Sandi's Races and Personalities

Sandi's Races and Personalities

Personalities

BG3 blurs together the concept of backgrounds, with "personalities" i.e. inspiration sources. For example, Wyll's background should be Noble, but instead he has the Folk Hero background based on his personality.

This mod renames "Backgrounds" to "Personalities" to put the focus on the character personality and inspiration sources. Each personality gets to choose 1 Skill proficiency instead of 2, from a list of 4 skills related to the personality. The other skill has been moved to the Races.

Origin characters have been assigned a skill from the list that suits their personality. The Dark Urge background "Haunted One" grants no skills (I can't make this selectable, and simply not being granted a skill seemed the most fitting option here for the haunted Dark Urge).

Races

Each race grants 1 skill proficiency choosable from a list related to the race. Humans gets 2 skills, and can pick from the full list for both.

Small Races: Halflings and Gnomes gain the Small feature, which gives -2 strength, -1 constitution, +1 AC, +2 Stealth.

Hated races: Githyanki, Duegar and Drow gain a "hated" feature that explains that there is animosity around these races, that will alter gameplay experience. This is only to provide information, it has no extra effect.

Humans: Proficiency with Light Armour, Shields and Glaives removed. Has proficiency with Spears, Halberds and Handaxes. Increased carrying capacity removed.

Shield Dwarf: Gains Dwarven Fortitude: +20% carrying capacity. Gains Dwarven Determination: reroll 1s on damage rolls for unarmed, throwing and melee weapon attacks.

Duergar: Can now use Reduce as well as Enlarge at level 3. Invisibility at level 5 is now once per long rest, instead of unlimited use out of combat, and once per combat.

Dragonborn: Fixes to the descriptions of a couple of breath attacks to correctly state the shape of the attack.