. Reduce by 25 percent
   2. Reduce by 50 percent
   3. Reduce by 75 percent (Recommended if you start the quest in the Coalition Camp, Siege of Dragonspear campaign.)
   4. Grant no experience

4. Allow to trade with Hobart before starting the adventure (requires the main component)

   This component allows you to trade with Hobart's store even before you accept to join his adventure.

   Attention: Some of the items for sale are quite powerful and may reduce the challenges of the rest of the game.

Credits

Writing, coding & testing: Argent77

Additional dialog content: AWizardDidIt

French translation: Gwendolyne, JohnBob

Italian translation: Aedan and improbabile

Brazilian Portuguese translation: Felipe

Russian translation: Eugene Vlasov (aka EugVV)

Spanish translation: Chidojuan

Simplified Chinese translation: Lewis Liu

Additional help: typo_tilly, jastey

Copyright Notice:

"Trials of the Luremaster for Baldur's Gate" is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

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Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition and Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition © Beamdog.

Version History

Version 4.3

• Added Simplified Chinese translation (thanks Lewis Liu)

Version 4.2

• Made Stone Nuisances even more annoying on higher difficulty levels.
• Improved combat scripts of Infernal Harpies.
• Improved regeneration behavior of trolls and revenants.
• Reduced compatibility issues with Beholder combat scripts.

Version 4.1

• Updated French translation (thanks JohnBob)

Version 4.0

• Added new subcomponent: Allow to trade with Hobart before starting the adventure.
• Added Brazilian Portuguese translation (thanks Felipe).
• Made Blast Skeletons' self-destruction more reliable.
• Improved Luremaster immunities to fix potential softlocks.
• Improved feedback messages when pulling levers in the four castle towers.
• Improved handling of the illusionary staircase on the eastern castle wall.
• Improved scripted intro of the harpies in the NE tower.
• Improved spiders encounter in the Ruined Temple of Helm.
• Improved scripting of Stone Nuisances.
• Improved traps in castle dungeon, level 3.
• Improved challenge of the final battle with the Luremaster on hardest difficulty.
• Improved combat scripts of creatures: Changed from unconditionally following Player1 to "Call for Help"-style behavior.
• Prevent cheating in the Watchknight Tomb via quickloot bar by placing treasure into a container.
• Fixed a loophole with the Pocket Plane ability that could allow the party to leave the castle prematurely in ToB.
• Fixed or improved spells: Static Charge, Mordenkainen's Force Missiles, Spike Growth, Smashing Wave, Symbol Pain, Vitriolic Sphere, Symbol Hopelessness, Emotion Fear.
• Fixed Hobart's race and class attributes (fixes reputation loss if killed in the castle).
• Fixed mod areas not always listed in the debug console.
• Fixed conflicts with BG:EE resources.

Version 3.1

• Added official support for Tipun's IWD-in-EET (see compatibility section of the readme for more details).
• Subcomponent "Rebalance weapons and equipment": Added more details about rebalanced items to the readme.
• Fixed item stacking in Bag of Holding from the Banite adventurers.
• Fixed return location when the quest is started in Saradush.
• Fixed mislabeled spell names in SoD.
• Compatibility improvements with Iwdification.
• Updated Italian translation (thanks Aedan).

Version 3.0

• Brought several creatures closer to their pen & paper descriptions:
  • Added new creature type: Haunt.
  • Bats may inflict diseases.
  • Crypt Things are immune to Turn Undead.
  • Corrected creature name: Boneguard Skeleton ➔ Baneguard Skeleton.
  • Baneguard Skeletons may use Ethereal ability and can cast Magic Missile.
  • Ghosts have a strength-draining attack and emit an aura of fear.
  • Neo-Orogs have a war cry to improve their attack and damage ratings.
  • Olive Slime becomes physically vulnerable after casting "Cure Disease" on them.
  • Water Kin Elementals: improved resistances to slashing, piercing and missile damage, can paralyze with their attacks and cannot be killed permanently.
  • Mummies are susceptible to the Resurrection spell.
  • Minotaurs are immune to the Maze spell.
  • Wights can level drain.
• More starting points of the adventure: Saradush Tavern (ToB), Dragonspear Castle Basement after the party returns from Avernus (SoD).
• Slightly nerfed a number of items and equipment.
• Added more Restoration scrolls and cure options.
• Added various improvements to the new IWD spells.
• Improved combat scripts of the Banite adventurers.
• Improved combat script of Lord Maluradek: Better call for help.
• Made combat challenge more dependent on game difficulty level.
• Fixed Wyvern creature animations.
• Fixed incorrect spell icons that are sometimes assigned to the new IWD spells.
• Improved challenge of escaping castle dungeon, level 3.
• Added global labels for Project Infinity.
• Updated Russian translation.
• Various bugfixes.

Version 2.2

• Added Project Infinity metadata.
• Fixed potential display issues with component names in WeiDU.log and Project Infinity.

Version 2.1

• Rebalanced Harpy Wail.
• Reduced number of SPELL.IDS additions.
• Improved "Rebalance weapons and equipment" subcomponent.
• Added workaround to deal with compatibility issues caused by mods using Detectable Spells library.
• Removed unused spell 'Heavenly Inferno'.
• Fixed invalid resource references in various mod files.
• Fixed typos in Italian translation.

Version 2.0

• Made adventure available to Siege of Dragonspear.
• Added multiple starting points of the adventure (SoD:Coalition Camp, SoA:Umar Hills, ToB:Amkethran).
• Merged subcomponent "Make IWD spells available to the player" with main component to solve compatibility issues.
• Added optional component to reduce experience gained during the adventure.
• Added partial Spanish translation (thanks Chidojuan).
• Added partial Polish translation.
• Various bugfixes.

Version 1.0

• Initial release