SummonInitiative

● Description

Summon Initiative Sync makes summoned creatures act on the same turn as the player who summoned them. When you summon a familiar, elemental, undead,  weapon, mage hand, or any other creature, it joins your initiative slot in combat instead of rolling its own. No more babysitting a Flaming Sphere

that decided to act eight turns after you cast it.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            The mod only affects summons owned by player-controlled characters. Enemy summons are untouched — they still roll their own initiative as normal.                                                                                                                                                            Installation instructions

1. Install Norbyte's Script Extender (required — this mod is pure Lua and will not function without it).

2. Drop SummonInitiative.pak into %LOCALAPPDATA%\Larian Studios\Baldur's Gate 3\Mods\.

3. Enable the mod in BG3 Mod Manager (recommended) or add the ModuleShortDesc entry to modsettings.lsx manually.

4. Launch the game. The mod activates automatically on any save once you load in.

Safe to add to existing saves. Safe to remove — it doesn't persist anything to your save file.

Main features

- Player summons share a turn slot with their summoner via combat group sync, so you and your summon act back-to-back as one turn.

- Initiative is also copied so the slot lands in the correct place in the turn order.

- Works at combat start (existing summons), when a new summon joins combat, and on every round (catch-all for late arrivals).

- Player-controlled only — enemy summons, NPC allies, and hostile conjurations behave normally.

- Server-side only. In multiplayer, only the host needs the mod installed.

- Zero configuration. No menu, no hotkeys, no save data.

Requirements

- Baldur's Gate 3, Patch 8 or later.

- Norbyte's Script Extender (BG3SE) v30 or later. Install instructions: https://github.com/Norbyte/bg3se

- A mod manager is strongly recommended (BG3 Mod Manager on Nexus) to handle load order and modsettings.lsx automatically.

No other mod dependencies. Compatible with anything that doesn't directly rewrite the combat turn manager.

- Norbyte for the Script Extender, without which none of this is possible.

- LaughingLeader for the generated Osiris event/query reference that made API discovery painless.

- PerplexedPeach for the public IDE helper definitions of the SE component types.

- The BG3 Modding Community Discord and Wiki contributors for do