Balder's Gate 3: Simplest Ideas first

[KrissyKatx3]

I've seen a lot of discussion about modding BG3 in the month since it's full release. I got to say I worry a lot of the focus is on Overhaul style mods. The game, like bethesda games and the sims, is very much a sandbox engine with a game surrounding it, perfect for modding and Overhauls. However the only fault of Overhauls is BG3 is far more an RPG than those games, where events and NPCs are heavily woven into the system. Overhauls will be a NIGHTMARE of most likely teams working to work on for months that will risk loosing interest. So far it's taken the longest I've seen for a wiki to be built XD That's not suprising though. Anyone who's unlocked "speak with dead" spells can tell you how detailed and intricate this game is.

So. How do we start things off? Build mods that aren't gonna take a year to make? Focus could be on purely aesthetic mods or slight tweaks? But that's all small fry? What makes skyrim so much easier to fuck with is the world there is kinda already dead. There's some responsiveness but not much more than a leg twitching but in BG3 small tweaks can butterfly effect themselves to majory change or break the game later. And BG3 is a smaller map than bethesda games, it's a lot more cramped yet even more detailed.

But, there's gaps. Gaps we can put stuff in, that's the solution. Spaces to hide walls, the doorways that just take you to different areas could have a branching path. You could take the mountain pass to either the usual passage to moonlight tower OR take a detour to some grand stable where a wizard has pony girls in stables and lets you try out the gear and have some fun much to the bemusement of Shadowheart and Lae'zel who might remark 'shame they're too weak to be a pack mule or stead'.

Or take the boat to a drow outpost where slaves are used to birth new driders and the party might even be captured and have to escape. You could have a random corpse on the spider webs in the well poses a tome and some robes, a powerful mage with rituals of binding and a ring that teleports you to her tower, obviously it's trapped with all sorts of deviant devices and can be claimed by the player as a base of opporations and one could unlock a ritual that relocates unconsious NPCs to the tower's dungeon to be used as sex slaves. Or have one of your romantic interests take the leash for the player and torture them.

Perhaps a loviatan cult is built up in Balder's Gate and opporate out of the hidden rooms of a nobels house. Where the player can further their devotion to the Mistress of Pain~



I'm not experienced in modding but I'd love to learn if anyone likes these ideas. I'm also fairly gifted at writing intrequate webs like BG3 so if y'all want help with that stuff I'd love to lend a hand! I think these would work well.x

[Gr34t]

Imo,... we should look to change the "map size" of the "camping area" which seems to aline with the surroundings "in the real world" when you hit "long rest" to switch to your "camping map" this RNG generated map(s) have to take a hand into a source with "pallets" to choose from.

> Why not change or add smt into this Pallets/Source of maps and make it smt TOTALY new,..new areas..huge,..building up houses,...furnitures, Clothes are pretty EASY to get your hands on here in this game BG3.

Heck i can produce ANY Item/Armor/Weapon ID with my CheatEngine Tables.

> Spawn in items, of any sorts.

 

What we realy first need, is:

> Body Slider

> Texture from Clothes & Armor clipping EVEN if sizes changes,..& here is the core problem,...this will realy take some effort to make. Esp. to work with ALL items InGame and over Mods added.

 

After that we can look forward getting our "new land" & making it as we wish, while keeping mainly (not totaly) the core of the game as it is.

> Going for the "camping side" modding,..allows also to ignore all the factors like enemies interactions etc as you mentioned above.

 

Would like to build houses, decore them,..

Shower my Dirty Party People from all the blood and gore in a real shower,..maybe 2 at the same time

There are already at some "Camp Maps" huge lakes/rivers where a pool can be placed close by with an create view over th landscape,.. "swiming" as new animation/feature as well as some Adult ones and neutral ones like "hugging" and kissing more directly and more closly,.

 

So there are my 5 cents to your post.

 

Cheers buddy ❤️

Edited September 8, 2023 by Gr34t

[Grey Cloud]

4 hours ago, KrissyKatx3 said:

 I got to say I worry a lot of the focus is on Overhaul style mods.

It is? Where have you seen this? There are currently approximately 2,000 mods on Nexus but I'm not seeing anything like an overhaul mod. I would guess that until (or if) Larian release sort of editor overhauls will be few and far between.

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Moving to adult gaming

[KrissyKatx3]

1 hour ago, Gr34t said:

What we realy first need, is:

> Body Slider

> Texture from Clothes & Armor clipping EVEN if sizes changes,..& here is the core problem,...this will realy take some effort to make. Esp. to work with ALL items InGame and over Mods added.

I didn't mention body sliders as I have heard they were already being built by someone. Obviously they probably exist in some raw form, but I mean there's already someone working on a method of modifying them.

As for making clothing work mechanically I believe it already does? For one clothes seem to adjust to the admittedly not very diverse body types, but also there's numerous effects such as blindness, movement limits or buffs, silenced, restrained.

It's gonna be interesting to see how we go about adding new content though with how fairly tight BG3 is, there's barely a walk from the owl bear cave to the blighted town, to the goblin outpost and the swamps.

❤️ Thank you though

[KrissyKatx3]

42 minutes ago, CPU said:

Moving to adult gaming

Oops! My bad! thank you! ❤️

 

[chooo]

I just want some nice black leather strappy, dom/sub clothes for Lae'zel, like DD style.

[KrissyKatx3]

1 hour ago, Grey Cloud said:

It is? Where have you seen this? There are currently approximately 2,000 mods on Nexus but I'm not seeing anything like an overhaul mod. I would guess that until (or if) Larian release sort of editor overhauls will be few and far between.

I should clarify I meant in terms of discussion in other forums, I've seen people talking about things like a new SexLab, and devious devices and large frameworks and rebuilding combat around being restrained, and arrousal systems. I think a lot of that would take far longer than it did for The Sims and Skyrim and would be far less necessary in BG3. BG3 has huge potential for modding as a sandbox but it's very much an RPG built in a sandbox

[KrissyKatx3]

8 minutes ago, chooo said:

I just want some nice black leather strappy, dom/sub clothes for Lae'zel, like DD style.

https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/97