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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?

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.

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.

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?

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).

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.