Dumb mod ideas But Actually We Post Good Mod Ideas

[wheat willow]

a mod to hide inside containers (if they're big enough) and/or inside "corporeal carryable containers" items that can be carried with you and toggled on or off via item menu or hotkey to hide inside of, or maybe a designated container to hide in sold by tg merchants, IDK point is hiding like snake

maybe balancing the mod by making you unable to see and only hear footsteps or a silly walking animation like in the picture but that's all up to the modders

[turbid minnow]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4zF_vBst0U this is canon

[celest blaze]

https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/53302 MGS style stealth

[wheat willow]

i'm guessing that's not openmw

oh shit it is

thank you

[turbid minnow]

A dungeon but its a Japanese gameshow dungeon consisting of a series of these https://x.com/NoContextHumans/status/2041606944348368908?s=20

Out of Context Human Race (@NoContextHumans)

This looks so fun😂

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[willow ore]

LOL!

[wheat willow]

a fairy follower mod for openmw

not to interact or say anything or assist you in any way just straight up be a fairy that follows you around like in berserk or zelda

[vernal dome]

Replace all combat with an undertale style puzzle system including pacifist options

Generic options for most characters with special ones for people like venim or dagoth ur

[serene mulch]

Pacifist options are a legit great idea. There is a blackjack mod I know of at least

You can actually be pacifist as a mage in Morrowind vanilla, but it's not really all that satisfying

I think the main issue is that none of the NPCs care one way or the other

[vernal dome]

Yes, pacifism technically exists but it's super tedious.

A good pacifist mod that can replace command spell shenanigans would be an actually good idea.

[serene mulch]

I just think you need good reasons to be pacifist. Maybe caius decides that making more of a mess could break your cover and provides a small bonus if you finish a mission without killing

There is a personal satisfaction element to it though for me at least.

Usually it's way harder and not in a dumb cheap way

[vernal dome]

That would be neat.

I have no idea how you'd pacifist the heart of lorkhan without introducing something super fanficcy or immersion breaking

[fickle crown]

It can also be fun for RP purposes as well. Morrowind is decent at that. I agree that it could be expanded.

[fickle crown]

Not every single quest in the game needs a dedicated "pacifist" option

[vernal dome]

A non-lethal toggle like in BG3 and some classic stealth game non lethal tools could be cool

[fickle crown]

1. Joins Morag Tong. 2. Plays a pacifist.

[serene mulch]

Deus ex gave you really good reasons to be pacifist. There's more money in it for you and the NPCs notice and call it out if you're a murderer (or not). Thief just bakes it into the difficulty setting in some missions

[fickle crown]

Sorry, I made an error here. Typical outcome would be more like this: 1. Joins Morag Tong, a famous guild of assassins. 2. Cannot play as a pacifist. 3. Writes "this game suxx" on the Internet.

[serene mulch]

When I played cyberpunk I got a gun mod that made my bullets non lethal and got really excited until I found out it's no different from killing them in any way

[fickle crown]

It's worse. When you knock somebody down and hide the body in a container, the game kills the NPC.

for some goddamned technical reasons

it's not a joke

Anyway, I really like using "pacifist", diplomatic or non-violent options in games. Convince someone to do sth, sneak past enemies, knock them out. It's very cool having options like that. For stealth in particular, I know that @arctic quarry had a very promising blackjack KO system in his SHOP mod. Don't remember whether he got around to implementing stun traps.

[arctic quarry]

SHOP got a little derailed, although damaging and stunning traps are in the scope and will be inteoduced at one point, especially when now I can cast custom spells to the game world

Pair that with sleep spell from DetailDevil and you have quite an arsenal for pacifist gameplay

(Which is included in SHOP)

[fickle crown]

Yeah, you mentioned yesterday that the bug pile got scary but you will eventually go back to it 🙂

[arctic quarry]

When we are making breakthroughs here with magic so that’s like top priority 😄 but I presume next month I’ll go on a binge to fix all the problems with SHOP just like I did with quick select, 2 evenings and done ^^

[arctic quarry]

Here I would also recommend Foxunders mod where you can distract enemies with ArrowStick from Sosnoviy

To have a complete package

[celest blaze]

I CAST COMPULSIARY HEAD TRAUMA 😭😭

Oh a good pacifist/anarchist model is dishonored too

[turbid minnow]

Quicksand

If you get stuck in it, it becomes a door and you fall into the room below

just replayed Super Metroid, damn Maridia

[fickle crown]

I encountered 2 rooms in modded content that had "fake floor" type of traps. At first I thought that it was a collision bug

[wheat willow]

bear trap item that temporarily paralyzes opponents who step on it

[pearl furnace]

that already exists

i guess you'd have to change the script a little if you wanted paralysis as well as damage

idk why people keep independently coming up with this idea and assuming it hasn't been done yet

[fickle crown]

I saw bear traps in Bal Foyen, but not in any dungeons. Where is that from?

[pearl furnace]

this is like the third time someone has suggested them in the dumb mod ideas thread

[pearl furnace]

Othrano

[thick jackal]

I think that's Othrano, a stronghold in the south

[fickle crown]

Give them some slack. It's dumb mod thread

[thick jackal]

Near idathren

[pearl furnace]

dumb mod idea: there should be a magic effect where you can like… “Trap” your enemy's “Soul”, and then use it to “Recharge” your enchanted items

[fickle crown]

Bullshit. Don't suggest impossible things. Pff.

[pearl furnace]

dumb mod idea: what if there was a scamp who was a merchant or something instead of a hostile enemy

dumb mod idea: morrowind but it's the whole province from the official maps, instead of just the island of vvardenfell

[thick jackal]

[fickle crown]

Self-insert NPC who proposes dumb mod ideas.

[thick jackal]

Hemaris, while that's fair. Not everyone knows traps are in TR

[pearl furnace]

sorry 2, i'm not trying to dunk on you specifically here

[wheat willow]

dumb mod idea: Spyro the dragon in morrowind

[pearl furnace]

wtf, that's actually a good mod idea. get outta here!!

oh wait, they renamed the thread. you're good

[wheat willow]

i said it as a bad joke but then my mind froze and remembered that argonians are a thing

you could modify one slightly to look like some spyro furry thing 💀

[fickle crown]

I haven't found any on Vvardenfell with a modlist and any on the mainland besides the ones in Bal Foyen. Definitely very rare. Haven't been in that stronghold.

[thick jackal]

^ yup

I don't think any are on Vvardenfell, tbf

[pearl furnace]

yeah, i kinda get the sense that the TR people are torn between adding this obviously cool game mechanic everywhere and trying to be stuffy vanilla purists

and i think it's a relatively new asset, like from the last couple years, so it isn't in a lot of the big dungeon overhauls for vvardenfell yet

[fickle crown]

Wouldn't be surprised if the traps got removed someday because of Vanilla parity 😉

[pearl furnace]

you could totally do tes5-style exploding rune traps with the same scripts though

[pearl furnace]

fortunately they don't delete things when they deprecate them anymore

[fickle crown]

Good as mods which use Heavy Chitin won't have to be overhauled.

[thick jackal]

Are they planning to delete heavy chitin?

[fickle crown]

They depreciated it.

[wheat willow]

is this in vanilla openmw or is it a mod

[thick jackal]

It's in Tamriel Rebuilt

[thick jackal]

huh. When? I still see it on NPCs and in shops

[fickle crown]

Next version.

[thick jackal]

ah

You got a link? I'm curious why

[fickle crown]

No link, sorry. Read about it on TR channel.

[wheat willow]

.

[fickle crown]

Notes from last public TR meeting available there

[thick jackal]

bleugh

[fervent frost]

Wonder why

[thick jackal]

Apparently:
https://discordapp.com/channels/132891272666021888/132891272666021888/1485584910969471130

[fervent frost]

Fair enough

[pearl furnace]

since CSSE got a filtering system for the objects list, TR now has all their devs install a blacklist of deprecated objects so that nobody will add new instances to future TR content. they usually also go through existing content and replace old instances, but not always

but the object definitions are still in Tamriel_Data.esm, so third-party mods no longer break because nothing is technically deleted

and they don't delete the meshes or textures anymore either

[fickle crown]

Yeah, I see it on Vvardenfell due to various mods. That should remain.

[pearl furnace]

this means asset devs like me sometimes spend a bunch of time fixing janky old meshes that were actually deprecated years ago and/or never used

[fickle crown]

Sounds "fun"

[pearl furnace]

it's "fine"

[visual flume]

I say, bring back daedric hide armor.

[final carbon]

I'm recalling KOTOR's trap system where they were like little bubbles on the ground and you could detect them/disarm them with your skill

idk why I hadn't made that connection before

[fickle crown]

I think that it's a bit of a shame that traps aren't used by modders more.

[fervent frost]

Mod that dynamically adds traps everywhere

That would actually be fun to make (more than the xp mod that I unwisely talked about)

[fickle crown]

There is one for MSWE

👀

But it adds vanilla-like traps only IIRC.

[queen timber]

Hopefully someone will make a mod adding it back in all those examples :p

[final carbon]

Having a deep memory of the KOTOR kneeling trap disarm animation

[steep sundial]

I have worked with MisterSmellies on something like this and it's currently unreleased

maybe good for the May modathon

[vernal dome]

Mobile game style energy points, you get 50 actions a day and the only way to get more is to purchase coins from a respected house hlaalu member and spend the coins on energy points in a special menu in the centre of the pause screen.

