New Baldur’s Gate 3 class mod gives you an apprentice, lackey, or squire sidekick that shares your turn, because why not have a mini-me to make Shart jealous

There’ve been lots 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 does not occur to be within the base sport, 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 discuss to me or my son ever once more’ kinda deal, and exactlky the sort of factor you like to see from a BG3 modding neighborhood that appears to be going from strength the strength 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 means that you can choose a brand new class that allows you to select one among three kinds of adventuring companions to accompany you in your adventures, every designed to reflect the traditional warrior, mage, and thief fantasy archetypes.

There’s an apprentice, a lackey, or a squire, every of which can combat in the best way 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 provides you referred to as “imprint” to show them into a replica of “one among 120+ creatures on this planet, every with a novel bonus tactic”. So, mainly a licence to steal the souls of oldsters you want, and even the likes of The Emperor and Gortash.

As you stage with this class, you will select an “archetype” on your most important 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 palms with.

“To match the Duo to an present class, you may think about it a way more advanced model of the Beastmaster,” Cheek writes, “Nevertheless, reasonably than summoning an animal companion that grows as you stage up, this summoned creature is humanoid, and way more of your class options are dedicated to growing each this summoned creature and your personal skills and synergy as a pair.

They add that, ranging from stage three, your duo buddy can use techniques, powers “which grant them passives or skills to enhance both themselves, their Adventuring Accomplice, or each without delay”, 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 can be useful for seeing extra dialogue choices, resulting from including their very own set specialties to your present ability test pool, they cannot truly discuss or have their stock accessed like a correct companion. Nevertheless, the modder has gotten round this a bit by making certain their stock is accessible in camp, and that “you may ‘loot’ them as if they have been a container whereas on this planet”, which sounds fairly humorous. There’s additionally a useful spell referred to as Switch Tools that’ll will let you swap your gear 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 thought of preserving as many our bodies as attainable between us and the large mind that is attempting to do us in.