Grubb himself is okay. He did a lot of early work at TSR on Spelljammer and Dragonlance. Volo was supposed to be a one-off joke (he's named after a state park not far from Lake Geneva. This is once again a case of Ed Greenwood ruining something connected to D&D. He took the character and ran it into the ground. I'm sure Volo is some kind of weird sex pervert now.
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Realms Restored 4.2 โ Baldur's Gate 3
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Changes done but gonna hold off on releasing until Aesthetics bug fixes are done just to be sure everything is in sync

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Also I need to figure out why some icons aren't generating the vanilla head


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It's sharing a template ID maybe?loregamer wrote: โ April 26th, 2025, 02:11Also I need to figure out why some icons aren't generating the vanilla head
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Victors clap when others succeed; Losers feel every spotlight as a personal bleed.
Are the mods still a work in progress? I just installed all three of the main pack - No More Alphabets, Even Better Romance and Realms Restored.
When I started a new game and went to Character Creation, the Dark Urge icon was replaced with the caucasian human, but the 3D model itself was still a pale Dragonborn.
When I started a new game and went to Character Creation, the Dark Urge icon was replaced with the caucasian human, but the 3D model itself was still a pale Dragonborn.
Got it all in the right order?BannedForBeingSane wrote: โ April 26th, 2025, 06:47Are the mods still a work in progress? I just installed all three of the main pack - No More Alphabets, Even Better Romance and Realms Restored.
When I started a new game and went to Character Creation, the Dark Urge icon was replaced with the caucasian human, but the 3D model itself was still a pale Dragonborn.
"Lower" items take priority. It's layered.
BobT wrote: โ April 26th, 2025, 06:48Got it all in the right order?BannedForBeingSane wrote: โ April 26th, 2025, 06:47Are the mods still a work in progress? I just installed all three of the main pack - No More Alphabets, Even Better Romance and Realms Restored.
When I started a new game and went to Character Creation, the Dark Urge icon was replaced with the caucasian human, but the 3D model itself was still a pale Dragonborn.
"Lower" items take priority. It's layered.

This is my mod order.
Iโm running into this all the time since Patch 8. All my mods getting disabled, I mean (the portrait change is an asset override even if the mod is disabled)BannedForBeingSane wrote: โ April 26th, 2025, 06:47Are the mods still a work in progress? I just installed all three of the main pack - No More Alphabets, Even Better Romance and Realms Restored.
When I started a new game and went to Character Creation, the Dark Urge icon was replaced with the caucasian human, but the 3D model itself was still a pale Dragonborn.
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I've got a workaround for the time being; just load BG3MM from MO2, set the load order and run BG3 from there. It complains about duplicate PAK files but it loads everything and in the right order.loregamer wrote: โ April 25th, 2025, 21:29That MO2 plugin's busted I got a fork I'm gonna upload soon ishCrazed Weevil wrote: โ April 25th, 2025, 20:57One problem with the funny text file name though is that I can't use the Mod Organizer 2 plugin (https://www.nexusmods.com/site/mods/1268) to install these as it uses LSLib to unpack the mod to get all it's settings and of course it spits errors because of the '|' character in the name (the Name Change PAK doesn't have that character in the text file names and so it loads that one OK). You can manually activate the PAK files inside BG3 but that screws up the load order.
Also the script extender console has a load of errors because of that character as well though they don't seem to effect anything as far as I can tell.
So basically the no alphabets/even better romance/realms restored trilogy isn't currently working?loregamer wrote: โ April 26th, 2025, 06:54Iโm running into this all the time since Patch 8. All my mods getting disabled, I mean (the portrait change is an asset override even if the mod is disabled)BannedForBeingSane wrote: โ April 26th, 2025, 06:47Are the mods still a work in progress? I just installed all three of the main pack - No More Alphabets, Even Better Romance and Realms Restored.
When I started a new game and went to Character Creation, the Dark Urge icon was replaced with the caucasian human, but the 3D model itself was still a pale Dragonborn.
It does. But I keep having to turn on all my mods using the ingame mod manager, close, re-export load order from BG3MM, and start againBannedForBeingSane wrote: โ April 26th, 2025, 06:57So basically the no alphabets/even better romance/realms restored trilogy isn't currently working?loregamer wrote: โ April 26th, 2025, 06:54Iโm running into this all the time since Patch 8. All my mods getting disabled, I mean (the portrait change is an asset override even if the mod is disabled)BannedForBeingSane wrote: โ April 26th, 2025, 06:47Are the mods still a work in progress? I just installed all three of the main pack - No More Alphabets, Even Better Romance and Realms Restored.
When I started a new game and went to Character Creation, the Dark Urge icon was replaced with the caucasian human, but the 3D model itself was still a pale Dragonborn.
Dunno why though
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And this happens every time you run the game?loregamer wrote: โ April 26th, 2025, 07:00It does. But I keep having to turn on all my mods using the ingame mod manager, close, re-export load order from BG3MM, and start againBannedForBeingSane wrote: โ April 26th, 2025, 06:57So basically the no alphabets/even better romance/realms restored trilogy isn't currently working?loregamer wrote: โ April 26th, 2025, 06:54
Iโm running into this all the time since Patch 8. All my mods getting disabled, I mean (the portrait change is an asset override even if the mod is disabled)
Dunno why though
I think you'll like the new MO2 plugin I'm working on. It circumvents the entire system by just defining mods as dependencies on the GustavX.pak fileCrazed Weevil wrote: โ April 26th, 2025, 06:55I've got a workaround for the time being; just load BG3MM from MO2, set the load order and run BG3 from there. It complains about duplicate PAK files but it loads everything and in the right order.
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Whoa, you're right. I went back to Mod Manager and all the mods from this site were de-activated.
Yeah I dunno what's going on with patch 8. I'm certain it's a huge bug they let slip
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I can verify that this solution works! Running the game from MM has activated all mods and the character creator was woke-free! Thanks!Crazed Weevil wrote: โ April 26th, 2025, 06:55I've got a workaround for the time being; just load BG3MM from MO2, set the load order and run BG3 from there. It complains about duplicate PAK files but it loads everything and in the right order.
All this talk and no one noticed he's got the wrong liad order as well? Look at original post, download section. There's a screenshot of what your load order should look like.BannedForBeingSane wrote: โ April 26th, 2025, 06:53BobT wrote: โ April 26th, 2025, 06:48Got it all in the right order?BannedForBeingSane wrote: โ April 26th, 2025, 06:47Are the mods still a work in progress? I just installed all three of the main pack - No More Alphabets, Even Better Romance and Realms Restored.
When I started a new game and went to Character Creation, the Dark Urge icon was replaced with the caucasian human, but the 3D model itself was still a pale Dragonborn.
"Lower" items take priority. It's layered.
This is my mod order.
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Victors clap when others succeed; Losers feel every spotlight as a personal bleed.
Can we (meaning I
) also get a Nere vanilla hair restored option, while keeping the rest of the changens?
Also wait! Didn't someone upload a vanilla Isobel restore option yesterday? Where is it?
Also wait! Didn't someone upload a vanilla Isobel restore option yesterday? Where is it?

