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Turn Scratch into the ultimate adventuring companion! Adds 11 different elemental-themed variants of everyone's favorite dog to collect throughout your campaign!

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Turns the Goodest of Boys, the Fluffest of Fluffs, the Doggest of Doggos, the One-And-Only, The Unmatched; Scratch into the ultimate adventuring companion! Scratch can now hold his own in combat and even provide buffs to the party! See the list below for a detailed explanation of everything this mod changes.

Unlock different variants of "Find Familiar: Scratch" that will appear when casting the vanilla spell by using new Enchanted Dog Collar items.



MOD CONTENT:

The following applies to all variants:
  • Base HP increased to 8 (was 5)
  • HP increases based on caster (Level + Casting Ability Mod)
  • Perception increased by 4
  • Persuasion increased by 6
  • 1.5x Jump Distance
  • Proficiency with Dexterity Saves
  • Has the "Alert" passive feature
  • "Scratch's Sniff" passive feature is now toggleable. No more Scratch running off into traps!
  • 40ft Movement
  • 20ft Darkvision

In addition to these buffs, you can also acquire up to 11 different enchanted collars to increase Scratch's effectiveness in any situation!

Earthen Collar
  • AC increases by 2
  • HP increases by 6
  • Can cast "Seismic Howl" which can knock things back
  • -10ft Movement

Fire Collar
  • Fire Resistance
  • +1d4 Fire Damage to melee

Frost Collar
  • Cold Resistance
  • Can cast "Healing Howl" which heals for 1d4+2 in an AoE

Air Collar
  • AC decreases by 2
  • Can cast "Hovering Howl" which grants Scratch "Fly" for 10 turns
  • Can cast "Lightning Breath"
  • +10ft Movement

Psychic Collar
  • Can cast "Hypnotic Howl", a slightly weaker version of "Hypnotic Pattern"
  • Can cast "Frightening Howl", a slightly weaker version of "Fear"

Adamantine Collar
  • Piercing Resistance
  • Slashing Resistance
  • Bludgeoning Vulnerability
  • Melee does 3d6 (was 1d6)

Arcane Collar
  • Can cast "Shattering Howl", a slightly weaker version of "Shatter"
  • Can cast "Enlarging Howl", a variant of "Enlarge"
  • Can cast "Barkskin"
  • Can cast "Ice Knife"

Necrotic Collar
  • Necrotic Immunity
  • Poison Immunity
  • Radiant Vulnerability
  • Melee does 2d6 Necrotic

Umbral Collar
  • Can cast Greater Invisibility on self
  • Can cast Dimension Door
  • 40ft Darkvision

Faithful Collar
  • Advantage vs Undead on attack rolls
  • Necrotic Vulnerability
  • Melee does 1d6 Radiant
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Illithid Collar
  • Has access to several tadpole powers.


If you want to spoil the fun of finding them yourself, you can see their locations here:
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  • Earth: Underdark, Bulette (Drop)
  • Fire: Grymforge, Lava Elemental (Drop)
  • Frost: Underdark, Dhourn (Drop)
  • Air: Gauntlet of Shar, Lyrthindor (Drop)
  • Necrotic: Wyrm's Crossing, Gortash's Room (Helldusk Boots chest)
  • Psychic: Gith Creche (Circlet of Psionic Revenge chest)
  • Arcane: Sundries Vault (Hellfire Greataxe chest)
  • Adamantine: Last Light Inn, Harper Quartermaster (Vendor)
  • Umbral: Sharran Enclave, Nocturne (Vendor)
  • Faithful: Balthazar's Room (Coldbrim Hat chest)
  • Illithid: Astral Sea, Orpheus (Drop/Pickpocket)


HOW IT WORKS:


After acquiring an enchanted collar, you have to right click and apply it to the Character that has the Summon Scratch spell. After applying, it will show up as a variant when casting the vanilla spell. Since you can choose who can summon Scratch by giving them his ball, the collars are not consumed on use and can be applied to every party member. Removing the ball from your inventory will unsummon Scratch variants as well so you wont have multiple Scratches. You do NOT need to hold on to the collars however.

Scratch will always unsummon himself when visiting camp! This is vanilla behavior I will not be changing!


COMPATABILITY:

Mods that alter the spell "Target_FindFamiliar_Dog" will be incompatible. This would include the other two Scratch overhauls currently on the nexus ("Scratchvolution" and "Best Boy Scratch").

Fully compatible with Scratch Variety

INSTALLATION:

  • Place the .pak file in your mods directory (AppData/Larian Studios/Baldur's Gate 3/Mods)
  • Enable the mod using BG3 mod manager
  • Enjoy!


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