Alternate Fighter

Description

This mod adapts LaserLlama's Alternate Fighter homebrew class to Baldur's Gate 3. This homebrew takes the idea of the Battle Master subclass' maneuvers and uses it as the template for the base Fighter class, in the form of Exploits. It contains the base Fighter class and four subclasses: the Champion, the Arcane Knight, the Marksman, and the Master at Arms. It includes 13 new or altered Fighting Styles and 40+ Exploits. The best way to get an idea of how the class works is probably to read LaserLlama's original homebrew. Many features/abilities are changed in subtle and sometimes not-so-subtle ways in order to accomodate the limitations of the game engine (see the lists below).

INSTALLATION

Make sure you have all the requirements: BG3SE, ImprovedUI + the ImprovedUI Assets optional file, and BuLib. Make sure that BuLib is higher in your load order (i.e. loads before) than this mod.

I strongly recommend using BG3ModManager

If you are already a Fighter, you need to respec with Withers to see the changes from this mod.

COMPATIBILITY

Incompatible with any other mod that changes the base Fighter class. Mods that change Fighter subclasses probably won't crash the game, but they won't do anything.

This mod uses the Battle Master's Superiority Dice for the Exploit Dice. It might be incompatible with other mods that modify this resource, though the most likely result of this is merely a wrong description (unless the other mod changes things like when Superiority Dice recharge, then the last mod in the load order will "win").

Some compatibility with level 13+ mods. You MUST multiclass beyond level 12.

The Arcane Knight will have its spell lists updated with spells from the 5e Spells mod, if it is present. 5e Spells should be ABOVE BU_LaserllamaFighter in your load order.

I will not add compatibility for other spell mods, however I have provided a ScriptExtender function to allow others to make compatibility patches if they wish. To use it, a mod can put the following call(s) in its BootstrapClient.lua file: Mods. BU_LL_Fighter. RegisterArcaneKnightSpell(<modName>,<spellId>,<spellLevel>), where <modName> is a readable name identifying your mod (for logging clarity in case of conflicts), <spellId> is the name of the spell in the stats (e.g. "Projectile_MagicMissile"), and <spellLevel> is either 0 (cantrip), 1 or 2. Your submod should be below this mod load order (and also below the spell mod in question, if you are making a compatibility patch for a different spell mod). If you don't understand what any of this means, there are other places where you can learn to make script extender mods.

Content

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