All alchemy recipes require that you add the ingredient "alchemy components" which are valued at 100 septims.

Actual dice roll combat with a d20 where the game pauses and rolls it out like in bg3 for every hit. Also for alchemy and spells, bartering and speech minigames

This of course means that every action in the game has a 1/20 chance of failing

Imperial levitation ban enforcement agents who will track you down and kill you for using levitation.

[lone pagoda]

https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/52980?tab=posts something like this for openmw

[nocturne birch]

Not exactly the same, but:
https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/55366

[willow ore]

Inspired by my wife: "Make a mushroom addicted mystic. No mushrooms, no spells."

A mod where spells use material components. Adjustable and toggleable,

[vernal dome]

Spell components is a cool idea.

Might be good for a magicka alternative or for special ritual magic.

[tulip forge]

How about a mod to become Governor of Seyda Neen and Protector of Fargoth once a Councilman

[turbid minnow]

a mod which allows you to insert new exterior cells into the gameworld without screwing the rest of it up

[fervent frost]

Port all the Diablo 2 spells to openmw

[steep sundial]

Imagine if you could just passively observe people going about their activites. Traders wandering into and out of towns. Travellers on paths. Currently, only the player is actively doing something in the world.

Make it as detailed as Red Dead Redemption where you can see Npcs split logs for fire wood 😄

[turbid minnow]

there are some mods that do this sort of scheduling

there's a mod in TO that has NPCs teleporting in and around MG locations

[steep sundial]

yes, but I want more

the more animated Npcs the merrier

let me see mages perform some mundane magic

[queen timber]

I like to imagine mages doing spells for the most mundane shit like summon sodium if their soup needs salt rather than ask the waiter

[steep sundial]

yes, levitation and teleportation as well

[turbid minnow]

I used to imagine Balmora like how GRR Martin describes Qarth in terms of magic-users doing tricks as performers, "climbing a ladder of fire", etc. Summoning a Fire Atronach, having it dance around and then combust in a big fireworks show in front of a big crowd to applause, the magician then passing his bowl around for gold coins

Then the guards would come and shoo the magician away since conjuring summons in city precincts is not allowed

[steep sundial]

I was thinking of roleplaying as a Telvanni sharpshooter who casts his spells by shooting enchanted arrows

that way I avoid the boring vfx magic balls and add my own twist to it

imagine marking npcs and have the arrow lock on target like a homing missile

[fickle crown]

Yeah, it would be super cool to have a truly living Morrowind world with complex AI, detailed schedules and animations for every activity. Maybe truly crowded cities as well. How amazing that would be... and unfortunately, it will also never happen .

I'm sure that it can get better than Go Home but Morrowind will never be like RDR2 or KCD2 in that department.

[steep sundial]

I mean LiamMello's work on Max Yari's "Sit down please" is going into that direction

Npcs deciding what to interact with

like chairs

so you just need to place activators with activities and nearby npc will do them

maybe add conditions to that like time of day or type of npc too

I'm all over the place but I want more first person animations too

like knocking on doors

amd drinking / eating first person animations

[fickle crown]

Sometimes I wonder how awesome it would be to see a city like Vivec in its lore-accurate size and with thousands of people. I bet that someone made some cool drawings at least. Concept arts are great but I want mooore.

[fickle crown]

Yeah, this would be nice. Also, while most of it would be immersion only, there is at least 1 case where it would affect gameplay: real-time potion drinking animation.

[steep sundial]

I think this is from MCA, it adds a lot even though these Npcs are mainly passive

now imagine them actively doing something

[pearl furnace]

so like, what you want is oblivion?

Fully Immersive World Where Thousands of NPCs Immersively Go About Their Daily Routines

Featuring Immersive Homicidal Frenzies Caused By Misclicks In The Level Editor

[fickle crown]

If only Radiant AI was what Todd promised

[pearl furnace]

fisherman NPC who immediately crashes the game, no matter how far away you are, if he ever catches a fish

[fickle crown]

Good that he never would because there is no fishing mechanic, only the animation

[pearl furnace]

oblivion would have been good if it had been good

[fickle crown]

Did you witness the OG OB pre-release hype and the release? Do you remember the presentation?

[pearl furnace]

i do, i was there

on the forums, i mean. not at the presentation

[fickle crown]

It's mentioned on TR Project History page that many people back then believed that MW modding would die out and that OB was the future. Fun times.

[pearl furnace]

well it sure sounded like it was the future

[fickle crown]

Yeah. Frankly, I never experienced such hype as with Oblivion back then. It will also never happen again.

[thick jackal]

Oblivion hype somehow bypassed me, I do remember skyrim hype though

By that point I was not buying into it

[fickle crown]

I was beyond that as I learned from Oblivion

[thick jackal]

However, I remember installing oblivion - it not running on my PC at the time, and then forgetting about it for a few years

I had a bright idea to try and load assets in TES3CS, and at least take a look around, and iirc was very disappointed when I couldn't do that

[misty geyser]

have you seen this? by the description its an attempt to make a framework for building out npc schedules like your describing, i think its going to take a while to figure out how to use it but it looks potentially very interesting
https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/52111

[steep sundial]

yes, but this seems complicated

[thick jackal]

I'll probably need an explainer from Safebox on how to use it 😅 if I ever try

[celest blaze]

Wearable lanterns that don’t take up the pauldron slot

[pearl furnace]

what, like, a belt-buckle lantern that takes up the groin slot?

lantern boots that diegetically justify the glowing feet caused by quicklooting a non-carryable light

[willow ore]

Make it fun shapes and I am in!

[turbid minnow]

It felt that Skyrim was a sorted of justified hype. But Oblivion marked the jump from Morrowind to next gen so the hype was transformational, almost religious in some quarters.

[serene mulch]

I remember being blown away by the screenshots for oblivion in game informer and thinking it was going to be the greatest game of all time. Womp womp

[turbid minnow]

wow that zombie looks so realistic lmao

[queen timber]

I played it before MW, so for me it was

[river timber]

Per-cell user inventory. An inventory limited not only by weight and just abstract size, but actual grid system with items taking more or less space that you can manage, by rotating and moving items around

[steep parrot]

idk if any hud or ui mods already do this but i'd like a widget that can be positioned anywhere with customizable opacity and such for notifications cause i keep getting a bunch of popups in the middle of my screen that are very intrusive, something like a dota or LoL log in a corner of the screen that fades in and out to handle popups would be nice

[thick jackal]

Those message pop ups can't be moved yet iirc

[serene mulch]

no gep gun smh

laying down the LAW instead

[turbid minnow]

I wouldnt like this, I need to carry around hundreds of misc_scrolls, enchanted weapons, pointless trinkets and worthless arcana at all times, the Sorceror class sheet says so

[pearl furnace]

i love the subtext that the Sorcerer class description creates about other characters in the game

[river timber]

I kind of dream of a more immersive ways to play morrowind in general, breaking old RPG abstractions
One of them, is just carry what you can, do what you can occasionally, but not trying to min maxing or carry lots of stuff

In ideal world I would've loved a mod that makes all containers just.. containers. Like you open a chest, its cover opens and it just empty space where you can physically place items in by dragging using LUA physics for items mod, for example

[pearl furnace]

notable sorcerers: every telvanni councilor (except Neloth and Therana, who are mages), sotha sil, dagoth ur

[river timber]

There was an old openmw test with interior/exterior doors as "portals", so it allowed interiors being in kind of same worlspace as the world, what hapoened to that?

[visual flume]

My guess is, performance issues happened.

[steep parrot]

Dragon Slayer in Morrowind

[steep parrot]

random chance for a sky ship to spawn above the roads and drop a rope that sends bandits to try and rob you similar to friends and foes's bandits inspired by ben's skyships

[narrow niche]

Mod that adds Caravan from New Vegas

[river timber]

Nine Holes is enough

[misty geyser]

Except caravan was fun 😂

[steep parrot]

branded birth sign that condemns you to be hunted/haunted by daedras once per night

[river timber]

Is there a mod that makes left boot and right boot separate by the way?

[fervent frost]

If there was it should be called "Back Pain"

[willow ore]

“Old man” … it’s a mod that randomly reduces your speed for a couple seconds at a time.

That back and those knees sometimes act up.

Bonus points for playing an imperial ex legionnaire.

[fervent frost]

Willpower penalty during rain or snow 😩

[thick jackal]

Sun's Dusk does debuff speed and personality when wet

[thick jackal]

And I've considered this for #1476094876050522123 , just for a laugh, but game lasts long enough for age effects to start making sense

[willow ore]

Maybe start old?

[thick jackal]

Can do that - but then there're these annoying characters called mer

who live up to 300 normally, and several thousands if they are mages

would've been a lot of edge case handling, so I decided to drop it till later

426 is max starting age as is, cause I was lazy and didn't want to add display for 2nd Era years

[long marlin]

Read this channel from the beginning. If there's a Mark spell that summons a dude called Mark, there should be a Recall spell that turns the screen sepia, plays poignant piano music, and displays a text box in the style of the level-up messages, reminiscing on generic Morrowind encounters. A random, mood-based status effect is applied after the Recall concludes.

[celest blaze]

Arx Fatalis spell casting

[celest blaze]

I definitely like how the quick spell casting animation looks, very crunchy

[nocturne birch]

The Eternal Mudcrab
An invulnerable mudcrab is, at all times, slowly moving toward the player. If it reaches you, you die instantly and all your saves are deleted.

