Sapient StarStuff

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Sapient Starstuff's Mods

Here's a complete list of my mods

Stackable Elixirs

This mod allows you to use multiple elixirs at the same time. They are also bottomless, so you can use them as many times as you want.

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Infinite Throwables

Unlimited bombs! Whenever you throw a throwable a new one magically appears in your inventory. Complete list of supported items on my original post (linked below) and the mod.io page (linked above).

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Pixie Blessing

Get the Pixie Blessing to protect you in from the Shadow-Curse, no DollyDollyDolly required.

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Shapeshift

Potions of Disguise Self and Wild Shape, with as bonus Intellect Devourer & Cheese Wheel!

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Enhanced Coatings

Coating now coat both your weapon slots, are not consumed when you use them, and last until long rest.

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Cleaning Towels

Set dressing towels can clean things up.  That's the whole mod.

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Illithid Awakened - Potion & Toggle

Use your illithid powers as bonus actions by becoming Awakened. Toggle them back to regular actions at need.

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[renthony]

I just finished Shadowheart's questline for the first time. I already liked to headcanon Shadowheart as trans, but after both the cutscene where Nocturne says she figured out her identity after being inspired by Shadowheart, and the cutscene where Shadowheart talks to her parents about her name and how she'll be their daughter if they still want her??? A trans interpretation writes itself.

Trans girl Jenevelle who came out young to supportive parents. Trans woman Shadowheart who managed to physically transition during her time in the cloister with Nocturne, but later couldn't remember it due to Viconia's mind-wiping. Trans woman Shadowheart rediscovering gender euphoria alongside her family, heritage, and independence.

Trans woman Shadowheart!!!!!!!

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Depending on the choices you make in that scene, her parents can end up in your camp. If you talk to her father he stumbles over her name and apologizes, showing full support. If you ask him how he feels about the name change he basically says that letting something like that be an issue between you and your child is the stupidest thing ever.

They definitely meant her to be a trans allegory at the very least. And actually having her be trans is not really a leap.

[moghedien]

So outside the gods relevant to the main storylines (the dead three, Selune, Shar, etc.) are there other gods that can make their presence known in BG3?

Because the only one I’m aware that sometimes does is Lolth

I’m not talking like indirect cleric magic stuff, there’s at least two instances where Lolth can directly known. One is if you fail a check to try to get some spiders to obey you by convincing them you are Lolth (she isn’t happy you did that) and the other is if you’re a Lolthsworn drow and take the sword associated with Eilistraee (she doesn’t like that).

Are there any instances like this other gods in the game or is it just Lolth watching and getting pissed off at your choices

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Umberlee, the Bitch Queen, will tell you off and get some Sahuagin to attack you if you get under the Water Queen's House and rob her.

I think Tyr warns you that the paladins after Karlach are lying.

Abdirak claims that the blessing he gives you is because you pleased Loviatar, rather than him deciding to use his cleric powers to bless you.

If you turn against the Grove, the area the druids were in becomes filled with poison clouds, which may be the work of Silvanus.

The last two aren't very strong cases, I know. But the Bitch Queen and the Blind God do act directly, if you follow the correct path.

[alstromeri-a]

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Upgradable Starting Equipment - Upgrade Your Armour, Keep Your Aesthetic

This mod lets your companions (or you if you're doing an origin run) keep their starting outfit even when you upgrade their equipment.

The base mod covers companions with fully personalized armour. The class expansion covers Gale and Wyll, who have their starting class equipment.

How It Works

A box with all the patterns and a pair of Separating Shears is in the tutorial chest.  Origins and companions also have the pattern for their starting equipment in their starting inventory.

Combining this pattern with a piece of equipment will give you the appearance of the visual base and (most of) the properties of that equipment.  The names and descriptions are the same, even when the description talks about its appearance (there is one little easter egg I put in).

Companion Mod

The Companion Mod has most of the companions. Astartion, Jaheira, Karlach, Minsc, and Shadowheart's patterns are all very simply the equipment they start with.

Lae’zel and Minthara’s patterns are expanded.  Lae’zel’s pattern (the Githyanki Set) has the Circlet of Psionic Revenge and the Hr’a’cknir Bracers.  Because the bracers are coloured to match the Psionic Ward Armour the set comes with two reusable dyes so you can have a uniform colour scheme.  Minthara’s (the Drow Commander Set) switches out her starting boots for the boots that were clearly designed to match the rest of her outfit but were ultimately unused.  The Boots of Striding are a separate pattern, which she also has.

