Sword Coast Keeper is a new game editor for Baldur's Gate and Tales of the Sword Coast.

There is already one game editor the Baldur's Gate and Tales of the Sword Coast, GateKeeper by Aaron O'Neil. This editor has one main limitation : it does not allow for adding custom items and spells.

Since then Aaron O'Neil has made new editors, for Icewind Dale and Baldur's Gate II - Shadows of Amn, that allowed for much more flexibility.

Aaron gave me permission (and source code :-)) to make a new editor for Baldur's Gate, based on Shadow Keeper. Here is now the result of that work. Sword Coast Keeper (as I decided to call it) will allow people using custom items or spells to display or modules such as Dark Side of the Sword Coast to display properly their saved games and perform any change you may want to do, much like Shadow Keeper allowed for Baldur's Gate II.

History

3 November 2002, version 1.0.0

First released version, based on Shadow Keeper 2.1.4 sources.
Changes made to match Baldur’s Gate instead of Baldur’s Gate II (proficiencies, affects format, removal of kits, structures versions, missing 2da files in BG).
Only the basic functions were tested.

7 December 2002, version 1.0.1

Fixed bugs in the Characteristics page (most of the time, access to Speciality when class was changed to mage, or access to Racial enemy when changing to Ranger was not granted). Thanks to Alain Courouge for reporting this.
Made a new affects list (Affects.uld) that matches known effects from BG1-TotSC as listed on the IESDP site.

29 December 2002, version 1.0.2

Fixed a bug with speed parameter in the Characteristics page. It still used a Baldur’s Gate II effect so putting another value than 0 generated an internal error and prevented saving. Thanks to Mark Hammonds for reporting this.
Sword Coast Keeper now looks first in the Portraits directory to display portraits, so that you can put there your updated NPC portraits, as the game itself allows. Thanks to MadCat69 for mentioning this problem.
Fixed a bug in the Portrait selection which only displayed large portraits from the Portraits directory and not those from within the game.
Now comes with an installer/uninstaller created with NSIS 2.0. It allows you to select the installation directory and creates a shortcut (selectable) in the Startup menu.

30 March 2003, version 1.0.3

Fixed a few bugs with Mage speciality and Racial enemy in the Characteristics page. Now the value the program will assign the character is the one which came from the character or the one you changed. Thanks to Ann Li for reporting the bug and for her kindness despite the troubles it caused her.
Added a Clear All button to the State flag page which allows to remove all states for the character (this is the "normal" status).
Updated the documentation a bit.
Now comes with a new installer/uninstaller created with NSIS 2.0, as I lost the previous script in a computer crash :-(

25 July 2003, version 1.0.4

Fixed another bug with Mage speciality and Racial enemy in the Characteristics page (one created with version 1.0.3 :-( ). Now the program won't assign an invalid value if the original value was good. This bug didn't seem to cause problem in the game until you tried to import a character into BG2. Thanks to BeckyLunatic for reporting this bug with much details and example.
Updated the documentation to explain how to fix a broken character or saved game (see the Note to Sword Coast Keeper 1.0.3 users section).

4 December 2005, version 1.0.5

Fixed a bug with proficiencies. Proficiencies set down to 0 in the editor kept their original value. Thanks to Noah for reporting this bug.
Updated links (Web site, IESDP) in the about page.
Updated installer to NSIS 2.10 together with cosmetic changes.

26 January 2008, version 1.0.6

Replaced the Max+/Max- buttons in the Memorization tab with an Edit box and Up/Down control to ease entering high values.
Replaced the Mem+/Mem- buttons in the Innate, Priest and Wizard tabs with an Edit box and Up/Down control to ease entering high values. These two modifications were suggested by Chris.
Sword Coast Keeper will now warn to quit the game when it is denied access to the text resources.

The software references the upcoming new e-mail address (changes on the 18th February 2008). See the Bug report below.

Bug report

Please read the Readme.doc file included in the archive before sending a bug report. Also, give some details about the problem you have. Thank you.

Please send any message related to the program to the address in the Contact page

Installation

Just run the installer program. You'll be able to select installation directory and a program group for the Startup menu.

When first run, Sword Coast Keeper will try to locate your Baldur's Gate installation through the registry. If it cannot find it, it will ask for the installation path (the place where the BGMain.exe file is located).

All accompanying files (*.uld) must be left in the same directory as the executable, SwordCoastKeeper.exe. The readme.doc file must also stay in the same directory if you want to open though the program menu.

Download

The program comes as a standalone installer (click here to download, 248 Kb).

Please do not put the program elsewhere for download, make a link to this site instead. Thank you.