Witcher 3 - Sins of the Student (Questline Mod)

Finalist in the 2024 REDkit Modding Contest main category.

The mod had nearly 500 downloads in its first week on Nexus Mods and is available there: https://www.nexusmods.com/witcher3/mods/9553

Overview

Adds a short new questline relating to the attempts of several Oxenfurt Academy alumni, including Shani, to start a night school to keep the Academy going in some way while it is officially closed due to the war. Something goes horribly wrong when there is an unexplained brutal attack, and now Shani needs Geralt's help to find and stop whatever did this.


Adds roughly 30 minutes of new gameplay over the course of 3 quests. Created as an entry into the 2024 REDkit Modding Contest main category.

This video contains spoilers for the questline as it runs through the whole mod. However, the speed edit skips through a lot of the dialogue and parts of gameplay to: A. keep the video runtime under 10 minutes (as required by the contest entry rules), and B. try to avoid spoiling all of the details and answers (like the puzzle answer).

Features

This mod takes advantage of the incredible power of the REDkit modding tools released for the Witcher 3 to create a rich new questline with new characters, well-crafted dialogue and cutscenes, new interior locations, and a unique puzzle and boss fight. Many of the features and the techniques used to create them are detailed below.


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Cinematic Dialogue and Cutscenes: 

New Locations: 

New Characters: