Scales_of_Balance VS bg2-tweaks-and-tricks

I was referring to Scales of Balance and random tweaks, if you're not familiar. SoB, I haven't used in awhile; random tweaks includes some nice quality of life stuff I like (goodberries, cure spells bypass deflection, etc).

Scales of Balance: A very large mod with potentially far-reaching changes that I have not tested nearly enough to comment on in detail. Includes an armor overhaul, a feat system, major changes to weapon usability, minor tweaks to Icewind Dale items, removal of class-based potion restrictions, overhauls to racial stat bonuses, changes to saving throws, bonus spells for high int/wis/cha, a complete rework of magic resistance, and much more besides. The readme is extremely thorough: read it first to avoid compatibility issues.

It's part of a mod called Scales of Balance. It's got a lot of other changes too, but I just stuck with the ability score based bonus spells component and ignored the rest as the other stuff changed way too much for me. It does also grant mages bonus spells based on intelligence which could potentially be a bit OP with the extra slots a specialist mage already has.

Check out https://github.com/UnearthedArcana/Scales_of_Balance

Most stats don't really matter especially in an unmodded game. There are mods to make them more significant. The one I use is Scales of Balance, which contains a crap ton of tweaks and is very granular so you can just install what you want.

Dude I swear If you Love Otilukes Resilient Sphere you need to check out this Mod's ORS component, it literally makes the spell match its description.

Tweaks and Tricks - https://github.com/BGforgeNet/bg2-tweaks-and-tricks

Maybe some enhanced Stronghold stuff? This is more convenience/QOL than an enhancement of the strongholds themselves, but I like the Tweaks and Tricks "improved strongholds," which notifies you when you can/should visit your stronghold and makes messengers more reliable.

Tweaks and Tricks: “trap intuition” makes trap detection a bit smoother. Now you get warnings if you’re near a trap (you know, for those of us who don’t have trap locations memorized). I haven’t tried the familiar changes, so won’t comment on those. The “Improved Strongholds” is a nice convenience addition that reminds you if you have business at your stronghold, and “convenient ammunition,” which adds non-enchanted infinite ranged weaponry, is handy if you don’t want to drag around 100 lbs of throwing axes. The soundset changes, which expand returning NPCs’ soundsets to include BG1 lines as well, are a good addition if you’re sick of hearing the same battle cry again and again. Other tweaks close the infinite-money fence loophole, improve Protection from Evil to protect from mind control attacks (eg, vampire gaze), add more bags (gem, ammo, etc) from the beginning, and give the option to buff Melicamp in order to increase his odds of survival. Very useful overall.

The Tweaks and Tricks mod has a component to reduce/nullify the detection delay, if it bothers you that much (or if like me ain't nobody got time to deal with dat). That said, I think it kinda fits for such a CURSED place that some traps could slip by.

Familiar and Improved Traps from here

It's a component in BG2 Tweaks and Tricks mod, found here: https://github.com/BGforgeNet/bg2-tweaks-and-tricks

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