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06.06.2026. A few years later it's still bugged.

Ironically, when she's an NPC in camp, she can be buffed but the moment she's recruited as an active companions, she's suddenly not an ally.

A new clip from Aurora Winterstar. You may not like the music or her Bard Tav, but I find the depiction of the companions and monsters amazing.



And hah, using the adamantine forge to maka a guitar plectrum instead of weapons or armour. I think Larian would approve.

They work best for me when they are expansions to replayable systemic games - Firaxis style. Civ and XCOM expansions. They make games I already like to play deeper and more interesting.

With story stuff. Yeah, if its a new adventure just make it a standalone buy and install - I don't mind if you reuse assets as long as the price is right. If it's tied to the main game story - then in the best case scenario it feels like they should have been there to begin with.

To be clear, I am not strongly against DLCs, but I just find it really refreshing that with Larian games I see a game, I buy and don't need to worry what version I buy, if there are or will be DLCs to buy, if I should play the game only after they release etc.

Yes, it is true, it might be placed more in excess to Honor mode, not in between.

It also might require some tuning to be well balanced - for example amount of "reload penalized experience" might not be fixed - but it could be non linear and adapt to when exactly and how frequent it happens. But, there also might be some more issues with this basic idea.

I will take a look at this "Brutal Difficulty" mod, it sounds interesting, thank you for bringing it up.

Have you tried rolling back the driver to the previous version (596.49)?

@OP There are Gobbo mods you may take a look. They are not perfect but I recommend them:


Reginald's Goblin Race or Simple Custom Races (via "Shapeshifter" Background)

Goblin Companions (Followers via Background)

Sazza Evolved (as a playable Pseudo Companion)

Alfira Joins The Party

There are quite more...

Update: Part 3, Chapter 29 & 30 is now published. This concludes Part 3. Hope you enjoy it!

BG3.5 - Hellraisers (Fanfiction)
Baldur's Gate 3.5: Hellraisers - an original fanfic story that is a sequel to Baldur's Gate 3 Fanfic: The Afflicted. It picks up immediately after the events of Baldur's Gate 3 as characters from the previous fanfic - Fiovay, Kai, Aelun, Vlyn, and the other members of their party - travel to Avernus. Their quest is to save Karlach but also to hopefully find and rescue Darson, Aelun's father, from the clutches of Demogorgon.

Here is the link to the blog site: https://baldursgate3hellraisers.blogspot.com/2025/10/baldurs-gate-35-hellraisers.html