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You got a T-shirt? All that came in the "Collector's Ed." I bought was a
cloth map
😛 (Well there was also a poster map and and a somewhat nicer
manual)
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Gwalchgwynn ---(---------
"Jonathan Ellis" <jonathan@franz-liszt.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
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>
> "John Salerno" <johnjsalNOSPAM@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> > Here is an excerpt from the "Chapter 1 Game Guide" that comes on the
> disc:
> >
> > "Included with the materials on this bonus CD is additional content
> not
> > normally available in the full version of Baldur's Gate 2. We have
> > placed a special vendor, named Joluv , who is found in the Copper
> > Coronet, an environment that is frequented during the course of the
> game.
> >
> > This vendor stands in the main room of the Copper Coronet, next to
> a
> > number of open cooking pots. Simply talk to him and make the choice
> in
> > which your character asks to see his wares. You'll have the
> opportunity
> > to purchase some extremely rare and powerful items!"
> >
> > Now that I think about it, I remember talking to this guy. He has
> some
> > awesome stuff, but it's very expensive.
> >
> > I haven't noticed anything about bonus weapons or armor, though. Is
> it
> > right to assume that if the disc has been installed, then everything
> has
> > been placed in the game automatically?
>
> The bonus weapons and armour are sold by the bonus merchant. ;-)
>
> When the game first came out, there was a special "Pre-Order Edition"
> that included Joluv, but NOT Deirdre who is located in the back area
> of the Adventurer's Mart in Waukeen's Promenade - she was not part of
> the vanilla game. (Joluv's equipment is all on a theme of "Icewind
> Dale", which game came out at a remarkably similar time - BG2 had an
> IWD trailer when you installed it, IWD had a BG2 trailer.
>
> A few months later, there was a "Collector's Edition" which included a
> bonus disc with Deirdre, but did NOT include Joluv. (Deirdre's
> equipment mostly - apart from the Robe of Vecna - has a "Planescape:
> Torment" theme: this being yet another AD&D-background game by the
> same company.) With this one you also got a few pieces of artwork,
> some game-soundtrack music, and a T-shirt which fitted the first time
> you wore it and then shrank three sizes when you first washed it.
> (Moral: Never wash T-shirts.)
>
> When the long-awaited expansion set "Throne of Bhaal" came out, it
> included Deirdre as part of the standard package (so she was no longer
> "bonus", but a proper part of the game): but Joluv was still missing
> (so ONLY those people who had bought the Pre-Order edition actually
> had access to him.) However, Bioware also gave permission for the
> bonus merchant files to be distributed separately.
>
> Good to see they're finally including Joluv as part of the standard
> game, even if it *has* taken them two re-releases to include him...
>
> Jonathan.
>
>
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