A Gibberlings Three Mod
Author: Angel
Version 5 - Check for the most recent version
Languages: English
Platforms: Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux
This mod was designed to spice up some encounters I found too easy or otherwise boring, to make certain monsters act more like their P&P counterparts, and to introduce some new encounters, monsters and quests.
This isn't a strict P&P mod, I use P&P where it makes sense to do so, and deviate when and where needed to allow for engine limitions, avoid frustration, and make things (hopefully) more fun.
This mod is mainly aimed at people who have multiple quest mods installed and are thus slightly higher in level than normal. However, this is not a hardcore tactical mod, I don't think I made things too crazy but your milleage may vary.
This mod has been designed to work with BGEE, BG2EE and should be backwards compatible with BG2: ToB. The mega-mods EET and BGT are also supported. This mod is not compatible with older versions of the games or with Tutu.
As a WeiDU mod, this mod should be compatible with all other WeiDU mods. There are currently no known conflicts with other mods. As for installation order, you should install encounters & quests fairly early, before any 'tweak' mods.
This mod was explicitly made to be compatible with Sword Coast Stratagems, I consider it to be something of a "companion" mod to SCS. It can be installed either before or after SCS, but installing it before is generally recommended.
This mod is currently untested with EET, however as far as I know there is nothing in it that requires special treatment under EET so it should work.
Before you install
If you have an older version of MiH Encounters & Quests, be sure to completely remove it first before trying to unpack and install the new version!
Vanilla BG2 and Baldur's Gate Trilogy
Before installing this mod, you must install the latest official patch, and you must also install the Throne of Bhaal Extender (ToBEx) and the G3 Fixpack version 11 or higher. This mod will not work correctly without those two installed!
This mod can optionally use Icewind Dale animations from Infinity Animations, however this is disabled by default since I currently lack the means to test this. It can be enabled in the .ini file, if you use this you need to have Infinity Animations with at least the Icewind Dale animations installed. The file shared/monsters/tables/animations.2da controls which animations get used.
BG1EE and Siege of Dragonspear
If you obtained your version of the game through Steam or GoG, you must run modmerge or install the A7-dlcmerger mod before installing any WeiDU mods like this one. If you obtained your game from Beamdog, this is not required.
BG2EE and Extended Edition Trilogy
There are no requirements at this time. For EET, install this mod after EET has been installed but before the EET installation is finalized.
Windows
Made in Heaven: Encounters & Quests is packaged and installed with WeiDU and is distributed as a zip archive. Modern versions of Windows have support for zip files built in, just double-click the archive to open it, and extract the contents to your game file. If you are still using an older version of Windows, you should install WinZip or a similar program to extract the archive.
Your game folder should then contain a mih_eq folder and setup-mih_eq.exe. To install, double-click setup-mih_eq.exe and follow the instructions on screen.
Please run setup-mih_eq.exe in your game folder to reinstall, uninstall, or otherwise change components. To uninstall the entire mod without questions, run setup-mih_eq.exe --uninstall from a command line in your game directory.
Mac OS X
Made in Heaven: Encounters & Quests is packaged and installed with WeiDU and is distributed as a compressed archive. Extract the contents of the archive and move them to your game folder. Your game folder should then contain a mih_eq folder, setup-mih_eq, and setup-mih_eq.command. To install, simply double-click setup-mih_eq.command and follow the instructions on screen.
Linux
Extract the contents of the mod archive to your game installation directory.
If you haven't already, download the latest version of WeiDU for Linux from weidu.org and extract (at least) the weidu executable to a $PATH directory (/usr/local/bin is commonly used).
To install, open a terminal, cd to your game installation directory and run weidu --log setup-mih_eq.debug mih_eq/setup-mih_eq.tp2 from your game installation directory to install or uninstall the mod.
Note: The readme files of some older mods recommend running tolower on Linux prior to installation. Don't do this on an Enhanced Edition game, you will break it! Modern versions of tolower will actually refuse to run in a EE game directory. At any rate, the contents of MiH: Encounters & Quests are already all lower case, there is no need for tolower.
