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Like the title says I'm looking for mods that add new quests and areas to bg2 and tob. I've currently installed undying, tactics, unfinished business and ascension. Is there any major mod(s) that I'm missing? I'd like to have as much content in my next play-through as possible. I would however like the mods not to have any game-breaking bugs and as little silly and unfitting dialogue as possible (although tactics has some of this and I can live with it).

I also have a question about the install order. That is, the last mods that I installed were undying and unfinished business, and now I'm a bit worried that the possible combat encounters in these mods wont include the improved ai of tactics. Will this be the case? And lastly, I installed the level 1 npc mod, and I'd be interested to know if I choose to add new npc to the game after having installed this mod, will the level 1 npc mod work on the new npc(s)?

You might want to try browsing through this page at [url="http://modlist.pocketplane.net/index.php?ax=list&cat_id=12"]Pocket Plane[/url].
Also, there are several stickied threads right here in the forum that specifically address mods, you may find them helpful as well.

dragon wench wrote:You might want to try browsing through this page at [url="http://modlist.pocketplane.net/index.php?ax=list&cat_id=12"]Pocket Plane[/url].
Also, there are several stickied threads right here in the forum that specifically address mods, you may find them helpful as well.

Thank you for the quick reply. The thing is that there are such a huge amount of mods I was hoping to get some suggestions on which ones people like the most, and as for the sticky threads here, they seem to be very outdated. Having said that, I found a mod that's called the darkest day. Is this mod worth installing?

EDIT: I'd also be interested to hear you opinions on these mods: Vecna, Wheels of Prophecy, Quest Pack, Assassinations, Desecration of Souls, CoM Encounters, Fishing for trouble, Fading promises, The Gibberlings Three Anniversary Mod, Shadow Over Soubar, Tales of the Deep Gardens, Tortured soul, Tower of deception and Dungeon Crawl.

2nd EDIT: Added a few more mods I'm interested in. My main concern with some of these mods is that they might make it overly easy to get lots of gold and very powerful items early on. Your opinions would be much appreciated. I think I will make a solo BG1 play-through with my upcoming BG2 protagonist (thinking about a chaotic evil cleric/illusionist ) so that I get some time to decide which mods I want to install.

When I played TDD ( it was quite some time ago ) it was bugged beyond belief, almost unplayable. No idea if it's fixed now. As for the other mods you mentioned, I've played WoP, QP, Assassinations, Anniversary Mod, TotDG, ToD and DC. They're all pretty good actually but opinions may differ. WoP is meant to be played with Ascension and it adds some diversity to what you can do towards the end of ToB. QP also has some nice additions but you'll gonna need a fix for it otherwise there're some serious bugs that were left in the final version. Assassinations is what the name suggests and it's great fun for an evil party. The Anniversary Mod was quite short but downright hilarious. The last 3 mods were also pretty good ( had a minor bug with the Suldanessellar part of the ToD quest though ) and indeed included some powerful items - on top of my head there was a deck of cards that gave you an additional attack, some tree bark that improved physical resistances, another pair of boots of speed and a robe that improved spell casting speed + some other bonuses ( less powerful than Vecna though ) among other items. Most mods are not part of the main storyline ( only WoP is ) so you can do them whenever you want to prevent getting too powerful early. Also should be noted that most of these mods are SoA only.

All in all - good stuff.

I've never had any joy with getting TDD to run properly, even the Weidu version.

Com Encounters contains some good stuff, but also contains a lot of seriously uber items that I found far too easy to acquire. Although some of the encounters can be challenging, especially with tactics installed I'd imagine.

Thank you for the replies. You've convinced me not to install the darkest day. I did however install many of the other mods, although I still haven't decided on a few. I also found another (apparently very big) mod that's called Region of Terror. Is it any good?

I have some parts of the Questpack installed permanently, but mostly small stuff (like being able to save Sanik in Brynnlaw and send him with his wife to a happily ever after ).

Assassinations are an interesting mod, giving you many small killing missions with some tough fights, even. My favourite part of this mod is how it explores the very corners of the areas and places you've seen on the area map but never visited. It also makes your reputation drop like an iron ball which is not really logical but refreshing. But the mod has little replay value and indeed, logic is not its strong point: in many cases you are required to ask people openly about the targets. "Hmm, Mr. X was assassinated on the street right after this strange lady in a black hood asked about him."

Apart from that I use some npc mods and Romantic Encounters. Yay for Girly Gaming!

Hehe, thank you for the feedback. I've now installed so many mods that I have a feeling that the game will either be very buggy or easy early on because of all the additional items. Still, I have enough difficulty enhancing mods installed to make it interesting, I hope.

More suggestions are still welcome, as I changed my mind on the protagonist and decided to go for a fighter/mage/thief instead, so I'll have to start bg1 from scratch.

I like the extra NPCs and content of COMs Undying.

You'll like version 3 of the Undying once I get it done. Lots of new content.

I know, I've been waiting years now.