Garrick: Tales of a Troubadour

Garrick: Tales of a Troubadour is a little mod for Baldur’s Gate Trilogy and Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition which aims to make the character of Garrick more interesting to play, adding new dialogues, new situations and encounters as well as additional songs proper to the bard of Beregost. For this reason it is based on the content introduced by BG1NPC and completes it.
I hope that it will let you, reader, appreciate this character who, despite his reputation of useless gullible or baggage carrier, comes with good options of role-play, for who knows how to exploit him.

Sit by the fire, forget the worries of the road, and listen to the tales of the troubador...

Installation and compatibility

Garrick: Tales of a Troubadour is a mod based on WeiDU software, which allows a simplified installation and an improved compatibility with the other mods you could install to brighten up your parties.

Installation is simple : you just have to unzip the mod archive in the folder where you installed Baldur’s Gate Trilogy, by using a software such 7-zip, then double-click ‘setup-garrick-tt.exe’. Do not forget to answer ‘yes’ when the software asks you whether to install the mod !

WARNING :
Garrick : tales of a troubador depends upon Baldur’s Gate Trilogy and BG1NPC, and will not install if these two mods are not already installed (only BG1NPC is required with Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition). It is compatible with Worldmap, provided to first unzip it inside the game folder (without installing it), then installing Garrick: Tales of a Troubadour. Finally Worldmap could be installed next.

Garrick: Tales of a Troubadour and Garrick's Infatuation and Tenya NPC conflicts each other. It is not recommended to install them together.

In detail

At present and higgledy-piggledy, Garrick: Tales of a Troubadour is :

• Several hundred new dialogue lines ;
• More than 15 extra dialogues, encounters, ..., some evident, others more discreet (and rather well hidden !) ;
• Three new bard songs for Garrick, to discover over the adventure ;
• Four new items including two reserved to bards ;
• A new spell ;
• A mod that does not unbalance (too much !) the base game.

Download

Version : 1.26 (22/04/2016)
Size : 6 MB
Click here to download.

About

Garrick: Tales of a Troubadour uses music or excerpts of the following :

• « Le chant des sirènes part III », by Ehma, after the album « La plage de Blâne-est ». Licensed under Art Libre, available on altermusique.org ;
• « A chantar m'er de so qu'eu no volria », by Makemi. Licensed under Creative Commons BY 2.5, available on Wikipedia ;
• « Stuffing the elephant », by General Union, after the album « The Time of Life ». Licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0, available on Jamendo.

The idea behind adding additional bard songs comes after Bard Song Switching mod, although I do not use it the same way. Thanks !


Garrick: Tales of a Troubadour is not developed, supported or endorsed by BioWare, Interplay, Black Isle, Overhaul Games or Beamdog.
All images used by the mod are properties of BioWare, Interplay, Black Isle or Wizards of the Coast.

You are free to redistribute Garrick: Tales of a Troubadour as you wish, as long as you do not sell it, do not modify it, do cite the author and provide a link to Mod Website.

Releases and changes (warning : spoilers !)

1.26:

• The epilog of the mod is now added to the game when Siege of Dragonspear is detected (previously, only BGT players could see the epilog) ;
• Some minor fixes.

1.25:

• Improved compatibility with other mods.

1.24:

• Improved compatibility with other mods.

1.23:

• Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition is supported;
• Added german translation, by Gerri and Jastey;
• Modifications required by Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition;
• English translation is updated.

1.22:

• Improved compatibility with other mods.

1.21:

• Added english translation, by Nightfarer and Gertwenger ;
• Small changes in dialogs.

1.20:

• Fixed the issue that prevented Garrick : tales of a troubador to install if Worldmap mod was not present ;
• Fixed some bugs of the journal and some dialogues.

1.15:

• Garrick : tales of a troubador now gives the chance to install a portrait consistent with those proposed by the excellent PaintBG mod, for items changing the portrait of Garrick.

1.10:

• The earring of Tenya can now be worn by the various bard kits over the base class ;
• The dialogue between Firebead Elvenhair and Garrick now triggers after completing the elf's quest ;
• Drunkard's Ditty makes no longer lose wisdom but charisma and dexterity instead ;
• Garrick : tales of a troubador is now compatible with the option « Revised travel times and area visibility » of Worldmap mod.

1.00: initial release