Drizzt Is Not Stupid
a mod for Baldur's Gate Tutu, by Macready

While I haven't read the Salvatore books, I know that Drizzt is supposed to be a hero of the Forgotten Realms universe.  His brief cameo in Baldur's Gate is intended to enrich the player's experience as he or she adventures in that universe, but all too often players are tempted to rob or murder him for his exceptional equipment.  Of course, it is next to impossible that a low-level party would be able to take down such a foe, but with the exploits possible by taking advantage of poor AI (or by outright cheating), it happens a lot.   I vividly remember reading the Baldur's Gate forums at SP a long while back, noticing that this was the first stop for many players, and thinking, "if there is one thing I'd like to change about the game, that's it."

It is all too easy to buff Drizzt up to demi-god status (and speaking of that, the BG designers already did that to him to a certain degree), but I hate that sort of thing as well.  It annoys me to no end when I see a wizard cast four spells in a single round, or any other similar action which flagrantly violates the laws of the game world as I experience them myself.  So, with all that in mind, here are the changes enacted by this mod:

And that's it.  Very small in scale, virtually nothing in the way of new content...but Drizzt is not stupid any more.

Requirements

Technical Blather

I made every effort to ensure this mod has a small footprint in terms of affecting your Tutu installation.  When files are modified, they are patched rather than overwritten.  Here's a complete accounting of what files are touched, and why:

Nothing else is changed.  All other mod content comes in the form of seven new files.  All of these files are prefixed with "MAC", so it is highly unlikely they will conflict with existing Tutu resources.

 

Download

Download the self-extracting package and extract it to your Tutu folder.  The setup program will run automatically.  Run the Setup-DrizztIsNotStupid.exe installer (WeiDU, of course) to uninstall it.

DrizztIsNotStupid-Tutu-v2.exe (last updated 08 Mar 2006)