Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast

Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast is an expansion pack for the video game Baldur's Gate. Released in 1999, Tales of the Sword Coast adds 20–30 hours worth of content to the Baldur's Gate campaign.

New features

 * Three new major areas, each with their own substantial quest lines.
 * Dozens of new items.
 * Increased experience points cap.
 * Interface improvements, particularly to the inventory screen.

Plot
Travelling to Ulgoth's Beard, a small town with great adventuring possibilities, a party of adventurers consisting of Gorion's Ward and their companions, meet with a mysterious mage called Shandalar who asks them to recover a cloak of his from the Isle of Ice, before forcefully teleporting them to the island. The Ward's party soon find themselves fighting against those who were trapped on the island's dungeon, eventually recovering the cloak and managing to return with it.

Heading to the town's docks, the party encounters Mendas, a strange man who seeks help for an expedition to track down the ship used by Balduran. After returning with a sea chart that had been found by a local guild in Baldur's Gate, the party travel across the Trackless Sea, only for a storm to shipwreck them on an island. Discovering a village of people living there, the Ward's party learn from the village's chief that they suffer from werewolf attacks, to which the party agree to help deal with them, learning that the creatures reside in the wreck of Balduran's ship. Venturing towards it, the group encounter an elven mage residing in a cave, who reveals the truth behind the incident aboard Baldruan's ship, and that the villagers are not what they seem to be.

Defeating what turns out to be wolfweres, the party returns to the village to find that all the villagers were actually werewolves, forcing them to fight through them, including a Loup Garou, in order to escape the island. Returning to Ulgoth's Beard, the group soon learns that Mendas is a werewolf and had sent them out to help him bring back the village chief, his mate, along with the villagers, in order for them to roam free across the Sword Coast. Upon learning of what the Ward did, Mendas transforms into a Loup Garou and attacks the party, but is ultimately defeated.

In the town's inn, the party encounter a dwarf by the name of Hurgan Stoneblade, who asks them to help him recover an item from the dungeons beneath Durlag's Tower called the Soultaker Dagger. Agreeing to help, the party travel to the ruined tower for a guided tour, just as a powerful Demon Knight claims control over the ruins and its dungeon, forcing the party to fight past several creatures while overcoming the traps and puzzles set up by Durlag, eventually defeating the Demon Knight and recovering the Soultaker.

Upon returning to Ulgath's Beard, the group are accosted by a member of a cult, who steals the Soultaker from them. Forced to take it back, the party venture into the cult's hideout, but arrive too late to stop them from summoning demon from the Abyss called Aec' Letec. Bravely fighting it, the party defeat the cult and kill the demon, preventing it from escaping into the rest of the Sword Coast, while ending their final adventure in the town.

Index

 * Characters:
 * Aec'Letec • Durlag Trollkiller • Hurgan Stoneblade


 * Balduran


 * Creatures:
 * Crypt crawlers • Dire wolfs • Doppelgangers • Dread wolfs • Fission slimes • Vampiric wolfs • Werewolfs • Wolfweres • Worgs


 * Locations
 * Durlag's Tower • Sword Coast • Trackless Sea • Ulgoth's Beard


 * Items
 * Balduran's Log Book • Soultaker Dagger


 * Spells
 * chaos • cone of cold • domination • emotion • feeblemind • greater malison • hold monster • Otiluke's resilient sphere • polymorph other • polymorph self • remove curse • spirit armor