A Black Wyrm Lair Mod

Author: Valiant (kiski@centrum.sk)

Version: v4.0.4

This mod is an adaptation of the Tower of Deception D&D adventure originally created by Monte Cook for the D&D website. I liked this adventure, so I thought it could be a good idea to transform it into BG2:ToB engine. I couldn't keep all aspects of the original adventure due to BG2 engine limits (e.g. non-existing creatures etc.), so I made my own little modified version.

This mod is designed to work with Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal (with the latest patch - v26498 installed), Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition and Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition Trilogy.

Please install Tower of Deception mod after Divine Remix mod, as it alters spells in Lizard Man Shamans spellbook.

Other than that there are currently no known incompatibilities.

Windows
The Tower of Deception mod is packaged and installed with WeiDU and is distributed as a self-extracting archive. To install, simply double-click the archive and follow the instructions on screen.

Alternatively the files can be extracted from the archive using Windows explorer, 7zip or WinRAR tools. If properly extracted, you should have a 'tod' folder and setup-tod.exe. Move those into Baldur's Gate II folder. To install, double-click 'setup-tod.exe' and follow the instructions on screen.

Please run setup-tod.exe in your Baldur's Gate II folder to reinstall, uninstall or otherwise change components.

Linux / macOS
As of v4.0.1, the mod is expected to work on Linux and macOS, but it has not been tested on those platforms.

Note for Complete Uninstallation
In addition to the methods above for removing individual components, you can completely uninstall the mod using 'setup-tob --uninstall' at the command line to remove all components without wading through prompts.

When Ustrain Yg'nuv, an evil githyanki wizard, built his tower on a rocky island amid the misty moors of Halron Bay, he had no idea that sailors would mistake the light of his magical Astral Shard at the top of his tower for the beacon of a lighthouse. The light brought many sailors to an untimely doom. But Ustran did not care. He laughed at their plight and continued his nefarious work: using the power of the Astral Shard to kidnap creatures in the midst of teleporting and divert them to his lair. One day, however, his own people appeared to drag the githyanki wizard back to his native Astral Plane. He's not been seen since.

But his tower remains. Not only does it continue to trick sailors on foggy nights (though most now have been warned by the legends of the "haunted lighthouse"), but the magic of the Astral Shard continues Ustrain's evil abduction scheme. Originally, Ustrain enslaved or robbed the victims the Shard delivered to him. With the githyanki gone, now they remain trapped within the evil tower until they devise an escape or die.

You and your group are hired by a mage called Tian to go visit the tower and find something valuable for him, for a reasonable price, of course. Tian is located in The Crooked Crane Inn at the City Gates. Go there, speak with him and adventure begins...

Recommended average party level is between 10 - 13. Also you should have some stronger weapons equipped, Lilarcor +3 is a good example. I don't recommend to play it on lower levels, as there are some monsters that can't be hit without weapons of at least +2 enchantment...

Special thanks to:

• Sikret for creating and improving all important creatures (Astral Shard, first Marilith, Ustrain), solving many problems and bugs (with dryads, Astral Shard and Gulin's ghost) and for resolving the problems with invisible spies, also for pointing out some crucial bugs.
• Razfallow for helping me with Captain Kergo's dialog, Czech V2 and V3 translation, further improving of all important creatures and battles, and helping with some scripts. Also for "heuristic" testing :) Also for Encounter with Ustrain remake.
• Vlasák for his initial inputs, testing, Czech V1 translation, and for helping me with scripts.
• Rabain for correcting grammatical mistakes in texts and journal sentences in V1.
• Kulyok for rewriting all dialogs for next versions.
• Luiz for his proofreading.
• Sir-Kill for creating an icon especially for me and my mod.
• Baronius for his global help and for pointing out some crucial, important things - Huge thanks!
• Januszka for Spanish V1, V2 and V3 translation.
• Jab for Czech V2 and V3 translation.
• REO-Sarevok for the Spanish V1 translation.
• ilot for Italian translation.
• Austin & Tanger Soto for Russian translation.
• Le Marquis for French translation.
• Grzebul and Cuttooth for Polish translation.
• The members of the Gibberlings 3 Group: Thanks for your great tutorial and wiki section!! It helped me a lot.
• Lava Del'Vortel for the update to v4.0.0.
• agb1 for the update to v4.0.1.