New Game required!
After installing this mod you must start a new game. This mod edits area files and stores, both of which are stored in your save game after you have visited them. Continuing a saved game after installing this mod will have unexpected and likely undesired results.
This mod consists of several components, each of which can be installed or removed independently from the others.
These modifications enhance certain types of monsters, mostly by adding abilities or immunities that they should have according to P&P rules but were altered or omitted in the game. This is not strictly a P&P mod though, I adhere to the rules where I reasonably can and deviate where needed due to engine limitations or the rules just not working right in the game.
Revised Corporal Undead
This component revises skeletons, zombies, ghouls and ghasts. They get proper resistances and immunities. Skeletons take half damage from slashing, piercing and missiles. Zombies take half damage from bludgeoning. All corporal undead are immune to cold, except those immune to fire. Ghasts and ghoul lords get their proper stench of evil, ghoul lords are now always followed by some ghouls and ghasts.
Revised Dragons
While implementing my own dragon battle, I found that most dragons are implemented rather haphazardly in the game. Some got their combat modifier to damage, some didn't. Some were immune to critical hits, some were not. Some did their claw damage, others their bite damage. And many of them gave way too much XP. I decided to systemize them as follows.
This modification partially overlaps with Sword Coast Stratagems' "Smarter Dragons" component; they can safely be used together. You should probably install SCS last as always.
Note: I know there are a yellow dragon and a purple dragon in the game files, but since they're not used anywhere I didn't bother with them. Besides, I don't even have stats for the purple dragon, unless it's either an amethyst dragon or a deep dragon. I also may have missed some EE dragons, as I am not very familiar with the EE content yet.
Revised Golems
Okay, golems are stupid, but they should also be strong. This component, which was inspired by the Ravenloft source book "Van Richten's Guide to the Created", alters their abilities and mainly resistances to make them more dangerous. Each one now requires finding a weak spot to fight them successfully.
Adamantite Golem: These metallic brutes are virtually immune to weapon damage, requiring a +4 or better weapon to even hit them at all. However, they lose their immunity to acid and lightning. Their stats are str 25, dex 17, con 20, int 9, wis 2, cha 7.
Bone Golem: These skeletal abominations emit a horrid laugh once every three rounds with paralyzes everyone who fails their saving throw. Those who fail by 4 or more are instantly slain instead. However, they lose their immunity to lightning and acid and actually become quite vulnerable to fire. Their stats are str 19, dex 18, con 20, int 12, wis 2, cha 3.
Brain Golem: These horrid creations of the illithid get a few psionic defenses. They project an inertial barrier which makes them immune to missiles and halves all other damage to them. Their stats are str 20, dex 14, con 20, int 14, wis 2, cha 3.
Burning Man: This burning monstrosity already is more powerful than its P&P counterpart, but there was some room for improvement. Damage from its fists has been raised from a pitiful 1d4 to 2d8, and its regeneration rate has been tripled. It will now see through invisibility, and it has been given actual golem immunities. Its stats are str 22, dex 18, con 20, int 3, wis 2, cha 4.
Clay Golem: These monsters get 50% resistance to crushing weapons (note that other weapons can't damage them at all) and immunity to acid. However, they are no longer immune to fire and cold. They have these stats: str 20, dex 16, con 20, int 10, wis 2, cha 5.
Flesh Golem: These creatures gain 50% resistance to cold and electricity and the following stats: str 19, dex 18, con 18, int 14, wis 2, cha 6. In addition they get the salient ability hyper regeneration, which revives them after a while unless destroyed with fire or acid.
Helmed Horror These contructs reflect Magic Missile spells back at the caster and are immune to webs due to their levitation. They are also immune to the spells Fireball, Lightning Bolt and Flame Strike. The stronger Battle Horrors gain a few innate spell-like abilities.
Iron Golem: These titans gain 80% resistance to all weapons, but they lose their immunity to acid and lightning. Their stats are str 24, dex 17, con 20, int 9, wis 2, cha 7.
