There’ve been a whole lot 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 customary that simply would not occur to be within the base sport, or one thing that comes from the completely weird cauldron of your individual 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 form of factor you like to see from a BG3 modding group that appears to be going from energy the energy greater than ever since Patch 7 dropped all over the place.
Anyway, this new mod is ‘The Duo Class’ by modder Cheek, who additionally goes by the deal with Acorntail. Their creation lets you choose a brand new class that allows you to select one in every of 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 battle in the best way you’d count on given their names, share your flip in fight, and tackle the looks of your character’s Dream Guardian, until you employ a means the mod offers you referred to as “imprint” to show them into a replica of “one in every of 120+ creatures on the planet, every with a novel bonus tactic”. So, principally a licence to steal the souls of parents you want, and even the likes of The Emperor and Gortash.
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As you stage 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. You realize, ranged mage flanked by a useful 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 arms with.
“To match the Duo to an present class, you may think about it a way more advanced model of the Beastmaster,” Cheek writes, “Nonetheless, somewhat than summoning an animal companion that grows as you stage up, this summoned creature is humanoid, and far more of your class options are dedicated to growing each this summoned creature and your individual skills and synergy as a pair.
They add that, ranging from stage three, your duo buddy can use ways, 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 stage, until one thing modifications this whole”.
Whereas your buddy might be useful for seeing extra dialogue choices, as a consequence of including their very own set specialties to your present ability examine pool, they cannot really speak or have their stock accessed like a correct companion. Nonetheless, the modder has gotten round this a bit by guaranteeing their stock is out there in camp, and that “you may ‘loot’ them as if they have been a container whereas on the planet”, which sounds fairly humorous. There’s additionally a useful spell referred to as Switch Tools that’ll permit you to swap your tools with theirs, in case you get jelly of the brand new sword they’ve picked up.
All in all, a reasonably interesting-looking mod, particularly for us cowards who like the thought of holding as many our bodies as potential between us and the enormous mind that is attempting to do us in.
