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[Sergio]

Thalantyr item upgrade --> really undecided about this mod.

First of all, even if the mod is named “item upgrade”, the mod adds all the containers of BG2 to Thalantyr.

Second, the mod adds a dialogue with a double space, the following: Can you  make magic items or alter them? (The _ points to the unnecessary double space)

Third, the mod adds, as you can imagine, the possibility to upgrade items you find during your journey. This is a concept that I like really much, but personally, I find the execution very lacking, because improving these items most of the time feels unearned, due to the recipe being extremely easy to satisfy while getting unmatched power from these items.

I will offer some examples. Obviously, there will be spoilers.

Spoiler

 The mod gives you the possibility to improve the dagger of Venom. The dagger of venom is probably one of the best, if not the best ORIGINAL weapon.

I say original because I always install the mod that removes EE content, so I don’t know if EE introduces new weapons worth using. For sure, I haven’t gone back since seeing the weapon “stupifier” providing a 25% chance of stunning the target for 1d4 rounds with no save (read now on the wiki that it was nerfed).

The "improved" dagger of venom has the following stats:
Becomes a +3 weapon
Has a +1 additional attack per round
Has a new effect: Each hit slows down a victim for 15 seconds (saving throw vs death)

This is insane. I don’t even disagree conceptually with the effects, what I disagree with is the fact that there is no real tradeoff to get such a weapon. You don’t sacrifice anything of value to get it. In fact the recipe is the following:
Dagger of Venom
Dagger +2
Oil of Speed(white)
strange Antidote
4000 gold

Do you think such a recipe is so hard to make? Why aren’t the enemies using these weapons then? For what you will be getting, the recipe is not expensive at all.

I will post another example: you can ask Thalantyr to make a belt named Girdle of Bravery. These are the stats:

Girdle of Bravery
Strength: +1 bonus
Wearer regenerates 1 hit point every 6 seconds.
Armor Class: +3 bonus

Requires:
Golden Girdle
Girdle of Bluntness
Girdle of Piercing
Potion of Frost Giant Strength
Potion of Cloud Giant Strength
Potion of Regeneration
5000 gold

I think that the recipe makes absolutely no sense for what you are going to get - the perk of the new belt are being justified by the presence of three ee not expensive and not rare potions that are giving you respectively a +1 STR and regeneration.

I will make a comparison; for ToB there is a mod named “Item upgrade mod”, author Weimer. You can find the readme here: https://weidu.org/c2...temUpgrades.txt . Luckily, it offers a recipe using the three girdles. That’s the recipe:

Golden Girdle
Girdle of Bluntness
Girdle of Piercing
3 Bloodstones (rings, amulets, or gems, but no mix-and-match)
10,000 Gold

You get: Girdle of Glory +3 AC

Now I have to ask you: which one of these would you be using in ToB, the one made by Thalantyr or the one made by Cespenar? I know which one I would use. The fact is, I don’t dislike items being this powerful. I dislike when you get a recipe that is so easy to satisfy that it feels unearned. I would use the dagger of venom, if it was hard to get (hard as, you have to sacrifice this or that good dagger; you have to spend a lot of money; you have to find the X item). I would still be a bit wary of using the Girdle too, but if the recipe was hard to obtain, why not?

On the other hand, there is also a recipe for the balduran’s cloak. By using it, you sacrifice a +2 cloak to gain a meager +1 saving throw. The cloak of Balduran is already the best cloak for <charname>, but if you want to make it better, you have to pay the price of sacrificing a cloak +2 (and to this day, I’ve found only one in Catacombs under candlekeep). This is one of the few recipes I find interesting.

I will add that I would have liked some other items too, like the possibility to merge the Helm of Glory and Helm of defense, but they aren’t available in the items.

So, after all of this, why am I undecided? Because I feel that the only recipe I would be using is probably the one for the Balduran's cloak. All the rest have an impact on the balance that takes me out of the game.

Some players opinions: 
1) Inkal: https://www.gibberli...#comment-327108
2) Connelly: https://www.gibberli...#comment-327111
3) Mickabouile: https://www.gibberli...#comment-327114

[Sergio]

Ayden’s project (finished 27/06/2023)

Hello, I’ve played Ayden Project. I will share my thoughts in bullet points.

1) I’m taking a look at two components:

Wands for Thieves: Enable the use of wands for all thief kits (including warlock). (Any)

Thief Proficiencies: Enable mace and spear proficiency for all thief kits. (Any)

Why haven’t you put the warlock class under the bard kit for Ayden, so Ayden can use wand?

And for the thief proficiency, wouldn’t it be easier if you just put these two points from the start on Ayden, rather than touching the kits? Or alternatively, add a weapon that can morph into a mace or a spear that can be used just by Ayden and that becomes stronger with him.

Having a npc mod actually changing the way a class works leaves me a bit conflicted. I could install them safely because I don’t use mods that touch classes or kits (for now).

 

Spoilers incoming, so I would avoid reading them if you wish to try the npc.

 

Spoiler

2) It would be cool to have a dialogue option for <charname> that allows you to threaten the gnome to give the gem.

3) The gnome is a fraud, selling fraud items and you cannot tell him to give you back the money or part of the money after you find him in Gullykin?

4) If you don’t let Ayden join, he goes away calling you “Godchild”. I don’t think this is appropriate, considering that you are probably freeing him at the beginning of the game. He should just ask your name and pronounce your name.

5) If you let Ayden join, a banter will pop up out of the blue, that I don’t think it’s supposed to be here: https://content.invi...0b6623cff46.jpg
 

6) Ayden starts with the following stats:
13/16/8/13/12/17 (79 total, not exceptional at all).
I fed him some cursed items and he was able to get the following stats:
15/19/10/17/16/21 (98 total, a very bad results)

I think these stats are insane, if you consider that I didn’t feed him all the cursed items. I’ve missed many, such as the Big-Fisted Belt (If I fed this to ayden, he would have gained +3 STR). By giving these items to Ayden he becomes a powerhouse out of the blue; I realize he is a warlock and mental stats are not that important (apart from charisma because your Warlock is based on charisma), but hey, food for thoughts.

7) The shadow walking is a cool feature, but I feel it’s risky in Baldur’s gate. I wouldn’t reinstall it.

8 ) After feeding Ayden a lot of cursed items, he proposed me to buy a forge for him. I never accessed the “refuge” (he never even spoke about it) and as such, I was never able to use the forge.

9) Ayden speaks a lot compared to other BG1 npc. He seems to be equivalent to bg2 npc; I think this should be made clearer in the readme. I particularly noticed that, given that this time I have played without BG1npc project and really, the npcs without it are mostly silent - I would go as far as saying they don’t speak at all.

 

10) Ayden has really a lot of work put into it. If you expanded Ayden, you could make it a stable inside every baldur’s gate 1 install. I will be more specific on how.

I’ve taken a look at the features offered by Ayden and the crafting part left me really surprised.

When you speak to Ayden for the first time, you can choose to let him join or not.
Some people may choose to not let him join and that could open a second path with Ayden.
After leaving Ulcaster, he could talk with charname out of the blue when charname leaves Thunderhammer smithy. And he could propose charname a deal: work for him, by bringing him cursed items.

Then he would propose to get the forge/get the forge himself, and then started selling the items proposed by the crafting. This should be reworked and rebalanced too (and I could say you how if you are interested – but if you aren’t, writing would be probably useless). You could even step in and make Ayden available as an Item upgrade mod, hopefully a balanced one compared to Thalantyr item upgrade.

 

Thanks for the mod!


Author's answer: https://www.gibberli...#comment-327289

Considering that there is also a follow up that ends with feedback I just left today (today as 02/12/2023): https://www.gibberli...#comment-330802

Edited by Sergio, 02 December 2023 - 04:06 AM.

[Sergio]

Argent77 mods. --> I will review them all together

I have to make a statement before expressing my ideas about Argent77’s mods. Most of them are amazing and always in my install. Thanks Argent77!!

 

Convenient Enhanced Edition NPCs for BG:EE, SoD and BG2:EE --> will install always. This is a great mod. I use the no-equipment-from EE.

