An ambitious mod management tool for the original Baldur's Gate games just got a massive overhaul

An ambitious mod management tool for the original Baldur’s Gate games just got a massive overhaul | PC Gamer Skip to main content Open menu Close main menu PC Gamer THE GLOBAL AUTHORITY ON PC GAMES US Edition UK US Canada Australia Subscribe Sign in View Profile Sign out Search Search PC Gamer Games Hardware News Reviews Guides Video Forum More PC Gaming Show PC Gamer Clips Software Codes Coupons Movies & TV Magazine Newsletter Affiliate links Meet the team Community guidelines About PC Gamer PC Gamer Magazine SubscriptionWhy subscribe?Subscribe to the world’s #1 PC gaming magTry a single issue or save on a subscriptionIssues delivered straight to your door or device From$1Subscribe now Don’t miss these Baldur’s Gate Beamdog swaggers in, says sorry I’m late, then surprise-patches Baldur’s Gate 1 and 2 Enhanced 14 years after release Baldur’s Gate Baldur’s Gate 3 mod restores more than 100 conversations and 1,000 lines of voiced dialogue from the early access version previously lost in the ethereal plane Baldur’s Gate Baldur’s Gate 3 started on top and kept on climbing: Larian said it wouldn’t make a sequel, then drip fed us an expansion’s worth of free updates into 2025 RPG The OG Baldur’s Gates are freshly patched, and you can pick them up with 500+ hours of other CRPGs for $23 right now Platforms Steam Workshop just got version control, hopefully making it less of a headache when game updates break all our mods Baldur’s Gate Surprise! 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From first-look trailers, interviews, reviews and explainers, we’ve got you covered. Signup + Once a month SFX Get sneak previews, exclusive competitions and details of special events each month! Signup + An account already exists for this email address, please log in. Subscribe to our newsletter Modding is one of PC gaming’s greatest pleasures. It’s also a pain in the neck, especially as you go back and tinker with old games so they can be enjoyed on a modern system. All too often, it turns into a tangle of compatibility issues and bugs that you may have even introduced yourself with the wrong combination of mods; if your particular poison is the original Baldur’s Gate games, though, you may want to take a look at EET Mod Forge.The web-based tool is a mod manager of sorts that gives you some information about how your game will look and warn you away from gamebreaking mod conflicts, whether you build off one of the site’s preset modlists or make your own. It’s billed as an “install order builder,” and features 640 different mods so far.It just got a big 2.0 version about a week after its initial release, both of which were shared by creator anprionsa on Reddit. The new overhaul lets you preview NPC portrait art in case “multiple mods compete for the same portrait,” and tracks in-engine caps for certain things, like kits, so “you know before you install if you’ve exceeded a limit.”Article continues below You may like Beamdog swaggers in, says sorry I’m late, then surprise-patches Baldur’s Gate 1 and 2 Enhanced 14 years after release Baldur’s Gate 3 mod restores more than 100 conversations and 1,000 lines of voiced dialogue from the early access version previously lost in the ethereal plane Baldur’s Gate 3 started on top and kept on climbing: Larian said it wouldn’t make a sequel, then drip fed us an expansion’s worth of free updates into 2025 There’s also a new preset, “Mod Forge Ultimate,” which piles a mind-bending 475 mods into one lis