Dear diary, this Baldur's Gate 3 mod lets you write in-game journals documenting your characters' adventures

If thing else, you tin scrawl down your novel-length backstory and prevention clip connected intros by handing it to each companion

What happened today? Well, Astarion said thing sassy, Lae'zel tried to thatch Gale however to physique a shed, and Shadowheart wrote a Gauntlet of Shar-themed parody of 'Is This The Way To Amarillo'. That's astir however I ideate the diary entries a caller Baldur's Gate 3 mod lets you constitute arsenic portion of an awesome in-game diary strategy volition go.

Well, that and astatine slightest 100 words per time of moaning astir having a small squid happening successful your brain.

The mod's dubbed Tav's Journal and has been developed by Mazzle23. It repurposes a clever instrumentality they created for customized in-game mod acquisition pages the different month, letting the subordinate instrumentality elemental quest logs and crook them into elaborate diaries packed with entries successful which you tin papers immoderate you like. So, erstwhile you look backmost done the events of a playthrough, alternatively of Larian's default synopses, you'll person unsocial idiosyncratic records of what you were doing oregon reasoning astatine immoderate point.

Naturally, it's aimed astatine the likes of those who get truly heavy into roleplaying oregon completionists who mightiness beryllium noting down details to instrumentality to, taking the benignant of penning you mightiness person done connected a carnal notepad up until present into the crippled itself.

Assuming you're successful it to consciousness much successful the shoes of your tadpole-brained adventurer, you tin footwear disconnected arsenic you would successful carnal DnD by filling retired the quality illustration and biography conception for your character. Mazzle23 boasts of "large substance areas for elaborate storytelling and notes", truthful consciousness escaped to spell afloat War and Peace if you've clip and a idiosyncratic successful caput whose beingness frankincense acold can't beryllium summed up swiftly. Handily for much verbose narrative-weaving entries, the mod's diaries travel with their ain auto-save strategy and the quality to leap betwixt editing and read-only modes.

They besides see 2 kinds of to-do list, with the 1 for semipermanent goals mirroring the accustomed quest log, portion the different provides for day-specific tasks "tied to peculiar diary entries" which I presume you'll acceptable up yourself. 'Tell Gale helium smells, past laughter erstwhile helium cries' for instance.

The aesthetically-pilled volition beryllium gladsome to larn that the mod boasts immoderate ocular customisation too, with six leafage themes to prime from and aggregate fonts, successful lawsuit you can't consciousness genuinely astatine 1 with your dwarf unless you're scrawling crossed a chromatic tablet successful Comic Sans. Any worries astir having to ruin erstwhile enactment successful bid to tailor a diary to a caller playthrough person been planned for, with each quality being capable to make and support their ain simultaneously, portion you tin besides duplicate journals if you privation templates oregon backup copies.

All successful all, it's a truly awesome happening to person pulled off, with Mazzle23 noting than an enactment to export journals arsenic PDFs and auto-tracking for in-game stats are among the additions they're moving connected for aboriginal updates. If you fancy giving BG3 journaling a go, you'll request drawback some the BG3 publication extender and Mazzle's EZ-Documentation.