Magic Golem: The attack of these monsters ignores all magical enhancements to armor class (implemented as a flat +10 to hit) and their attack will now dispel magic on the target in additon to draining wizard spells and item charges. The item- and spell drain no longer allow a saving throw. Once per day they can unleash a random magical effect. Their stats are str 19, dex 16, con 20, int 6, wis 4, cha 5.
Stone Golem: Due to their stone construction, these get 90% resistance to slashing, piercing and missile damage, and 50% resistance to fire, cold, lightning and acid. Their stats are: str 22, dex 17, con 20, int 9, wis 2, cha 8.
Revised Liches
Inspired by the Ravenloft source book "Van Richten's Guide to the Lich", this component adds a small amount of additional resistances to liches. They gain 50% resistance to slashing-, piercing- and missile damage, and are made resistant to low-level spells (default up to 3rd, can be changed in the ini file). It also modifies their touch attack to have +4 bonus to hit, and makes it deal cold damage rather than piercing damage.
Note: In vanilla BG2, liches are already immune to spells up to 5th level, this component may lower that. The SCS mod takes this immunity away, install this component after SCS to (partially) restore it.
It also ensures they are at least high enough level to cast their most powerful memorized spells, this will also adjust their thac0, saves, hit points and xp value accordingly. (If another mod like Sword Coast Stratagems already corrected their levels, this will do nothing.)
Demiliches gain the ability to utter a powerful curse on anyone unfortunate enough to disturb them, severely weakening them until they can get a Remove Curse spell or similar cast on them; even death does not remove this curse. In addition, their howl now has a -4 penalty on the saving throw.
Revised Lycanthropes
This component aims to revise the stats and resistances of various were-creatures in the games. It is still a work in progress and currently only affects wolf-weres, especially those on Balduran's Isle. More details when it's complete.
Revised Magical Beasts
This component revises the stats, abilities and resistances of various magical beasts found in both games. Currently included are Ankhegs, (Greater) Basilisks, Dread Wolves, Winter Wolves and Wyverns.
Ankhegs: Ankhegs will no longer bombard you with acid spittle from a distance (something which they definitely can't according to P&P). Instead, this is transformed into a single-target breath weapon usable once every six hours, the ankheg will typically use it when badly wounded. To compensate, they gain a strength of 18/50 to make them more effective in melee.
Basilisks: Lesser Basilisks are unchanged, but Greater Basilisks gain a deadly cloud similar to that of an Iron Golem. In addition they are also given dragon immunities, note that in Enhanced Edition this includes immunity to normal arrows.
Dread Wolves: These monsters are now properly flagged as undead. Their bite may inflict a disease that drains one hit point per hour. Worse, they regenerate like trolls unless finished off by fire or acid. (Out of mercy to low-level parties, the disease ends after eight hours and they get up from regeneration only once.)
Winter Wolves Like Ankhegs, Winter Wolves no longer rapid-fire their cold breath. Instead, their breath is a cone of freezing cold they can use once a turn. Note that they are intelligent and will attempt to catch as many party members in the cone as possible. (Since this makes them seriously dangerous at low levels, I remove them from the Nashkel Mine and Fireleaf Forest areas.)
Wyverns Wyverns now "dual-wield" their bite and sting instead of randomly switching between then from round to round. They also get a few bonus hit die. Greater wyverns do more damage with their bite and sting and get dragon-like immunities.
Revised Oozes, Slimes and Jellies
This currently affects gray oozes, ochre jellies and mustard jellies. Jelly splitting is currently not implemented as I haven't been able to get it right yet, but will be added in the future.
Gray Ooze: A gray ooze's touch deals 2d8 acid damage. They are completely immune to fire, cold, missile damage and all spells.
Ochre Jelly: The touch of this jelly deals 1d10 acid damage. They are completely immune to missile damage and electricity.
