For many RPG fans, Divinity: Original Sin 2 is right up there with Baldur’s Gate and even Planescape Torment as the best of the genre. What it lacks in seriousness and heavy philosophical themes, it makes up for in engaging gameplay and boundless RPG freedom. It’s one of the few games out there that allow players to do whatever they please, including going murder-hobo on everyone.

Of course, it’s still not a perfect game, though it comes close to being one. That’s players look for ways to supplement the experience with a few mods that tweak things here and there. The changes range from quality of life improvements to gameplay balance, making the game less tedious and more fun, especially for several playthroughs. Here are ten mods worth looking into for longtime fans of the game.

Updated February 19th, 2021 by Sid Natividad: Many RPGs have come and gone but Divinity: Original Sin II still remains the most popular of them all. Since its next critical successor, Baldur’s Gate III is far from finished, squeezing out some more game time from Divinity: Original Sin 2 ought to be enough to keep the fans occupied. So, more mods are added for better replay value.

15 Trader Restock And Clean Junks

One big issue that players keep running into in the game is how the vendors and traders take a while before they change up their item supply. This can be a bummer for anyone looking to speed up their playthrough or are looking for somewhere to spend their gold.

Trader Restock and Clean Junks can be a fitting remedy for this gameplay hurdle. It lets players force vendor menu restock on command with the press of a hotkey. If they’re feeling a little unfair, then they can do it over and over again until they get the item they want.

14 Monsters Madness

For those on several playthroughs of Divinity: Original Sin II, it can feel dull since you already know where to expect combat or how to cheese all the encounters. Spicing things up with ambushes is certainly warranted for more experience and even more opportunities to show off that broken party combo.

Monsters Madness lets players go all out with combat. It’s a mod that sprinkles in some monster or enemy encounters in areas where players were once safe. Do note that their difficulty levels were also spiked for more excitement.

13 Unchain Chain All Characters

Accidents often happen in Divinity: Original Sin II despite the handy controls. Even something as simple as separating your party members and letting one sneak off can quickly turn into a frustrating accident where they all blunder around an enemy fort.

Unchain Chain All Characters lowers the chances of that happening among other accidents involved in the rather sticky party member separation system. It adds a convenient hotkey for singling out party members or unchaining them all at once.

12 Play As You Want

As it is, Divinity: Original Sin II has its own game mode similar to Dungeons and Dragons where players can choose to be a dungeon master for a gameplay session. Too bad this isn’t available for singleplayer.

However, a mod called Play as you want fixes this and lets players DM their own solo adventure. Whether it’s a straight-up cheat mod or not depends on your restraint. Regardless, it’s an awesome and powerful tool for creating your own stories.

11 Organized Containers

The inventory is a huge mess in Divinity: Original Sin II even with the sorting system. Bags can help with this but they can also get rather chaotic with their lack of proper labeling. Another form of an extensive labeling system is surely welcome.

That’s why Organized Containers was created. This one’s a simple bag system and program for the game where players can sort and place their items in bags that come with icons. A one-click command is also available to help players with the proper items in the right bag.

10 Combat Sneak

Sneaking or stealth is one of the clunkiest and most comedically unrefined mechanics in Divinity: Original Sin 2. It’s awkward outside of combat and barely usable during. That’s why someone created a mod like Combat Sneak.

It’s simple and reduces the AP consumption of sneaking in combat, bringing it down from 4 to 2. This allows for better gameplay variety and makes sneaky-stabby characters more powerful and versatile.

9 Vanity

One of the best motivations any player can have in Divinity: Original Sin 2 or any RPG, in general, is fashion (usually second only to character progression). After all, one can’t have a powerful in-game avatar whose clothes don’t match the reputation. Hence, mods like Vanity exist.

It’s practically a transmogrify mod that allows players to change the appearance of their weapons and armor. Now they can walk around Fort Joy looking like a descendant of gods instead of shipwreck rags.

8 Greed - More Loot Variety

Looting is another goal of many RPG players and getting items to perfectly suit their character’s needs is a matter of luck, strategy, and math. Greed - More Loot Variety pumps up these aspects of looting more by adding some random modifiers for items.

The mod is mostly for weapons and adds new skills, status effects, range, and AP modifiers—more weapons to choose from especially from vendors. Additionally, new epic and rare items are also added to the loot pool.

7 Character Creation Plus

Compared to the first game, and to other top-down RPGs, Divinity: Original Sin 2’s character creation is great. However, some features of it were rather bland or felt like they belonged in the 2000s. Character Creation Plus gives players better options.

These come in the form of new hairstyles, new beards, new faces, and even new colors. They’re all applicable to any race. Want a blue elf that looks like a drow? This mod lets you do just that. It makes characters more unique compared to the NPCs.

6 8 AP Max

Action Points are what define Divinity: Original Sin 2’s intuitive combat and is reminiscent of tabletop progenitors like Dungeons and Dragons. It’s more limiting, however, since AP is used for both movement and attacks. That’s why 8 AP Max gives players more room for experiments.

It raises the base available combat AP from 6 to 8, keep in mind that this somewhat breaks the game since enemies are not affected by this boost. It’s best to use it for higher difficulties. The mod is also compatible with the Lone Wolf skill.

5 Crafting Overhaul

Crafting is done well in Divinity: Original Sin 2 but some of the player-base think that the room for improvement is quite high. Crafting Overhaul is proof of this and adds some crazy new twists to the already robust crafting system of the game.

It lets players craft armor dyes, elemental weapons, bags, chests, and even portable crafting stations. The whole mod alone slaps in some 1,600 new crafting recipes and 550 new items on top of the existing ones.

4 Expanded Party Size

All companions in Divinity: Original Sin 2 are interesting and bring a lot to every playthrough. The problem is, players can usually only bring three of them, and it’s hard to choose which ones to include in the party.

Expanded Party Size remedies this. It raises the party size limit from 4 to 6. That practically allows players to pick one of the companions as their character and the five others, allowing them to play out all companion quests and reap their benefits at the same time.

3 Fast Run Speed

For a game that involves a lot of exploration and several playthroughs, Divinity: Original Sin 2, having better means to breeze through the beaten path is a must and a time-saver. Fast Run Speed makes this happen.

The mod increases all characters’ running speed by 30 percent and makes map traversal and re-visiting spots more tolerable. Do note that this mod doesn’t affect the movement speed in combat, only in exploration.

2 Free Pet Pal

Divinity: Original Sin 2 has one of the deepest and most intricate RPG mechanics with layers upon layers of options both hidden and obvious. One of the former is being able to talk to animals—they reveal plenty of information that players would otherwise miss; talking to them requires the Pet Pal skill which is a bummer.

Thankfully, the mod Free Pet Pal adds that skill for free to the player’s character sheet and even refunds a skill point if the players already picked it. This allows more interactive in-game paths without the need for another playthrough.

1 The Cheat Commander

Speaking of multiple playthroughs, the only problem with them is how tedious they can get. There are times when most players would wish to just zoom past the early and mid-game toil to test out their builds in high-level content. The Cheat Commander can grant that wish.

It’s a mod that lets players level up, get items, and gain spells at will. Of course, it’s not recommended for the first playthrough. At best, it’s a great way to avoid the grind in subsequent playthroughs; for a game like Divinity: Original Sin 2, more than one is necessary to experience the whole game.

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