Announcing WTP Familiars, The Find Familiar spell the way it should be! ^_^ Options

[Salk]

Hello people!

Using Rabain's work as ground (version 0.5 was released in 2007 and had a number of issues), I have expanded his modification and adapted it to Baldur's Gate Trilogy. The modification is fully compatible with Baldur's Gate 2 and it's downloadable here.

Future versions might be made compatible with EasyTuTu and BG:EE but that's not a priority.

WTP Familiars revises the classic and iconic Find Familiar spell, rebalancing it and making it closer to its PnP counterpart. Sounds, portraits and additional dialogue choices are included, together with a nifty level up system. The familiars are now nine (new entry: Spider as new True Neutral, Rabbit is now Lawful Good) and mages can choose between 3 or 4 (depending on alignment) creatures (exception: True Neutral mages are restricted to the Spider). The violent death of the familiar has severe consequences and the little critters cannot just be used as boost for hit points and then stuffed into the backpack. They will make themselves heard if you do!

Additionally, the familiars have totally different innate powers that are PnP inspired.

The readme is included in the zipped archive. As installation goes, this modification needs to be installed after any other modification (like Spell Revisions) that changes the Find Familiar spell.

This modification needs Ascension64's ToBEx to function properly (if this is not detected, it will be installed automatically).

Thanks and enjoy!

This post has been edited by Salk: Nov 22 2017, 05:39 AM

[Salk]

WTP Familiars v2.0 released!

This is a major release and I recommend anyone using this modification to upgrade to it. There is still no BG2:EE/EET compatibility since I lack motivation and time for porting it to the newer engine but I may eventually have external assistance for it and for Linux compatibility as well.

Download link in the first post, as usual.

CHANGE LOG:

-Included missing Bard, Beast Master and Thief with UAI ability classes
-Fixed minor issue with party members using the Find Familiar scroll in the quick slot
-Fixed issue with Empowerment not switching on the fly when Reputation changes would affect it
-Fixed issue with Empowerment not correctingly updating the hit points gain/loss
-Fixed issue with Empowerment not removing old bonus before applying new ones
-Changed Empowerment's visual cue to something less intrusive
-Alleviated stuttering when Empowerment is being applied to or removed from Thief/Warrior class familiars
-Raised base thieving skills for cat, ferret and rabbit
-Changed Burrow ability: the familiar stays hidden until the master recalls him
-Paralyzed or Intoxicated should now no longer appear on Undead
-Mage class familiars now cast mirrored spells at the right level (thanks kjeron)
-Fixed bug with some thieving skill and poison resistance bonuses being erased when the familair moves to the backpack (thanks magus)
-Small cosmetic changes to the summoning/level up of the familiars
-The spider's poisonous/paralyzing attack now scales with the enchantement of the weapon
-The familiars no longer initiate any dialogue
-Fixed compatibility problems with Game Over only on Party Dead (requires version 1.7 or higher)
-Updated WeiDU to version 241