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Hidden gameplay options --> This is a cool mod that I always install, but I dislike the order of the components proposed when you install it. I install only the following three components, that I think can be used by any player (and they are thus the more popular), while the others are more “technical”:
Enable debug mode
Limit ranger/cleric spells
Improved cheat menu
If these three components were to be put first, the mod would be perfect.

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Golem construction for spellcasters  --> this is a cool mod, but I don’t like the way it’s executed. As such, I’m undecided if I will be reinstalling it again. These are my impressions on BG:EE:

1) It would be cooler if it was the player agency that activates the mod, rather than the mod being activated from minute 0. What I mean is that you wouldn’t be finding bones or body parts, until you do a certain thing (wouldn’t finding the manual be a good moment?). Having bodies cluttered with different items is not as elegant as it should be, especially when I’m playing with a CG ranger. Why is my charname so fixated on these?

2) I would add that rather than finding all these items, especially when they are so “common”, an item that just siphons these parts without player input would be way cooler than having the player loot so much stuff and having to click so many buttons.

3) Not only that: knowing that I installed the mod, having all these body parts available and not taking them (I leave these items on the ground) makes regret starts sinking in, because I have never played the mod before, and as such, I don’t know how many of these items I need (and I would like to avoid taking a look at the spoiler manual).
 

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Magic store of vergadain --> cool mod, try it. I will always toss a coin if I have to reinstall it.

 This is a cool mod, but:

- I dislike the limited amount of times you can use it daily (3). You should be able to tweak that.

- it can unbalance the game really fast, because you have temples’ services in the wilderness.
Rather than considering it a limit of the mod (https://www.gibberlings3.net/forums/topic/32357-magic-store-of-vergadain-visit-any-store-anywhere-and-anytime/page/2/#comment-323645) I think a good idea would be an optional component that makes building of the artifact and the single parts way more expensive. I would gladly pay 15k to build the “whole” artifact, due to the services that it offers.

 

 

Author's answer: https://www.gibberli...#comment-327231

[Sergio]

Extra expanded enhanced encounters -> not a bad mod. Try it. Doubt I will reinstall.

You can find the mod here: https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/73749/extra-expanded-enhanced-encounters-module-download/p1

This mod add new encounters. Some are well written, but of course, it’s all subjective.

I will just write about what I didn’t enjoy.

- The gnoll fortress component is cool, but after facing so many gnolls, it is sad not to find a stash or something valuable. Sadly enough, I doubt that gnoll would stash gold coins or jewels inside their own fortress. So I doubt this can be “fixed”.

- The Undercity Magma Bulwark Encounter kinda took me out of the game, because they are skeletons and they all have “human” names. That way, they feel more of an ester-egg added by a mod.

[Sergio]

The dreadful tales – try it. I won’t reinstall it. (19/11/2023)

This is the mod I like the most by Lava.

On my eyes, it shows the growth of him as a mod author: areas are cool and interlinked without feeling “overabundant”, the dialogue is not bad, the story is not bad either.

But even with these good qualities, the mod shows what I think it’s the limit in every Lava’s mod – talking, moving around, is just a way to experience the content without having an impact. If you are going to play the mod 2 times, the content will always be the same, because the mod is pretty linear and the choices available for you do not have any meaningful impact.

Every mod I’ve played ends always on you killing the bad guy that is too desperate to be reasoned with or too keen in his evil way – I wouldn’t mind, if there were some real options available for the player.

In this case, there is a way to end the affliction of the land, but what if I didn’t want to end it and actually make it worse? What if I wanted to study what the girl did or have my Charname acquire something more useful than the simple thought of having done a good action?  

Also, the re-use of some ideas feel redundant (for example, the kids following you and getting a useless power reminds me of the dream npc in another mod that can’t be enslaved) or the blacksmith not remembering his past and you having to talk with him).

I mean, I enjoyed the mod, but it’s not like I would say “reinstall it”. It’s Lava’s best mod, but it’s still not something I would reinstall in my every playthrough, because it simply shows the limit I always find hard to bear when I wish to replay something.

Thanks for the mod.

[Sergio]

Glam’s Npc pack (version 7: 12/11/2025) --> I recommend playing this mod.

