Some of the new official Mods - a few observations

[seeker1]

There is a new official mod called Mystra's Spells. I'm trying it out. It pretty much has all the spells in 5E Spells Mod, but adds a whole bunch more. A few appear to be homebrew, a few seem to be from other WotC source material. I'm not sure you can use both at the same time, and there'd be no reason to. So I deactivated 5E Spells mod. The cool thing is Mystra's Spells don't need script extender to populate your spell lists. It just works.

I'm trying out the Mind Weaver class. Couple things I found out, some the hard way. "Astral Anomalies" seem like Wild Magic surges, but they always seem to backfire badly. You want to use your anomaly suppression ability to keep this from happening, although it is not unlimited. I have found ANY spell, not just your psionic abilities native to the class, can triggr these anomaly events. Also, there are three VFX addons it has as dependencies. The official mod site doesn't say this; Nexus does. Without those dependencies, many of its psionic spells don't work. It seems to be able to level to 20, but doesn't get any new abilities from 13-20, though the author says they are working on that.

The Keep Alfira mod seems to work quite nicely. You can't pick a camping spot for her after Act 1, nor will she perform for your party spontaneously. But other than that, it's working fine. There's a little item the mod gives you to debug her if something goes wrong - so far I have not had to use it.

Two other new class mods I have tried out are Witch and Arcane Vanguard. BTW, I think there's another Witch class mod at Nexus which is older and totally different. Both will only level to 12, you have to multi-class past that to get to 20. Also, there is a new and different homebrew Artificer mod at the official site which a) unlike the main Nexus version, only levels to 12 and b) seems to require some other homebrew mod by the author as a dependency. I'm not trying it.