pawnlib

A pawn archive mod for Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen.

Every time you rest at an inn, pawnlib saves a copy of your main pawn to

disk. Later, you can hire any of those saved pawns from the rift, just

like a regular online pawn. If you change their gear or gain enemy /

quest / location knowledge while they are in your party, the changes are

written back to the saved copy when you save the game.

A separate command-line tool, restore_pawn.exe, can promote any saved

pawn into your own main pawn slot - skills, gear, vocation, knowledge,

inclinations, AND visible appearance (face, body, hair, colors, name,

voice, moniker).

- Auto-saves your main pawn on every inn rest.

- Lets you re-hire any saved pawn from the rift, sorted newest first.

- Updates a saved pawn's gear, knowledge flags, AND progression

counters (kill counts, encounter time, unique-event counters) when

you save the game - so a hired pawn keeps accumulating progress

toward knowledge unlocks across multiple hires.

- Restore tool to swap any saved pawn into your main pawn slot,

covering both the live save and the death/respawn checkpoint copy.

- Works fully offline; pawnlib does not change your participation in

the live rift - other players can still hire your pawn as normal.

REQUIREMENTS

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- Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen on PC (Steam version). Linux + Proton

- dinput8 - allows loading of external dll's into the game.

https://www.nexusmods.com/dragonsdogma/mods/96

- An active Steam login. pawnlib uses your real Steam session; you

do not need any emulator or workaround.

INSTALLATION

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1. Install dinput8 first. Its dinput8.dll and dinput8.ini should sit

next to DDDA.exe in your game folder.

2. Download the latest pawnlib release archive.

3. Extract its contents into the same folder where dinput8.dll

lives. You should end up with these new files next to DDDA.exe:

dinput8.dll

dinput8.ini

pawnlib.dll

pawnlib.ini

restore_pawn.exe

4. Open dinput8.ini in a text editor. Under the section, add

or change this line:

loadLibrary = pawnlib.dll

5. Launch the game. On first run a pawnlib.log file appears next to

DDDA.exe so you can confirm the mod loaded.

6. Rest at an inn. A new folder named pawnlib will be created next

to DDDA.exe; that is where your saved pawns live.

That's it. From then on, every inn rest adds another saved pawn, and

the rift's "Search by level" list shows your saved pawns instead of