Baldur’s Gate 3 made me fall in love with modding again

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Since its August launch, Baldur’s Gate 3 has been lauded as among 2023’s best games. It’s a massive game with enough content to last dozens of hours, and its role-playing variety makes it highly replayable.

Yet, once over 200 hours are logged in, a desire for something more comes. It’s a beautiful siren song I have fallen into and one I haven’t heard in years. Not since my days playing the PC versions of Fallout: New Vegas and Skyrim for days on end.

I’m, of course, talking about installing mods. Mods are a wonderful thing that enhances titles like Deus Ex and makes Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines tolerable. They come in all shapes and sizes, ranging from bug fixes to DLC-sized content additions that stretch what a mod can be.

Baldur’s Gate 3‘s popularity also makes it a popular game to mod, and some are already amazing. I resisted installing them for my first couple hundred hours of play because I love the vanilla game and already crown it as one of my favorites. Yet I couldn’t become a sexy magical gunslinger in the vanilla game, and mods were here to rectify that.

I installed the Artificer mod for Baldur’s Gate 3, and something awoke inside me. It was like I was 15 again and spending more time modding Skyrim than actually playing it.

Since I figured out how to make mods work, I asked myself if I could install a few. The answer was yes, so I went a little mad installing various mods that caught my eye. Most were among the most popular mods, including Faces of Faerun and Tav’s Hair Salon. Baldur’s Gate 3‘s character creator is already solid, but it never hurt to have more options.

It was around here I remembered being a kid modding Skyrim. A quest here and some new customization options there, but nothing that