[summer kraken]

half-life movement physics

[steep parrot]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcCPtOrAkxU
simple animations for when you're moving left or right in midair, similar to the trampoline flips in the video

[misty geyser]

a perk "scrib friend" you get it automatically at chargen, it does nothing, but if you ever kill one it upgrades to activate the Heart Attack mod

[steep parrot]

https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/53745
found that someone already added it but apparently it's broken since it won't render and crashes the game when equipped

[dim pewter]

too powerfull for a pc

[celest blaze]

https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/58603 add on idea: special crystals that on death does the same thing as the nmod functions but takes away less health, magicka, fatigue and gold but teleports you to the door outside of where you died

[fickle crown]

you want Marika shrines?

[celest blaze]

Putting specific items in a barrel and then shooting it with a fireball or fire arrow sets it to blow up

[river timber]

Make 70% of the game, voice and dialogue on Dunmer language

without any translation

[celest blaze]

New language skills similar to learning a whole new language like no mans sky

[river wave]

even better, it bricks your PC

[willow ore]

I always wanted a mod in Skyrim that replaces literally every mob with mud crabs of various sizes. Just for giggles.

[celest blaze]

https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/57721?tab=images telekinesis push and pull with the new magic framework

[steep parrot]

i just noticed you can't actually climb ladders in this game??
climbable ladders and ropes if so

why
cause
future rope arrows and, okay i don't know but the ladders would be cool

more options for quest makers and mappers

[thick jackal]

part of OAAB data, and included in BCOM, although it's "door ladders" that move you from a to b when "opened"

[steep parrot]

yeah i saw the door ladders and was disappointed when i couldn't actually climb it

i'm still new to this game

[thick jackal]

Nah, all good. But you've sent some gears turning. With an animation - we may be able to make a climbing mod in lua

and I think I saw a "climbing " animation somewhere in mod resources

[fickle crown]

Because it would require animations and it's sth which Vanilla suxxed at. Oh, and the AI to use them.

[steep parrot]

what about clunky ones that snap into place un smoothly

does vanilla handle those well?

[serene mulch]

half-life ladders where you go faster if you go at a steep angle and hold both A and W

[celest blaze]

I’m thinking of doing something similar for openmw https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/52410

Unless there is already one made

[balmy violet]

Not reaaaly sure that sneak jumping can be implemented in openmw, but i might be wrong

[dim pewter]

Mod idea: Teleportation Wreck - add a possibility of getting wrecked during teleportation (guild guides too) if you have too much active magical effects on you

the reason is actually a placeholder for a reason to wreck the player during teleportation

[weary ravine]

Alchemy Rework!
Remove all nerfs from player-made alchemy and instead remove the ability to craft multiple potions, adding minigames to each of the tools available to the player (mortar&pestle, alembic, calcinator, retort, skooma pipe).
Playing the minigame correctly rewards exp in the usage of each tool, increasing a hidden "proficiency" with that tool from 0.2x effectiveness to a maximum of 1.5x. Each tool's exp tracked separately.
Also add "training apparatuses" in Mages Guilds that can craft multiple potions to allow faster levelup but produce pretty average potions at best.

[nocturne birch]

I made an outline, but I got busy

[dim pewter]

having to have an empty bottle to brew a potion is something I look forward a lot (even if I hate it when it'll restrict me so much in the game)

[celest blaze]

Ingredients show dynamically in the apparatuses, after mixing the mixture is then funneled into a siphoning pot that is colored to which school of magic the potions is used

[weary ravine]

🔥 lit 🔥

[tulip forge]

In depth politics for the Grand Council

Martial arts and weapon stances in Morrowind

[dim pewter]

Mod idea: make it possible to tear down daedric statues by hitting them hard and fireballing them

[steep sundial]

hot take, I prefer witcher3 alchemy 😄

generic potions aren't as much fun as unique effects

maybe alchemy magical effect should work different from ordinary magic (if it's magic at all)

for example, perhaps your character bloats into a gas filled blob instead of the generic levitation

that'd make alchemy more interesting to me, like an alternative way to archieve the same thing using the transformation of your body

I loved this scene from Harry Potter

Chuck down a potion and gracefully float to Master Neloth. Then release the "pressure"

[dim pewter]

the best movie of 8

[steep sundial]

I liked the first and second 😄

[dim pewter]

the second and third best movies of 8

[weary ravine]

for inflation fans!

[steep parrot]

more text based romance and sex mods

you can put sounds in it and make the blackout scenes show still images you don't even need animations

actually it's better without animations especially if the focus is roleplaying and not jacking to meshes

[pearl furnace]

sounds? please. true tes3 fans only want a fade to black and a single vague sentence presented in brackets at the end of a normal dialogue line

[autumn girder]

Yes unironically

[long marlin]

The ability to sit on a fucking chair.

Demon weapons actually transform into alternate forms and back rather than just casting bound weapon, and they do it on killing strike with a percentage chance low enough not to be constant but high enough to be worth using. They're not charged, and the effect lasts sixty seconds.

Contingent spellcasting. Hang spells and triggers like "On combat," "When struck," "When health drops below %," "When x seconds pass." Doesn't just apply to the player, allowing the spells to be hung on followers and monsters. Balance it by making the spells twice as hard to cast and cost twice as much magicka at time of casting (not activation) to make using it during combat a challenge, and maintain the rule 1 cast = only 1 activation.

Summon Heart Scrib. Damage done to it is instead done to the player; damage done to the player is instead done to it.

[celest blaze]

Symbiosis

[celest blaze]

Like from nidus in Warframe

Ahhhh a spell that essentially send incoming damage to the target npc instead of the player

[long marlin]

Using the new custom skill framework mod (it's really good), riffing off the existing Incantation modded skill, add a skill and corresponding equipment for making spells yourself. No cost, but drains/lowers maximum magicka on success or failure for a duration equal to the overall "price" of the spell, meaning you can't just craft a spell on the spot in a dungeon unless you're high level, with difficulty scaling according to the spell and your level in the custom skill.

Also, a new "Fortify Modded Skill" spell to extend the framework.

[pearl furnace]

randomizer for which skill governs each magic effect

[long marlin]

Chaos Spell Effect. Applies a random spell effect when cast. All the other factors (target, duration etc) are held constant.

Cheaper to cast/enchant than other effects. If enchanted constant effect, rerolls every 10 seconds.

[pearl furnace]

randomizer for which skill governs every mechanic

[long marlin]

Okay I had a shitpost but this is a good idea:

Remove major/minor skills, and randomise skill levelling difficulty. You don't know your character's talents each game until you play them.

[pearl furnace]

i like that

[long marlin]

"Whoa, my guy can't swing a sword for shit, but he's a natural at lockpicking."

[pearl furnace]

"damn, i wish my character had any aptitudes that involved dealing damage to enemies"

(their talents: Armorer, Athletics, Block, Illusion, Mercantile, Speechcraft, and every armor type)

[long marlin]

See that would be a fun challenge run.

"My guy is a complete scrub who cannot hurt people, but he might just be unkillable. What can I do with this?"

[steep parrot]

a questline inspired by breaking bad about making and distributing skooma to dealers

[long marlin]

A questline inspired by Mad Men where you're coming up with advertising for products sold by merchants. The B-plot is around office racial and sexual politics.

[long marlin]

A questline inspired by Game of Thrones where - no, wait, that's just Poison Song, and Tamriel Rebuilt is already making it.

[pearl furnace]

a questline inspired by Lost where a bunch of intriguing plot hooks are set up and then never followed through on before it ends unexpectedly

[long marlin]

Actually, thinking about it, given the established lore that the 'races' of morrowind are almost entirely determined matrilinearly (https://en.m.uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:Notes_on_Racial_Phylogeny), you could totally do an incestuous quest plotline without needing endless duplicates of the same NPC in different races, by just having them share the same father as the PC.

...Okay, I really need to go touch grass.

[long marlin]

The Lost Mod (version 0.5 pre-alpha, last updated 2019)

[celest blaze]

Altstart mods based on professions have you start the game performing those professions, miners are in mines, hunters are stalking a prey, mages are mixing potions, thief’s are in the middle of the heist etc

[dim pewter]

wake up, here you go. You are in Caldera mine. You will never get out of... wait, what's that noise outside??

[final carbon]

I had an idea bouncing around in Shotn/HR to give the direnni a varla stone equivalent in unique mutagen potions

Since they’re supposed to have been master alchemists making chimeras and stuff

[pearl furnace]

plasmids from bioshock? in my morrowind?

