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[ed boy]

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Well... He IS really high level. Like throne of baal level.

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Level 15 is late SoA, earlier if you're thorough in Chapters 2 and 3.  You get enough free XP at the start of ToB to reach level 17 (or higher, depending on class).

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You can find his stats here. He is at level 15.

It is worth noting that his BG1 stats are worse than his BG2 stats, though that is because his BG2 stats are obscene.

[Ochita]

>:<

FIX THAT SPOILER.

[ed boy]

Sorry about that.

[Jreengus]

Well I finally beat BG1. In the end I completed it with my solo sorc. My actual party group is sill sitting around in the Iron Throne tower. Heh, toward the end it was getting ridiculous I could summon hordes of allies had insane amounts of protective spells and if anyone was immune to my spells and monsters couldn't hit them I could chug a potion of heroism and throw melfs minute meteors at them with a thac0 of 3.

[neotemplar]

Ok I'm still playing the first one   Durlag's tower and I just hit the chess board.  I also did werewolf island which was pretty hard but fun.

[0cu]

I remember playing BG in my kids' days when I was unable to understand anything and I always liked to reroll characters. Now, I want to touch BG with adults' hands.

Which game version could you recommend? There's BG:EE, there's Tutu, I am confused. I want to be able to play both games, if possible in BG2's engine. Also, bugfixes and patches and all official content.

[Catastrophic lolcats]

Well if you want to play all the games with the same engine get the "Baldur's Gate: Trilogy" mod. It lets you play a single game all the way through each game with the save character. You'll need all the games however, GOG is the best place for this. Tutu is just the original Baldur's Gate ported to the second game's engine.
If you just want to play the original Baldur's Gate there's BG:EE which is really good. Only problem is they're currently in a legal dispute with Atari and they haven't released a patch that was meant to solve a lot of bugs.

[Mech#4]

I've got Baldur's Gate TuTu installed and it's quite neat. It does what you're looking for, importing Baldur's Gate 1 into the sequels updated engine and allows you to play from the first to the second, including Throne of Bhaal by importing your characters.

It may require a bit of hard drive space as it needs to compile (at least it did when I installed it about 2 years ago) the games into a single folder.

As for balance, I don't know if you're interested in that (I'm not really) but I can imagine some of the more complex classes and newer spells could make Baldur's Gate 1 a tad easy.

TuTu uses the original versions of Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 (+ expansions) and not the enhanced edition. Well... I say that but I haven't checked their website recently.

[0cu]

Seems like TuTu is the way to go. I need the english version of both games with their expansions for this, patched, right?

[Mech#4]

Seems like TuTu is the way to go. I need the english version of both games with their expansions for this, patched, right?

Here's some instructions from their website on installing:

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Installing
1) If you haven't already, perform a Full Install of BG1. This could mean BG1, BG1 plus TotSC, or BG: The Original Saga, depending on what you've bought.  If you have the 6 CD set of BG1 (or 5, without the expansion), this means you should choose "custom install" and select everything.  Even movies.
2) Apply the BG1 patch from Bioware only if you do not have BG: The Original Saga.
3) If you haven't already, perform a Recommended or Full install of BG2. Throne of Bhaal is supported but not required.
4) Depending on what you have installed, apply the BG2 patch or ToB Patch from Bioware.
5) Extract bg1tutu_v(x).exe to your BGII directory. (Where x is the version number you’ve downloaded.)
6) Using a text editor like wordpad (don't use notepad, it's very confusing), PFE, ConTEXT, etc., go to your bg1tutu folder and open up the file named "configuration".  You need to edit the two lines named ~source~ and ~target~.  If you installation of BG1 was at C:gamesBG1 and your BG2 installation was in C:gamesBGII, your configuration file should wind up looking like this:

     ~source~            [ ~C:gamesBG1 ~]

     ~source.variant~ [ ~BG1~ ]

     ~target~            [ ~C:gamesBGII~ ]

     ~target.variant~ [ ~BG2~ ]

*Note that the path is case sensitive.  Capital and lower-case letters matter.
7) If you haven’t installed TotSC, download the file http://home.arcor.de/varana/RNDEQUIP.2DA into your bg1tutubg1-override folder.
Install any BG1 mods/upgrades that you will want to use in your BG1 directory.
Note: Most minor BG1 mods should convert correctly.  DSotSC does not.
9) Run both BG1 and BG2 once, if you've just installed them.  This will populate their configuration (baldur.ini) files, which Tutu requires.
10) Double-click bg1tutu.exe (it will be in your BGII directory) and let it run.
11) Just follow along after this and make whichever choices you wish.
12) Once BG1Tutu has finished installing, you should download and run Tutufix. It is absolutely required that you install at least the Core Bugfixes component.
13) After Tutufix has been installed, you should install any mods specifically tailored for Tutu.  See the BG1Tutu Enhancements page for a list.
14) If you want BG music, copy BG’s music folder into your BGII directory. (Make sure to rename BGII’s music folder to something else first so that you don’t overwrite BGII’s music.)
 15) If you want to retain BG1's stone interface, check out LadeJarl's Tutu GUI mod on the Tutu Enhancements Page.
16) Play BG1Tutu by running “bgmain.exe” in your BG2 folder.  It may prompt you for your BG2 CD.
17) Have fun, you made it!

There was also a bit that described it was possible to play using a different language, but only with an older version I assume called TuTu V4.