#(skyrim modding talk)

[feykrorovaan]

Every time I see an oversexualized/air brush shiny Serana mod:

LEAVE HER ALONE.

#feykrorovaan #elder scrolls #tes #skyrim #tesblr #modded skyrim #Serana #LEAVE MY GIRL ALONE #She's been through enough #She's perfect the way she is #Idc if people crush on her but there are SOME people out there... #you know who I'm talking about #Dungeon for a thousand years

[leavingautumn13]

more of my dragonborn oc, kyrena, and the slippery slope that is working with daedra

[i have commissions open now!]

bonus miraak:

#skyrim #lydia skyrim #hermaeus mora #miraak #dragonborn dlc #the elder scrolls #autumn.art #autumn.oc #oc: kyrena xaviera #all but one of my tes ocs are involved with the daedra in some way but kyrena's the only one who winds up tapping out #and like for good reason #there should be a mod that replaces all of hermy's extra eyes with googly eyes. i think that would be funny #that's what i think of while drawing them #anyway i'm SO excited to replay dragonborn to see if miraak sounds like danse (and therefore like tim allen) to me now #anyway peryite's quest is gross but spellbreaker's worth it. thanks for coming to my ted talk

[dawns-beauty]

hey! what would you say are your favorite small, atmospheric mods (like immersion-category stuff)?

This post might interest you: it has a lot of atmospheric mods, though some are big. I especially recommend Ghosts of the Deathbells, Windmills of Skyrim, and Scarecrows of Skyrim :)

This is kind of basic, but I really like animation variants/addons for NPCs. Stuff like EVG Animation Variance and all of CHIMgarden's mods just really add that extra little bit of personality Skyrim's NPCs desperately need

FrankBlack has been doing some cool work with Base Object Swapper to introduce more variety into the game.

Clofas' sound mods are really cool and immersive

Flying Crows

Evil Dead Trees - Dying Trees in Evil Places

Supreme Fog for Morthal Region

Skyrim Battle Aftermath

Dark Anchors Ruins and Dolmens

Oblivion Gates

While not a small mod by ANY means... Oh my gosh, I just installed Seasons of Skyrim and man does that do it for immersion over a longer playthrough!

#skyrim #skyrim mods #mod recs #mod talk #i kept getting distracted by cool mods and wanting to play skyrim lol #hope you like some on here!!

[kreinvulon]

plug a lil weird but he’s alright

#kriin talks #he deals me my antidepressants #gore skyrim #skyrim gore #skyrim custom followers #tes v skyrim #modded skyrim

[nerevar-quote-and-star]

Dangerously close to plotting a real Skyrim/Lord of the Rings crossover for after Keeping Count because my secret desire for Leara/Glorfindel has reared its head again

Shhh Don't question it.

#look look now i must explain #the explanation is that leara simply works well with literally every male character I like at least for the most part #anyway #it'd be funny #i wish i could write a leara/astarion fic but i do NOT understand d&d at all alas #I understand lotr/silm on a crazy level so i guess sunshine hero elf it is #this is fine actually #actually what i really need to do is edit and finish my funny Skyrim/hobbit crack fic but that's a ten year old project #no really #I do NOT KNOW i am just having thoughts and i'm sharing them on my blog because it's mine and I can #also i was in the glorfindel/ofc tag on ao3 like five minutes ago and it looks empty and sad #so Leara can fix it #one day there will be more leara ships than there are for hermione granger jk maybe #i should make a list #I am talking out of my hair it is unlikely that i'll ever do anything the fact that keeping count even exists is a bloody miracle #mod post #oc: leara roseblade

[skyrim-dungeon-ratings]

Redbelly Mine

RATING: 2/10

This is a mine and not a dungeon, first and foremost- the inclusion of spiders doesn’t make it a dungeon. Secondly, the layout of this mine struck me as familiar, as did the inclusion of spiders. Which is when I remembered- somewhere, in a spot I forgot the name of, there’s an entire cave that is just the concept of “one big spiral full of spiders” taken to an extreme. And that is why I have bothered to rate it at all. It’s just.. sad that this neat little side quest in Shor’s Stone isn’t even unique.

I genuinely wish, with my whole heart, that there was more to it. There could’ve been. The blacksmith even says the spiders moved in overnight once they dug too deep. They couldn’t have just put a wall leading to a hotspring cave with a giant spider in it or something? Regardless of my thoughts on the matter, Redbelly Mine is a strange little spot.

