Baldur's Gate series

Baldur's Gate is a popular series of computer role-playing games that take place on Faerûn, the main continent from Dungeons & Dragons's Forgotten Realms campaign setting.

Modding community

The ability to modify the resources used by the engine underlying the PC Baldur's Gate games allows fans of the series to make their own homegrown additions to it. With the right tools, the game is relatively easy to modify. While some projects merely seek to enhance cosmetic attributes of the original games, others exist that improve the quality of the games by adding new characters, quests and alternate endings. A comprehensive list of mods is available. Some of the most ambitious and popular are:

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• Ascension, a mod primarily written by BioWare staff member David Gaider. It changes the ending of Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal, while increasing the difficulty of some encounters and providing a variety of bonuses. Gaider says Ascension is what Throne of Bhaal should have been like, if only the developers had more time to tinker with the game.
• Unfinished Business attempts to tie as many loose ends as possible by recreating and completing aspects of the game that were removed or left unfinished by the original developers in Shadows of Amn.
• BG1Tutu is an ambitious project which automatically converts the resources in a Baldur's Gate, or Baldur's Gate + TotSC install to the BGII engine.
• Redemption: The Longer Road by dorotea of Spellhold Studios, is a mini-expansion that allows the player to incarnate Jon Irenicus, the tormented antagonist in Shadows of Amn.
• Kelsey by Jason Compton And Ghreyfain of Pocketplane Group and Solaufein by Wesley Weimer are among the many popular mods which add romanceable NPCs to the game. Several additional mods exist that add romance options with existing NPCs, including Valygar, Nalia, and Imoen.