 

I’ve been planning for a playthrough for a very long time. It’s been one year since I opened Baldur’s gate, and this time I wanted to play BG2 with the Autumn’s Twilight mod (https://www.gibberli...ms/topic/38791-bg2-autumns-twilight-bg2at/).

I told myself – if I plan to play with the npcs provided by Autumn Twilight, I should get a few new npcs that are only for BG:EE and/or for SOD, so I will not feel obliged to finish their story in the sequel.

So I set my eyes upon Glam’s npc pack: I skimmed the forum and read mostly positive reviews, so I was eager to check them myself.

The mod adds 5 different npc.

The one I enjoyed the least was Vynd,
while all the rest were pretty much top notch, with the status of “Paragon” (for enjoyment) reached by Moidre (the Dwarf) and Flara (the dragon disciple). Very close second for Dave, third place for Littlun.

Note that I’ve played with all 5 together, and I didn’t mix them with the original cast.

Spoiler alert for the following. Not too spoilerish, but still, I’m going to reveal things:

Spoiler

 

Vynd (the drow): If you asked me which of these npc was the first to be written, I’m reasonably sure I would say it’s Vynd. I don’t dislike him, but he lacks personality. I remember only one banter from him, the one that is currently used on the readme for description:

"Why leave? Because in the Underdark, there are mind flayers, beholders and aboleths. Up here, there are sheep. And trees. So I weighed things up and I thought, you know what? How bad could a little sunburn possibly be?"

At first sight, this makes him appear as an opportunistic predator, but I never felt like I was with someone dangerous or at least resourceful. In fact, after playing with him, the dialogue conveys exactly the opposite of what he wishes to be: he is weak or to me it feels so - he is the runt of the drow.

I didn’t feel like he had a true development, he has no purpose but to follow the main character and he probably suffer also from a lack of quest.

I think that one thing that could be cool as a quest, would be either for him to get ambushed by humans and be surprised about the complex design they harnessed to capture him (he thinks that mind flayer are monsters, but what if he met true monsters in form of humans), or to make the underdark drow search for him because he did something he was supposed to do but refused to (but this would be so similar to Viconia that would make it lose value/significance). These are just my first thoughts about a quest, I’m sure something better could be cooked.

As of now, he is simply someone that accompany you without a purpose, if not being with you.

In essence, I would not play again with Vynd.

 

 

Littlun (the halfling). Well, Littlun I enjoyed him very much.

What makes it good is the juxaposition about his good nature vs nurture – growing amongst high elves, you would think he would have inherited their flaws. And yet, he will do what he think his right, even in his personal quest where you learn the clash between what he learned should happen vs what he wishes to happen. Pretty great, don’t you think? And you can feel the innocence of a good Halfling when he speaks, that makes you ponder and hope he will find his true roots.

 

Dave (the priest of Talos). Dave is the strangest worshipper of Talos I’ve ever met. If the Church had more like him, the amount of followers gained would overwhelm all the other creeds. He is content with what he is, telling you why he has made the choice of becoming a follower of Talos and why he recommends for you to change as well. But he doesn’t force you or is petulant about it.
And he has a deep respect for everyone around him, something I find peculiar considering he loves an Evil God.

And I like how – rather than the stereotypical ascension to power – he simply happens to be in the right circumstances, unwilling to do what he must, but embracing it nonetheless because he thinks it’s the right thing to do.  The only thing he demands out of everyone and for everyone is respect, and you can’t deny him that.

Moidre. This character is a masterpiece in writing. He starts with swearing an oath to you. If you’re inclined into discovering what’s his story and his past by talking with him, he will start to gradually open to you. First, a few words. Then a flood. Of memories, thoughts, and impressions.
With a Charname willing to listen, you can give him the validation he needs for a past that wasn’t kind to him. A past echoing your journey making you understand (and realize) that we are not what other thinks we are – but what we do with the dice we have been given.

Flara. What can I say about Flara. This girl is crazy, thinking to be a dragon that was turned into a human. Is it the rambling of a crazy woman (even if with a draconic ancestry) or is she right?
There is never doubt in her words. Her words convey a pride that I have yet to see matched by other npcs.
And when you talk to her, you start to wonder: if she talks as a dragon, thinks as a dragon, is she a dragon? (sorry Winski) – what if she is right, and you have a dragon in your party, escorting you?

