DavesGaming

I’ve covered a lot of ground in the last few days. The team finished business in the Windspear Hills, investigated a Planar Sphere, freed friends from a Planar Prison, investigated a Beholder cult…

They’ve been busy adventurers.

Throne of the Mad God

The longest single thing done was the epic new mod from Acifer. This is one of the bigger adventure mods I’ve seen. It gives us a new dungeon, deliberately on par with Durlag’s Tower. It is vast, and the maps are all new. Some new monsters and new monster animations too. There are traps and puzzles, new treasures, and a whole lot of combat! It has some dynamic scaling so it can match your party to some extent once they’re past 9th level.

It starts, at the “Den of the Seven Vales”. Your party hears a bard tell the tale of the Amnian Captain Bryam Lancameth, who led a party of adventurers off to a lost Dwarven Fortress, known as the “Wailing Dwarf”. Located in the Troll Mountains, it promises plenty Trolls, Goblins, and some unknown horrors.

*****

Does anyone remember a bizarre sort of demonic undead thing called a Vargouille? Its been around since 1E, predates the Forgotten Realms (as a published setting, I’m sure Ed Greenwood was already running the setting!). But I don’t recall seeing it in a computer game before!

This is a seriously fun mod. Epic in the best sense of the word. It is NOT massively overloaded with treasure or experience, so it should not be massively unbalancing. But it will provide a fun challenge for many hours. The documentation claims about seven hours of gameplay. I’d call that right. Its about as long as Durlag’s Tower or Watchers Keep. It is independent of the rest of the game, but it is based on Realm’s lore. Acifer continues to provide us with outstanding, professional quality work that will keep BG2 fresh for many playthroughs ahead. Read the author’s presentation of it here.