Additional Writing, coding, scripting and all area art creation: Valiant

Testers:

• Vlasák - Sigil.cz
• Baronius - Black Wyrm Lair
• MCZ - Sigil.cz
• Razfallow - Sigil.cz
• Frosty - Sigil.cz

V2 and V3 Tester - Razfallow - Sigil.cz - thank you a lot, man!!! You were truly helpful. Díky Razi.

Tools Used in Creation
WeiDU by Wes Weimer
Near Infinity by Jon Olav Hauglid
DLTCEP by Avenger
3D Studio Max developed by Autodesk Team
ConTEXT editor by Eden Kirin

THIS MOD IS THE SOLE PROPERTY OF THE AUTHOR AND MAY NOT BE SOLD OR REDISTRIBUTED IN ANY FORM WITHOUT THE CONSENT OF THE AUTHOR. THIS MOD IS NOT AFFILIATED WITH BIOWARE, BLACK ISLE, OR INTERPLAY. TOWER OF DECEPTION MOD © 2007, Valiant.

Version v4.0.5

• AUTO_TRA cannot use variables yet

Version v4.0.4

• added dynamic install order data
• removed unicode

Version v4.0.3

• Don't use %MOD_FOLDER% for LANGUAGE
• Don't use %MOD_FOLDER% for AUTO_TRA

Version v4.0.2

• Fixed +5 damage to Chaotic Evil targets (by Lightbringer)
• restore branding
• updated WeiDU
• removed backup dir
• typos and cosmetic changes

Version v4.0.1

• Incorporated all patches to date from the BiG World Fixpack
• Fixed typo in HANDLE_CHARSETS text conversion for BG2:EE
• Converted movie from MVE to WBM format as required by EE
• Replaced .bats with MAKE_BIFF for cross-platform support
• Used EE ADD_JOURNAL so all entries show under Quests tab
• Tweaked travel cutscene and disabled extraneous greeting
• Fixed some minor typos in NPC dialogues and journal logs

Version v4.0.0

• Serious WeiDU update
• BG2EE compatibility
• v4.0.0 fix - fixed ToD translations support

Version v3.3.1

• added Polish translation

Version v3.3

• Battle with Ustrain has been changed. Originally it has two versions - with or without IA installed. But I have received many reactions from players that the battle is either too hard with IA, or too easy without it. Also they wanted a version independent from IA, so Razfallow remade Encounter with Ustrain, using his own scripts. This version is more like an addition to the previous one than a replacement. For those who want to play without IA installed, but with harder Ustrain.

Version v3.2

• added French translation

Version v3.1

• added German translation
• corrected some scripts

Version v3

• lightning frequency (from the Orb in shadow room) has been toned down
• Astral Shard Guardian level has been decreased
• few cutscene scripts has been changed
• all dialogs have been completely rewritten
• compatibility with Teleport mod has been added
• some treasure has been removed
• a new encounter has been added as an optional component (strongly recommend to have Improved Anvil installed)

Version v2

• Callandor changed to Warblade of Twilight (... due to non-existing weapon in FR world... thanks, Avenger)
• Many travel regions has been corrected with flag "Party required" and "NPC can't pass"
• Lowered the experience amout for killing Baloar
• Revisited Ustrain's workroom :)
• FOW has been cleared from cutscene area at the very beginning
• Compatibility with Unfinished Business has been fixed - at least I hope :)
• Pandaira has been replaced with Gulin at the end in the cutscene
• Optional Improved Astral Shard Guardian (thanks to Razfallow)

Version v1

• Initial release