Baldur's Gate 3 custom campaign mod recreates the original Baldur's Gate's Candlekeep and prologue

The tome-filled fortress is back, provided you don't caput immoderate misbehaving helmets

A caller Baldur's Gate 3 customized run mod has emerged onto the Nexus similar Gale's mitt done that portal, and it's 1 you'll apt privation to cheque retired if you fancy getting nostalgic for 1 of RPG's classical siblings. Return to Candlekeep, arsenic you mightiness person gleaned from the title, aims to recreate the prologue of the archetypal Baldur's Gate, by taking you to a definite room fortress.

It's not astonishing someone's fixed this a go. After all, daunting tasks arsenic specified things mightiness be, a bully fig of the BG3 customized campaigns being enactment unneurotic with the Moonglasses toolkit person opted to effort their manus astatine taking players to revamped versions of locations from the erstwhile 2 games.

Enter catchily-named modder 786r786, who released Return to Candlekeep this play conscionable gone. Re-creating the opening country from the archetypal game, it'll fto you rotation astir everyplace from Candlekeep library, to the inn, and the pool/altar combo that makes up the Temple of Oghma.

You get a bully look astir these, positive a gander astatine the customized main menu, quality instauration surface and campy the modder's included, successful the implicit 20 minute-long circuit video below. They don't bash overmuch talking to NPCs successful that, apt connected relationship of the mod not having immoderate dependable acting astatine the moment, but constitute successful the statement that they've pulled crossed each of the quests and dialog lines you'd expect from specified a recreation. There should beryllium capable to support you occupied for "about an hr 30 astatine most", which is wherefore 786r786 has dubbed this a mini-campaign.

There are immoderate teething issues it's worthy being alert of, not that specified a thing's that astonishing fixed the investigating crushed precocious BG3 run mods inactive are astatine this point. Parts of buildings tin look unloaded, leaving roofs awkwardly floating with nary supports, portion NPC helmets tin "disconnect from their caput astatine a distance". On the positive side, cases of semipermanent helmet hairsbreadth affliction are apt little among the residents of Candlekeep than those of the basal game.

786r786 says there's thing they tin bash astir these issues astatine the moment, and arsenic for whether they'll soma retired the mod much going forwards, they've a 1 connection answer: "potentially".

Regardless of whether they support astatine it, this is simply a chill happening for them to person done, fixed Larian themselves considered moving a instrumentality to Candlekeep into Baldur's Gate 3 portion they were weaving their improvement magic. The devs adjacent got arsenic acold arsenic coming up with ideas for a zany seer chilling successful the basement, arsenic our Edwin, erstwhile RPSer/BG3 pb writer Adam Smith, and keen journo/Larian CEO Swen Vincke chatted astir past year.