fucking newbie wrote:

It's work and tinkering that'll eat up maybe twenty minutes aside from waiting for installs to finish, but with some reading and that fucking Dan Simpson walkthrough's installation tips on gamefaqs, you can import BG1 entirely into BG2, maintain the old visuals except for the UI which isn't all that interesting, set the class, level, spell progression etc structures including weapon specializations up like you want with mechanics from either game or AD&D (of course I did the fabio thing and imported bg1 weapon spec with D&D grandmastery and other bulshit). You can just generally fuck with it to your heart's content. Patch contents can all be individually toggled as on or off and its structure is pretty fuckup-proof overall, though it can get messy with five or six patches in terms of tinkering (your install process will turn into an hour's worth of 'do I want feature x or y?' that resembles house rule creation for actual tabletop gaming if you decide to do what I did and go for maximum tweaking).