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About this mod
After Nessa has been set free from Yurgir's charm and killing her former master she joins you on your adventures. She wants to complete hunts, killing specific types of enemies, granting her new abilities and passive bonuses.
- Requirements
- Permissions and credits
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Translations
- Mandarin
- Changelogs
- Donations
This mod is also available in-game via the mod browser - first of my mods. I would still be thankful if you downloaded it here.
Overview
After Nessa has been set free from Yurgir's charm and killing her former master she joins you on your adventures. She wants to complete hunts, killing specific types of enemies, granting her new abilities and passive bonuses.
How to get Nessa
To have Nessa join your party, you need to follow these steps in Act 2:
Anyone holding her fang will be able to summon her. When the fang leaves your inventory Nessa will despawn.
OR
Find the fang in the Tutorial Chest.
OR
Use the script extender console and type in:
The Hunt
Nessa is a Displacer Beast and as such she wants to hunt. You complete a hunt by allowing her to have the killing blow against certain types of enemies, like fiends, beasts or dwarves. She has currently 14 hunts to complete.
Each hunt either unlocks one of her abilities or gives her a passive bonus. She is supposed to be somewhat weak when you get her. It is your task to get her the killing blows she needs to become a true menace for your enemies.
If she dies or you un-summon her and then re-summon her these hunts will not be lost. The hunts set an osiris flag that allows Nessa to regain all the hunts she completed after being re-summoned.
Mechanics
Story Changes
(These were not really possible before the toolkit)
FAQ
This is my first mod made in the official toolkit. Does this mean I will try to transfer my mods to the toolkit?
I will try - but keep in mind its not a straight forward process but rather a lot of work.
Does this mean I'm back to BG3 modding?
Sort of, but don't expect another 20 mods out of me. I have some plans but I'm also more busy these days.
What is the UUID for Nessa's Fang?
You can spawn in the fang and use it just fine. The story edits are just for immersion, they don't have any functionality towards her as a companion.
I have greedy longfingers as friends in multiplayer or I can't control myself and take the fang out of the tutorial chest at the start of the game, help!
Try Yield To Temptation - this mod changes the loot table the actual physical tutorial chest on the nautiloid uses to a different one, while leaving the tutorial chest loot table (which all mods that spawn the chest) untouched. This causes the chest on the nautiloid to only have vanilla items in it (2 potions), but all tutorial chest spawning mods still work. No the mod does not need an update, its 1.0.0 version has worked ever since Patch 4.
Overview
After Nessa has been set free from Yurgir's charm and killing her former master she joins you on your adventures. She wants to complete hunts, killing specific types of enemies, granting her new abilities and passive bonuses.
How to get Nessa
To have Nessa join your party, you need to follow these steps in Act 2:
- Walk into Yurgir's ambush
- Resolve the ambush peacefully
- Investigate the spider corpse and either cure Nessa of the charm/poison, or make her aware of it
- Convince Nessa to join you against Yurgir (careful - DC30 Persuasion check)
- Kill Yurgir
- Talk to Nessa (Leave! Before I get hungry again.)
- You will obtain Nessa's Fang
Anyone holding her fang will be able to summon her. When the fang leaves your inventory Nessa will despawn.
OR
Find the fang in the Tutorial Chest.
OR
Use the script extender console and type in:
TemplateAddTo("d7f482d9-da65-476a-b4f8-6809dfd9ce4e",GetHostCharacter(),1,1)
- You can do this if you want to help Yurgir with his contract
- Or if you want to convince him to kill his minions and himself
- Or you are already in Act 3 and want to try Nessa
The Hunt
Nessa is a Displacer Beast and as such she wants to hunt. You complete a hunt by allowing her to have the killing blow against certain types of enemies, like fiends, beasts or dwarves. She has currently 14 hunts to complete.
Each hunt either unlocks one of her abilities or gives her a passive bonus. She is supposed to be somewhat weak when you get her. It is your task to get her the killing blows she needs to become a true menace for your enemies.
If she dies or you un-summon her and then re-summon her these hunts will not be lost. The hunts set an osiris flag that allows Nessa to regain all the hunts she completed after being re-summoned.
Mechanics
- Nessa gains health and damage when she levels up
- Nessa's level is synced to whoever summons her
- She uses Distortion Charges to cast her spells, these recharge on Short Rest
- Has access to Illusory Copy and Displacement like all Displacer Beasts
- She can toggle 1 of 3 (later 4) passives on, giving her attacks a chance to apply prone/frightened/bleeding
- Her damage is significantly reduced compared to vanilla displacer beasts, since she is quite durable
- Her role is more of a support, if you complete her hunts she will be able to bring immense utility
Story Changes
(These were not really possible before the toolkit)
- Nessa will change her name from "Displacer Beast" to "Nessa" after the ambush was resolved peacefully
- Nessa will disappear after you receive her claw
FAQ
This is my first mod made in the official toolkit. Does this mean I will try to transfer my mods to the toolkit?
I will try - but keep in mind its not a straight forward process but rather a lot of work.
Does this mean I'm back to BG3 modding?
Sort of, but don't expect another 20 mods out of me. I have some plans but I'm also more busy these days.
What is the UUID for Nessa's Fang?
d7f482d9-da65-476a-b4f8-6809dfd9ce4eYou can spawn in the fang and use it just fine. The story edits are just for immersion, they don't have any functionality towards her as a companion.
I have greedy longfingers as friends in multiplayer or I can't control myself and take the fang out of the tutorial chest at the start of the game, help!
Try Yield To Temptation - this mod changes the loot table the actual physical tutorial chest on the nautiloid uses to a different one, while leaving the tutorial chest loot table (which all mods that spawn the chest) untouched. This causes the chest on the nautiloid to only have vanilla items in it (2 potions), but all tutorial chest spawning mods still work. No the mod does not need an update, its 1.0.0 version has worked ever since Patch 4.