Originally Posted by Rhidian
That being said, getting changes to stick in-game depends on where you are saving your changed file to. What file path is your changed file in?

Code
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Divinity - Original Sin\Data\Public\Modified_Main_*


From your empty mod.

Code
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Divinity - Original Sin\Data\Public\Modified_Main_*\Stats\Generated\Data\Character.txt
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Divinity - Original Sin\Data\Public\Modified_Main_*\Stats\Generated\SkillSet.txt


For the two specific files that alter their builds.
Still browsing around for the files that edit their starting equipment.