Mustard Jelly: This jelly deals 5d4 acid damage with its touch. It surrounds itself with a cloud of gas that makes nearby creatures lethargic (slow and tired) unless they are immune to disease. A mustard jelly is not immune to magic but it has 10% magic resistance and is fully immune to Magic Missile and similar spells, as well as arrows and bullets. Being intelligent, the mustard jelly attempts to hide itself when not in melee, with 90% stealth.
Revised Monstrous Spiders
While examining monstrous spiders in the games, I found that the devs applied some bonuses to some of them, but not to all, for example giant spiders have a thac0 3 points better than the should, while wraith spiders have an armor class a full 4 points better than they should. I decided to systematically apply all these bonuses to all monstrous spiders, making them a little tougher. The exact bonus can be configured in the .ini file (default +3 to hd/thac0/saves, +4 to AC).
This component will also give wraith spiders a correct chilling, poisoning and level-draining bite, and flags them as undead like they should be.
Astral phase spiders seem to be monster unique to Durlag's Tower, I could not find a P&P source so this component treats them as normal astral spiders for what it should change. The Durlag's Tower tactical challenge component revises them further.
Revised Vampires
Another component by the Ravenloft source books, "Van Richten's Guide to Vampires" to be specific. This makes vampires more resistant to spells and magical abilities; they gain a +4 on saving throws versus Evocation (EE only, +4 vs Spells on the old engine) and all spells deal half normal damage. I also enforce their stats according to their age category. In addition, they now heal 5 hp for every level they drain, and they are immune to turning.
This component can be safely used with any AI-enhancing mod that gives them more abilities, like Quest Pack and Sword Coast Stratagems. Well, safely in a modding sense; the safety of your party is a whole other matter...
These components enhance certain battles in the Original Saga (BG1 and Tales of the Sword Coast). Expect to see new enemies, more enemies, stronger enemies or any compination thereof. However, I do not make major modifications in AI scripts, mostly because I don't know how to. Use SCS or another mod for that.
Enhanced Battles: Ankheg Pit
The ankheg pit is the short dungeon visited during the Farmer Brun quest, just east of the fishing village. This component adds more ankhegs of varying strengths (3-7 HD in addition to the usual 8 HD) and they will spawn in greater numbers than before. You'll never be entirely safe down here as new ankhegs will keep burying in.
Enhanced Battles: Candlekeep Catacombs
This component enhances the various encounters in the catacombs under Candlekeep, visited in chapter 6. There will be more and stronger undead on the first level, more dopplegangers and a few other surprises on the second level, and more spiders in the exit cave. However, a little help is available: Arkanis and Deder are much better prepared for their task and if you convince them to help you can control them like party members.
New enemies: Wight, Greater Wight.
Enhanced Battles: Mutamin's Garden
This is the area with the basilisks east of the Song of the Morning Temple. Expect many more basilisks and a few other surprises...
New enemies: Dracolisk, Hill Giant
Enhanced Battles: Ramazith's Tower
This is the tower of Ramazith just north of the Three Kegs, visited during the nymph's quest. The enemies on the various floors are mostly pathetic, this component spices that up a great deal. Expect some serious resistance here.
New enemies: Wight, Greater Wight.
Enhanced Battles: The Spider Plague
This modification affects two areas, the Spider Wood to the far east of the Friendly Arm Inn (with the Red Wizards) and the second part of the Cloakwood. The game manual mentions a spider plague going on, so this modification makes it so that you will be facing a lot of spiders in these areas. Spiders will spawn continuously offscreen to a certain maximum. At higher difficulties, more dangerous spiders will spawn occasionally as well.
This component can be combined with the Revised Monstrous Spiders component, this combination will make the Cloakwood and Spider Wood areas quite dangerous.
New enemies: Hairy Spider
Enhanced Battles: Thieves' Maze & Undercity
This modification seeks to make the final two areas of the first game a bit more of a challenge and hopefully less of a chore. Expect some strong new enemies as you navigate the Thieves' Maze and the Undercity.
