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Backgrounds Are Hero Skills - Unrestricted

This is the unrestricted version of Backgrounds are Hero Skills (this unrestricted version has the same content but allows heroes to have any number of background hero skills.)


This mod makes all 73 background character traits into hero skills. In this way, there is no forced RNG. Be aware that recruitable heroes over level 1 may already have a background hero skill, but it can be respecced. Additionally, for technical and balance reasons, affinity-granting background hero skills cannot be respecced (but they will never be chosen unless you pick them.) The effects of affinity-granting background hero skills are applied when you end your turn.


There are a couple of things this mod effectively allows for:

1. All heroes can have meaningful backgrounds. Since it is difficult to refresh the recruitable hero pool, you will not be forced to recruit heroes with useless backgrounds (i.e. a hero with a stability boost background when you have Dark culture.)
   
2. Ruler heroes get access to background character trait modifiers. Since ruler heroes do not have access to these in vanilla, it is optimal to put all of your best gear on some recruited hero. By making background character traits into hero skills, rulers can be just as strong as recruited heroes.

1. Each background hero skill requires 1 skill point.
   
2. Each affinity-granting background hero skill can only be chosen once for each player. This background hero skill cannot be respecced. (This will prevent abusing these skills to quickly get many high tier tomes.)

If you want each hero to be limited to 1 background hero skill, check out Backgrounds Are Hero Skills (other than this change, it is the same.)

• Definitions_HeroSkills.rpk
  
• SharedModifiers_UnitProperties.rpk
  
• Traits_Background_Characters.rpk (MODIFIED!)
  
• Lords.rpk (MODIFIED!)
  
• Gameplay_Icons.clb
  
• 1 vanilla language file (i.e. EN.mo)