Today we welcome a new modder many of you may already know: Artemius_I - the author of companion mods, various tweaks, kits and many more. Many of those, who use Enhanced Edition games probably heard his name before. From now on you'll find his mods hosted here, at Spellhold Studios.


Joinable Companion Mods:

Sirene NPC for BGEE, SoD, BG2EE (forum│download)
A lawful good female tiefling paladin of Ilmater. Banters, friendship, romance for both genders and a custom-designed kit. Sirene exhibits many of the typical qualities expected of a paladin; she is kind, dutiful and faithful. However, beneath her calm exterior lies a hidden temper owing to the fell blood which flows in her veins.

Drake NPC for BGEE, SoD (forum│download)
A neutral good male human priest of Tyr with an irreverent and sarcastic attitude who serves the Order of the Radiant Heart, sent to investigate the iron crisis in the north. Banters, friendship and original voicing. BG2EE portion of the mod is under development.

Pai'Na NPC for BG2EE (forum│download)
A true neutral female half-drow hivemaster. An expansion of the original BG2 minor character with banters and friendship. Personality-wise, she can be moody, unsociable and temperamental, but she isnt that bad of a person if you get on her good side.

Aura NPC for BGEE, SoD (forum│download)
A lawful good gnome artificer thief. Banters, friendship, quest, new items and hints towards a romance with a female PC. Aura is kind and idealistic at heart. She can be rather shy and socially inept when interacting with strangers, but easily turns peppy and excitable when the topic strays into her fields of expertise. BG2EE portion of the mod is under development.

Most companions written by Artemius include crossmod banters between each other as well as with other companion mods like Fade (BG2), Verr'Sza (BGEE), Will (BG2EE), White (BG). Sirene also reacts to some quest mods, G3 Romantic Encounters and some more. You may expect even more crossmod content in the future.


Tweaks, Rule Changes and Additions:

Shadow Magic for BGEE, SoD, BG2EE (forum│download)
Adds a new school of magic to the game. Play as a Shadow Adept with a selection of 100+ exclusive Shadow Weave spells, some with similarities with Weave magic while others are completely original. Shadow Magic is more powerful than regular magic but also dangerous as it drains the user's life force. Includes new kits with exclusive spells, items and familiars.

Artemius' Tweaks (forum│download)
Assorted personalized tweaks that might interest many players. You'll find here components like: Expanded Racial Enemies, Expanded Shapeshifting, Expanded Racial Bonuses, Cloak of Dragomir only decreases stats in daylight, new kits and many more.


We're also happy to welcome some new kit mods written by Artemius:

The Artisan's Kitpack (thread│download)
This mod adds a collection of custom-made kits and reworks of existing kits for various classes.

Bardic Wonders (thread│download)
This mod adds new bard kits with specialized bard songs to the game, as well as a new merchant to Baldur's Gate II who carries new bardic items.

Warlock Mod (thread│download)
This mod adds a version of the Warlock as a kit/pseudo-unique class.

As you can see, many new mods joined SHS today. We encourage you to check them out! Enjoy!

P.S. Spellhold has opened a new subforum dedicated for kit mods. It's a communal subforum where kit mods of various authors could be hosted, so any kits of a good quality are welcome.

Not arguing with your personal experience I want to notice for the greater picture that I was able to finish the mod several times: apart for a nagging feeling there should been some other way to finish part 2 than by slaughtering all of duchess palace the mod was doable with the help of walkthrough.

I think OP was referring to that [D/L] button right under forum name: it was broken indeed, so I fixed it. Thank you for the report SkeleTony!

After a long while, Aeryn's Sarevok Romance is now officialy updated to 1.3.  The new version includes handle_charset function, Polish translation by Astharoshe (member of CoB's Stars of Mystra), EET for game check and WeiDU update.
 
About the mod: "Sarevok Anchev has been many things. Once a murderer, deceiver and despised enemy, he has become an unlikely ally to a PC facing an uncertain future. Though many facts about both his past and his former plans are common knowledge, little can be determined about his current motivations now that life has been returned to him. Has death shaken his perceptions, or merely hardened his resolve to ruthlessly seize whatever power he can take for himself? Is it possible for mortal foes to becoming something more than reluctant allies?"
 
Thanks to Lava Del'Vortel for the update and K'aeloree for the green light to update it.
 
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We are happy to announce that halls of our dear Spellhold is now also a home of Argent77 and many of his mods. His works were available for quite some time both here and on Beamdog forum and became both renowned and praised, and are now getting well deserved personal subforums for easier access and discussions, while Argent77 himself is joining the ranks of official Spellhold modders.
 