It does feel very nice to help the outpost get back on its feet though.

#dungeon ratings #redbelly mine #spiders #skyrim dungeon #skyrim #the elder scrolls #elder scrolls #in my heart i know nobody will make a mod expanding these niche locations but i can sometimes dream #while not technically a dungeon i mourn for the fact it could have been #and indeed it even SEEMED to be a dungeon from a surface level talk with all the folk #twas not. #The red haze could’ve made a cute little gimmicky ambush spider dungeon #perhaps with a bit of nordic tomb inspiration?

[foxgirltail]

Much like the idea that fanfiction makes a piece of fiction good, the idea that modding makes a game good is just as flawed, because any given modding scene wouldn't be nearly as active if the game could stand on its own legs

#im talking about Skyrim here but im sure it could apply to other games #'skyrim is good because of how moddable it is' ❌ -> 'skyrim cant be good because you need 30+ mods to make it playable' ✔️ #also im learning more about how bad skyrim is at actually handling mods and wow its kinda crazy. i wish someone would improve that but #that'd require changing some big engine stuff. and probably can't be modded in by virtue of trolls law

[icicleteeth]

Went on a tangent a bit about this on twt but the useless hill I'm ready and willing to die on is wanting these rpg worlds to have a more fleshed out (from a lore perspective) explanation to how the currency system works, because so many just use single gold pieces, which makes sense in a gameplay way but how does this work in terms of commerce... Are we just carrying around sacks of several hundreds of thousands of coins...

Just think about how much of a pain in the ass it would be to buy an enchanted weapon from an enchanter for, even just 1k gold, okay maybe we can assume there's like some standardized 500 gold sleeves (like how there are coin rolls irl) well what if that weapon is a weirder number like 1439 gold, okay well now you gotta get more specific, and the vendor's counting all the coins to make sure you got the right amount (assuming we're talking purchasing rather than bartering, but at least in TES, bartering has long stopped being a thing) And don't even get me started on large quantity sales like purchasing estates... I know we're never going to get an actual banking system like Daggerfall again, but at least...idk have a bank or mention of that stuff somewhere, even if it's just flavor text or decorative and has no gameplay function to it... I am begging....

#i know i specifically focus way more on niche worldbuilding aspects like this than i'm supposed to like. yes i know it's a game... #and im just coping reminiscing on daggerfall's bank system and some fallout games having different currencies than just caps #(which ik i don't talk about fallout a lot but my gripes with individual septims being the only standardized currency is the same with caps #thank god there are mods for skyrim that add banks and letters of credit (they don't really have gameplay function bc skyrim fundamentally- #doesn't but i still appreciate they're there...)

[countyouriuckystars]

me when i see the first sign of my game about to crash

#destiny plays modded skyrim #skyrim #modded skyrim #IT WOULDNT EVEN DO THIS IF IT NEVER UPDATED #TODD HOWARD!!!!!!!! #URRRGHHH #des keeps talking

[molagbalapologist]

Saw a post bemoaning the fact that we can't actually be a bard in skyrim. And like, yes, exactly! I was so disappointed when I did the bard college quest for the first time 😭😭 Every wandering bard tells you about the college...and then you don't even get to be a bard? 🥺

Would've loved a quest where you're tasked with infiltrating a party and being a member of the college meant you could pretend to be the party's bard or something.

I know the mechanics of it might've been difficult with the skyrim engine but hear me out: the bard training at the college would've been a perfect moment for a dragonborn joke/fast track bard initiation - they ask you to sing some ancient nord thing, and it turns out to be a dragon shout (don't ask me about the logistics of that I just think it'd be funny). And the teacher could be like "holy shit?? You're dragonborn? Ok... well for everyone's safety let's just pronounce you a bard right now, congratulations 🎊 now please leave before you shout apart our library"

#skyrim #and i understand there are mods and shit like god bless mod creators #I'm just talking about what could have been in vanilla skyrim

[hellafluff]

It's really funny to me the random NPCs in skyrim who I'll suddenly just, fall in love with for no reason? And half of them are Dunmer???

#sometimes a random NPC will exist and not be relevant to any plots or big quests but they have 1 or 2 pieces of #unique dialogue or an interesting role or a cute face and i just. #i love them #okay weird segue but i think this is why i dislike 80% of the followers in the game and like every mod follower #they have nothing to them that i can glean a personality from or for the mods theyre all trying to hard to be a Fellow Main Character #meanwhile Erandur Aranea and Teldryn (told you it was dunmers) are all I Exist and Am Somewhat Interesting can i follow you? :) #and dip them low and smooch them #skyrim #crazee talk

[shitty-miraak]

Where are you? 🥺

Btw miraak, a lot has happened this year! Life is going better :D i wonder if you would cheer up for your cultists (or last dragonborn!)