[serene mulch]

Only if it allows me to summon a swarm of bees from my fingertips

[misty geyser]

sunovabitch.... deal

[steep parrot]

#general message
mod that makes nearby creatures start eating you upon death

[hollow wing]

b4lorformorian

There's something so fucking blood-boiling about how enemies just waddle away from you after you die

Linked by @​pacm0869_51055 from #general · Apr 16, 2026, 4:40 PM

[pearl furnace]

mod that silently takes a screenshot of your character every once in a while , then plays them back as a slideshow behind the game credits after you beat dagoth ur and exit the heart chamber

this is the real reason we need RTTs and image storage and stuff

[celest blaze]

“Ur…Ur never changes”

[pearl furnace]

okay okay okay wait i got it. that same idea i just said, but instead of screenshots, it's "stills" of your character in various scenarios of stuff you did after beating the game. like it poses your character model in a tavern, sitting at a table with a tankard in their hand, and the camera does a little Ken Burns effect pan and zoom. then it crossfades to your character riding in a siltstrider. and standing on the deck of a boat. and fishing from a dock in the bitter coast. etc

[fickle crown]

Sounds like a commercial

[pearl furnace]

doing the sneak pose in a dungeon while holding a lantern

[fickle crown]

For these perfect holidays

[steep parrot]

ui widget mirror of your character model that lets you see yourself from a customizable angle

[misty geyser]

in my morrowind? never!

oh a customizable angle, nvm

[final carbon]

i'm telling you run some ending slides tied to major quests and the main quest like FNV

[queen timber]

Uhhhh so I might have tried to get Claude to do that a couple of hours ago 🤣

I failed

🤣

[misty geyser]

you could make an animation that was the whole scene as described and then put the player into the animation. although they would just be wearing whatever you finished the game in..

[serene mulch]

always liked that with the mutants in stalker

the dogs will drag your corpse away to safety before starting to munch on it

[serene mulch]

like the camera guy in link's awakening dx

[dim pewter]

wip drafts

[fickle crown]

Idea: when you die, the game generates a short epilogue message based on your character status, manner of death and location.

[nocturne birch]

LGNPC, but give every bandit and smuggler a melodramatic backstory so you feel bad

[fickle crown]

"Here lies some Nord. He was a nobody. He brought a knife to a fireball fight." (died in the cave near Seyda Neen while using a dagger from the C&E office)

"I can't hit a mudcrab!" (killed by a mudcrab)

[willow ore]

Make sure your char sits 3 inches off the chair.

[willow ore]

Funny story. I used to go to this west coast convention and at one point DnD piñatas were given to a group of people to you know. Piñata.

And afterwards we did show slide shows of them like … having fun on Italy trips and stuff.

.<

One guy had a beholder piece perched on his head and took it off in shame.

[dim pewter]

hey, that's exactly what I do for Addamasartus

[vernal dome]

Spell combinations like in fable 3 so that you can combine 2 spell effects to produce unique outcomes.

[celest blaze]

Mod idea, with lua NPC Schedules and the night patrols and thieves pickpocket, now you randomly become a mark for a thief in town at night if you stay in town long enough, based on your current gold and what you bought leaving a shop, a thief will decide if your worth stealing from at night, depending on the thief’s sneak skill they can slip by guards or get caught on the way to you, there’s even a chance that the thief after you sneaks in your place while your resting based on their security, you can lock doors behind you now to protect from thief’s but they can get by if the lock level is lower then their security

How difficult is it to actually make a NPC Schedule mod? I can only imagine it’s a lot

[serene mulch]

One of the maps can be hlaalo manor murder mystery

[weary tendon]

first person animations for everything

sitting, drinking, knockin on doors, let me interact with the world

[pearl furnace]

make your character's anime style hair replacer visible in first person

[weary ravine]

Kwama Queen's counterpart: Kwamartin Luther King (he's a dreamer)

[river wave]

Mod that makes ingredients gathered get increased by higher levels of alchemy

[celest blaze]

I think there’s a mod that adds a herbalist skill but I both can’t remember what mod or if it functions the same as how you described

A mod that utilizes specializations in some way

[celest blaze]

Fallout 4 style Dwemer companions that you can configure and change the look of

[misty geyser]

Dispose Body drops your entire inventory, replaces it with the body in question and forces you to crouch, bonus points for adding it as a vfx over the shoulder

[river timber]

are there mods for faction armor mechanic? Like in New Vegas. "You dressed like a member of house redoran" "you dressed like a member of cammona tong" etc. so it'll affect NPCs etc

[misty geyser]

i haven't seen much that does anything with armour sets as a mechanic. there's a lot of potential for cool ideas there

[steep parrot]

tattoo framework for openmw

[celest blaze]

https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/57640 - some weapons like axes can be turned into a moment to moment throwable

Or kratos frost axe from god of war

[willow ore]

I hate myself for saying this, but hello, I am Skuli and I am an addict. Talent Trees. I am such a sucker for perks/talent trees.

[rose burrow]

Since we are getting more and more magic mods we need a mod that adds Bound Colovian Fur Helm

[thick jackal]

Perk Framework exists. I'm pretty sure there's jsut one mod that utilizes it though

#1419201246841147443

[steep sundial]

yep, you can't wait for other people to create the cool mods. You have to do it yourself

[quick salmon]

Anyone willing to make an EXP mod yet?

[steep parrot]

this mod glitched my hotkeys so i stopped using it

plus i don't see the point in changing the stance anyways

[exotic frigate]

How about a mod that allows you to create plaques with custom texts? I plan on making my own museum in game and would like to be able to give the displays some flavor text 😄

[misty geyser]

new magicks:
Wizard Eyes: Allows user to see into the spirit world continuously.
Portal Generation: Allowing travel and spatial manipulation.
Elemental Powers: Candy, Slime, and Ice.
Cat Spell: Turns targets into cats.
Dustomancy: Control over dust mites and their emotions.
Vorpal Hand: Transforms the user's hand into a sword.

[steep sundial]

Portal Generation: Allowing travel and spatial manipulation. (DaisyHasAcat has created such a mod already)

cat spell is fairly easy to make, the others near impossible

wizard eyes, maybe with a ton of work

[autumn girder]

Ralts has wild intervention which teleports you to a random location, I have Kyne’s intervention

[steep sundial]

yes, I saw the new video. I'm very interested in his new work

[autumn girder]

He also has a few projection spells that are sick

[willow ore]

They said it’d be easy. And here I am … staring at the construction set.

But eventually! Eventually there will be an “underground good guy” temple group.

[steep sundial]

Start small. It takes time to learn it all

Publishing small mods is still better than giving up a larger project

[celest blaze]

Wizard eyes can be an alternative to the detect spells acting almost like the hudmarkers, showing wispy images of npcs through walls similar to this https://youtu.be/P0tGVDcSAyM?si=LaG8fE3OExnJMAQM

[steep sundial]

yes, it'd be nice to make the detect spells more functional by being able to see through walls for example

there are such mods for mwse

[misty geyser]

yeah Wizard Eyes could use an effect like that or the LoTR invisibility combined with effects and unique creatures spawning occaisionally, similar to your skooma mod DD. talk to peoples ghost before they die to learn their secrets.
dustomancy could be possible with taitechnics Dynamic Ambient Visual Effects for the motes,using shaders it might be possible to draw them towards the crosshair for controlled movement.
The new elements are possible now but might require some sophisticated new vfx

leapo's rainbow road for a candy spell. activate s3ctors SSS and replace all nearby mushrooms with candy canes

get Liammello to make a new season effect for slime to coat the ground in a reflective texture

i think there's still a few big engine limitations for Vorpal Hand though

but MaxYari was discussing possibilities of limb removal recently

[celest blaze]

Change the hand model to look like a viltrumite hand 🤚 resembling a spear and change all hand to hand damage to be the same as a long sword, and all h2h attacks in this state resembles slashes etc

Brainstorming

[misty geyser]

yeah it would be dope haha, i dont think changing hand models is possible yet though.. idk though

[celest blaze]

Ouuu combat styles for h2h adding combat styles that resembles weapons

[nocturne birch]

Mind Rip from The Other Morrowind would be neato
Almost certainly doable

[misty geyser]

yeye

[nocturne birch]

You could use a dummy gauntlet to change the hand model

[misty geyser]

yeah you could do it as basically a bound sword that conceals your hand

[celest blaze]

Mmmmm

[misty geyser]

it wouldnt be a TRUE Vorpal Hand but it would do the job

[celest blaze]

Wait wait anybody ever seen Sword Art Online?

[misty geyser]

nerp

[celest blaze]

Imma look up a ref

https://youtu.be/kkvqeuC6wy4?t=53&si=_NNJqmU7A7COMG7Q he does this attack where his hand glows

[misty geyser]

nice, yeah you could something like that as a touch spell with OSSC

[nocturne birch]

An alarm clock so I can stop missing the Shade of the Revenant

[misty geyser]

i'm actually working on something for that atm, i want to make a hud widget for moon tracking

but an item would also be awesome

nice simple instructions

just three steps to heaven

[summer kraken]

https://youtu.be/4bktjRPC1dg

if someone makes a mod like this for morrowind my life will be yours

https://tenor.com/view/kratos-ares-destroy-my-enemies-and-my-life-is-yours-gif-7965707800203237625

[visual flume]

Fireball jump (for those, who skipped their alteration lessons).

[serene mulch]

The character controller for quake/half-life is well-documented. It could be done!

Air acceleration is a gem

[celest blaze]

Ivara invisibility ability - more of the auto stealing from enemies close to you

[balmy violet]

Animated potion drinking.

Although prob will require boosting low leve potions a bit so they are not utterly useless without an ability to chug multiple

Chugging multiple does stack in vanilla, right? Or?

[fickle crown]

they stack. In 100% Vanilla game (no alchemy/potion limiters, rebalancers, pause control and such), you can enter the inventory and drink 30 potions instantly if you want.

[balmy violet]

Ye exactly, so with animated chugging low lvl hp/mp/stam potions prob need to be stronger and im not sure how to do that dynamically without messing with cs

[fickle crown]

Yep, you would have to adjust weak potions so they retain some utility. Especially restore health/fatigue ones.