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We've stopped catering to nitpicks. You allow one and you have to allow all 1500 multiplied to infinity. Extracting and packing Visuals is a simple thing to do. So we'll leave users to do that themselves at their discretion.Reichspepe wrote: โ April 26th, 2025, 11:29Can we (meaning I) also get a Nere vanilla hair restored option, while keeping the rest of the changens?
Also wait! Didn't someone upload a vanilla Isobel restore option yesterday? Where is it?![]()
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Victors clap when others succeed; Losers feel every spotlight as a personal bleed.
Good thing I had it already downloaded. Except if it was a troll upload file, then I'm screwedorinEsque wrote: โ April 26th, 2025, 12:03We've stopped catering to nitpicks. You allow one and you have to allow all 1500 multiplied to infinity. Extracting and packing Visuals is a simple thing to do. So we'll leave users to do that themselves at their discretion.Reichspepe wrote: โ April 26th, 2025, 11:29Can we (meaning I) also get a Nere vanilla hair restored option, while keeping the rest of the changens?
Also wait! Didn't someone upload a vanilla Isobel restore option yesterday? Where is it?![]()
I never realized how much Act 1 would improve by making Grimblebock a Dwarf and making Nettie not a Dwarf. Both of them were so out of place and stupid-looking.
Okay, I've placed Realms restored before No Alphabets. To be sure, where should Even Better Romance go? After Realms, after No Alphabets, or between Realms and No Alphabets?orinEsque wrote: โ April 26th, 2025, 11:06All this talk and no one noticed he's got the wrong liad order as well? Look at original post, download section. There's a screenshot of what your load order should look like.
No matter how stupid it seemed to you, it will never top an entire community of Good Tieflings being the very first populace you meet in your journey. Chances of that happening on the Material Plane before the wokeification of D&D should be one in a billion or something.SniperChris wrote: โ April 26th, 2025, 13:02I never realized how much Act 1 would improve by making Grimblebock a Dwarf and making Nettie not a Dwarf. Both of them were so out of place and stupid-looking.
What's with this mod's obsession with erasing dorfs?
They needed a stand-in for niggerfugees that most players wouldn't find repulsive. There's a reason they chose one of the most popular races to play instead of, say, Half-Orcs or Gnomes or something.BannedForBeingSane wrote: โ April 26th, 2025, 13:46No matter how stupid it seemed to you, it will never top an entire community of Good Tieflings being the very first populace you meet in your journey. Chances of that happening on the Material Plane before the wokeification of D&D should be one in a billion or something.SniperChris wrote: โ April 26th, 2025, 13:02I never realized how much Act 1 would improve by making Grimblebock a Dwarf and making Nettie not a Dwarf. Both of them were so out of place and stupid-looking.
After.BannedForBeingSane wrote: โ April 26th, 2025, 13:44Okay, I've placed Realms restored before No Alphabets. To be sure, where should Even Better Romance go? After Realms, after No Alphabets, or between Realms and No Alphabets?orinEsque wrote: โ April 26th, 2025, 11:06All this talk and no one noticed he's got the wrong liad order as well? Look at original post, download section. There's a screenshot of what your load order should look like.
Victors clap when others succeed; Losers feel every spotlight as a personal bleed.
You can skip the swaps mod all together if you don't like it
Victors clap when others succeed; Losers feel every spotlight as a personal bleed.
I like the dwarf genocide. It's like in If the Emperor had a Push to Talk Device.. Delete, delete, delete 
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Basically everyone who is sufficiently nerdy to care about Forgotten Realmsยฎ Lore at all is going to have their own opinion on exactly how certain races should be distributed to get the correct "feel".
Looking at the full RR swap tables, I see a ton of swaps that make zero motherfucking sense to me (why shouldn't the meek and mild-mannered vicar be a gnome? why shouldn't the jovial wine festival hosts be halflings?) but I have no doubt that for some reason they bothered Orin/Silver/Lore's idea of Faerun.
Fortunately the mods have the most important prerequisite: they're safe to uninstall in case you don't like the result.