So Much happened this year on my end too honesly. So Much. I'm glad life is going better for you ! I can only hope it keeps doing so !

#i'd say. mine as well #[ALSO REAL MOD TALK HERE. IM NOT DEAD I JUST HAVE ADHD] #[SO I FORGET SOMETIMES. AND THEN WHEN I COME BACK. IM LIKE OH FUCK IS IT TOO LATE TO COME BACK ???] #[anyway mod's on adhd meds now] #[i don't know if that'll make me more regular but surely i can answer the backlog of asks] #[uh oh right i have tags i'm supposed to use here right] #miraak #tes fanart #skyrim #the elder scrolls #skyrim fanart #thanks for the ask!

[powdermelonkeg]

Look at him, following me around like I'm his justiciar.

#is it weird that i find it adorable #we're walking in line! :D #also my character is so short compared to him #it's like that meme of 'how to talk to short people' #tesv #skyrim #taliesin skyrim #real tea hours #i've had to zoom out so far for this playthrough. i need to see when wolves are coming #i have a mod that won't let me fight and another one that inflicts bad wounds i can't just potion away so it's important #not AS important now that tally's there to protect me from wolves but. yknow.

[dawns-beauty]

Favorite LE mods?! :D

Ooo good question! I will try to answer with stuff that hasn't been ported/supported for SSE that I miss:

I really like Dark Forests of Skyrim. It got a port, but it just doesn't have much support for SSE, or I would still be using it. My favorite parts were the addition of giant mushrooms to the Eastmarch hot springs area and birch trees with crimson leaves in a few snowy areas (maybe unrealistic, but very striking.)

I also love Freckle Mania 2. Just some solid freckles there!

Gifts of the Outsider - Dishonored in Skyrim is near and dear to me too. Nothing like summoning a swarm of rats to devour your enemies while you Blink away lol.

Natural Lighting Vivid Atmospherics - man, I miss this one. It took me forever to find one for SSE that I liked as much as it

OrinLinwe's houses have a special place in my heart: their clutter game is immaculate, and a big inspiration for Khajiit Has Wares

Solstheim for the Dunmer - one of my first big modding projects was patching this mod and Quaint Ravenrock for an über Dunmeri experience. I should redo that sometime...

Thengil Farms Remastered - simply adds some sensible variety to some of Skyrim's farms

More Draconic Aspect + Real Flying - janky, but such a cool idea that Draconic Aspect grants yoy wings and flight

Sneak Tools - also janky, but such a cool upgrade to your rogue's toolkit

#a lot of mods i really liked got deleted :( #like all of sonoftrendis' lore series which adds dolmen ruins and oblivion gates (better than a*rthmoor's tbh) #and eso-style flame atronachs #mod talk #skyrim mods #mod recs #answer

[kreinvulon]

gore companion mod, “blood ties” / “to free a raven” spoilers

any other trans people collectively hear the “who has the luxury of choosing their own name anyways?” line and laugh to themselves? even better if you’re playing as a trans / nb LDB or character who chose their own name. like buddy, i have something to tell you

#kriin talks #i think it’s even better when you acknowledge that the mod is *for* trans people #<- stated on nexus #thanks hayd you’re great #gore skyrim #transgender

[nerevar-quote-and-star]

I love the word doom. I love how it actually denotes fate but when people hear it, they freak out. Mount Doom isn't named because it's evil or because bad things happen there, but because it's where fateful things occured. It's why I like using the "doom drum" to describe Leara's heartbeat when something is about to happen. She's the Prisoner: With every step forward, her actions determine the fate of everyone else. Will she stop Alduin? Will she let him consume the world? Who knows.

#yes I'm referring to seht's concept of the prisoner as having freewill vs the majority being bound by determinism #and yes i also refer to things in the framework of lotr because why not #and yeeessss i love talking about leara i just have so much school that I can't like i want to #it makes me grumpy #also yes i know there's an actual doom drum in tes but I can't remember what it is #rip I'll look it up later #mod post #oc: leara roseblade #the elder scrolls #tes #skyrim #BUT IMAGINE IF THE DRAGONBORN JUST LET ALDUIN RUN AMOK AND EAT THE WORLD #madness