Ring of protection & armor.....

Underdog77 · Post by **Underdog77** » Tue Nov 12, 2002 1:16 pm

I know they made the design decision in BG & BG2 to not allow you to equip rings/amulets of protection and magic armor at the same time, even though it was allowed in AD&D.

Does anyone know of a way (cheat) to allow this in BG?

garazdawi · Post by **garazdawi** » Wed Nov 13, 2002 5:14 am

Originally posted by Underdog77
I know they made the design decision in BG & BG2 to not allow you to equip rings/amulets of protection and magic armor at the same time, even though it was allowed in AD&D.

Does anyone know of a way (cheat) to allow this in BG?

Psst, There is no need at all for that. I thin that they made the rue bc there are so powerful items in BG, and they can be found so easily. in AD&D powerful magic items are very rare and it can therefore be allwed to use more. As for a cheat code, I haven't got a clue, you might be able to use SK or something like that....There might even be mods that allow it.

Sojourner · Post by **Sojourner** » Wed Nov 13, 2002 7:25 am

Originally posted by Underdog77
I know they made the design decision in BG & BG2 to not allow you to equip rings/amulets of protection and magic armor at the same time, even though it was allowed in AD&D.

Does anyone know of a way (cheat) to allow this in BG?

Yes - edit the ITEMEXCL.2DA file and remove the rings/amulets from the list.

Underdog77 · Post by **Underdog77** » Thu Nov 14, 2002 10:07 am

Thanks, but........

Thanks for the response.
The file you mention I was able to find in BG2 and it seems to work.
But, I couldn't find such a file for BG1 and I pretty much scoured every possible location.
Is this handled differently in BG1?

Sojourner · Post by **Sojourner** » Thu Nov 14, 2002 12:02 pm

Nope - the file exists - you have to extract it first with Infinity Explorer and then edit it with a text editor (make sure to save it to the override directory) or you can edit it directly with Near Infinity (it will automatically save it to the override directory).

Underdog77 · Post by **Underdog77** » Fri Nov 15, 2002 3:22 pm

Awesome, thanks so much!!

Thanks a lot for the help!
Normally I'm very opposed to cheating, but I grew up playing AD&D where you can have magic armor and rings and I just wanted that one change to BG.