* While all the BaldursGate games contain grim elements, the ratio of comedy to tragedy decreases with each successive game. The first game had a Belt of Gender-Changing, an repeatedly-exploding ogre, talking chickens, comically-depressed elves, and Minsc. Most of the humor in ''Shadows of Amn'' comes from the dialogue of either Minsc or Jan Jansen. It also upped the whump-factor with such events as [[spoiler: Irenicus' physical and pyschological torture of Imoen, the torture and implied vivisection of Khalid, and the player-character's Bhaal-spawn nature breaking free]]. Most the NPCs you can add to your party come with tragedy pre-installed ([[spoiler: Aerie, Valygar]]) or pick some up in-game ([[spoiler: Minsc, Jaheira, Jan Jansen, Yoshimo, Imoen]]). In the expansion-and-series-resolution, nearly the only moment of comedy is an imp artificer implying that he gets his recipes from denzien of Hell, Martha Stewart.
** A fan-mod was specifically written to address the change in tone between the first and second games with the tagline "When did we stop having fun?"

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