D&D 5E There is a wicked Artificer Class Mod for BG3!!!

[Scribe]

Maybe the golden handshake where they buy the mod from them.

More likely a potential mention in patch notes lol.

 

[Divine2021]

I’m going to highly doubt that, but who knows. If it is cheaper to buy out a good mod than make your own, then why not? But if they plan to sell expansions or an enhanced edition, then I can see it easily being pulled down.

 

[Scribe]

Wait there is more, just released today is the Races of the Multiverse mod that adds 54 new races (+some subraces).

From Aasimar to Shifters to Veldken, to Changeling to Hexbloods to 2024 Goliaths, etc...

Fantastical Multiverse

A compendium of species & lineages from just about every D&D sourcebook! Critical Role, Grim Hollow, and other 3rd Party homebrew sources can also be found among the fantastical species. Curre

www.nexusmods.com

Eh, I will probably curate my mod list pretty hard, I didnt see an autognome yet, I may try and put that together.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Maybe the golden handshake where they buy the mod from them.

They have no reason to - it's perfectly easy for Larian to make it themselves. BG3 is easy moddable, you only buy talent if they achieve something difficult. It's easy to add millions of subclasses and races to BG3, but it's also meaningless. The reason for BG3's success is down to it's reactivity to player decisions, and adding that just requires an awful lot of hard work.

Take githzeri. In terms of mechanics I could mod those into the game in a couple of minutes. But there are vast chunks of the story that should go differently if a githzeri was involved. And doing that would take months - years if doing it on my own.

As for the legal side, the IP belongs to WotC, not Larian, it would be up to them to react to modders using their source material. Or Blizzard in the case of Death Knights.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

They have no reason to - it's perfectly easy for Larian to make it themselves. BG3 is easy moddable, you only buy talent if they achieve something difficult. It's easy to add millions of subclasses and races to BG3, but it's also meaningless. The reason for BG3's success is down to it's reactivity to player decisions, and adding that just requires an awful lot of hard work.

Take githzeri. In terms of mechanics I could mod those into the game in a couple of minutes. But there are vast chunks of the story that should go differently if a githzeri was involved. And doing that would take months - years if doing it on my own.

As for the legal side, the IP belongs to WotC, not Larian, it would be up to them to react to modders using their source material. Or Blizzard in the case of Death Knights.

Some work, each new race doesn't have to have the same level of reactivity as the old ones.

Larian has the licence to whatever they want to use so WotC is not going to get in Larians way.

BTW for DOS2's port to consoles because they can do mods like PCs, Larian took the most popular mods on PC and turned them into free bundles for Console players, basically made them into a free DLC for console players so their is presendience for this sort of thing.

And given the massive money Larian has made from BG3 they may very well take the mods and add reactivity to them, they have the writers and voice actors to do so. It'd be no worse then what they are already doing in patches to make players happy. Even 10 lines per race plus metatag lines that can be used for multiple races. 20 lines for Artificer, mostly with Gorstash and Blacksmith perhaps.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Larian has the licence to whatever they want to use so WotC is not going to get in Larians way.

Just to be clear, AFAIK, neither Larian nor WotC have never made any claim of that sort.

Is this our old friend?

Despite that, it does seem unlikely WotC, given their recent statements, would attempt to block Larian adding anything that's basically in-line with official material in general terms. If Larian added something 3PP (especially if not Critical Role), I suspect WotC might get pretty upset.

And given the massive money Larian has made from BG3 they may very well take the mods and add reactivity to them

I guarantee you this will not happen because it would be legally extremely fraught.

Some work, each new race doesn't have to have the same level of reactivity as the old ones.

I doubt Larian feel that way.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Just to be clear, AFAIK, neither Larian nor WotC have never made any claim of that sort.

Is this our old friend?

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Despite that, it does seem unlikely WotC, given their recent statements, would attempt to block Larian adding anything that's basically in-line with official material in general terms. If Larian added something 3PP (especially if not Critical Role), I suspect WotC might get pretty upset.


I guarantee you this will not happen because it would be legally extremely fraught.


I doubt Larian feel that way.

Larian has done this before with DOS2, they took the most popular PC mods and turned them into a free DLC bundle for consoles.

They may choose to cut the none WotC races from the mod like FF races, Grim Hollow Races, and D&S races from it, and replace them with races from other mods like the Satyr and Skeleton races, keeping it to just D&D/MtG races & monsters.

 

[Scribe]

Larian has done this before with DOS2, they took the most popular PC mods and turned them into a free DLC bundle for consoles.

They may choose to cut the none WotC races from the mod like FF races, Grim Hollow Races, and D&S races from it, and replace them with races from other mods like the Satyr and Skeleton races, keeping it to just D&D/MtG races & monsters.

DOS2 is Larian IP, they can do whatever they want.

There's a much more complicated scenario when its Wizards IP.

 

[Scribe]

Anyway, what I would love to see out of the Mods.

More of the official Subclasses.
The UA Goliath, with Models.
Eladrin, Astral Elves, Autognomes, well actually I would have to go and pull together list of species from my setting.
Artificer
Psion
Warlord

 

[Henadic Theologian]

DOS2 is Larian IP, they can do whatever they want.

There's a much more complicated scenario when its Wizards IP.

Okay I looked into it, DOS2 gift bags were based on the most popular DOS2 mods, but made by Larian, except Giftbag 5 which was outsourced to another company, which is also an option Larian might concider, like if WotC wants say their own Toque Studios to do some DLC Expansion content, Larian might be open to that.

Still given there were tags for an absolute ton of races, including Warforged early on during EA, it's clear Larian licence covers all D&D races at least, except CR and AI book races, although they could make a side deal to licence their races too.