[khelos]

I've  really been enjoying both the Bristlelick and Shades of the Sword Coast mods for Baldur's Gate. I've been running it via Gog Galaxy. Unfortunately, things went kaboom when I purchased Siege of the Dragonspear. Gog automatically added it to my Baldur's Gate build and suddenly it wouldn't open anymore, maybe due to the number of different mods I had.

I copied over my save files, uninstalled the game, reinstalled it, and went back and reinstalled the various mods I'd used. Here's where it gets weird for Bristelick. His name has been changed to "I'm really sorry about all this, Pritchard. Uh, there was a—a misunderstanding, that's all. It got out of hand. Unfortunate, but it happens. You might still be able to revive these men if you act quickly." I take it that that's a line of dialogue from Siege of Dragonspear somewhere? His sound when clicked is something along those lines, too. And it looks from NearInfinity like another couple of NPCs I haven't encountered yet have had their names changed similarly.

My last save game from before Bristlelick is dozens of hours back, and when I tested going back to that one, his name and audio were rendered the same way. 

I know I can change his name, but I'm wondering what other issues might be lurking under the hood and if anyone has any suggestions for how to straighten this all out. Uninstalling and reinstalling Bristlelick didn't seem to work either. 

Thanks in advance.

[Lava]

Sadly, that's normal to BG modding. You should never update and/or reinstall game mid-run. Strings (in-game text) numeration changes and you end up with gibberish. 

There is a chance that you may restore Bristle's soundset and name if I added "something is weird with your voice" option among player-initiated dialogues, but other characters will still have wrongly assigned strings. 

Sadly, there may be other problems happening, because state of the world map and areas are also stored in savegsmes and when reinstalling stuff, things can get messed up. 

All of this is also why many mods will tell you to start a new game. Otherwise things may turn into a mix of normal and broken stuff, references and text links. It's just how this engine works, let's remember it is a very old one.

Sorry for being the bearer of bad news, but that's the reason behind that rule...