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Can someone explain how some of the modders have managed to create more spells, feats, and subclasses than Larian?

Collectively, I get it... but there are individual modders that seem to outproduce them. Can Larian incorporate their mods legally?

Larian just hasn't released all the spells they are working on. Modders aren't restricted. Larian is. They're saving a lot for Full Release.

That's the story, anyway.

Its true tho that one must ask why are they holding back with monk ... that mod was done half year ago. O_o
Now we will be waiting at least two more months to get exactly the same. :-/

It is several orders of magnitude harder to lay the ground work than expend upon it. Once all the base code, SFX, VFX, and balancing has been done, it is relatively trivial to add more content by tweaking what already exist.

Steam license tells you yes. Any mod on the workshop of steam can be incorporated in the game without even asking the modder. Devs usually ask cause that would be otherwise considered a dick move. But on paper they can.

Not sure about nexus.

Meh, pretty much what snowram mentioned below is the answer. As long as you work on code so many things can change you have to come back to what you already did and re-do it. So yeah, everything those modders did doesn't work because of a new Patch? Well..... guess what. That's what Larian has been doing for 2 years. That's what every game dev does for years. They redo their own game. Constantly. Daily.

Just like gnomes which where actually pretty much done apart from their passive if I recall at launch of EA and have just been sitting there waiting to pad out a patch.


The reason the mods break every patch is because they update whatever the tools they use and changes to the base code this then makes small changes in the outputted files and that's what modders are dealing with.

From the developers perspective yeah they might update a few things for new additions or changes but their tools do most of the leg work keeping things essentially functional across changes.

This wouldn't be the case all the time but it's far different from modding and actually developing and isn't really comparable

Well ... yes, and im quite sure that if we would look hard enough, there would be other examples aswell ...
The question was: Why? :-/