You will have a chance to discover her past in her personal quest. A broken woman, she is... or not?

xiaoleiwen's opinion: https://www.gibberli...dComment-356707

Edited by Sergio, 03 August 2026 - 06:14 AM.

[Sergio]

Autumn Twilight – version played: 1.3+ 1.4 (released on 22 January 2026) - play it at least once!

Undoubtlessy, a lot of effort has been put into this mod and it shows:
- 4 (potentially) new companions that can join your party with their related content;
- New dungeons.

I will divide the review in sections:

1) The npcs: all of them are satisfying to play, but my order of enjoyment is Dusk, Fall, Cho'Nuja The General, Alendir. Note that I will suggest some quirks or gripes that I’ve got with the npcs, but they are purely subjective:

Dusk: this is a good npc companion. What for me sets him above other npc mods is the fact that you can actually experience two versions of him – one evil, one good, according to how you interact with him during a certain mission. Spoiler about the missions:

Spoiler

 

at a certain point you are tasked to find some orcs/ettins that may have had a clash in the past with Dusk’s maniple (of soldiers) that are dead. Dusk troubles himself for what happened, maybe a little too much, considering that he is a soldier, and soldiers die all the times on that job, especially in D&D, and from a commander of units I would expect less attachment. Anyway, the moment you find them, it’s almost clear that these orcs and mobs had nothing to do with the deaths of these soldiers, but Dusk still asks you what to do.

If you spare the orcs, you get the good Dusk. if you kill the orcs, you get the evil Dusk. How does that happen? The moment after you spared/killed the orcs, a certain npc appears, telling he put the shield on the encapment of the orcs (to see how Dusk would have reacted), and delivers a sphere with magical essence that can improve Dusk. The sphere is tainted by evil: if you killed the orcs, Dusk will simply use it no question asked, otherwise he will ask to purify it from evil before using it, even if it means to lose part of the power that can be harnessed.

While I’m okay with the way it happens, I just find odd that evil Dusk is “used” that much by the npc. You cannot influence his mind, he is set. It’s like if he is seeing blood and you cannot tell him to not fall into what feels, to me, a devious trap. I’m not sure I’m talking from a writer perspective, or from <charname> perspective.

I enjoyed the whistling guy and the green-haired elf too that you meet through him 

Fall: Lost his (human) father during an attack on her village. Lost her (elf) mother too, for the very same reason, but for a different purpose. She is a ranger beastmaster with the ability to store “animals” found during your travels in the new dungeons into an “astral plane”, to call them later via innate spells. You will have the chance to help her find once again her mom and to understand why she left her.

General: another enjoyable npc. While I enjoyed his stay in SoA, I find the ToB banters lacking. I would have liked to have him as my general in case of my ascension, considering that he is pretty reasonable, but the banters, both for him and Alendir, in Tob, are not linked to what is currently happening (your inevitable ascension or quest to become fully human): they are set in telling a story. That’s okay, but in ToB, this for me is an evident flaw, becoming way more evident considering the low quality of the expansion.

Alendir: Elf, not reciprocated lover of Fall’s mother. While I can understand his “sudden” change of heart that allows him to help charname, I dislike his evolution in ToB. He is too “flowers and roses”, from a man that has been broken for such a long time.


The dungeons: so the dungeons are high quality, with a lot of different npcs and dialogue.
My (personal) issue: while the story allows you to save Alendir and Cho’nuja (and let them become your companion), you are not given choices to roleplay the “main story” these companions are interwined into.
I would have loved to ally with one of the factions to cleanse the other. Or to betray them all. I realize it’s a lot of work. To be sincere, if I was evil, I would actually ally myself with the boss Spider, or at least make him realize that he is not strong enough to challenge a demigod and require him a favour. So, once you’ve played these dungeons and experienced the story, you have seen everything.

What can I say? I enjoyed this mod and I would certainly recommend playing it at least once, with a party made of all the companions added by the mod itself. Install the easy version, not the hard one, or you will probably regret it. It was worth playing and I actually enjoyed it a lot.

The ToB part, though, was weaker.

