Faerunian Roulette

Overview

Faerûnian Roulette is my April Fools mod, introducing a high-stakes twist to combat. By default, every character in combat has a 1/6 chance to die after their turn. The mod is highly customizable through a JSON configuration file, allowing you to adjust the odds ('chambers'/'bullets'), effects ('trigger effects'), conditions ('pull conditions'), and much more related to the triggering of the "roulette" mechanic. See the Configuration section below to learn how to configure it.

Key Features:

• []Configurable "cylinder size" and "number of bullets" (in other words, denominator and numerator for the odds). Reloaded after running out.

  []Various effects beyond just killing characters (damage, healing, status effects, etc.)

  []Multiple available conditions for "pulling the trigger": turn end, turn start, random timer;

  []Exceptions for bosses and other customizations.

The mod aims to introduce an element of unpredictability and economy tension to combat encounters, while still allowing players to tweak the settings to their desired level of chaos. Unfortunately, some unpredictability within the game event system made the random timer option a bit more chaotic than desired; Faerûnian Roulette isn't as polished as I would have liked, as my focus has shifted to a promising upcoming framework. Nonetheless, I trust any happy accidents align with the spirit of April Fools!

Disclaimer about statuses:

The apply_status feature (disabled by default), which allows statuses to be randomly applied to characters, selects them from nearly all available statuses in the game. It can reveal some heavy spoilers from late-game, some statuses seemingly don't work, but most importantly, it may add potentially problematic statuses to characters, so don't use this feature if you value your save. Unfortunately, it's impossible to predict if a particular status will cause issues later on or if simply removing it with SE will resolve the problem. Please note that I accept no responsibility for any damage to your save file resulting from the use of this feature. It is pretty fun though.

Solving this would require manually filtering through almost 5000 statuses, and I'm not interested in doing that. I only did a minor pass filtering out debug statuses. I'd be happy to update the mod with a curated list of statuses if anyone is unhinged enough to provide it!

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Installation

• Download the .zip file and install using BG3MM.

  Requirements

  - Volition Cabinet

  - BG3 Script Extender (you can easily install it with BG3MM through its Tools tab or by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+T while its window