So check out his chambers, and enjoy what he has prepared for all BG, IWD and PST fans. Here is the list of his projects now officially hosted on Spellhold:

Afaaq, the Djinni Companion: forum, download, info
A djinni and faithful traveling companion throughout BG2, BG2:EE or IWD:EE.

Golem Construction for Spellcasters (EE): forum, download, info
Allow spellcasters to build their own golems.

PS:T Unfinished Business - Reloaded: topic, download
A continuation of Qwinn's PS:T Unfinished Business that restores content cut from the game!

PS:T Varieties: forum, download
This will be a home for smaller mods from various authors, but Argent77 is the first to settle there.

Reveal Hidden Gameplay Options (EE): forum, download, info
Reveals hidden gameplay options within EE games.

Skip Chateau Irenicus: forum, download, info
Provides a sensible shortcut to quickly escape from Irenicus' Dungeon.

This is not, by any means, complete list of Argent77’s mods, both released and being developed, so stay tuned for more!

We are happy to announce that the mod Test Your Mettle! is now available on SHS. This mod provides you with an adventure that has been tailor-made for the intrepid adventurer. You have the opportunity to meet exotic races, uncover a devious plot, or simply enjoy battle with an endless stream of monsters.

Mod authors and supporters: Argent77 (writer, coder), typo_tilly (proofreading) and Jastey (additional help).
The mod is available for BG2:EE and EET, patched to 2.0 or higher.

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We are happy to announce that NPC Interaction Expansion Project (IEP), a grand endeavour to uplift non-romancing relationships with Bioware NPCs to the high quality standards set by modern mods in regard of depth and complexity, has been expanded once again now adding Valygar to its fold.

 

An old La'Valygar project got revived, enhanced, edited and renamed by fluke13, Lava Del'Vortel and Jastey, turning into a full-fledged Valygar Friendship.

With this mod installed, you should be able to experience up to 12 dialogues in SoA and up to 5 dialogues in ToB. Note that the mod has changed greatly when compared to its previous incarnation. The most prominent changes from La'Valygar project are additional proofreading and editing, new talks, and improvements to the old ones.

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We are happy to announce that BGT, one of the modding staples since the dawn of times, has finally received yet another update after almost six-year long hiatus. Thanks to the efforts of CamDawg, the mod has got improved compatibility with BG2 FixPack and as of now incorporate all BGT fixes so far employed in BWP FixPack.

Changelog:

Installation changes

• Resolved a minor compatibility issue with BG2 Fixpack

Incorporated the following fixes from the Big World Fixpack

• Fixed locked chest in Duchal Palace that couldn't be opened
• Cleaned up junk references in the rest spawn block of the Cloakwood Mines
• One of the piles in the werewolf caverns was using a bag container icon
• Added a delay for the playing of the BG sunrise/sunset movies to avoid repeats
• Imoen not gets her soundset fully moved over in BG2
• Ender Sai should now move to the door and leave more effectively
• The Sirine Queen will now leave after handing over Evalt's body
• BG area music is now assigned dynamically
• Compatibility fixes for TDD
• Fixed dialogue bug with Therella
• The BG-BG2 transition now sets variables before the movie to be a little more robust
• Due to a typo, BGT was not pulling over Polish soundsets

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It is with great pleasure we are announcing latest shiny BGT release, which is another update over recent v1.19, done again thanks to the tireless efforts of CamDawg! This new version contain fixes to reported bugs of 1.19, insight into original developers' intent and leftover fixes from the Big World Fixpack.

Changelog:

Installation changes

• Fixed bug where a typo in the 1.19 music fixes could prevent installation of the music pack (thanks to Salk and Lunareon)

Incorporated the following fixes from the Big World Fixpack

• Typo fixes (thanks to Salk)
• Fixed systematic bug where NPCs leaving the party would often use the wrong dialogue or just not leave, especially when they were leaving due to reputation/alignment conflicts (thanks to Lunareon)
• Cloak of the Nymph could be sold for 40x its value due to a charge issue (thanks to Lunareon)
• Fixed bug with Candlekeep missing its patrolling guards (thanks to Skellytz)
• BGT was following Fixpack's lead in removing Zone of Sweet Air from Jaheira and Holy Smite from Viconia sue to class/alignment conflicts. However, Fixpack has since confirmed with the devs that these are intentional, and as such BGT now leaves them in place (as does Fixpack)

 

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Please note that hitting Download button will lead you to the choice of downloading BGT 1.20 for Windows, Linux or OsX.

