Should Manuals & Tomes be Transferable into BG2?
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- Should Manuals & Tomes be Transferable into BG2?41 votes
- No. Leave them in BG148.78%
- Yes. Make them available if they are in your final save inventory31.71%
- Hamsters every where... rejoice!17.07%
- None of the above  2.44%
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If they are not, I think the next best thing would be to improve the transition between BG1 and BG2 by letting me load my entire BG1 save game at the start of BG2. Then the game can compile, from that, what the stats of returning characters should be. If I use three tomes on Edwin in BG1, let his stats in BG2 reflect this.
He's already 'Gone Galt' with his off-the-grid underground lair to escape the job-killing (and mage-killing) regulations of the government and replaced good, Amnish labor with non-union golems. When his lab collapses (probably because of lax OSHA inspections) he engages in regulatory capture to avoid penalties and fines, offshoring his whole organization in the process.
When this scheme eventually blows up, he tries to distract from his failures by preemptively invading an unrelated country in a thinly-veiled scheme to funnel gold to his buddies in the drow military-industrial complex.
You do keep the bonus if you use it on the protagonist, because the protagonist is actually imported directly into BG2.
Where it gets dicey is when you use it on one of the other party members, because they aren't directly imported--they're entirely different .cre files. It's also for this reason that Imoen will always end up a Dual-Classed mage, even if you never dual-class her in BG1.
Maybe forget it and just enjoy the show?
Second game assumes quite a bit about how you played first one. It assumes some dual-classing took place, and chara stats really are bit different, aren't they? Wouldn't it be plain simplier to just assume in BG2 that she used one tome of int somewhere before and leave it?
If we want bg2 to check for statuses of an NPCs, the topic "did Imoen used that tome" seems almost irrelevant to the question "is she alive?". She died the way preventing ressurection in my first go thorough the BG1. Same question for Minsc and Jaheira, Montaron, Garric... Stitching it all would require damn big changes in original content so as fair as I understand it's out of the question. We'll have to live with the assumptions BG2 made. And if you want to powergame, you can use debug mode and conjure "missing" tomes, or kill NPCs you don't feel you need.
I remeber that Imoen mentioned that your best stuff was sold
Well to who and where
there should be a new merchant created that will have some of the Items of your
that were sold
maybe just the CHARNAME items to keep it simple