Original Author: Riojano2002
Mod Website: Spellhold Studios
Mod Forum: Trovador REO
Note: This mod was first released at Clan REO and has been officially mirrored at Spellhold Studios Clan REO mirror by Ancalagon el Negro.
📥 Download the mod at Spellhold Studios
Volo is not the only one who knows stories worth telling. There are many troubadours and bards who travel all over Faerûn risking their lives in order to brighten up the taverns we visit.
This mod adds a very special troubadour, who, for a few gold pieces, will tell you unheard stories and even the origins of certain characters, such as the mysterious Riojano, or Artemis Entreri.You can find him in Waukeen Promenade. It also adds a shop with curious objects. It is available in Spanish only.
Original note from the author
One night, reading some short stories from REO Clan members, the thought crossed my mind that, among all the mods that populated the net, there was none with the simple goal of telling stories to players. As I had recently learned to handle a bit of WeiDU, lo and behold, I embarked on the task... This is the result, gradually expanded with more ideas and experiments.
What is version A?
Because I'm a newbie at creating mods, I've included several ideas bit by bit... but various bugs in installations and the like have resulted in parts, objects, or even areas that worked perfectly for me, no longer doing so. However, I could dedicate little time to modding, so the corrections took me a long time... and meanwhile, I get more stories to include in the Troubadour's repertoire, stories that have to wait until I finish corrections...
This is why Version A was born: it is the basic Troubadour, only the character, the dialogue, the stories and the store, all of it already tested and working. Little by little, version A will include the improvements of the original mod that have been tested and work perfectly.
What you will find in the mod
- A character who, for a few gold pieces, will tell you the most beautiful stories.
- A series of stories about the alter egos of the members of the REO Clan (If you are a member of the REO Clan and you want me to tell your story, send it to me).
- A store with curious, powerful, useful, ironic and forgotten objects.
Stories included (in order of inclusion)
- "The Duel" (by Myther)
- "The guardian stars" (by Clak)
- "The Chase" (by Kimmuriel)
- Riojano's Personal History: "Blood of Gods".
- "History and present of the city that united all races" (by Kushtar, Jashir and Tadhik).
- Kimmuriel's Personal History: "Memoirs of a drow".
- Myther's Personal History: "The Light of Hope".
- Khaine's Personal History: "The Arrival".
- Artemis' Personal History: "The Hunt and the Maiden".
This mod is designed to work on the following Infinity Engine games:
- Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition (BG2EE).
- The original Baldur's Gate II (BG2, or just SoA) with the Throne of Bhaal (ToB) expansion. Make sure you have Throne of Bhaal patched to version 26498. Check the ReadMe files related to your patch in your game folder and the BioWare website if necessary.
- The conversion projects based on ToB: Baldur's Gate Trilogy (BGT) and Enhanced Edition Trilogy (EET).
This is a WeiDU mod, and therefore should be compatible with all WeiDU mods, except total conversion mods. However, we cannot test every single one. If you encounter any bugs, please report them on the mod forum!
Original game players are strongly recommended to download and install the latest version of the BG2 Fixpack before proceeding with the installation of this mod.
Here is the recommended installation order:
- Please install Trovador REO after TobEx, BG2 Fixpack, and EET.
- Please install Trovador REO before EET_End, and any final "biffing" routines.
If you've previously installed the mod, remove it before extracting the new version. To do this, run setup-trovador.exe, un-install all previously installed components and delete the 📁 btl folder.
When installing or un-installing, do not close the DOS window by clicking on the X button! Instead, press the Enter key whenever instructed to do so.
Disable any antivirus or other memory-resident software before installing this or any other mod. Some (particularly avast and Norton!) have a tendency to report false positives with mod activity, resulting in failed installs.
The Enhanced Editions are actively supported games. Please note that every patch update will wipe your current mod setup! If in the middle of a modded game you might want to delay the patch update (if possible) as even after reinstalling the mods, you might not be able to continue with your old save games. Alternatively, copy the whole game's folder into a new one that can be modded and will stay untouched by game patches. It is important that you install the mod to the language version you are playing the game in. Otherwise, the dialogues of the mod will not show but give error messages.
Trovador REO for Windows is distributed as an extractable compressed archive and includes a WeiDU installer.
Extract the contents of the mod archive into the folder of the game you wish to modify (the folder which contains the "CHITIN.KEY" file), using 7zip, WinRAR, or another file compression utility that handles .zip files. On successful extraction, there should be a 📁 trovador folder and a setup-trovador.exe file in your game folder. To install, simply double-click setup-trovador.exe and follow the instructions on screen.
Run setup-trovador.exe in your game folder to reinstall, un-install or otherwise change the components settings.
Trovador REO for Mac OS is distributed is distributed in the same compressed archive and includes a WeiDU installer.
First, extract the files from the archive into your game directory. On successful extraction, there should be a 📁 trovador folder, setup-trovador and setup-trovador.command files in your game folder. To install, simply double-click setup-trovador.command and follow the instructions on screen.