New enemies: Barrow Wight, Black Pudding, Wight, Mohrg
Enhanced Battles: Ulcaster Ruins
This modification adds some unique new enemies to the Ulcaster ruins, and in general spices things up quite a bit in there.
New enemies: Blazing Bones.
Enhanced Battles: Xvart Village
The xvart village is due west of Nashkel. Let's face it, even at low levels this place is a joke. The xvarts here (xvart2.cre) are worth slightly more XP - but have the same stats as any other xvart. This mod gives them an extra hit dice, and their leader Nexlit is made into a proper 4th level fighter. It's still not very difficult, but at least no longer a complete curb stomp battle.
Enhanced Battles: Zombie Farm
This is the farm all the way at the north end of the map, where the farmer Wenric asks you to kill 20 zombies for 150gp. By the time you get here, zombies are no threat whatsoever. This component changes them to more dangerous ju-ju zombies and more than doubles their number, hopefully making it a bit more of an actual challenge.
Enhanced Battles: Durlag's Tower
The main dungeon of Tales of the Sword Coast is a fair challenge, but not that hard for veteran players. This modificiation hopefully spices things up a notch or two for them. In addition to more enemies everywhere, a few enemies unique to the tower get a little boost.
Astral phase spiders are treated as legendary creatures (lesser scions) and get the associated bonus (+5 hd, +4 AC) on top of the bonus from Revised Monstrous Spiders, gain some magic resistance, and their bite has been upgraded as well. You'll want to be ready with the poison antidotes...
Crypt crawlers also get the lesser scion treatment (+4 ac, +5 hd) as well as enhanced strength and additional attacks per round.
Ghasts roaming in the upper levels of the tower become the tougher fell ghasts, which require magical weapons to hit.
This modification can safely be used with the "Improved Durlag's Tower" component from Sword Coast Stratagems; I leave the battles that SCS enhances (the warders and chessboard) completely alone.
New enemies: Barrow Wight, Crystal Ooze, Dracolisk.
These components aren't so much about tactics (although there usually is some combat) but extend or tweak an existing encounter or quest, or add a new one.
The Surgeon's Plight
The Surgeon, Davaeorn's brother, is an interesting character but unfortunately the game never expands on him beyond the first encounter. This component adds a possible new encounter with him in Cloakwood, where he might provide some help now that your quest has crossed with his.
This component is compatible with the BG1 Romantic Encounters mod, they can be installed in any order.
The Cloakwood Assassins
This component adds an encounter with a new group of assassins in Cloakwood, beyond the first bridge in the wyvern area. Surely you you can defeat a few more of these rabble, no?
Prevent automatic travel to Candlekeep in ch6 This small tweak prevents the party from being teleported right to Candlekeep at the start of chapter 6. This is because I actually like to use this moment to visit the Friendly Arm Inn and Beregost to finish up a few quests and thus like to go there at my own pace.
Minor Quest Tweaks (BG1)
This is a small collection of minor tweaks to existing quests, mostly to reduce frustration or close a pothole or two.
These components enhance certain battles in the Siege of Dragonspear extention to Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition. Siege of Dragonspear has some very large battles since the newer engine handles multiple enemies much better, and these components take advantage of that as well.
Enhanced Battles: Bridgefort
This component enhances a few battles taking place in and around Bridgefort. The dark wraith summoned by the voidstone gains extra HD and a few resistances to make it a bit more dangerous, and the false priest of Lathander now deploys slightly stronger undead monsters.
Enhanced Battles: Cyric's Temple
This is the old temple to Bhaal near Bridgefort, now taken over by worshippers of Cyric. It's already a nice challenge, having a dragon, a half-dragon and a mind flayer encounter, but I still thought there was some room for a little more...
The green dragon Morentherene gets extra hit points and a slightly more powerful breath weapon. She will now also always be assisted with some young green dragons, which have also been beefed slightly.
The half-dragon Ziatar gets some beefy lizard men as backup, and the rest of the temple also has a few additional guardians.
