Upon launching the new "Baldur's Gate 3" game, you are immediately asked to choose from three difficulty options: explorer, balanced, and tactician. The easiest mode, Explorer, is described only as "an experience that prioritizes story over combat. It turns out that choosing Explorer not only makes combat easier in Baldur's Gate 3, but also seals off multiclassing, a leveling option that can be confusing for first-time D&D players.

Two hours before Baldur's Gate 3 launched on Thursday, one modder lifted that restriction, making multiclassing available regardless of difficulty level.

Multiclass Unlocker (Full Release Version) was the first BG3 mod listed on Nexusmods, with a less detailed description:

"Unlocks the multiclass feature on all difficulties. Unlocks the multiclass feature on all difficulties. Can be used in a new campaign or in the middle of play (but does not apply until the next level up). By default, multiclassing is disabled in Baldur's Gate 3's lowest difficulty mode. This mod re-enables it.

The mod can be installed with the Baldur's Gate 3 mod manager tool available via Github, which will do the minor configuration work for you. If you choose to install it manually, unzip it into the Baldur's Gate 3 mod directory, which is automatically created when you install the game. By default it is located here: [C:◆Users[yourname]◆AppDataLocal◆Larian Studios◆Baldur'sGate◆Mods◆. You will need to copy the contents of the included info.json file into the Baldur's Gate 3 file called modsettings.lsx, which is located here by default. I was a bit surprised when I saw this option disabled in Baldur'sGate 3 easy mode. But if you check out our Baldur's Gate 3 Multiclassing Guide, you may understand Larian's reasoning for this. [Unlike many RPGs where you reach level 40, 60, or even 100 over the course of the story, "Baldur's Gate 3" has a much lower level cap of 12. The level cap in D&D is very low at 12. If you choose to multiclass, you give up the possibility of being powerful at the end of the game. It is a much heavier decision than adding a few points to Dexterity in Dark Souls, for example.

As we emphasized in our guide, some multiclass combinations are worth splitting levels, but others can get you in trouble: a D&D newbie can take one point in each class and be an all-rounder who can't even beat a goblin in thumb wrestling. I can imagine them wondering. So if you are installing this mod to play on Explorer difficulty, be cautious about multiclassing.

No matter which difficulty you play on, we have plenty of help available; the Baldur's Gate 3 Guide Hub has links to what we've written so far on surviving in the Forgotton Realm.