[dim pewter]

this is partially implemented by Potion Thrower btw. If someone would like to adapt its animation for a separate mod

[fickle crown]

Funny thing is that I remember animated potion drinking being a very rare thing in games but nowadays many players are used to this because of soulslikes.

[balmy violet]

Lmao, hows potion throwing will fit as a potion drinking anim

[dim pewter]

indeed

but the mod allows you to visually pick your potion in your right hand and drink it by pressing activate. The animation proceeds to tumble it into PCname's face

[balmy violet]

Oh so it allows to drink not only to throw

Interesting

[dim pewter]

yea

I wish I could fix the mod on my broken set up. It's very cool

[balmy violet]

Is that drinking dome by smashing a potion in owns face? That be hillarious

[pearl furnace]

that's why you don't get an empty bottle in your inventory after you drink a potion

there's a reason everyone in morrowind treats you like an idiot

[fickle crown]

Yeah. USE YOUR HEAD!

[pearl furnace]

dunmer watching in shock as you smash open the neck of a bottle of mazte because you don't know how morrowind-style bottlecaps work

“By the Three… outlanders are not okay”

[fickle crown]

animated reactions and dynamic commentary

[balmy violet]

Any ideas re what will be a sane way to boost weak potions?

Without boosting strong ones

And that will work with both player crafted and bought stuff

Some bs inventory processing that will replace weak pots with boosted version by dynamically creating new records for those?

[fickle crown]

Player-made can get strong already and with multiple effects. It's the least concern, I think. As for other weak potions, IMO you could make them restore a small amount of HP/STA but very quickly/instantly so they are worth the animation opportunity cost.

[balmy violet]

I dunno, gothic aleays had animated drinking and eating, its just tes often is more of a suggestion of a game rather than actual game lol

[balmy violet]

Thats also not a bad idea

[fickle crown]

But Gothic was more an exception than the rule

[pearl furnace]

vanilla potion stacking is regarded as a bad game design choice by a lot of players, and there are mods which specifically prevent it. so i don't think it's an issue if your mod has a side effect of making cheaper potions less valuable

[balmy violet]

Although effect duration is already a mechanic that affects it, one can boost effect and reduce diration, but once again - whats the best way to actually do that, and no player pots also need a boist, otherwise they be useless until you get op

And then they be op

[fickle crown]

Frankly, the only stock restore health/magicka/stamina potions not worth using would be bargain and cheap ones as their magnitude is simply too low (literally 1-2 pts per second) to be worth the opportunity cost concerning the animation ) and the total derived attribute value restored isn't high, either. In fact, they are not really cost-efficient even in Vanilla. You can see it clearly when you compare stock Vanilla potions - check the table. I actually used this as a guideline for Magic Rebalance mod while adjusting potions since they were useless even when using potion limiters like Alchemy Hustle or Stats/Potions Limit mods. If I were to do it for an animation mod, I would probably keep the same total restored values post-MRF tweak but further boost magnitude and reduce duration to compensate, e.g. Bargain 5 pts per 2 seconds instead of 2 pts per 5 seconds (or 1 pt per 5 seconds used in Vanilla which is even weaker) and Cheap 10 pts for 2 seconds instead of 4 pts per 5 seconds (or 2 pts per 5 seconds used in Vanilla which is even weaker). Standard and above are fine since they have decent magnitude (10 or above). Restoring 50 HP during 5 seconds is really not bad and this is what Vanilla does for Standard.

Homebrewed potions is sth much more complex considering all the variability that comes with different skill, attribute, equipment values and GMST alchemy rebalancers people use, but if you wanted to adjust player-made potions, I guess that you would have to somehow replace the weak restore HP/STA/MAG effects (esp values below 5 pts per second) and reduce duration to compensate proportionally. Frankly, I would stay conservative here. Alchemy is strong even with rebalancers and hombrewed potions have some inherent advantages like the ability to mix more than 1 effect in one potion (restore fatigue and health is a common option) which is sth that no stock potion does. Some potions made at very low skill lvl are also weak because you are learning (makes sense).

[steep parrot]

cough
ui widget that shows dice rolling every time the game rolls

[misty geyser]

this is an option in the mod yes😂

[misty geyser]

i think the best way would be to follow the souls method of having a main potion item that you can refill with your other potions, some kind of distillation mechanic, double down on the stacking

[fickle crown]

If it was possible to combine homebrewed potions with same effects to get one with an average value, it would help with inventory spam.

[misty geyser]

yeah and reasigning hotkeys

[fickle crown]

I wish there was an item queue for hotkeys

[misty geyser]

yeah damn

[fickle crown]

So I could click 9 and if I ran out of Quality restore HP potions, Standard ones would be used, for example... or other ones the player set there.

[pearl furnace]

sometimes, if i did not prepare well enough ahead of time, i appreciate finding even a bargain restore health in the middle of a dungeon

going in with ten more health can let you survive an encounter sometimes

[fickle crown]

5 in Vanilla. But yes.

[willow ore]

https://tenor.com/view/santa-beer-can-smash-throw-gif-3522776

[nocturne sundial]

Has anyone ever attempted to make the differences between attack types chop, slash, thrust more substantial? Not necessarily some kind of "resistance" system, where certain armors or creatures are more resistant to certain types of attacks, but just some way of making what attack type to use some kind of genuine choice

Cause aside from not wanting to see the same animations over and over, there's basically no reason not to use use best attack

[steep parrot]

thief guild missions where you kidnap people for ransoms

questline where you fall in love and get ghosted

questline where you fall in love and get ridiculed then bullied out of your friend group

questline whwre you get cheated on and resort to skoomaholism to cope

[vernal dome]

More bandit style content would be good

Kidnapping, roadside robberies, threatening competition, bribing or blackmailing authorities to reduce guard presence, occupying abandoned forts and outposts, running a bridge toll, dealing with mercenaries trying to collect on your bounties etc.

This could easily be incorporated as a regional TG or unrelated criminal organisation.

It could also be part of a vampire clan or witch coven or the like.

[fervent frost]

Joining a necromancer coven would be really cool

Rob graves for special body parts

"I need Saint X's toe or the spacio-skeletal harmonics will be completely off!"

[vernal dome]

"My nix-hound died and I'm just meant to let that go?"
<yes>
"Bah, you're just another blind fool, like those blighted no-wits at the temple"

I'd love necromancer, witch and daedra cult questlines

[serene mulch]

I like the idea of resistances actually. Pierces don't do much against skellies, but overhands work

Like adnd 2e lol

[fossil stone]

so we cant do custom spells yet, but what about a sort of fake 'multicast' mod where it chains the cast without a cast animation

like example: A custom named spell called Fireball (MC3) would cast fireball, and then shoot out 2 additional fireballs after the first one, maybe like a 0.25s delay between each, and would consume mana/etc

tl;dr recasting an existing spell multiple times rapidly without a cast animation

[autumn girder]

• #1495408927246909612
• #1495363808380719155
• #1476312727029809287

At least like 80 new custom spells within the last week haha

[fossil stone]

Did we get some magic update?

[autumn girder]

A lot more than magic but yeah

https://openmw.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/lua-scripting/openmw_content.html

So many .esps gone

[fossil stone]

[autumn girder]

But yeah you can run the TR spells if you want now

[fossil stone]

[fossil stone]

where is said release located

is there a .51 RC

me brain work exausted cannot thinky

[autumn girder]

Yes #announcements message

[hollow wing]

capocat

To be as cool as modern game developers, we released Windows and Mac builds of the first RC round of 0.51.0 release for early access. Technically, this counts as early access for early access. Double the early access means double the hype, right?

There's no convenient blog post to link, so if you're confused, long story short: these builds, very similar to the actual release builds, are released to the wide public so that you can help us find critical problems or regressions that weren't found during the main development cycle, so that they can be fixed and the full release can be as stable as it is reasonably possible. Please report any crashes, freezes or things that seem off in these builds to our issue tracker.

Also please report if you can't report anything, that would be nice too.

https://github.com/OpenMW/openmw/releases/tag/openmw-51-rc1

Linux packages and the full announcement for RC testing will follow later. I trust Discord people will be able to figure out if RC1 is totally broken before it's released into the wide blue yonder and everyone can appreciate how broken or not broken it is.

Linked by @​hyacinth2199 from #announcements · Apr 14, 2026, 1:48 AM

[misty geyser]

Also got one handed casting now🤚 🔥

https://discord.com/channels/260439894298460160/1490798707858210939

[celest blaze]

You can haggle most questions rewards involving gold Witcher 3 style

[pearl furnace]

wearing a "Colovian arrow-catcher" (aka fur helm) makes you more likely to keep any marksman projectile that hits you

like it says in the official concept art

[nocturne birch]

A player-owned shop that will slowly sell items over time

[thick jackal]

I mean.. we can do it in like 10 lines of lua on 0.51

We may have to do it

This is the way

[willow ore]

YES! Really any kind of centralized loot dump.

[vernal dome]

A marriage and divorce system, including the skyrim thing of having a list of NPCs you've befriended attend your wedding.

Playable cliff racers

[willow ore]

Cliff Racer Roguelite!

[thick jackal]

That windows 3.11 ski game.but you're a cliff racer and halfway through Vvardenfell Jiub appears

[pearl furnace]

is that… the colovian?

