A batch of 2DA race & class fixes for my gaming group, done entirely with a plain text editor. A fairly minor attempt at improving player character balance.
* Air Genasi: +2 Dex, +2 Int, -2 Wis, +0 Cha. Favored class: Any.
* Earth Genasi: as original, plus Stonecunning feat.
* Fire Genasi: +2 Int, -2 Wis, +2 Cha. Favored class: Sorcerer.
* Water Genasi: +2 Con, +2 Wis, -2 Cha. Lucky feat. Favored class: Druid.
* Increased spells for mid-level Rangers & Paladins.
* Increased spells known for Warlocks.
* Increased spell swapping at levelup for all charisma-based casters.
Usage: put the desired 2DA files into your /Overrides folder. Should be perfectly safe to use/omit individual changes as desired.
To Do: create custom TLK file so that racial descriptions match the new Genasi stats. I'll probably need to use a TLK editor for that, oh well.
Anyone interested in learning how to make similar changes should extract the original versions of these files from 2DA.zip and 2DA_X1.zip in NWN2's /Data folder, and perform a "diff" operation in your preferred text editor. If your editor is unable to diff (not to mention multi-file regexp), you should get a better one.
Implementing a custom TLK is likely to conflict with other haks or mods that require TLKs of their own, so I'm not going to add it any time soon.
There are many other custom race & class haks on the vault, including some that are built into mods. If you want to use more than one variation at the same time, you will probably need to hand-merge the affected 2DAs.
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