Heart Of The Forest - Playable Dryad Race

Who are you...?

Though most dryads prefer to stick close to their bonded tree, you have always felt the call of adventure. With a magical acorn in tow, you’ve made your way to Baldur’s Gate—and this is where your story begins.

This mod adds a new playable race with four subraces, four bodytypes, new race progressions, a unique acorn mechanic, immersive character tags, guardians, CC options, and more. This mod overwrites the “Wood Elf” tag with the “Dryad” tag--see “Known Issues and Quirks” for more details.

Racial Progressions

The Dryad racial progressions are inspired by the vanilla game Dryad summon, and are based around harnessing the power of nature to great effect. As your dryad levels up, they will be able to mimic barkskin, resist magical effects, summon other dryads to their aid, and more. The race is intended to be quite strong, and it’s recommended to use mods that increase the difficulty of the game if you prefer a greater challenge.

Wiki links for the vanilla abilities/passives:

https://bg3.wiki/wiki/Darkvision

https://bg3.wiki/wiki/Fey_Ancestry

https://bg3.wiki/wiki/Barkskin

https://bg3.wiki/wiki/Permanently_Armed

https://bg3.wiki/wiki/Fallen_Lover

https://bg3.wiki/wiki/Magic_Resistance

https://bg3.wiki/wiki/Conjure_Woodland_Being

https://bg3.wiki/wiki/Nature%27s_Step

https://bg3.wiki/wiki/Grasp_of_the_Forest

Customization Options

A dryad’s appearance may change along with the season or environment from which they come. Thus, this mod adds four subraces, each themed after a certain season. Each subrace comes with its own unique appearance options and its own starting cantrip.

• []Spring Dryad - Entangle (Dryad ver.)

  []Summer Dryad - Fire Bolt

  []Autumn Dryad - Shocking Grasp

  []Winter Dryad - Ray of Frost

  The mod comes with custom leafy underwear that is equipped on dryads by default. The underwear has a different design for each subrace, in keeping with how leaves might appear during that season.

  Currently, elf and half-elf heads are available for dryads, as well as one custom dryad head. The custom dryad head supports maturity slider, while the other heads do not. However, they all support scarring, tattoos, freckles, and vitiligo.

  Want extra heads? Check out Love test Dryad head for all, with five variants!

  The mod also comes with two hairstyles, “Medusa's Locks”, which is a mashup variation of the “Dryad” and “Gorgon” vanilla hairstyles, and "Braids of Stheno", which is a mashup variation of the "Bruenor Braids" and "Portrait Model" vanilla hairstyles.