[lone pagoda]

return the robes of St. Roris regardless of house

[fossil stone]

Return the slab or suffer my curse

https://giphy.com/gifs/return-slab-v44JJFl7mvDFK

[vernal dome]

Certain quests for the other 2 houses should unlock once you're hortator tbh

Epilogue quests for the legion, redoran and hlaalu sort of like roht or the main quest epilogue in TR would be good

[steep parrot]

rideable cliff racers

there's a guy that made a bunch of stuff rideable already

added horses and donkeys etc

i don't use them cause no one else has a horse and i don't want to be that one outlander sticking out

that one lore unfriendly n'wah

[tidal crow]

idt i've seen any for cliffracers but i think there's one for skyrenders already

and guars

[pearl furnace]

how do you sit on a cliffracer, though

like, what's the arrangement of your ass and legs versus its wings and the big fin on its back

this raises severe aerodynamics concerns

[tidal crow]

n'wah sued in cliffracer council for backbreaking

[queen timber]

https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/54741

[steep parrot]

oh shit

[misty geyser]

as it is described in the holy velothi artwork

[pearl furnace]

incredible. thank you, my friend

[misty geyser]

✨

[steep parrot]

i'm just spit balling at this point

https://tenor.com/view/better-call-saul-loop-3d-edit-gif-24518425

lawyercraft for morrowind

[thick jackal]

Barrister Guild questline for Tamriel Rebuilt

[steep sundial]

more culture

Dunmer culture should be entirely different from the Redguard, Argonians, Imperials etc

Not everyone should speak the common tongue

let me see race specific games and music (musical instruments)

Argonians sitting at a table in the bar playing a kind of dice with sticks

Currently most Npcs are entirely the same except for their voices and appearances

I want to be insulted in their mother tongue

let there be writing in their languages that you need to deliver to people for them to translate

let there be traditions that are race specific

let me see Argonians diving in the ocean maybe

let me see Bosmer practicing their marksmanship by firing arrows at targets

if they didn't tell you Bosmer were good archers, you'd never know

[sour tiger]

Its not a new idea per say. but an update of this mod https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/27458 to work for OpenMW would be great. Spears being 2h only always irked me

[fervent frost]

Look at GRIP

[steep parrot]

does that mod not glitch out for anyone else? is that just me? cause grip makes my weapon hotkeys not work

also what benefit is there to being able to change the grip?

[thick jackal]

one handed spears mostly

[steep parrot]

maybe each grip can change how stats are factored into combat but as of right now it just seems purely cosmetic, which is fine

[cunning tinsel]

Solthas' combat pack is the closest I seen to anyone doing anything interesting with the directional attacks. Honestly though, the idea of enemy types having different resistances and weaknesses to the either thrusts/chops/slashes sounds awesome too

[steep parrot]

i love his modpack but that double jump was just too goofy i had to toggle it off lol

[cunning tinsel]

It was the status shaders and bonus health damage for me

[thick jackal]

It changes your skills around

[thick jackal]

the idea of enemy types having different resistances and weaknesses to the either thrusts/chops/slashes sounds awesome too
Foxunder just released that, but for undead

[cunning tinsel]

No shot what

I have to check that out

[steep sundial]

How about grappling / blunt being important against armored opponens. Heavy armor makes you basically invincible against swords / arrows.

Medium / light armor should just be worse armor

if you want realism

[thick jackal]

Long term mobility

[steep sundial]

yes, but in combat heavy armor should simply be superior

[thick jackal]

Short term a full plate suit is plenty mobile yeah, but not long term

[thick jackal]

yup

[steep sundial]

I'm not too big of a fan of "heavy armor, medium armor and light armor" as attributes.

Wearing an armor isn't really a skill 😄

let's give hand to hand a purpose to down knights and finish them off with blades

grappling could be so much fun especially with the hand to hand skill

give me brawls in taverns

[fickle crown]

if you actually use HTH at high skill lvl, you will see how insanely strong of a skill it can be

[steep sundial]

yes, I have no overview whether such a mod exist already

[fickle crown]

no mod needed

Vanilla HTH is crazy strong if properly used

most people don't even try it

because they assume it's weak, I guess

[thick jackal]

I can not agree at all

you'd be surprised

[steep sundial]

it's not worth arguing about this minute detail

[fickle crown]

a case could be made for some general armor skill or maybe some synergy, but for RPG purposes, current system isn't bad. Perks could enhance it further.

[steep sundial]

how about reduced vision for heavy armor helmets

[fickle crown]

closed helmets in general

not just heavy

basically, KCD system

[thick jackal]

I mean, that should be doable with a shader

KCD style

[steep sundial]

yes, maybe it already exists

[nocturne birch]

I feel like that isn't actually a hinderance with how Morrowind combat works

[fickle crown]

using KCD as "base" is a good starting ground for every new mechanic 😄

[thick jackal]

👀

[fickle crown]

it would be more about immersion

[thick jackal]

With N'Garde it would be, not as much as in KCD, but still

[fickle crown]

although I think that if implemented, Lucky Strike could have a toggle for higher critical chance against the player if the player is not wearing a helmet

and maybe closed helmets could have bonus critical hit protection

KCD2 even has a hotkey for lowering the visor

[nocturne birch]

Speaking of KCD2, the armor system would work pretty well, I think

[fickle crown]

oh, they have layers and shit

more equipment slots than in Morrowind

and MW has quite a lot for an RPG already

[nocturne birch]

Hits blocked by armor stop most damage, but that damage is inflicted in fatigue instead
And armor stops being effective at lower fatigue

[steep sundial]

Heavy armor is just superior. It makes you virtually invincible against arrows and ordinary sword slashes. You'd basically only lose by exposing an opening or falling down or losing stamina.

[thick jackal]

Need more eqipment slots first

then we can do arming doublets etc

[thick jackal]

Stamina in MW, especially short term burst stamina is not equipped to support that

[steep sundial]

Yes, it'd be nice if we'd buff heavy armor and nerf it via stamina / fatigue

makes you more prone to stumble / get knocked out

I'm more of a mage character anyway

imagine heavy armor + shield + right hand magic

that'd be cool

[fickle crown]

btw that "heavy armor being superior" is only half-true in Morrowind because while there are strong heavy armor available, there are some strong light and medium armors as well and it's what they are supposed to be like. Orcish Armor is supposed to be better than Steel Armor, for example, despite being medium armor. Dreugh Armor is noted as being a very sturdy exotic medium armor style. Glass offers great protection despite being very light. In terms of pure protection, Ebony and Daedric are still the best and the heaviest, but there are plenty of other non-heavy armor types which are good and it's supported be the lore.

[steep sundial]

yes, but I mean they ought to be superior

the stronger the materials, the more protection

[fickle crown]

well, Daedric is the heaviest and has the highest AR

and it's rare af

[steep sundial]

on another note, why would daedric armor protect you so much better than steel armor

if you can't pierce steel armor anyway

[thick jackal]

That's... You can it takes effort

but you can

[nocturne birch]

Heavier armor, more inertia

[steep sundial]

with crossbows, and some spiky weapon yes, maybe

[thick jackal]

And if we had proper warhammers in game

[fickle crown]

I would love to see how steel armor fares against a Daedric war axe, lol

[steep sundial]

yes, that thing

[thick jackal]

which is easily common, and arrows can pierce arm armor, and not all areas are covered cause you need to move. Even at it's peak - 16th century full plate would've had weak spots where only chain is covering your juicy bits, or thinner areas that are 0.8-1.2 mm

which are piercable by arrows and will get dented by swords and axes

armor is far from invincible

Daedric being "magical material" - makes total sense for better protection

[steep sundial]

fair enough

[misty geyser]

yeah its got heart

[steep sundial]

made with love and soul 😉

[thick jackal]

lmao

[fickle crown]

I daresay that armor made from raw ebony (a material noted for its insane sturdiness already) which has been further refined using Daedric craft and magic - basically Daemon-forged shit which retains echoes of preternaturally prolonged suffering endured during manufacture - is far better than common steel armor made by some town smith.

[thick jackal]

Even if it's not made by a random town smith, but is a good maximillian suit made by best armorers

[fickle crown]

that suit would be worse than Ebony and Ebony is worse than Daedric

they are noted for being insanely strong

[thick jackal]

To elaborate - this is not invincible:

[fickle crown]

nothing is invincible

[thick jackal]

And is pretty much peak of RL armor tech before kevlar

I do love me a sallet though

[fickle crown]

btw my homies often hype up the master strike in KCD. I just hit people with a mace to the head. Works like a charm.

[thick jackal]

lmao

good plan

[fickle crown]

simple solutions for harsh times

btw I think that TR will include Mithril Armor used by the Bretons and it's quite cool

[thick jackal]

They probably will. Breton Iron already looks swanky as hell

[fickle crown]

we can also ask Baelor Targaryen what he thinks about the effectiveness of maces

[final carbon]

can do you one better since the set is already made

[fervent frost]

I miss the lion

[celest blaze]

Dumb mod idea I am having and am gonna try to make: Afliq and Lucevar companion petting mod- PET THE AFLIQS https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/51959

https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/58370

https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/58294

Gonna be off for the next two days so I may give it a whirl

[pearl furnace]

i bet if we put our minds to it we could come up with justifications for twice as many equipment slots as they had in the base game

[thick jackal]

Easily

[pearl furnace]

and then, and then — this is the important part — we could dicker indefinitely about the correct and proper weights to assign them all in the armor formula!!!