Thanks for the mod.

slouchinggibberling's opinion: https://www.gibberli...dComment-357526
 

Edited by Sergio, 03 August 2026 - 06:10 AM.

[Sergio]

The poisoned pathways – version played: 1.4 -> try this mod. I won’t reinstall it again.

Story: The mod tasks you into finding the source of a potent poison that is supposed to be incurable. You do quest after quest, until you finally are able to end such a menace once and for all.

These are my subjective thoughts:

Pro:
- The sceneries are beautiful.
- The music is good.
- The mod adds a lot of new encounters while “traveling” and they are not bad at all. In fact, they make the mod feel part of the original game, like if the place actually exist also for other npcs out there, and not only for the player.
- The quests added are mostly (and sadly) fetch quest, but they are still “interesting”.
- Itemization is also interesting.

Some gripes I have with the mod:

1) It is odd that you are met with the fact that this poison is incurable, yet none of the enemies, especially the last boss, use it against you.

2) The mod doesn’t offer a way to roleplay an evil charname. I feel like there could be a lot of different choices to be added for an evil charname within the framework offered by the mechanics of the game itself that that could actually turn out to be really profitable and tempting.

 

 

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I would probably spice/mix/change things a little differently, especially for evil roleplay:

Spoiler

1) First of all, I would make it so in the encounter the villain will say that he has improved the poison again: what’s the point of an incurable poison, if it brings a lot of unwarranted attention? All the test subjects have died instantly, and now the poison is supposed to kill instantly. Renfeld took 10 days to die, and Eldathin (ingame) dies (almost) instantly, so that could definitely suggest that the poison now is even more than dangerous than before.

 

2) I would allow the player to catch the arrow and to also save the life of the guy, if he so wills. Personally, I find it odd that you are left untouched by the person brewing the poison and that person only kills the priest and not you escorting him, even if you are far behind.Why would the evil boss leave you alive, considering that you've seen his face? 

I should add that charname should be offered to accompany him to the meeting, and let RP option rise from it. Catch the arrow, or not?

 

3) In the case the player doesn’t catch the arrow, you would witness first hand that the quality of poison has definitely gone up, because there is no more waiting for days before dieing (Renfeld takes 10 days) but Eldathin dies instantly. I would say that Eldathin hit by the poisoned arrow being able to conveniently mark you the place on the map without issues and to tell you everything you need to know is a little "gamey".

 

4) If the player wishes to save the life of his “friend”, the poison doesn’t kill him instantly, BUT It should have a (very very) huge debuff. The high priest would start questioning what went differently this time: why didn’t you die ? Was it because the final boss is planning to send a message or for other reasons? You could refer to the fact that you are partially divine and the high priest would say that you probably owe your life to your Dad.

c) once you enter the enemy area, I would say that:
- if you catched the arrow, you should meet the second in command instantly. He was there, and you were supposed to be dead. So he proposes you to come with him and that no harm will be done to you. He also says that something good will come out for you.
- if you didn’t catch the arrow, you will meet him once you enter the place and you will be poisoned as well. You will reach him, still alive, but obviously he will still try to propose you a deal, because you are supposed to be dead.
 

- once you are inside, you are asked (politely) if you wish to work with them or not. You can obviously refuse, but you can also accept.

If you accept to work with them, they will tell you that they wish to study you, because the poison wasn’t supposed to fail. They will try to question you and you will tell him why you are still alive: the poison is great, but you are a demigod. The evil chief will say that it will study your body and how to improve the poison, but he requires time. While doing so, he says that the attention of the followers of Eldath is annoying and that you should deal with them. He will offer you a special bottle, designated to pollute the waters of that spring and ask you to do so stealthily.

You will be given an amulet so creatures in the swamp won’t attack you, and you could also add some “evil” quests: I would gladly enjoy them.

After polluting the "swamp", you will talk oince again with the evil boss and he will tell you that he knows how to improve the poison to make it lethal even for demigods: he thanks you for that, reminding that you will be immune, because your body will reject the poison with time. 

They propose to give you a gift, if you promise to use it against Eldath' followers. Kill them all with the poison you will be given to send a message..

Once you go back, you will find the new "polluted" area. Is it changed due to poison? What happened in general? Do they realize it was you? Are they all weakened? Your choice.

