There’ve been a variety of cool customized class mods launched for Baldur’s Gate 3 because it got here out, regardless of whether or not you need one thing fairly normal that simply does not occur to be within the base recreation, or one thing that comes from the totally weird cauldron of your personal DnD exploits. One of many newest to reach is defintely on the weirder aspect – permitting you to play as a duo by bringing alongside an understudy who shares your flip.
Yep, it is a ‘do not speak to me or my son ever once more’ kinda deal, and exactlky the type of factor you like to see from a BG3 modding neighborhood that appears to be going from power the power greater than ever since Patch 7 dropped in all places.
Anyway, this new mod is ‘The Duo Class‘ by modder Cheek, who additionally goes by the deal with Acorntail. Their creation means that you can decide a brand new class that permits you to select one in all three kinds of adventuring companions to accompany you in your adventures, every designed to reflect the basic warrior, mage, and thief fantasy archetypes.
There’s an apprentice, a lackey, or a squire, every of which can combat in the way in which you’d anticipate given their names, share your flip in fight, and tackle the looks of your character’s Dream Guardian, until you employ a capacity the mod offers you known as “imprint” to show them into a replica of “one in all 120+ creatures on this planet, every with a singular bonus tactic”. So, principally a licence to steal the souls of oldsters you want, and even the likes of The Emperor and Gortash.
As you degree with this class, you may select an “archetype” to your major character – the Knight, Ringleader and Spellslinger – all of which include skills mirroring these of their mini-me, or which can be utilized to create a one-two punch with completely different strengths. , ranged mage flanked by a helpful warrior, or closely armoured knight with a sneaky buddy to do all of the dodgy stuff they’d not need to soiled their very own fingers with.
“To match the Duo to an present class, you may think about it a way more complicated model of the Beastmaster,” Cheek writes, “Nevertheless, reasonably than summoning an animal companion that grows as you degree up, this summoned creature is humanoid, and way more of your class options are dedicated to creating each this summoned creature and your personal skills and synergy as a pair.
They add that, ranging from degree three, your duo buddy can use techniques, powers “which grant them passives or skills to enhance both themselves, their Adventuring Companion, or each directly”, and work like tyical BG3 skills or spells. A few of these “are fuelled by Tactic Factors, of which a Duo has a quantity equal to their Duo degree, until one thing adjustments this complete”.
Whereas your buddy will likely be helpful for seeing extra dialogue choices, attributable to including their very own set specialties to your present talent examine pool, they can not really speak or have their stock accessed like a correct companion. Nevertheless, the modder has gotten round this a bit by guaranteeing their stock is offered in camp, and that “you may ‘loot’ them as if they had been a container whereas on this planet”, which sounds fairly humorous. There’s additionally a helpful spell known as Switch Tools that’ll will let you swap your tools with theirs, in case you get jelly of the brand new sword they’ve picked up.
All in all, a fairly interesting-looking mod, particularly for us cowards who like the concept of conserving as many our bodies as attainable between us and the enormous mind that is making an attempt to do us in.