Run setup-trovador.command in your game folder to reinstall, un-install or otherwise change the components settings.
Trovador REO for Linux is distributed in the same compressed archive and does not include a WeiDU installer.
Extract the contents of the mod to the folder of the game you wish to modify.
Download the latest version of WeiDU for Linux from WeiDU.org and copy weidu and weinstall to /usr/bin. Following that, open a terminal, cd to your game installation directory, run tolower and answer 'Y' to both queries. You can avoid running the second option (linux.ini) if you've already ran it once in the same directory. To save time, the archive is already tolowered, so there's no need to run the first option (lowercasing file names) either if you've extracted only this mod since the last time you lowercased file names. If you're unsure, running tolower and choosing both options is the safe bet.
To install, run weinstall setup-trovador in your game folder. Then run wine bgmain.exe (or wine baldur.exe for EE games) and start playing.
In addition to the methods above for removing individual components, you can completely un-install the mod using setup-trovador --uninstall at the command line to remove all components without wading through prompts.
Author: Riojano2002
- Many thanks to Myther, Clak and Kimmuriel for their stories, without them this mod would never have existed, as well as to all the other story creators that I have been able to incorporate later.
- Also, thanks to Weimer, TeamBG and other program creators for creating such useful tools, gateway to new worlds.
- WeiDU, by Wes Weimer, the bigg and Wisp.
- Near Infinity, by Jon Olav Hauglid, FredSRichardson, and Argent77.
- IESDP, maintained by igi and lynx.
- Infinity Explorer, by Dmitry Jemerov / bigmoshi.
- Infinity Engine Editor Pro (IEEP), by Todd.
- IE Tilesets Map Editor (IETME), by Theo de Morée.
- DLTCEP, by Avenger.
- Notepad++, by the Notepad++ team, Don Ho, and the spellcheck plug-in.
- WeiDU Notepad++ Highlighters, by Argent77.
- Infinity Auto Packager, by AL|EN.
Trovador REO is not developed, supported, or endorsed by BioWare™ or Interplay/BlackIsle, Overhaul, Beamdog or the Wizards of the Coast. It was developed by Riojano2002, based on material from the game Baldur's Gate and its expansion.
Baldur's Gate, Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn and Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal © TSR, Inc. The BioWare Infinity Engine is © BioWare Corp. All other trademarks and copyrights are property of their respective owners.
This mod was created to be freely enjoyed by all Baldur's Gate players, and its content is free of rights. Please note that any and all redistribution and/or hosting of this mod is prohibited without permission from the authors.
The modding community for the Infinity Engine has been going strong for more than 10 years now, and is the culmination of thousands of unpaid modding hours by fellow fans of the game. Modders produce their best work and players get the best, well-supported mods when we all work together.
There are two big ways to upset this harmony. One is to claim someone else's work as your own. The second is to host and redistribute a mod without permission from the author.
- Added trovador.ini metadata file (including dynamic installation order syntax and global
LABELS) to support AL|EN's "Project Infinity". - Renamed setup-trovador.tp2 -> trovador.tp2, and moved it to mod top folder to support AL|EN's "Project Infinity".
- Replaced
AUTHORkeyword withSUPPORT. - Added
READMEcommand. - Added Immutability concept.
- Added component
DESIGNATEDnumber and "trovador_reo"LABEL. - Added
REQUIRE_PREDICATEconditions to avoid installing the mod in inaccurate games. - Added native BG2:EE and EET compatibility (thanks Austin and Gwendolyne):
- Added WeiDU's built-in
HANDLE_CHARSETSfunction to convert string entries for EE games. - Removed items usability restriction flags in description for EE games with
GW_UPDATE_ITM_DESCRIPTION_TO_EEWeiDU function. - Added special item usability restrictions (EE games) with
GW_ITEM_RESTRICT_USABILITY_EEWeiDU function. - Added immunity for opponents immune to poison or to sleep effects (op#324) in EE games.
- Provided accurate sized NPC portraits for EE games.
- Added WeiDU's built-in
- Appended "tooltip.2da" whenever relevant.
- Fixed items classes and kits restriction flags, removed useless abilities, fixed wrong effects values and icons...
- Hardcoded items' general names and descriptions (good news for translators!).
- Fixed items descriptions (added missing weight, restriction flags values...).
- Split setup.tra files into separate thematic files for more comfortable readability.
- Completed mod traification.
- Translated, updated, and renamed readme file to trovador-readme-english.txt, then moved it into new 📁 "readme" folder.
- Removed useless files and 📁 "backup" folder.
- Lower cased files.
- Included Linux and Mac OS versions in the same package (thanks AL|EN's Infinity Auto Packager tool!).
- Added archive libiconv-1.9.2-1-src.7z with iconv license info.
- Updated WeiDU installer to v247.
- Uploaded mod to official Spellhold Studios GitHub mirror account.
- Fixed a bug in the stories books.
- Provided .tra files.
- Revised and corrected texts.
- Updated WeiDU installer to v211.
- Included Khaine and Artemis stories.
- Initial release.