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Adds a trinket that will boost all skills when the player is not accompanied by a companion (including sidekicks and adventurers), to ease passing skill checks when opting for a solo playstyle.
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The Lone Polymath
If you play PoE2: Deadfire with a character who prefers to go solo, you may have run abreast of dialogues and skill checks that you will be unable to pass to your satisfaction because you've allocated your precious few skill points to other skills.
The Lone Polymath is a tome that contains a broad spectrum of knowledge, tips and tricks to assist your lone adventurer as he tackles the challenges of the Deadfire Archipelago.
It equips to the grimoire/trinket slot (only grimoires in the base game use the slot, so any non-wizard probably has seen no use for it to this point).
The Lone Polymathy ability it bestows confers +1 to All Skills, increasing by +1 every three (3) levels:
For those who prefer to equip actual grimoires to their grimoire/trinket slot, a Ring of the Lone Polymath is also made available. Both use the same ability (Lone Polymathy), so equipping both simultaneously will confer no additional benefit.
These items are simultaneously overpowered and not necessarily enough so, depending on what you're seeking—skills you do not level at all will suddenly have value, while you do still need a considerable investment in skill level-ups and other items in order to reach the higher skill checks. You may not be able to be the most intimidating athletic diplomatic historian pickpocket alchemist you'd like—but you can come close!
The tome and ring have no value to merchants.
Issues
If you try to be clever and equip both items to get a doubled effect—you won't. Only the first equipped item's Lone Polymathy effect will be utilized. If you then unequip that item, Lone Polymathy will disappear (and indeed is no longer in effect) even though the other item is still equipped. You will need to unequip that item and then reequip one of the items to regain the effect.
For now the items reuse existing game icons. Down the road perhaps this will change.
Adding equally to all skills is not the solution I truly want—I'd like to just multiply existing base skills by two (2) when solo, but the game does not currently expose a mechanism to simply multiply skills by an amount (and attempts to do this by adding a skill to itself led to what I presume were spectacularly profound infinite recursions and/or race conditions that usually led to PoE2 just abruptly ceasing to exist). When such a thing is possible, I may release a similar item set for that approach.
This is a cheat. Or it's a tool. Or both. Play the game as you will.
Installation
Unzip the mod archive to your
(Exit and Re-) Start the game. The tome (and ring) will appear in your stash in the same manner as preorder and other bonus items were given.
Removal
Delete/trash the
Bugs/Feedback
This has not been extensively tested; let me know if you have any problems or concerns.
Right now only English localization is provided; if you wish to contribute translations for the other languages supported by PoE2 feel free to do so.
Thanks
Obsidian for the game.
The PoE2: Deadfire and Nexus modding community, with a nod to:
@garten (for reminding of the little-used grimoire/trinket slot)
@peardox (for compiling a list of game functions that included "Boolean IsAnyCompanionActiveInParty()" which was exactly what I was trying to find to enable these items to only work when solo)
--/\/
If you play PoE2: Deadfire with a character who prefers to go solo, you may have run abreast of dialogues and skill checks that you will be unable to pass to your satisfaction because you've allocated your precious few skill points to other skills.
The Lone Polymath is a tome that contains a broad spectrum of knowledge, tips and tricks to assist your lone adventurer as he tackles the challenges of the Deadfire Archipelago.
It equips to the grimoire/trinket slot (only grimoires in the base game use the slot, so any non-wizard probably has seen no use for it to this point).
The Lone Polymathy ability it bestows confers +1 to All Skills, increasing by +1 every three (3) levels:
- Level 1: +1
- Level 4: +2
- Level 7: +3
- Level 10: +4
- Level 13: +5
- Level 16: +6
- Level 19: +7
For those who prefer to equip actual grimoires to their grimoire/trinket slot, a Ring of the Lone Polymath is also made available. Both use the same ability (Lone Polymathy), so equipping both simultaneously will confer no additional benefit.
These items are simultaneously overpowered and not necessarily enough so, depending on what you're seeking—skills you do not level at all will suddenly have value, while you do still need a considerable investment in skill level-ups and other items in order to reach the higher skill checks. You may not be able to be the most intimidating athletic diplomatic historian pickpocket alchemist you'd like—but you can come close!
The tome and ring have no value to merchants.
Issues
If you try to be clever and equip both items to get a doubled effect—you won't. Only the first equipped item's Lone Polymathy effect will be utilized. If you then unequip that item, Lone Polymathy will disappear (and indeed is no longer in effect) even though the other item is still equipped. You will need to unequip that item and then reequip one of the items to regain the effect.
For now the items reuse existing game icons. Down the road perhaps this will change.
Adding equally to all skills is not the solution I truly want—I'd like to just multiply existing base skills by two (2) when solo, but the game does not currently expose a mechanism to simply multiply skills by an amount (and attempts to do this by adding a skill to itself led to what I presume were spectacularly profound infinite recursions and/or race conditions that usually led to PoE2 just abruptly ceasing to exist). When such a thing is possible, I may release a similar item set for that approach.
This is a cheat. Or it's a tool. Or both. Play the game as you will.
Installation
Unzip the mod archive to your
…\Pillars of Eternity II\PillarsOfEternityII_Data\override folder (create the override folder if it does not yet exist).(Exit and Re-) Start the game. The tome (and ring) will appear in your stash in the same manner as preorder and other bonus items were given.
Removal
Delete/trash the
Lone Polymath folder under …\Pillars of Eternity II\PillarsOfEternityII_Data\override. Note that any saved game in which you have the trinket (or ring) equipped or even sitting in a merchant's inventory is at risk of aberrant behavior when the game tries to access the no longer extant items.Bugs/Feedback
This has not been extensively tested; let me know if you have any problems or concerns.
Right now only English localization is provided; if you wish to contribute translations for the other languages supported by PoE2 feel free to do so.
Thanks
Obsidian for the game.
The PoE2: Deadfire and Nexus modding community, with a nod to:
@garten (for reminding of the little-used grimoire/trinket slot)
@peardox (for compiling a list of game functions that included "Boolean IsAnyCompanionActiveInParty()" which was exactly what I was trying to find to enable these items to only work when solo)
--/\/