BG2:EE request - Keep your hard-earned BG1 items when importing characters into BG2
Winedogger
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I would imagine the number of players that take advantage of the keep-all-your-items trick when importing their BG1 character into BG2 is fairly large. But this seems like the type of exploit the EE team 'fixes'.
I would like to continue to be able to retain my BG1 items when importing (more than just the 1 item you get back in the 1st dungeon). It seems to make RP sense that a person would retain items found/bought through years of adventuring.
If there is violent opposition to this, perhaps a compromise could be keeping only those items that are on the characters body and not in the 'personal slots'?
I would like to continue to be able to retain my BG1 items when importing (more than just the 1 item you get back in the 1st dungeon). It seems to make RP sense that a person would retain items found/bought through years of adventuring.
If there is violent opposition to this, perhaps a compromise could be keeping only those items that are on the characters body and not in the 'personal slots'?
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Personally I dont see any good reason why BG2EE should change the original design intent to remove all your items (I'm assuming this was the original design intent because nothing would seem to indicate that it's an unintended bug).
If you really want to keep your items then there are mods or shadowkeeper.
When BG2 first starts in Irenicus' dungeon and the screen is black, hit the space bar to pause the game. Then pull up your inventory screen, drop all your stuff to the ground, then let the game resume. All your stuff will be at your feet.
@CorpusDelicti I recommend you read the original post in the beginning of thread before replying. At least the very first sentence if nothing else.
I agree with what others have said: why would an evil arch-sorcerer with a genius-level intellect imprison you in a cage with all of your equipment and magic items? It doesn't make much sense story-wise.
I always wished there was something for mages, myself. A two-handed sword is nice, but not strictly useful for anyone but a fighter--and it's not obvious whose sword it was until you read the item's description, which also seems somewhat suspect.
Maybe it would carry more weight if you could be exposed to the sword's history sooner.
@Dee I think you should find BG1 Ring of Wizardry (double level one spells) somewhere or be able to keep it instead of the other items you can choose to keep. Not too overpowered and still really nice, especially for beginning. Its missing from BG2 entirely which makes me sad.
@CamDawg And now is a perfect chance to correct that bad, awful decision! Long live mages!
The items can be regained later in the game, usually (like the Shadow Armour off Maevar) but I'd still appreciate it if a little more got left behind than just the 1-2 items it is now.
The cloak of Balduran was removed cause it allows people to hit 100+% magic resistance, EASILY....switch it to set MR (and updates once per round to prevent stacking, a fix needed for all equipment that sets) instead of +, and it might be acceptable to find later.
Varsona and Ashideena are actually supposed to be found in Irenicus's dungeon if you imported with them (you get 1 or the other, instead of the sword of chaos from the Genie). Though I think they removed that in a patch...I remember they used to (Tamoko's platemail was one of the possible choices for the armor Illyich is carrying).