Baldur's Gate 3 is absolutely packed with content thanks to the hard work being done by the team at Larian Studios. From items, weapons, dialogue options, races, classes, and so much more, the game is likely to be a great purchase for any CRPG enjoyer. Yet despite all of that, you're craving something more.
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Maybe you've been playing since Early Access, and have played through the campaign every time an update came out. Maybe you're planning for the future and doing a little window shopping. Whatever your situation might be, this mod list will set you off towards the right direction.
Updated on September 8, 2023 by Jack Pierik: You can always count on the creativity and dedication of modders to introduce fresh, fun content for everyone to enjoy. Since enough time has passed, there are a few notable mods that have popped up on Nexus Mods recently. From cramming in as many party members as possible in both singleplayer and multiplayer co-op, to quality-of-life improvements and an entire new playable species added to the game, there's a lot to be excited about. Read on to see if anything catches your eye and allows you to breathe some life into your next playthrough.
13 Party Limit Begone
Have you ever stopped in your tracks at some point during a playthrough and thought, why did Larian Studios limit the party size to only four members? Why not five, or six, or eight? If your answer was yes, then Party Limit Begone by SildurFX is the sledgehammer you need to break the chains of limitation.
If you're playing on your own, this mod will let you have up to 15 other party members, giving you a max party size of 16 members including yourself. If you fancy playing with friends, you can have up to eight multiplayer connections playing at once. Now that's a real war party.
12 NPCs Don't Run From Summons and Druid Forms
Surely it's happened to you at least once; you waltzed into some safe area as an Owlbear, or you have your trusty reanimated skeletal archer following close behind, and suddenly every NPC around you is running around like a chicken without a head.
If you're tired of needlessly losing your wild shape or spell slots, and want to save some time in the long run, NPCs Don't Run From Summons and Druid Forms by pwybman is the quality of life mod you've been longing for.
11 Wine And Revelry
Maybe the base species just weren't calling out to you. Sure, Dwarves and Dragonborn are cool, and you can't beat the infamy of Drow, but still, there's just... something missing. If you're caught in this exact conundrum, perhaps Wine and Revelry by labotor can help.
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With this mod, you can play as entirely new species: a Satyr. Hairy legs, hooves, and horns aren't the only things you get, though. Given that you're basically half person, half magical goat, you'll be afforded inherent bonuses to movement speed, jump distance, and magical resistance. Oh, and best of all, you get to ram people as a combat action.
10 Customizer's Compendium 8th Edition
Created by AlanaSP, Customizer's Compendium is all about helping you achieve the perfect look for your character. It completely overhauls the game's character customization system, meaning you'll gain access to heaps of new options, giving you a reason to start over again.
There's everything from simple expansions to the available eye and hair colors, to completely new hairstyles, and if applicable, horns and ears that come in different shapes and sizes. Some say the best way to learn is by doing, so why not give it a try for yourself?
9 Bless And Bane - Manual Targeting
Created by Maximuuus1, Bless and Bane allows more fine-tuned control of the game's spell targeting system. Normally, characters closest to the caster are automatically prioritized as targets, but with this mod, you'll be able to manually choose the most appropriate targets yourself.
While the game's automatic targeting likely isn't that big of a deal most of the time, if you're playing on particularly difficult settings, this mod will help you squeeze out just a little bit more of an advantage for the fights that matter.
8 Choose Your Stats
Created by lostsoulman, Choose Your Stats is a pretty straightforward, but no less useful mod for altering a variety of your character's stats. Once installed, you can drink a potion to change your Armor Class, base stats, speed, and more.
Whether you're quite familiar with Dungeons & Dragons and the Baldur's Gate series, or you're completely new to all of this, there's no shame in admitting to those times when the species or class you chose, or the stat point you allocated, needs a bit of tweaking.
7 Legendary Items
Created by Oiff, Legendary Items adds an impressive variety of legendary weapons and gear to the game. Some additions sound epic, like the Doom Axe or the Hungering Hammer, while others come across as comical, like the Crossbow of Many Bolts, or the Grippy Gloves.
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With so much to choose from, you're practically guaranteed to find at least one useful item, regardless of the class you're playing. Heck, you can even dual wield a pair of hand crossbows if you like the idea of that.
6 Enhanced Gear Progression
Created by Naxesss, Enhanced Gear Progression adds all the normal, plus one, and plus two versions of the generic weapons and armors from the base game into treasure tables. In effect, this can help progression feel a bit better by offering more chances at better gear as you loot and level.
The mod won't throw off the balance of the campaign either, thankfully. The plus two variants of weapons, for example, will only have a 0.08 percent chance of appearing in treasure tables once you're level three or higher, which is quite rare.
5 Buy Your Starting Equipment
Also created by lostsoulman, Buy Your Starting Equipment makes sure that you start the game with the gear and items you prefer, so long as you have enough gold to do so. You'll start with no weapons or armor, but you'll have gold based on your class and a trader to interact with.
If you harm or attack the trader in any way, they will refuse to trade with you. Pickpocketing really isn't a great idea either if you were thinking of that option. Make sure you buy everything you want before leaving, because the trader is only in the tutorial level.
4 More Frequent Feats
Created by koutex, More Frequent Feats has a grievance to address with the vanilla experience; typically, you're only going to get a new feat every four levels, perhaps even less if you're multi-classing. With this mod, you'll be able to choose a new feat every two levels, yielding up to six feats at max level.
Now, you won't be forced to carefully weigh which feat seems the most useful at levels four, eight, or 12. Instead, you can explore and try out feats to your heart's content, and possibly discover synergies you otherwise wouldn't have found.
3 Basket Full Of Equipment
Created by AnteMaxx, Basket Full of Equipment adds an incredible amount of items and a few neat spells. If you're curious about the numbers, there are over 600 pieces of equipment for humanoid species and a little over 100 for species shorter in stature.
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Given the nature of modding and the content warning for the base game, sometimes these new pieces of equipment bug out and don't display properly. Thus, it's best to be ready for some unexpected nudity in-game at times, but that probably won't be a problem if you're playing at home.
2 5e Spells
Created by DiZ91891, 5e Spells is similar to Basket Full of Equipment, except it's all about new and modified spells instead of gear. The mod covers everything from cantrips, all the way to ninth-level spells, so there's content to utilize regardless of your level.
The new spells are more abundant for lower-level characters, with most of them falling between cantrips and fifth-level spells. The Nexus Mods page gives a wealth of information if you need it, and the author, so far, has been giving regular updates and fixes.
1 Tav's Hair Salon
Created by KittenTails, Tav's Hair Salon is your one-stop shop for any character hairstyle you'd ever need. The variety and quality of each new hairstyle are rather stunning, and it shows how much effort was put into the mod.
While there are hairstyles available for any gender, you'll get the most value out of this mod if you prefer playing as feminine-presenting characters; that's where the variety and novelty of each style are most plentiful. Finally, you can slay monsters and explore the world with style.
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