malkav11

So...wow. I just found the best thing ever:EasyTutu. No, it's not a simplified process for selecting a ballerina outfit. It's a mod which converts the original Baldur's Gate to run in the BGII engine, with all enhancements thereof (pausing when in inventory, additional character classes, kits, higher resolutions, 3D enhancement...all those shinies). The whole thing. Including the expansion.

This is 100% awesome. I hated BG1 on first brush, but my very positive experience with the sequel has led me to desire to go back and properly play the first game. And yes, some of the things that irritated me about it were just my being more accustomed to older D&D games like SSI's Gold Box series, but the fact is, the BGII engine is still significantly more polished and upscale, and I was really hoping to do the character import thing, only to run into the fact that the vastly expanded character options make importing unwise as things stood in the official setup.

This should fix those things and make me a very happy camper. (of course, some of my other issues with the first BG are not going to go away, because, well, first level D&D characters have the lifespan of gnats, and that had nothing to do with the engine...)