Baldur's Gate is a series of RPG games developed by Bioware. The original game, Baldur's Gate (released in 1998), sold in excess of 4 million copies and was given an impressive number of awards (including Game of the Year). Without giving away the plot of the game, suffice it to say that the tasks you are presented with are grand in proportion. Shortly thereafter an expansion pack (Tales of the Sword Coast, or ToSC) was released.

Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn (BG2) was released in 2000 and took up where BG1 and ToSC let off. This time our intrepid adventurer has wound up in Amn, and an even greater adventure unfolds. This game, also, won a huge number of awards, including Game of the Year. An expansion pack, Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal (ToB) was released in 2001, which finally finished up the entire Baldur's Gate saga.

All-in-all, the Baldur's Gate saga chronicles the epic life of your character as he battles from a very low-level in BG1 to obscenely powerful in ToB. Whereas most games of this nature can typically be completed in a couple dozen hours of gameplay, BG1 alone offers five CDs and over a hundred hours of gameplay. Needless to say, this is one of the greatest (if not the greatest) AD&D-based game ever made for a computer. As such, despite its mostly linear nature, there is a great deal of replay value associated with it, as well as a large user following.

As a direct result of a forum dedicated to Baldur's Gate, the following guides, FAQs and lists have been compiled for the good of the Baldur's Gate community in general. Unfortuanetly an excellent forum and walkthrough resource site is gone. However, we've moved a good core of the forum to clankiller.com. You can access those forums at http://forums.clankiller.com.