For only $19.95 you can get the DnD Anthology Master Collection at GamersGate.com. It includes several of the classic games often referred to in these forums: Baldur's Gate+ToSC, Baldur's Gate 2+ToB, Icewind Dale+HoW+ToL, Icewind Dale 2, Temple of Elemental Evil, and Planescape: Torment. All seem to be fully patched. None of the games require a CD to play so you can finally be legit without the inconvenience of discs. I know many of these games are also available separately at GOG.com and other sites, but this collection is the sweetest deal I have seen. If you enjoyed NWN2 then you are very likely to enjoy Baldur's Gate and Baldur's Gate 2. If you like hack and slash more than comrade banter then you are very likely to enjoy Icewind Dale and Icewind Dale 2. ToEE was reportedly very buggy upon release, but there is a group called the Circle of Eight who have corrected bugs and provided additional content. And Planescape: Torment is a game that you either love or hate, but is certainly unique among D&D based games.
And for those fellow Mac users, don't feel left out just because you can no longer play the PowerPC versions of these games on OS X 10.7 "Lion". I managed to get all of the Windows versions working on Lion using Wineskin with only a few issues regarding custom content. I'll be posting the steps I followed on my blog shortly. The only real downside of this approach is that the GamersGate Download program itself is a Windows app, so you have to be able to run Windows in order to do the massive ~9 GB download. I didn't see a way around that on the site.
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DnD Anthology at GamerGate - ancestors of NWN2
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Kaldor Silverwand
, janv. 31 2012 06:16
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Posté 31 janvier 2012 - 06:23
painofdungeoneternal
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There are compilations available on amazon on DVD for NWN1+NWN2 and for the titles you describe, which would prevent needing to download them. Pretty cool though regardless.
