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The Way of the Herbling

It's a Way of Life. Equipped with forest-walker artisanry, your hero takes on a passion for foraging and the gathering of plants and fungi.

The Way of the Herbling is a mod centered around a mysterious encounter that grants the hero the Herbling's Pouch. Foraging for plants and mushrooms becomes a hobby that leads to new discoveries, events, and skills.

The writing style is light. Attention is paid to hero personalities and relationships. All specific species of plants and mushrooms are fictional. Some of them grant benefits to the hero(es), but any allusion to drug-like use is avoided. The writing takes inspiration from the Wildermyth world, cultural references are avoided.

The mod introduces the Herbling's Pouch as an item that can be stored into a character's legacy with a unique skill equipping it in future campaigns. The pouch grants the hero the Gather Patch ability to forage adjacent plant or tree scenery once per mission. (These are the sceneries that grant treecall and vinewrench.)

Successful foraging increases the hero's forager level, modifies the ability's benefit to the user, and unlocks new events where new discoveries can be made. (Failed attempts may also unlock new events that modify the skill!)

The gameplay supports two play-styles: new abilities and modifications can be saved into legacy, or the mods content can be played as a single campaign benefit (with the pouch disappearing like other augments in future campaigns).

Most events and skills require the Herbling's Pouch to be equipped to trigger or be used.

See Discussions > The Way of the Herbling: Content, for detailed information!