This mod lets your companions (or you if you're doing an origin run) keep their starting outfit even when you upgrade their equipment.

The base mod covers companions with fully personalized armour. The class expansion covers Gale and Wyll, who have their starting class equipment.

How It Works

A box with all the patterns and a pair of Separating Shears is in the tutorial chest.  Origins and companions also have the pattern for their starting equipment in their starting inventory.

Combining this pattern with a piece of equipment will give you the appearance of the visual base and (most of) the properties of that equipment.  The names and descriptions are the same, even when the description talks about its appearance (there is one little easter egg I put in).

Companion Mod

The Companion Mod has most of the companions. Astartion, Jaheira, Karlach, Minsc, and Shadowheart's patterns are all very simply the equipment they start with.

Lae’zel and Minthara’s patterns are expanded.  Lae’zel’s pattern (the Githyanki Set) has the Circlet of Psionic Revenge and the Hr’a’cknir Bracers.  Because the bracers are coloured to match the Psionic Ward Armour the set comes with two reusable dyes so you can have a uniform colour scheme.  Minthara’s (the Drow Commander Set) switches out her starting boots for the boots that were clearly designed to match the rest of her outfit but were ultimately unused.  The Boots of Striding are a separate pattern, which she also has.

Halsin’s armour is a bit weird.  The armour he has in the unmodded game had the same appearance as the default druid armour for every body type except his.  Some of the other body types have the files for his but not all of them.  So the armour this mod produces will look like Halsin’s armour on ‘human’ body types 1, 2, & 4; gnome body type 2, and dragonborn body type 2.  (Human covers human, elf, drow, half-elf, and tiefling in this context.)  On everyone else it will look like the default druid armour.  His pattern does not include the Grovetender Boots.  You can get those in the Class mod, as they are just the starting druid boots.

Class Mod Expansion

THIS EXPANSION IS INCOMPLETE.

This will add all the starting classes and subclasses, eventually.

BUT FOR RIGHT NOW it has Warlock, Wizard and Druid.  The Wizard pattern comes with a dye to match Gale's starting robe.  Druid is here in case you want Halsin to have the druid boots.

I'm publishing this one incomplete because I want to release all the companion gear at the same time.

Future Expansions

This potion permanently gives you the ‘Recast Speak with Dead’ condition, allowing you to spot and talk to corpses with something to say.

It does work with SwissFred57’s Speak With Dead Unlimited and Select Your Statuses mods.  I haven’t tested it with any other mods that affect Speak With Dead.

Have you ever been in a fight and wished you could Stage Fright as a bonus action?  Have you ever had the Awakened condition and wanted to drink a potion and Repulsor?  This mod is for you!

This makes Awakened, the buff that makes Illithid Powers a bonus action instead of an action, toggleable.  It also comes with a potion that gives you the passive, instead of having to get it from the Zaith’isk.  The potion can be looted off Priestess Gut, Minthara, or Dror Ragzlin, and can be found in the chest next to Minthara as well as Dror Ragzlin’s treasure room.

Sometimes I make exciting mods that do really cool things. Sometimes I make mods that provide great quality of life boosts.

But other times I say to myself "What if the set dressing towels could clean up water and blood?"

Sidenote, I happened to test this during a run where I was a barbarian so I was running around feeling like the most fastidious barbarian in all the Realms as I picked up and used every rag and towel I could find.

Apologies my dear cleric, I seem to have gotten blood all over the floor of your room while saving your life. Please, allow me to take care of that.

Towels, rags, and linens can all be used to clean up anything that Destroy Water would get rid of. Finally you can clean up all that blood you spill on the streets Baldur's Gate without burning Shadowheart's spell slots. Or is that just me...?

If you are feeling especially enthusiastic about cleaning messes and you want to clean up things that Create Water would fix, you can always get my Infinite Throwables mod so you can throw bottles and barrels of water to your heart's content... and then clean it up with a towel.

Here's a complete list of my mods

Coat all your weapons! As many times as you want! Until it is time to lay down your weary head.

Coating apply to both your melee and ranged weapons. Coating last until long rest and are not consumed when used. And I included a clean cloth, incase you're in a situation where you don't want your weapon to still be poisonous.

Also included is a pouch that will hold all your coatings (and your cleaning cloth). There are four in the tutorial chest and more can be bought from Arron and Grat in Act 1, Talli and Lann Tarv in Act 2, and Popper and Helsik in Act 3.

This mod only works with preexisting coatings, no custom coatings from other mods.

Potions for every variant of Disguise Self and Wild Shape and a couple of bonus friends! You can become the Wheel of Cheese that Akabi will polymorph you into if you upset him and the Aberrant Shape Wild Shape from early access, complete with combat abilities.

The hit points and attacks for Wild Shape are the starting values, no matter what level your character is. This is true even if you are a druid.

There are four bags of shapeshift in the tutorial chest, and more can be bought from Arron and Grat in Act 1, Talli and Lann Tarv in Act 2, and Popper and Helsik in Act 3.

Grenades for days! Throwing bombs, barrels, and grenades, as well as certain potions, elixirs, and coatings will cause another one to magically appear in your inventory.

A few important notes: 

1)This is linked to the Throw action.  If you set your smokepowder bomb down and then destroy it you won’t get a new one. 

2)This works for npcs as well.  I personally have had an enemy throw three smokepowder bombs at me in one turn because they were a high level fighter who decided to action surge.

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Complete list of supported throwables after the break.