Also available in Steam Workshop: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2244234314


This is the mod I originally made for my personal use but eventually decided to publish due to absence of a proper mod with similar functionality.
Mod allows you to be in any desired form without wearing the Mask Of The Shapeshifter itself and suffering armor, stats and fashion penalties.


FEATURES:
-- **IMPORTANT FOR EXISTING SAVES** The only way to obtain a "skillbook" masks on an EXISTING SAVE which you played without this mod is CRAFTING. Any masks, that you already have on your characters, are NOT going to be converted into skillbooks and will continue to act like a helmet. Fane's mask, looted from Windego, will be converted into skillbook ONLY if you start a new game with this mod, otherwise it will act like a helmet, even if you kill her AFTER installing a mod.
-- This mod alters the mechanics of all 6 variations of the Mask of the Shapeshifter, making them act just like the normal skillbooks, teaching the player skills they originally provide.
-- Teached skills take 0 memory and count as innate.
-- For the purpose of preventing the player from using 1 mask on multiple character at the same time, masks, as any other skillbook, purposely becoming consumed on use. So be aware, for once you use certain mask on one character, you will be unable to switch it between characters.


INSTALLATION:
Extract archive contents inside the following directory (delete any previous versions if present):
\Users\*username*\Documents\Larian Studios\Divinity Original Sin 2 Definitive Edition\Mods


COMPATIBILITY:
I'm not a big modder and this is the very first mod I ever did. Due to my lack of modding knowledge I do not pledge any compatibility and I do not promise absence of bugs, even though I ran the testing I considered required and found none.
Also, still, due to the structure of mod being rather simplistic, I am most certainly convinced that it should not cause any kind of issue.