#baldur's gate 2 mods

[hpowellsmith]

Since I spotted the BG2 mod ask, I hope I'm allowed to send this in. I always refrain because the blog focuses more on your recent (COG-related) writing. BUT BG2 Nate was the first time I experienced a same-sex relationship in a game. The first time I could. And it was such an experience seeing someone *like me* present. I always have a soft spot for the mod for that reason. Faren, of course, is an staple if I replay. Enjoying your Creme-series these days feels like coming full circle. Thank you

You are absolutely allowed to send this in and I am SO happy to talk about my non CoG writing as long as it doesn't step on any NDAs! (and if a question ever did, I'd just say "sorry, NDA" or not answer - no harm done!)

ANYway now that's out of the way, this was just extraordinarily lovely to hear. I am literally getting misty-eyed in a coffee shop and... yes. It honestly means a huge amount.

BG2 mods were among the first ways my wife and I encountered gay and bisexual characters in games too; there were a couple of people in Fallout 2 and The Temple of Elemental Evil but they did not have much story to them, and The Sims 2 and Jade Empire weren't even out when we started making Nathaniel. It's absolutely wild seeing how much we have these days, though it's my dear hope that we'll look back on 2023 in twenty years time and go "wow, that was barely anything, look at how much more there is now".

Thank you so much.

[vampiresfromxenon]

Astarion as silly Tumblr posts :) pt. 1 | 2 | 3 | 4

[itsafreetrialofdeath]

multiclassed!

[bg3storage]

[astarionposting]

im trying to stop making new faces.... i promise 😭😭

[squea]

shrimp got a whole makeover and like a whole new deity its ok shes going through a moment

[fuckyeahbaldursgate]

The mangaka for Delicious in Dungeon, Ryoko Kui, did these beautiful redraw of all the Baldur's Gate portraits.

You can also use this mod to put them in your game.

[uninspiredbard]

giggling, kicking my feet, twirling my hair, batting my eyelashes, biting my lip, pointing my toes, squealing, throwing my steam deck across the room

nobody yearns like dame aylin

[bg3screenshotdump]

𝕬𝖗𝖒𝖔𝖗𝖘 𝖋𝖗𝖔𝖒 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖊𝖑𝖊𝖒𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖆𝖑 𝖕𝖑𝖆𝖓𝖊𝖘

[danikatze]

[ID in alt text]

Haven't finished the first run yet, but I made a new bg3 character.. Their name is Russet Cuprum, Russ for short :3 (brown and teal like rusted copper is one of my fave colour combos) They're a barbarian but also a Soft Boi ™️

[blues-screenshots]

[hpowellsmith]

Still thinking a lot today about our 15-20-year-old Baldur's Gate 2 mods (a welcome distraction from the wretched state of the field of commercial games) and made a bsky thread about how making them interwove with my life/career/relationships in my teens and early 20s. It really was such a positive experience.

Hello there! I've been wanting to replay the older Baldur's Gate games, and was searching around for mlm NPC romance mods. I saw yours mentioned and found your site with some googling, but it seems the place they were hosted at is gone now (Spellhold Studios). I was wondering if you still have the mods available somewhere? Either way, I hope you have a great day!

OK, this has made go down a modding-community rabbit hole! I hadn't done anything with our Baldur's Gate 2 mods, or looked at them really, since 2015 and I really appreciate it because they're something that brought my wife and I a ton of joy, and they were the first interactive narratives I made.

Links, descriptions, and comments below because it is Long:

I got in touch with folks on the Gibberlings3 forum which is, wonderfully, still going strong, and have given permission for Faren and Nathaniel to be uploaded to the Spellhold Studios GitHub (which has a bunch of other mods too - do check out Adrian, Isra, and Ninde in particular!) to the team maintaining it. That may be a little while as some of the team are ill right now, but once I hear that it's done, I'll post about it here; I've also been pointed to some links where the mods were mirrored. Note that I haven't tested these myself on a current BG2 install, but it is easy to uninstall WeiDU mods if there's a problem.

Faren is a bisexual True Neutral fighter/thief (I can't remember if he's dual-classed or multi-classed) who's easygoing, down-to-earth, and up for partying, with a bit of a checkered past - his adventuring party died in one of the dungeons you can visit in BG2, and since then he's been picking up dodgy jobs, feeling a bit adrift, and trying to get his life back on track. That's where the PC comes in! You can befriend him or romance him (starting with either a casual or more committed tone, then committing further if you want to), and he has a personal quest in which a shady figure from his past wants him to do one last job. He was our third mod, and we'd developed our skills with writing and scope a lot by then. When I play BG2, I play with Faren! You can currently download Faren here. It's the version updated in 2015 with more banters with modded NPCs and the Enhanced Edition characters; there may be compatibility issues installing it with other newer mods but do give it a try.

I found The Luxley Family, which was our second mod, on the GitHub here. From a cursory (rusty) glance it looks like it should be compatible with Enhanced Edition, but the storyline is only for Shadows of Amn and doesn't continue into Throne of Bhaal. Sebastian and Andrei (Chaotic Neutral bard with a custom kit and Lawful Neutral monk respectively) are members of a mysterious, reclusive family who are under a curse. Sebastian's a worldly playwright who's showing his polite but moody teenage cousin Andrei the sights when they bump into the PC. They aren't romanceable, but you can have a fling with Sebastian, who's bisexual, if you let/help him mess up his life sufficiently.

Nathaniel is a Lawful Good gay fighter with a lot of feelings. He was our first mod and I am really proud of the impact he had on a lot of people and even other games back in the day, but if you play, go in expecting a LOT of feelings good and bad, relationship drama, and angst! (There's something very sad about the fact that as teens we could not imagine a D&D setting without homophobia back then; the idea of a knightly order thinking well of gay people just didn't cross our minds. it's extraordinary how much better a lot of things are now, including the queerness in D&D streams, books, and of course Baldur's Gate 3. Interestingly, we didn't include homophobia in the Luxley Family or Faren and I don't remember how conscious that was; maybe we'd become more hopeful by then.) You can download an outdated version of Nathaniel here but I don't think it will be compatible with Enhanced Edition.

Thank you so much for messaging! I didn't realise they weren't able to be downloaded anymore and I am really keen for digital art to be preserved (as well as players getting to smooch hot guys, of course).

(Digression - my wife and I have a couple of almost-finished mods on our computer: a lesbian cleric of Talos which she wrote, and a bi Valygar romance that I wrote. And, if it's among two computers' ago worth of external hard drive storage, the ending for the Luxley Family story. Who knows, maybe one day...)

[lycazart]

for all my tiefling gale enjoyers out there >:]

[drawingswatson-holmes]

Psspsspss ✨🩸🧶🐾✨

eepy .. 💤 drawn by Watson

[bg3storage]

✿ tav + every act 1 outfit ✿

⋆☁︎｡⋆☾ ﾟ｡⋆ MOD LIST ⋆☁︎｡⋆｡☾ ﾟ｡⋆

✿Outfit One: hair, dress, flower crown

✿Outfit Two: hair, dress,

✿Outfit Three: hair, outfit, belt

✿Outfit Four: dress, boots, cape

✿Outfit Five: romper + accsessories, flower crown, shoes

✿Outfit Six: hair, outfit

✿Outfit Seven: outfit, cloak

✿Outfit Eight: hair, outfit (mostly for roleplay purposes for durge players)

✿ THANK YOU TO ALL THE AMAZING MOD AUTHORS ABOVE AND BEYOND FOR ALL YOUR HARD WORK ✿

[alsoika]

"Please, don't mind me. I'll just watch."