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About this mod
Adds a feat that gives Poison damage the Elemental Adept treatment with a bit of a twist; Poison Immunity is also reduced to Resistance and you get to add 1 to your Intelligence, Charisma, or Wisdom!
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Poison is finally viable in Baldur's Gate 3!
I always hated that Poison damage dropped off very quickly in Baldur's Gate and how many enemies were outright immune, but there were so many spells like Ray of Sickness and Cloudkill that could be fun to play with, especially as a Green Dragon Sorcerer (green dragons are some of my favorites).
Now with the Caustic feat, this is solved. When taken starting at level 4, the Caustic feat grants you a +1 to your Intelligence, Charisma, or Wisdom, in addition to granting the Caustic passive which, in practice, lets you bypass all Poison resistance -- including immunity. However, if the enemy IS immune to Poison natively, it'll only take half-damage from the Poison as if it were Resistant and still be immune to the Poisoned status conditions (We don't want this to be broken after all).
Finally, Poison and Green Dragons can have a bit of fun instead of sadly sitting in the Unused Section. Special thanks to havsglimt for their work on Stormchaser Druid, since that's the only thing I found that helped me out.
Now with the Caustic feat, this is solved. When taken starting at level 4, the Caustic feat grants you a +1 to your Intelligence, Charisma, or Wisdom, in addition to granting the Caustic passive which, in practice, lets you bypass all Poison resistance -- including immunity. However, if the enemy IS immune to Poison natively, it'll only take half-damage from the Poison as if it were Resistant and still be immune to the Poisoned status conditions (We don't want this to be broken after all).
Finally, Poison and Green Dragons can have a bit of fun instead of sadly sitting in the Unused Section. Special thanks to havsglimt for their work on Stormchaser Druid, since that's the only thing I found that helped me out.
-- Notes on the Coding --
So, in order to make this work, I took inspiration from havsglimt's Stormchaser Druid, seeing as they were the only one I found that had an answer to the "reduce immunity to resistance" issue in Baldur's Gate. Because of this, the passive applies an aura on enemies only to bypass their immunity and reduce it to a resistance. Because of this, in the very weird and slim circumstance you may find yourself sneak attacking a poison immune enemy with a poison spell, you may find it doing full damage instead. I haven't thoroughly tested this, so let me know how that all shakes out.
-- Installation Instructions --
- Using BG3 Mod Manager, select "File" then "Import Mod" from the top right.
- Find the downloaded CausticFeat.zip file downloaded from this page and select "Open".
- You'll find the newly imported mod on the right side under "Inactive Mods". Drag it to the left under "Active Mods" and move it to where you need it in your load order.
- Go to "File" and then "Save Order", then "Export Order to Game".
- Boot up BG3 and enjoy!