[thick jackal]

I mean... If it's done properly we'll need to convert impact damage into slashing/blunt/etc damage. Outer hard layer may stop slash but convert it into blunt force etc etc

And then we'll have 10k lines of calcs under the hood that no one will ever appreciate

[misty geyser]

but you'l know

[pearl furnace]

and then DetailDevil will throw all of it away because obviously you can't puncture steel 😌

genuinely, mad props for commitment to realisticism

morrowind has too many realists these days. we need realisticists like in the old days

[thick jackal]

No, no. Realisticist would be those that study and observe realists

and we have one right here

[fickle crown]

Btw thrust-type attacks actually tend to be the most efficient sword attacks against armor, giving you the required precision and power to strike the weak points. So if there is weapon-attacks-matter mod for OMW, it should be taken into account.

[pearl furnace]

you're right, i was thinking of realismism

[fickle crown]

I see, I see

[pearl furnace]

if god didn't want us to shoot from the hip, he wouldn't have given us guns and hips

[willow ore]

I am picturing like … legs in front of the wings and leaning back mad.

Like on an Icelandic horse.

[willow ore]

I would imagine a speed vs. Strength trade off would be real game appropriate.

[celest blaze]

Attack stances - the three attacks are now separated as three separate fighting styles
Accuracy, Strength or Speed
Thrust dominates accuracy and speed but lacks in strength
Chop dominates strength and accuracy but lacks in speed
Slash dominates speed and strength but lacks in accuracy

Each attack style is rules by a specialization, Combat chop, Stealth thrust, Magic slash

Think N’Garde but for active combat instead of blocking and parrying

A wizard is more experienced with a average one handed silver shortsword than a two handed axe as a warrior is gonna be more experienced with any sword but especially a two handed than a staff or polearm

I love this for switching attack “styles” allowing your movement to be tied to it but I would like a hotkey to switch between them

https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/52195

Or For Honor if anybody knows that

[celest blaze]

Attack animations framework?

[autumn girder]

The Insight spell increasing your chance of successfully breaking your tent when camping, haggle for better prices with services, find additional ore and gems when mining

Anything else missing?

Finding rarer spell tomes

Finding rarer music boxes for bardcraft?

Fresh loot?

[weary ravine]

Mithril weapons are crazy

[celest blaze]

Just don’t use “always use best attack”

[turbid minnow]

heavy (metal) armour should markedly decrease resistance to fire and lightning imo

[wide geyser]

Intervention on Target

[viscid flint]

The best way to convert the heathens

[spiral chasm]

I'm a bit late to this, but I had an idea of a mod that would cover this

"Strategic Attack Types". It would also make different weapon types have different effects, depending on the target. E.g., halberds would bypass a percantage of armor rating of a target wearing heavy armor.

But realistically speaking, I'll probably never put this idea to practice. There's still a lot I'd have to learn for that, and I'm not dedicating that much time to modding and learning programming.

So, anyone is welcome to borrow this idea!

[thick jackal]

For anything like that, honestly, first blocker for me is figuring out how to change directional attack input from movement to mouse

cause movement is fuck-off clunky

[spiral chasm]

I kinda like it, tbh

[thick jackal]

Nah, fair to keep it as an option

but too often in MW you end up unable to sidestep or step back during combat in enclosed spaces

and losing your ability to properly change attacks because of that feel very bad

Can even keep movement as default if someone cracks it. But just the option to switch it to mouse-move would be a godsend

[spiral chasm]

Fair enough, but it's kinda neat that your environment affects your effectiveness with certain weapons. It'd be kind of crazy to use a claymore on an enclosed space irl

[thick jackal]

It's not even strictly about that. Cause the game is not setup around "can't use big weapons effectively in tight spaces" - if anything it's the opposite

daggers lose stab if you can't move back. But Claymore retains chop - its most effective attack

[spiral chasm]

True... well, at least the efficiency of spears is more realistically affected, then lol

[thick jackal]

Yeah, sort of :D

[tidal crow]

or not, 2000 angry dudes pummeling you next time you materialize half-dead at that particular intervention marker

[steep sundial]

horcruxes but in Morrowind

[pearl furnace]

woah woah woah, i think you're forgetting about a certain Heart to which the lives of certain Gods are attached

[queen timber]

Been a dream of mine. Mount and Blade combat in Morrowind

[steep sundial]

ok, let me join House Dagoth and become heart-bound

[fickle crown]

You can move forward and it will be thrust.

[thick jackal]

If you can.

But yeah

[fickle crown]

It should always be possible. Even if you aren't moving, just the fact that you are trying will determine the direction. If it's a different attack, it's probably a slash because you tried to sidestep. All this is actually not bad for daggers because the dmg difference between attack types is small. Much worse for spears as mistakes cost you a lot of dmg potential.

[thick jackal]

Duh, you're right

[fervent frost]

Delete enchantments for on-cast items when they run out of juice

Dispel damages enchant charges

Dispel has a chance to delete constant effect enchantments

Add a recharge service to enchanters

Make enchanting easier

Reduce CE magnitudes over time unless you feed them more gems

Whenever a player enchants an item make the enchanter give them a backhanded comment

Enchanters lore disposition with you if you are wearing player-made enchanted items

[celest blaze]

“Being in the mages guild…..please mind your artifacts”

[pearl furnace]

taking damage in one of your hand slots has a chance to break one of your equipped rings. ditto chest slot and amulet

[steep sundial]

more interactive alchemy

let me place items on / near the apperatus

let there be timers (brewing time too short / too long -> spoilt)

[final carbon]

Enchanting getting a gut reno like that would be sweet. Idk if I’d use all of it but major opportunity to rebalance things

IMO Skyrim enchanting had its pros being a more accessible system

[fickle crown]

@fervent frost Nice list. Besides making enchanting easier, of course

[willow ore]

I think enchanting would be mo’ Betta ’ if it was … flattened?

I don’t know how to say it, but a lot of the issues seem to come from super short and powerful enchants.

If they were longer term but less “magnituted” maybe that would prevent some of the stuff that makes it cheese.

Like. Stacking a bunch of rings so you have permanent +20 disposition isn’t breaking because you’re giving up your ring slots.

Maybe what’s breaking is a three second +100 enchant.

Would it be easier to balance if the numbers were deflated and pushed more towards passive benefits?

[final carbon]

That's basically what skyrim did

they got rid of cast on use and made it all constant effects

I'm not sure about losing an enchanted item entirely when it runs out of charges, but definitely making you recharge things either with soul gems or an enchanter would limit that ability to stock a couple magic amulets to clear the game with

[fickle crown]

Meh. Just fewer options and choices. It's not that there are not other ways of balancing it.

cast on use is actually more interesting because it's needs recharging

but there are definitely balance problems with some effects

constant effects are good but boring because they never run out

they should be like batteries

[final carbon]

Yeah I think just removing the passive enchant recharge would do a lot

[fickle crown]

then they have a cost as well

[fervent frost]

I really would like longer durations to be cheaper for buffs (not healing etc)

[fickle crown]

No. That would make it worse.

constant effects would get even better

[final carbon]

but constant effects are very hard to get

also you can't get like, constant effect unlock 100pts

[fervent frost]

Delete all constant effect enchants

[final carbon]

imo the biggest problem I have with enchant in the base game is it replaces casting too easily

it is easier and better to use enchanted items as spells

[fickle crown]

Yeah, and the ability to set various min and max magnitude/duration combos per effect. Give some minimum duration for Charm and it won't be so hard to balance.

make it possible to use magnitude up to 500-600 for Burden but not for Fortify Strength

and so on and so on

[fervent frost]

I don't like the level-specific stuff re charm/related illusion stuff

[fickle crown]

it's not level specific

you are probably thinking about Command

[fervent frost]

Probably

[fickle crown]

and it's Conjuration

😄

[fervent frost]

Just reduce duration or something

Instead of flat fail based on level

Nothing else cares about level

Willpower is there for a reason

[fickle crown]

there are some good reasons for levels but there should be a way for the controlled entity to break free

based on WIL check

and some LCK

maybe some social effects as well

commanding a guard with no reactions is kind of weird

Command has a ton of jank and a ton of problems in general

[misty geyser]

make enchanting skill less effective the more INT/Magicka you have

[thick jackal]

Me, Grug go-Grug, me best enchanter in town?

[misty geyser]

well as long as he has high enchanting skill 🤷 you sayin orc weirdboys cant make flashy-git shinies as good as the pinears? just because he's an orc!

[exotic frigate]

Is the Hookshot Enhanced mod still being made? It sounded like a lot of fun

[steep parrot]

girlfriend in morrowind

[misty geyser]

i think the author got busy but intends to come back to it. its already a lot of fun tbf, but there are animations and dope meshes that haven't been implemented yet

[spiral chasm]

It's a fantasy game, after all...

[river timber]

boyfriend in morrowind

[thick jackal]

He ||may even send you gifts||

[pearl furnace]

um ackshually, intimidation cares about level ☝️🤓

[steep parrot]

sex with girlfriend in morrowind

[fickle crown]

Leveled Lists care too!

