Some time back @Elric Galad made the suggestion of a mod to enable a standalone playthorugh of the Seeker Slayer Survivor DLC:
I've (sporadically) worked on implementing this concept, and the mod is now at the point where it's a fully playable - big thanks to everyone in the modding subforum thread! I thought to post it here since this new gamemode may be of general interest.
Features
New Game starts with entering the Temple of Toamowhai, and you'll be blocked from exiting the island. All quests flags will be set appropriately.
You'll begin at Lv 16 with 100'000 gold and a Superb copy of every weapon and armor kind.
You'll be free to access the inn and hire a full party of adventurers before taking on any challenges (just speak to Humaire once first).
Challenges will provide extra gold (50k) and experience. These rewards are repeatable, but your party will reach Lv19 in the later parts of the campaign even if you only do the mandatory challenges.
Vendors will sell unique loot and large quantities of all consumables and misc items:
Caretta will sell all (non-SSS) Unique Armor and Weapons.
Winge will sell all Grimoires, Scrolls, Trinkets and Unique Accessories. (Note that Winge is available after the first challenge.)
Neale will sell all Potions, Ingredients and Upgrade materials.
Cook Corrin will sell all Drugs and Prepared Meals.
(TODO: Pets, Soulbound Armor & Weapons, Bombs & Traps)
Artefact-hunting challenges will be unlocked simultaneously with the ones you get from exploring Kazuwari.
You can load any preexisting non-S4 playthrough while the mod is enabled, and experience vanilla behavior! (The changes to rewards and vendors only take effect if a specific flag has been set upon character creation.)
To start a new non-S4 game, you only have to temporarily disable the mod (and reboot the game). Then reenable it after character creation, or whenever you go back to your S4 playthroughs.
Looking for feedback!
All feedback is much appreciated, in particular regarding starting gold and rewards which are currently somewhat abitrary 😄
If there are any items missing from Vendors that you think should be available (besides the ones listed TODO above), I'd be happy to hear!
Feedback on Levels/Experience reward are also welcome, here are some more details on what's currently implemented:
Download -> S4 - Standalone Seeker Slayer Survivor.zip
Installation
Download the .zip file and extract the content to your override folder.
.../Pillars of Eternity II Deadfire/PillarsOfEternityII_Data/override
Note that if you install and enable the mod while the game is still running, the vanilla intro scene will still be used. In that case, restart the game once and the mod will thereafter property override the intro scene.
(Likewise, if you want to uninstall/disable the mod, the game must be relaunched after the mod has been unstalled/disabled for the intro scene to revert.)