Runes add some permanent bonuses to your gear, they're destined either for shields, armor, weapon or helmet (example : 0-2 vision rune with 1-9% xp bonus, 2 happening almost never, it's mostly 0/1 vision with 5% xp bonus) You also unlock the Vala random encounter which could join you (she can create runes through the camp, it takes forever if she's by herself but she can get help from some crafty backgrounds, progression is made whenever you camp and someone is assigned to the task) You'll drop runes no matter what, with this option on, you'll drop them more often, which isn't that often and only happens with some enemies (hexen, schrats, alps, lindwurms, kraken maybe, other mundane enemies don't drop any). I turn it off, meaning you still get them but they're restricted to specific backghrounds (widow, shieldmaidens, adventurous ladies, washerwomen, maids), i think they went overboard with way to many useless new backgrounds but it's not like i have to hire them either, i use adventurous ladies sometimes from midgame and shieldmaidens are great tanks for the early game (later, i switch to no shield, full offense) There is a partial loophole though (see Ranger/Berserker starts)

That's the part that still sucks for me but if you can get over it and adapt (or savescum to check recruits out), everything else is dope. On the down side, your mercs could not have key skills like berserk, pathfinding and more rarely (but it happens) rest! Meaning you'll miss on dozens of new perks (i think there's a total of 135 including vanilla ones).

If you disable this, you'll play with the vanilla perk tree.

So, i'll make a short presentation of the new starts & features offered by the Legends mod and of course, i'll be 100% partial, no equality bullshit or impartiality nonsense around here. Everyone knows this mod by now, i assume but they probably don't know the latest version fixed all the bugs and some features are really game changer in a great way, adding a lot of flavor to the game which has a great combat engine but is really lackluster in every other compartment.

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