New enemies: Caryatid Column.
Enhanced Battles: Dwarven Dig Site
This is the optional dungeon near the first Flaming Fist camp, with the dwarves of Dumathoin and the Coldhearth Lich. It is already a fairly interesting dungeon with a few decent battles, but I think it could still use some spicing up. Expect to see a few new undead and other creatures with unusual abilities.
New enemies: Blazing Bones, Huecuva, Stone Snake.
Enhanced Battles: Korlasz' Tomb
Korlasz's Tomb is pretty pathetic even for a starter dungeon, no challenge at all for a party that went through Durlag's Tower and Balduran's Isle. This modification seeks to make it a proper challenge. The mercenaries on the upper level gain several levels (default 5, configurable in the ini file) to put them more on par with the party, while the number of undead on the lower level is increased and some stronger undead appear along with a few other surprises...
New enemies: Barrow Wight, Mohrg.
Enhanced Battles: Vampire Encounters
There are two unique vampire encounters in Siege of Dragonspear, Tsolak and the unnamed vampire in the Trollbark forest. Unfortunately, a single fledgling vampire just isn't a match for a decently equipped level 7-9 party, so this modificcation spices things up a bit to hopefully make them a decent challenge.
Tsolak is given the stats of a very old vampire: HD 11+1, str 18/00, con 18, dex 18, int 18, cha 17, SA: level drain (3 levels), SD: +2 required to hit, MR 20%. The dire wolves he summons are a bit stronger and tougher than normal ones. He may also have one last trick up his sleeve...
The Trollbark vampire is an old vampire: HD 10+2, str 18/00, con 18, dex 17, int 17, cha 16, SA: level drain (2 levels), SD: +2 required to hit, MR 10%. He has a few fledgling vampire thralls.
Note that Tsolak and the Trollbark vampire also benefit from the Revised Vampires component, further toughening them.
These components aren't so much about tactics (although there usually is some combat) but extend or tweak an existing encounter or quest, or add a new one.
Complete more/all Zaviak's Vision Quests
This component gives the Spectacles of Spectacle more charges (default 9, configurable in the ini file), allowing you to complete more of Zaviak's vision quests. The default lets you complete all available quests, although you still have to choose between the two possible ones in Dead Men's Pass.
Increase Enemy Group Size
The enemy groups in Siege of Dragonspear scale depending on the current difficulty level, by having some enemies silently self-destruct at certain difficulty levels. This component changes some scripts to enlarge the enemy groups. Current default is to have no enemies remove themselves and thus always have the maximum number of enemies. This can be changed in the ini file.
These components add tactical challenges to the Shadows of Amn portion of Baldur's Gate 2, mostly by adding more and stronger enemies.
Enhanced Battles: Athkatla Liches
This component enhances the battles with some of the liches lurking in Athkatla. Currently this affects the Shade Lich and Elemental Lich, but I will likely add others in later versions. Note that these liches also benefit from the Revised Liches component.
The Elemental Lich is now immune to most elemental attacks (fire, cold, lightning and acid). I also give him his proper touch attack (this was already in the game, but unused). He has gained the salient ability to regenerate 12 hp per round. During the battle various elemental creatures will spawn.
The Shade Lich now takes half damage from most sources, and also has the salient ability to regenerate 12 hp per round. During the battle, various creatures from the shadow plane will spawn.
Enhanced Battles: Firkraag's Lair
This enhances the various encounters in the Windspear Hills, especially in the dungeon where Firkraag lairs. This includes the tomb of King Strohm III as well. Firkraag himself has also been beefed up considerably.
Prepare to see some old "friends" in the hills, basilisks are now among the randomly spawning monsters and are guarding Firkraag's lair. In the mist cavern you will now see less hobgoblins, but many more mist creatures, some rather dangerous ones. And King Strohm's tomb has more guardians now, mostly various undead.
Should you return to the lair later on, to deal with Firkraag for example, you may find he has had the time to deploy some new recruits. And if you take on Firkraag himself, you will find that he is no longer too proud to throw a bunch of minions and some of his prized golems at you as well.
