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How do you use your Baldur's gate 2 char in Nwn?

you can't

While it loads in Bg2, it says that you can.

but they changed their plans. it was too complicated to convert a 2e char into a 3e char.

Due to the rules and the gameplay in NwN the only things that would have been able to import from a BG2 char. would have been the name, gender and base class(no kits).
Thus Bioware decided to concentrate on other stuff then trying to make some sort of combability between BG2 and NwN.

Thus no import.

Sob! Arrg, I just hoped that one could import them! Now Bioware shattered my dreams. "sob" "sob" "sob"

It's good to have a Danish Moderator, at this gods forsaken forum Xandax! Just joking! (About the "Gods forsaken forum!)

You would think they wouldnt put that in BG II before they didnt know what NWN was going to be like.

Originally posted by Eriks
You would think they wouldnt put that in BG II before they didnt know what NWN was going to be like.

A development period of 4 years for NwN is a long time and a lot of things can change during this.
It is the case with all development for computers

I'm kinda happy they didn't include a import facility, unless they stripped the char down to level 1, kept the name and the base class. Otherwise there would have been no balance in the game.
(eg. starting a game with +5 weapons from BG2/ToB )

They could just let you keep the stats, name, class and race. That would be fair.

Originally posted by Mikael Skiffard
They could just let you keep the stats, name, class and race. That would be fair.

Seeing as the stat system of 2ed rules (BG2/ToB) and 3ed rules are vastly different, there would be no possiblity for keeping the stats. Especially with the loads of increases there would have been availeble through the BG series.

So - the only thing that would have been able to import was name, race and a base class - and why even bother with that?

One of my friends told me that he'd seen a program on the net, which you can use to convert 2ed characters to 3ed(he also said that it would take some time and that it would be quite complicated). Anyone heard about that?

I don't know about a site with a converter on it, but I do know that when 3rd Edition was released for the pen and paper...you could get a little booklet that took you through the rule changes and how to convert your 2nd Edition AD&D Characters into 3rd Edition. I don't know if that helps at all.....but just that there is a converter available. I don't know about one that does it for you though. I have done it to a few of my 2nd Edition Characters. You sometimes get hosed on the Multiclassing, but overall it isn't bad.

I too was kinda bummed that I didn't get to 'import' my character from BG2, etc.. BUT, you can use the toolset to create a character comparable to your old character and then convert the ERF into a BIC player file. Hope this helps

Hmmmm...... That Might actually help! Thank's.