Halsin’s armour is a bit weird.  The armour he has in the unmodded game had the same appearance as the default druid armour for every body type except his.  Some of the other body types have the files for his but not all of them.  So the armour this mod produces will look like Halsin’s armour on ‘human’ body types 1, 2, & 4; gnome body type 2, and dragonborn body type 2.  (Human covers human, elf, drow, half-elf, and tiefling in this context.)  On everyone else it will look like the default druid armour.  His pattern does not include the Grovetender Boots.  You can get those in the Class mod, as they are just the starting druid boots.

Class Mod Expansion

THIS EXPANSION IS INCOMPLETE.

This will add all the starting classes and subclasses, eventually.

BUT FOR RIGHT NOW it has Warlock, Wizard and Druid.  The Wizard pattern comes with a dye to match Gale's starting robe.  Druid is here in case you want Halsin to have the druid boots.

I'm publishing this one incomplete because I want to release all the companion gear at the same time.

Future Expansions

I do plan to make more expansions, after I finish the class one. Have a request? Send if to me in my ask box. I'd love to know what people are interested in.

[nichtmax]

LICHT

[ly0nstea]

Its so funny to me how every companion in bg3 has very human and realistic flaws as people which are caused by how the world treated them...

Except Gale who's major flaw was that he was banging a goddess and thought to himself 'I can do better'

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Yeah, I enjoy that both Astarion and Gale find ways to ascend to have the power of a god and Astarion's motivation is being safe forever and never having to fear anything ever again versus Gale, whose motivation is hubris and wanted to get back at his ex-girlfriend/goddess.

[xxbroken-butterflyxx]

[sun-dari]

literally every character who's been mind controlled and made to do terrible things feels awful and has trouble accepting that it wasn't their fault, meanwhile minthara baldursgate is like remorse is for losers and i didn't do anything wrong in my entire life ever

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"no, mind control, i can't be held responsible."

Girl, I saw into your mind, you enjoyed the bloodshed so much. You just didn't like the mind control or the people who had authority over you. Or Orin, which is valid, given what she's done to you.

[valviiche]

i only pray that i have shown you a brighter day

because that's all that i am living for

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Potion of Speak with Dead

This potion permanently gives you the ‘Recast Speak with Dead’ condition, allowing you to spot and talk to corpses with something to say.

It does work with SwissFred57’s Speak With Dead Unlimited and Select Your Statuses mods.  I haven’t tested it with any other mods that affect Speak With Dead.

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[bananiii-0]

[jiabisu]

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Illithid Awakened - Potion & Toggle

Have you ever been in a fight and wished you could Stage Fright as a bonus action?  Have you ever had the Awakened condition and wanted to drink a potion and Repulsor?  This mod is for you!

This makes Awakened, the buff that makes Illithid Powers a bonus action instead of an action, toggleable.  It also comes with a potion that gives you the passive, instead of having to get it from the Zaith’isk.  The potion can be looted off Priestess Gut, Minthara, or Dror Ragzlin, and can be found in the chest next to Minthara as well as Dror Ragzlin’s treasure room.

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Cleaning Towels

Sometimes I make exciting mods that do really cool things. Sometimes I make mods that provide great quality of life boosts.

But other times I say to myself "What if the set dressing towels could clean up water and blood?"

Sidenote, I happened to test this during a run where I was a barbarian so I was running around feeling like the most fastidious barbarian in all the Realms as I picked up and used every rag and towel I could find.

Apologies my dear cleric, I seem to have gotten blood all over the floor of your room while saving your life. Please, allow me to take care of that.

Towels, rags, and linens can all be used to clean up anything that Destroy Water would get rid of. Finally you can clean up all that blood you spill on the streets Baldur's Gate without burning Shadowheart's spell slots. Or is that just me...?

If you are feeling especially enthusiastic about cleaning messes and you want to clean up things that Create Water would fix, you can always get my Infinite Throwables mod so you can throw bottles and barrels of water to your heart's content... and then clean it up with a towel.

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[minui8]

Here's some magical Bloodweave for you guys 🫶

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Enhanced Coatings

Coat all your weapons! As many times as you want! Until it is time to lay down your weary head.

Coating apply to both your melee and ranged weapons. Coating last until long rest and are not consumed when used. And I included a clean cloth, incase you're in a situation where you don't want your weapon to still be poisonous.

Also included is a pouch that will hold all your coatings (and your cleaning cloth). There are four in the tutorial chest and more can be bought from Arron and Grat in Act 1, Talli and Lann Tarv in Act 2, and Popper and Helsik in Act 3.

This mod only works with preexisting coatings, no custom coatings from other mods.

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