Neverwinter Nights 2: Change Existing Character's Head/Hair

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Ecstatic of DragonCoast Community for writing the original character modification guide.

Notes

All players in your game must have your head or hair pack in order to see your character's new head/hair; otherwise, you'll be walking around with a fresh shave or no head on your shoulders.
This was written by someone who games primarily and edits save games only when absolutely necessary. That being said, what help I can offer is extremely limited.

Requirements

• (Optional) Head/Hair pack compatible with your character's race and sex
• Neverwinter Nights 2 save game
• Windows
• TLKEdit, LETO, or GFF Editor

Gathering Data on New Head or Hair

1. In Neverwinter Nights 2, create a dummy character of the same race and sex as your character with the new hair you desire for your character.
2. Once the character is created, ensure you create a save game with a name you can remember.
3. Download and install TLKEdit, LETO, or GFF Editor if you haven't already.
4. Open TLKEdit/LETO/GFF Editor. Navigate to Neverwinter Nights 2 save game directory at %UserProfile%\My Documents\Neverwinter Nights 2\saves (Yes, you can copy and paste this into your Windows Explorer address bar.
5. Open the folder matching the save involving the dummy character. Open player.bic
6. Navigate to and select Appearance_Head or Appearance_Hair, expanding the tree as necessary. A value should appear under Basic Field Data.
7. Copy this data.
8. Close player.bic within TLKEdit/LETO/GFF Editor.

Editing

1. In Windows Explorer, navigate to the save game of your destination character. Create a backup of player.bic.
2. Repeat steps 4-6 of Gathering Data on New Head or Hair on the destination character.
3. Overwrite the existing data in Basic Field Data with that of the desired head/hair.
4. Save and close player.bic.
5. Open playerlist.ifo. Repeat steps 1 through 4 of Editing, replacing player.bic with playerlist.ifo.
6. Open Neverwinter Nights 2 and load the save you just edited to ensure changes have registered as expected.

Troubleshooting

"My character's head/hair hasn't changed!"

• Are you editing and testing the correct save game?
• Did you edit both player.bic and playerlist.ifo?
• The head/hair you want are of the same race and sex as your destination character, yes?

"I want to change the color of my character's hair/eyebrows/beard/skin!"

• This is beyond the scope of this guide. Check out Ecstatic's guide instead, and scroll down to "Cameo Appreance by Talio".