Enhanced Battles: Graveyard Catacombs
This component enhances the various battles in the catacombs below the graveyard district, including the battles with Bodhi at the ends of chapters 3 and 6.
You'll see some new undead enemies if you go for the Book of Kazaa and/or the Nether Scroll. Bodhi's grim warders have gained a few levels, and there will be more and stronger vampires and other undead in her lair.
New enemies: Barrow Wight, Mohrg.
Enhanced Battles: Lower Reaches
The lower reaches are the dungeon beneath the temple district, where the cult of the Unseeing Eye is and where the Rift Device is stored. You'll see more and stronger undead in the ghoul town, and the random encounters in the rift cavern have been made more logical with the plot and are beefed up a bit.
New enemies: Barrow Wight, Mohrg.
Enhanced Battles: Slum Sewers
This is the sewer section between the Copper Coronet and the Slaver Stockade, where Lilarcor is hidden. You'll see creatures that are more appropriate to being in a slimy sewer, and lots more of them.
New enemies: Crystal Ooze.
Enhanced Battles: Temple Ruins
These are the ruins in the Umar Hills, where the Shade Lord and the Shadow Dragon have set up shop.
You'll encounter many shadows and shadow wolves while making your way to the temple, they spawn in greater numbers than before. Inside the temple you should see vastly more undead, including some new types.
The Shade Lord is unchanged (SCS already does a great job enhancing it), but the battle with the shadow dragon has been enhanced by adding backup minions for the monster; various shadow creatures will now spawn during the battle.
New enemies: Barrow Wight, Mohrg.
Enhanced Battles: Trademeet
This component enhances a few encounters in Trademeet. The skindancers get a power boost to make them actually dangerous, and the trademeet tomb has had an area added to it to make room for some extra encounters.
New enemies: Barrow Wight, Huecuva, Mohrg.
Enhanced Battles: Spellhold
This enhances few battles in and around the asylum. Both the Pirate Lord and lady Galvena have been made higher level, and you will see many more creatures inside the asylum, including some new ones. However, the battle with Irenicus is not touched, that I gladly leave to SCS.
New enemies: Brass Minotaur.
Enhanced Battles: Suldanessenar
Currently this only enhances the batle with Irenicus' black dragon, but I may add other enhancements in the future once I think of some.
The black dragon will now be assisted by a variety of swamp creatures, including shambling mounds, earth elementals, and brown puddings.
New enemies: Brown Pudding.
Enhanced Battles: Underdark
This component enhances various Underdark encounters, including those in Ust Natha and in the beholder- and illithid lairs. Expect some heavy resistance here.
Kuo-toa gain several levels (default 6, configurable in the ini file) to bring their threat level somewhat on par with the drow, beholders and illithid. In the illithid lair,the ogre servant and insane dwarf encounters have been beefed up considerably and you will see many more mind flayers as well as some very strong umber hulks.
In Ust Natha, the battle with the lich Deirex has been enhanced and he has gained the Animate Dead salient ability. He will constantly spawn undead minions in addition to casting his spells. Note that as a lich he will also benefit from the Revised Liches component.
New enemies: Mohrg.
These components seek to make the high-level battles in Throne of Bhaal challenging and interesting.
Enhanced Battles: Amkethran
This component enhanced several encounters during your visit of the desert town Amlethran in the final stretch of the Bhaalspawn's journey.
Vongoethe: This powerful lich gains several salient abilities. He now has a Doom Gaze that causes pain and death that he can use in addition to his spells, and he regenerates 18 hp/round. He also enjoys mighty physical protections: +4 or better weapons are required to hit him, and damage by weapons is reduced by 75%. The flunkies he conjures up are quite a bit more dangerous now as well.
Enhanced Battles: Forest of Mir
This component enhances the encounters in the old Bhaal temple in the Forest of Mir. The Master Wraith was wielding a non-magical staff that likely can't even hurt the hero, this is made into a proper +4 weapon, and its life-draining property has been enhanced. He also spawns more minions during the fight.