Almateria's Restoration Project has been well known and gathered popularity for years now. It started as a restoration of unused sounds, but then it become much more than that. Today it includes many components that bring back items, characters, encounters, dialogues and many many other things! It is a great option for those who are fishing for unfinished business-kind of content as well those who enjoy seeing new bits here and there. Note that the mod affects both Shadows of Amn and Throne of Bhaal content. It should also work fine on BG2EE.
 
ARP has just been updated, and we are happy to use this opportunity to give a recognition long due: to welcome that mod among all the other SHS projects, and welcome the author, Almateria, among SHS modders.

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I am happy to announce that new mod series is now available at Spellhold Studios. Athkatlan Grounds has a very specific aim - to make Athkatla, our well-konwn BG2 city more interesting by introducing new places, quests and encounters. Mods that are already released:

Southern Edge - this mod has already been available for a while. It introduces a brand new district with its own quest and characters, like Mairo Mudclapper: a halfling arcanist in need of some help in trackig down dangerous parasite hiding somewhere in the district.

Ooze's Lounge - that brand new mod adds a new part of sewers. It can be entered through the grate next to Jansen house... but you must first find the key lost somewhere in Athkatla. The mod adds new areas, mini-quests and some new, quite unusual merchants.

Both mods are available for both old BG2 and BG2EE, even though they were made with EE in mind.

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Do you know Interaction Expansion Project? It was created with one purpose - to give even more life to the existing NPCs. The project adds new friendships, interjections and banters to fill the game with new interesting dialogues. All were created with high quality in mind.

We are happy to announce that all the Interaction Expansion Project mods are now up to date. Here is the list of all changes:

IEP Banter Pack (update from v.4.1 to v.5.4):
-Added French translation (provided by Isaya)
-Added Chinese translation (provided by merzbau)
-Added EE/EET compatibility
-Fixed Aboleth talk variable
-Fixed Minsc-Anomen script blocks
-Isaya's .tra and .tp2 fixes

Imoen Friendship (update from v.2.1 to v.3.3):
-Added French translation provided by Isaya
-Added Spanish translation provided by Clan DLAN
-Added Chinese translation provided by Merzbau
-Adeed BG2EE/EET compatibility with tranlation support
-Fixed hell talk
-Isaya's .tra fixes

Mazzy Friendship (update from v2.1 to v.3.2):
-Added German translation provided by Kerzenburgforum
-Added Chinese translation provided by Merzbau
-Added better EE/EET compatibility
-Fixed a missing token in one of the dialogues
-Implemented Lollorian's fixed for ToB talks

Sarevok Friendship (update from v.1.0 to v.2.3):
-Added Chinese translation provided by Merzbau
-Added French translation provided by Isaya
-Added Polish translation provided by Astharoshe, member of Stars of Mystra
-Added better EE/EET compatibility
-Changed readme path to the up to date one
-Added translators to tp2

Viconia Friendship (update from v.3.2 to v.4.3):
-Adeed Russian translation provided by Fess, Aldark, Silent, Cutter and Prowler of arcanecoast.ru
-Added Chinese translation provided by Merzbau
-Added better EE/EET compatibility
-Isaya's .tra fixes

Yoshimo Friendship (update from v.3.1 to v.4.3):
-Added French translation provided by Isaya
-Added Chinese translation provided by Merzbau
-Added better EE/EET compatibility, along with UTF-8 converter
-Shadow Thieves talks won't appear if working for Bodhi
-Isaya's .tra fixes

Updates: Lava Del'Vortel along with help of SHS users and K'aeloree, who gave the updates the green light

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Wilson Chronicles is now officially a Spellhold Studios mod. The mod includes party dialogues and some encounters to make sure those groups who will decide to travel with the BG2EE hidden bear companion won't suffer from a lack of interesting events. The added dialogue maintains the style of the original game: bears have their own language, after all, and we should all respect that.

So if you want Wilson to turn into a full NPC, install the expansion and enjoy the beary adventures!

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We are happy to announce that we do not only release Haer'Dalis Romance updade (v2.2), but we're also happy to welcome a brand new NPC IEP mod: Haer'Dalis Friendship!

Haer'Dalis Friendship, as other NPC IEP mods, adds many new lines to the existing companions. This time it's for the famous bard, wielder of Chaos and Entropy. There are a total of 20 new dialogues added by the mod, 15 in SoA and 5 in ToB. Some of these do have particular circumstances in which they occur. The mod was brought to you by Aeryn (writer), with some help from Rhaella (coding and release preparation) and Lava (coding).

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If you are interested in more intimate relationship with the tiefling bard, try Haer'Dalis Romance. Version 2.2 includes: improved BG2EE and EET compatibility, the SoA romance track will now turn off properly if the romance is ended, ToB banters will no longer fire repeatedly. The update was provided by Rhaella.

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