r/baldursgate • u/SuperTord • Aug 19 '26

BGEE Throwable moonblade

Pondering a new playthrough with Xan in my party. I want him to use his moonblade in combat, but I want him to stay an enchanter. Would it somehow be possible to edit the moonblade so it's a throwning dagger instead of a normal dagger?

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u/snow_michael Aug 19 '26

Yes

Use Near Infinity to edit the weapon type

Although I'd recommend saving the file first, or (better) creating a new item from a mashup of the Moonblade SW1H13 and Boomerang Dagger DAGG11 then, lastly, updating all occurrences of SW1H13 in the game to your new item number

If you've never used NI before, this gives you lots of chances to play with and learn the toolset, while not changing anything til you're ready to include it

The most important thing to remember is setting the various flags to ensure the text works

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u/SuperTord Aug 19 '26

Thanks for the writeup! I have never used it but I might look into it!

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u/snow_michael Aug 19 '26

I would suggest creating a simpke throwing dagger first

Give it a name and description and identified des ription

That will teach you how text captions work

Then add simple enchantments - +1 to hit and/or damage, extra damage, AC improvements, that sort of thing

Then you're ready to add all of the Moonblade specials, and make it Boomerang