I hate to bump an old topic, but I pretty much have similar questions to the OP. I don't want to edit skins or anything like that. I was mostly concerned with whether I could change character traits (and thus, skills), weapon stats, that kind of thing?

Thats what I want to do eventually, at this point I'd settle for just a basic guide first telling me precisely what tools I need and how to get to the point that I can begin looking for the stuff I want to change. :p Sorry for the complete newb question. Starting to get burned out on the vanilla stuff so I wanted to change it up a bit to my own tastes for my next run.