After having killed them all, you will have the gift: you are now gifted the skill (in game) of Use poison (the potent version – before it was nerfed by beamdog), or, if you are already an assassin, it will be improved to be the potent poison before the nerf done by Beamdog. Even if you are no assassin, you gain one use at level 1 and an additional use every 4 levels thereafter.
                                                                                     OR
you could add the use poison skill added here, if you ask Olvynchuru: https://forums.beamd...eving-skills/p1

Having done all of that, and being immune, there is only one thing that the player should do. Turn against them and kill them all.

That’s how I would have done it.


Said this, thanks for the mod.
 

Edited by Sergio, 17 August 2026 - 07:59 AM.

[Sergio]

Call of the last Goddess – version played 3.0 – Play this mod. I probably won’t install it further, but I think it’s currently one of the best BG2 quest mod available but it has his flaws: I won’t reinstall it.

Story: You are tasked to free the Goddess Waukeen. You go in a city of the Abyss to make it happen.

Good:

1) All of the exterior areas are beautiful.

2) The city of Samora is believable.

3) The story is not bad and in fact, you deal with demons in a believable way.

 

So the mod is pretty ambitious, but it falls short (for my taste) on some things:

Spoiler

1) I was left disappointed by the second floor of the Waukeen’s building (from the newly added area) because it seem to be that it is a replica of Saerk’s estate, rather than being his own thing.

 

2) The itemisation is not great at all. There are too many generic items (especially on shops) and the few special items I’ve found are really not that great. Everything is way too balanced, to the point of being forgettable. I have the same idea for the mod “Throne of Mad God”: in that mod even the armor of the dwarven lord/commander is a (very) disappointing item. Even the reward by the demonic elf is pathetic.

3) There is a blacksmith area: the blacksmiths only sell generic items and only one cuirass made me curious, one that has a special effect if you get attacked, but still not good enough at all. No point on having shops if they don’t sell anything decent at all. I wonder why these guys are still open if they offer this crap. A missed chance would be the blacksmith(s) asking you to retrieve something powerful to forge an evil artifact. 

 

4) You are suggested - by the demon you work with - that in your next life you will become an abyssal worm, yet there are no *rewarding* particularly evil choices to be made in the city. All the quests provide (sadly) no roleplaying opportunities or at least I didn’t find anything that made me feel particularly evil or to profit from being evil (I would say the only notable exception is the possibility of summoning a demon if you let him get one soul).

5) It’s not clear to me why Maretta suddenly stops giving you things to do. In the module the mod is inspired to, isn’t Waukeen supposed to be moved out of the city ? Did I miss a trigger?

6) After you escape with Waukeen, it’s not clear to me what alerts the Bebilith, the abishai and the paladin that they should “appear” to besiege the city.

7) In the ending, the paladin you saved tries to stay at the entrance of the stairs and you can’t convince him to leave with you. Disappointing, and feels forced. I’m not escaping from the city: it is the city that is escaping from me, given that I’m killing (and I’ve killed) everyone I meet (met).

8 ) If you kill Maretta, in my game I was told you have 18 minutes, then I would die. The sudden death out of the blue is really disappointing.

9) When you are escaping with Waukeen, you will meet Mephisto in front of the palace, fleeing and telling you he is going to Grazz’t to alert him:
- If you kill Mephisto, you should still have the same time left (18 minutes).
- If he flees, you should have your time halved.

10) Waukeen’s reward is good, but not that good. In fact I would say that I probably prefer the RoP +3 you find in one of the tests to reach the flower.

11) I’m pretty sure a very cool bad ending could be added if this mod was to be “played” in ToB. With the control of the plane, you could actually move Waukeen here and enslave her, especially given the condition she tells you she is in. I would add that you could make a deal with Grazz’t for her.

12) The dragon is really stupid. Asking for a freedom scroll to be fred in exchange for 100 hundred years of servitude is really really peculiar. As for the itemization, he has only scales on his loot and the armor is not that great.

All in all, this is a cool mod. A shame it offers very little roleplay experience.

Thanks for it.

Edited by Sergio, 19 August 2026 - 05:38 AM.