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A Rogues Gallery - Lore Friendly Pool
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A Rogues Gallery - Lore Friendly Pool

Description
A lore friendly character pool containing 100 unique soldiers each with their own detailed backgrounds.

The character backgrounds vary from a single paragraph to about five or six in length. They are written from the point of view of C.O. Bradford, Dr. Shen, and Dr. Tygan. I wanted to use a relaxed, enjoyable approach to the stories, so they are written less formally and more as those characters actually speak to you in the game. Sometimes more than one of them will have something to say, so at the end of the biography I wrote the words END FILE. If you don't see those words it means there is more to come, so continue to let it scroll.

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The Stats:

-Personnel Categories-

XCOM Veterans: 5
XCOM Operatives: 40
Resistance Fighters: 15 (three from each of five resistance groups I fabricated)
Mercenaries: 10
XCOM Collaborators: 5
Identified Gifted: 5
Reaper: 5
Skirmisher: 5
Templar: 5
SPARK: 5
Total: 100

-Class Count-

Grenadier: 15
Ranger: 15
Shapshooter: 15
Specialist: 15
Random: 15
Psi Operative: 5
Reaper: 5
Skirmisher: 5
Templar: 5
SPARK: 5

-Gender Count-

Male: 65
Female: 30
SPARK: 5

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The Requirements:

WOTC and all XCOM2 DLC.

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Recommended Mods:

I highly recommend that you subscribe to the entire collection of mods found here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1298956409

This will enable the characters to look as intended and also enable the characters to level up into their designated class. Some of the character backgrounds refer to a specific role and some also refer to physical features, deformities, equipment, enhancements etc.

Note: The alien archaeologist character uses a 'Codex Arm' which causes a hang for 5 to 10 secs the first time it is loaded. If this annoys you just change it to a normal hand.

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Installation and Uninstallation:

To install just subscribe. If you wish to, subscribe to the recommended mods in the collection too.
Then in-game you will need to go to the character pool and choose import. Select the "A Rogues Gallery" pool and import them all.

If you wish to use only these characters and nothing else in your pool: backup your current pool by selecting them all and exporting them to a new character pool. Then delete them, you can import them back in as and when you please.

To uninstall unsubscribe from the mod and go to documents/My Games/XCOM2 War of the Chosen/XcomGame/CharacterPool/Importable and delete "A Rogues Gallery.bin"

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Final Words:

Have fun, leave some feedback and rate if you enjoy! Any problems let me know.

And good luck out there, Commanders.
34 Comments
LEad EaD Soldier Apr 13, 2024 @ 10:23am 
lit, wanted some mroe cool mods that add backgrounds and this popped up.:Batcat:
WoodMan  [author] Oct 23, 2023 @ 5:08am 
Cheers! It's really nice to know some folks are still finding this and enjoying it so long after it was posted! :-)
Priestess of the Wood Oct 22, 2023 @ 3:03pm 
oh this rules
2Battlestations Jun 16, 2020 @ 9:41pm 
@RedArmyRockstar
Ditto
Best CP. Great depth and bios.
Jim.G May 7, 2020 @ 3:40pm 
Hi, sorry to say but this no longer works for me. Skin colour and race screw up fairly regularly and some parts straight up don't get used. I've tried a reinstall, game cache verify, delete and re-download, everything I can think of. Any suggestions?
digitalgdi Apr 15, 2020 @ 7:46am 
[h1]Hey WoodMan![/h1]

:sectoid: I love to make and customize characters, and your pool is awesome!

I'm playing with it enabled, and as expected, I'm customizing the ones I like the most to better fit my playstyle, integration with my own characters, my aesthetic choices, my own lore/bio changes, etc. I'm thinking about eventually uploading my Character Pool to the workshop, but since it will contain many characters that are customized versions of yours, I came to ask for your permission to do this (or not - then I'll have to filter which ones you created so I'd only upload the ones that are 100% my own :steamsad: ).

So, what do you say? :cozybethesda:
TAKEDA 🔴 SHINGEN Mar 23, 2020 @ 12:02pm 
Is this compatible with more backstories mod? Cause I only have my characters in the character pool.
Pughausen Jan 11, 2020 @ 1:29am 
This is no BS the greatest Character pool for XCOM2.
So much depth and detail in every character. This is literally the only CP where i just imported the whole thing because it's just, incredible. almost 2 years after the fact, Bravo.
Sergeant Stutters Nov 8, 2019 @ 3:06pm 
I always wondered when it comes to character packs like this, what happens when they change armor? Do their clothes get randomized like normal characters, or do they have a set outfit already selected so they keep their good looks over into the next armor sets?
Oddball_E8 Oct 27, 2019 @ 5:46am 
Liking the pool, but it seems there's a tendency to put females in the medic/tech roles.

I wish there was more diversity in the pool with a lot more females in the other classes.