Icewind Dale

[Lycia]

Speaking of BG, Icewind Dale 2 has been announced..included are new sublasses. Drow are now available!! As are Wood and Moon Elves and several other human and dward classes and Half-orcs!

[Ebra]

WOOT great games both of them can't wait to see this one

[Draggar]

Sweet! I can't wait!
I'm assuming it uses the same engine?

[Lycia]

[quote]Originally posted by Draggar:
<strong>Sweet! I can't wait!
I'm assuming it uses the same engine?</strong><hr></blockquote>

Yep, uses the BG2 engine with some graphical updates...I jsut can't wait to really use a Drow instead of just the picture...

[Danrak]

I like the idea of Wood and Moon Elves. Just wish I had a chance to get a good start on BG2. I beat BG1 though.

[Kymera]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm still waiting for Neverwinter Nights.

[gxavier]

Ive always been under the impression that the Ice Wind series has blown. The first one was way too short. But the drow sounds cool. Id like to beable to recruit drizzt though.

[Lycia]

Good news!

gxavier in answer to your question the knock on Icewind Dale was that it was to linear. But it was meant to be that way, just one lone dungeon crawl. The expansion Pack Heart of Winter was short, hence Black Isle creating Trials of the Luremaster addon as a free download.

Now in that vein, some people, with the help of TeamBG, although not afilliated in any way with Black Isle or Interplay, has created an Epansion pack called The Darkest Day for Baldur's GateII.

Now there are two things everyone should know. This is a 266 meg download! Trials of the Luremaster was only 76 megs. It is highly recomended that yu remove then reinstall Bladur's Gate II then install The Darkest Day and start from the begining. Apparently thre are some changes early on that you will miss if you don't start from the begining.

The second thing to know and is at the moment unavoidable is that once you install The Darkest Day, you cannot install Throne of Bhaal. There is some compatability issues..they say they will release a patch for this in the future..once they completely work out the bugs in the current release.

Again, Drow Elves are available in TDD, including Drow Rangers and Warriors..

10 New and Returning (from BG1) NPC's
180+ New Items
170+ New Spells
39+ New Creatures
75 New Kits
40+ Minor Quests
5 Major Quests
1 Mega Quest

Over 30 hours estimated minimum added game play!

BARD
Buccaneer
Chanter
Chronicler
Minstrel
Musician
Troubador


CLERIC
Battle Priest of Tempus
Drow Priest
Healer
Priest of Amaunator
Priest of Auril
Priest of Malar
Priest of Mystra
Priest of Selune
Priest of Shar
Priest of Tybboch
Priest of Tyr
Protector of the Faith
Warlock


DRUID
Aerial Druid
Aquatic Druid
Dream Walker
Justifier
Priest of Silvanus
Shadow Master
Shaman


FIGHTER
Amazon
Blade Master
Blade Singer
Breach Gnome
Drow Battle Monger
Drow Warrior
Duergar Warrior
Forest Gnome
Frost Dweller
Grunt
Guardian
Halfling Archer
Marksman
Pit Fighter
Ravager
Rhythm Warrior
Sellsword
Tactician
Tiefling
Troll Slayer
Vampire Hunter
Vindicator


PALADIN
Anti Paladin
Cerebral Knight
Dark Knight
Demon Slayer
Dragon Slayer
Lord


RANGER
Drow Ranger
Elven Forest Warrior
Giant Reaper
Samurai
Shadow Elf
Slayer of the Eye
Slinger
Tracker
Wilderness Protector


THIEF
Burglar
Delver
Drow Assassin
Huntsman
Knife Bearer
Merchant
Ninja
Planewalker Thief
Sniper
Svirfneblin
Swindler
Thug


Here is the link <a href="http://www.teambg.net/tdd/?page=creatures&color=B09800&sel=0" target="_blank">http://www.teambg.net/tdd/?page=creatures&color=B09800&sel=0</a>

As I said this can be downloaded, 266 megs..However you can purchase a cd-rom for about $9.00 I think, plus on the CD you get Dark Tales of the Sowrd Coast Expansion for Baldur's Gate (this is not Tales of the Sword Coast, this is a similarly named expansion..)

[Draggar]

[quote]Originally posted by Lycia:
<strong>Good news!
Again, Drow Elves are available in TDD, including Drow Rangers and Warriors..
</strong><hr></blockquote>

Interesting, if they're going to stick with AD&D rules, Drow rangers do not exist. Sure, Drizzt is one, but he is the one and only exception.

I'm speaking of 2nd edition, I haven't gotten into 3rd edition yet (I spent over $100 on books and stuff, but haven't cracked any of it open yet (noone to gome with ).