The temple itself sees more undead, including several new types, as well as the return of bone golems. The battle with Nyalee is unchanged for now, as SCS already does a great job enhancing it.
New enemies: Bodak, Eye of Fear and Flame
Enhanced Battles: Pocket Plane
This component seeks to make some of the challenge battles in the pocket plane a little more interesting and challenging.
Test of Retribution: The creatures spawned in the good path are much more dangerous. Expect to see beholders, illithid and umber hulks instead of kobolds, dopplegangers and gnolls. (Evil path yet to do.)
Mirrored Paths: Mirror Charname brings two extra compagnions; Tazok and Winski. All of them gain several levels and get slightly better equipment.
Enhanced Battles: Saradush
This seeks to make the battles during the siege in Saradush more interesting.
Gromnir's Barracks:Gromnir's mercenaries gain a bunch of levels (default 8, configurable in the ini file) to make them at least something of a threat to epic level characters. Area of effect spells are highly recommended here.
Sewer Shadows: More shadows will now spawn during the battle with Yaga-Shura's sappers, including a few fairly dangerous versions.
Cursed Prison: The other path into Saradush castle is now home to high-level vampires and the entire prison is now a desecrated zone, strengthening undead and gradually draining the living. You should not stay around longer than needed.
New enemies: Bodak
Enhanced Battles: Watcher's Keep
This component aims to make some of the Watcher's Keep battles more interesting by adding more and/or stronger monsters.
The random spawns on the floor of the Machine of Lum the Mad have been made both more dangerous and more appropriate to the theme of the level.
Enhanced Battles: Yaga-Shura's Army
For an "army", old Yaga's troops are pretty pathetic, especially if you have seen the endgame of Siege of Dragonspear. Now when you confront Yaga-Shura he will already have several troops with him, and more will be spawning during the battle. I've also slightly raised their levels, by how much can be configured in the .ini file (default 3).
NB: I have been told this might conflict with a component of Ascension, but so far this remains untested.
These modifications extend existing quests or add new encounters and quests in the Throne of Bhaal portion, including Watcher's Keep.
Minor Quest Tweaks (ToB)
This is just a small collection of quality of life hacks for Throne of Bhaal.
Adjust XP Rewards
With all the new enemies introduced in various battles, the party tends to gain levels faster than usual. This component adjusts the experience awards gained for defeating monsters and solving quests. The percentage adjustments can be set in the ini file (default 50% for all).
Angel created this mod. You can find out more about Made in Heaven: Encounters & Quests by asking nicely. Visit the Gibberlings Three Forums for information on this and any other Gibberlings Three mods on which I may be working.
Tools Used in Creation
WeiDU by Wes Weimer, the bigg, and Wisp
DLTCEP by Avenger
People who Contributed in some way
DavidW for providing Detectable Spells, the SFO function library and the SSL AI scripting language, valuable advice on mod structure, and actually helping me write my own SSL scripts.
Everyone who reported bugs and other issues.
All people brave enough to try and install my early beta versions...
The people at Bioware and Beamdog, for creating respectively the original games and the Enhanced Editions in the first place.
Anyone else I forgot? (Please let me know!)
This mod has been released under the GNU General Public License, version 3.0 or higher. This means you can copy, share, alter and distribute this mod freely, as long as you do so under the same license. For exact terms, read the LICENSE file in the mod folder.
This mod is not distributed or endorsed by Wizard of the Coast. However, it follows the guidelines given by Wizards of the Coast for including their intellectual property in fan content. The author of this mod makes no gain, monetary or otherwise, from its distribution. The GPL license ensures the content of this mod will always be free for anyone, including Wizards of the Coast, to examine.
The following Dungeons & Dragons source books have been consulted in the creation of this mod:
Version 5 - September 30 2021
Version 4 - August 2021
Version 3 - December 2019
Version 2 - May 2019
Version 1 - May 2019