[steep parrot]

i want to find true love in morrowind

[fickle crown]

https://www.nexusmods.com/games/skyrim you will find it easier there

[pearl furnace]

you know for the longest time i thought the skyrim mod site was called lover (space) slab

[autumn girder]

You would be correct

[pearl furnace]

like the doomstone where you get the birthsign power, right? this is the Slab of the Lover

[autumn girder]

Oh

[thick jackal]

the skyrim mod site

[pearl furnace]

that's the one

[autumn girder]

Still waiting on an ostim backport

[pearl furnace]

i guess there's some stuff crossposted to other sites like moddb and formerly planet elder scrolls

[autumn girder]

Just give me a fade to black, no audio necessary

[pearl furnace]

i never tried any skyrim mods. idk what you would even change. it's fine

[fickle crown]

people run modlists with 3-5 times as many mods as MW

It's fine

[pearl furnace]

that's like cool for them and whatever but i don't see the point

[autumn girder]

Maybe someone wants to rizz up Master Neloth

[pearl furnace]

i saw that one video by that dunkey guy and that's pretty much my mental image of what people are doing with their skyrims

[fickle crown]

what do you mean? Those aren't useful?

I don't understand. Can Skyrim be different?

[pearl furnace]

no, i'm a morrowind fan. i have no interest in that stuff

[autumn girder]

Didn’t Morrowind have its era of thirsty mods?

[pearl furnace]

there were like five of them

[thick jackal]

I meeean

do we count betterbodies?

[pearl furnace]

yeah

[thick jackal]

cause those started coming out fast, but there were indeed 3.5 of them

[fickle crown]

there is that one modder who posted like 20 weird mods in the last few months

[autumn girder]

And some of korona and aleane’s stuff iirc

But I’ve just heard stories, wasn’t there myself

[pearl furnace]

i think there was one with actual sex animations, but given that we do not even have the technology for sitting on chairs i can't imagine it worked very well

[serene mulch]

That's a funny visual

[pearl furnace]

the screenshot i saw from it was staged on flat ground, outdoors, in Seyda Neen

[serene mulch]

The floating above chair bug but it's sex

[autumn girder]

There are indeed some mods that expand on the house of earthly delights

[fickle crown]

I remember an old mod with marriage

[autumn girder]

And South Wall cornerclub

[fickle crown]

I remember it all

I was there

for Oldwind

[thick jackal]

I had no regular internet access when this was first booming, and by the time I did I wasn't that interested

Saving grace if anything

[river wave]

pregnant girlfriend in morrowind

child rearing in morrowind

[steep parrot]

closure in morrowind

acceptance in morrowind

[pearl furnace]

thanks for bringing the thread back on topic 👍

[river wave]

morrowind anime reskin

[willow ore]

pictures a vanilla bosmer and Altmer

[willow ore]

I always install a new leveling system.

“Experience” is good because it makes it to where you

A) have to engage with the world to get most of the XP and

B) in the beginning you don’t level by swinging a sword twice.

[queen timber]

The bad guys use the loot in their dungeon against the player

[fickle crown]

yeah, great idea. Basically, the smugglers could pick the stuff they have prepared for smuggling if it's better than the stuff they have equipped. After all, it may be life and death.

[celest blaze]

This and more varied weapon conditions that makes sense

[fickle crown]

what do you mean by that?

[fervent frost]

That's my husband's nickname actually

[celest blaze]

In tomb and by ruins skeletons have lower conditions weapons to reflect how long they’ve been wandering with em

Unless that’s already a thing

[fickle crown]

ah, so you mean equipment condition. HBFS has such a feature. You will find Undead with weapons with much lower condition on average.

[celest blaze]

Can the modules in that be toggled, I’ve been looking to download that but been wary about compatibility

[fickle crown]

you should check the mod options. Most of them can be toggled on and off.

[pearl furnace]

Softer Worse Slower Weaker

[lone pagoda]

factions are harder to join if your Specialization doesn't match theirs

[long marlin]

An enchanting mod that lets you enchant items with artefact levels of power, but you really have to work for it.

Right now I'm emulating this using the Disenchant mod by adjusting its settings so that the disenchanted item gains enchantment capacity equal to the enchantment that was previously on it, meaning that repeated enchants and disenchants can raise capacity for that item until you can make something good, but it feels a bit too "I will upgrade this later." I'd much rather have a mod that lets you work to prepare an item for a major enchant over time with ongoing investment from spells etc, maybe sinking your magicka into it with temporary drain, done in a way that requires you to really plan what you'll be enchanting.

This has the side effect of making that fortify intelligence and enchanting loop actually matter for the final enchantment. The increased power of the enchanted effect means even with 'cheap' tactics, you might fuck up.

This was inspired by deciding the Archmage's robes from that robe mod was ugly compared to the master level robes and wanting to figure out how to enchant something of equivalent stats. Speaking of which, the ability to enchant Fortify Maximum Magicka as a constant effect on robes or staffs would be good (I got another mod to add an equivalent effect, but it can be placed on anything on cast, which feels supremely busted).

[pearl furnace]

if your intelligence goes over 300 your head explodes

if your strength goes over 500 your heart explodes

if your speed goes over 1000 you take damage from hitting any collision surface

the rest of the attributes seem fine

[vernal dome]

An immortal snail that if it touches you then you die

[pearl furnace]

wait no, if your personality goes over 200 then NPC disposition starts going back down again because your perfume is way too strong

if your personality goes over 500 you asphyxiate on the fumes

[long marlin]

If your personality goes over 200 people start to shit talk you behind your back, lowering reputation and adding bounty over time as you're defamed. If it goes over 300 you start getting stalkers. If it goes over 400 people lose their dialogue options because you overwhelm them. If it goes over 500 anyone you talk to dies.

Stick some dunmer paparazzi in there and you have a horrible mod.

...If it goes over 600 inanimate objects start conversations with you.

[pearl furnace]

if your luck goes over 500 Azura strikes you dead for tinkering with the weave of fate

[long marlin]

If your luck goes over 400 calamities start happening as all the luck that should have prevented them is sunk into you.

[pearl furnace]

willpower and agility are fine, no cap

those are the fun attributes anyway

[long marlin]

If your agility goes too high then jumping moves you to a random realm of oblivion.

[pearl furnace]

lmao yeah, agility over 200 starts increasing your mouse sensitivity

[long marlin]

If your willpower goes too high then arrows and other projectiles start deflecting from you in midair. Then objects you could pick up start getting shunted away by your approach. Then people do. Then you start levitating toward the sky and have to use a levitation spell to consciously stay close to the ground, and can't wait outside.

Finally your will burns a hole in reality and you end up on a random plane of oblivion beside a very confused, immensely talented acrobat...

[long marlin]

Strength too high makes the interact key break things and snap the necks of npcs you try to talk to.

[pearl furnace]

the screen goes dark because you're resising the light of Magnus

it can't affect your retinas

[long marlin]

Endurance too high starts increasing the time passed by trying to wait for an hour.

You sleep for 12 hours and a month passes by accident.

[pearl furnace]

you can't sleep at all anymore, you're brimming with too much energy

[long marlin]

Oh I like that

Too high endurance means autowalk is constantly on

[pearl furnace]

yessss

[long marlin]

Got one

Got a great one

[pearl furnace]

incidentally this sort of stuff is why dagoth ur went insane

he got Too OP

[long marlin]

Too high intelligence starts adding random new spell effects to each alchemy item. No, you can't get rid of them.

That sounds fine at first glance

[pearl furnace]

same if your alchemy skill gets too high, too

[long marlin]

Too high alchemy or intelligence permanently adds a randomly selected alchemy effect to every ingredient you touch. The higher they go, the more added. Mod name? "Overcomplication."

[pearl furnace]

if you drink too many potions you should get couchlocked

[long marlin]

Drink too many potions and get kidney stones!

[spiral chasm]

If your reputation goes over 200 you get attacked in your sleep by paparazzi

[spiral chasm]

If your Alchemy skill gets too high, the Dunmer DEA starts investigating your every move

[pearl furnace]

mercantile and speechcraft too high -> investigated for racketeering

[wide geyser]

If your Personality goes over 500 NPCs start following you around.

[willow ore]

Don’t they already?

[misty geyser]

High pickpocket makes random items in your inventory become flagged as stolen. "Oh, how did that get there?"

[steep parrot]

this i want an anime girlfriend

actually this is in the works lmao

i saw someone post an incomplete mod then nuke it again

or maybe they left it up i don't know

if that goes through i'm ditching better heads LOL

[steep parrot]

midi sequencer framework for openmw so that people can add custom sound fonts and small music packs consisting of midis

[autumn girder]

Bardcraft has this ? lol

A midi parser and in-game editor at least

[serene mulch]

yeah it does. bardcraft rules

[autumn girder]

The new update for Bardcraft (idk when it will be out) has an export script that will export the midis that you make in-game

[misty geyser]

sick

[steep parrot]

i forgot semaphore was already a thing, but is that compatible with midi?

[autumn girder]

Yeah, Bardcraft only uses midi files

[lone pagoda]

A complete revamp that changes the way that the game handles items and objects being modified

[river timber]

All NPCs talk in the most annoying modern social media way, ie using emojis as repetition of what they said already.

"You should go to Caius Cosades in Balmora 🌆 "

[river wave]

🤣 💯

[vernal dome]

Change charm to "🤣 💯" and taunt to "😐"

On a similar note frenzy is renamed "hiya everypony"

[visual flume]

https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/47006

[teal salmon]

mod where the vivec gondoliers have a full animation ferrying you slowly through the cantons

[visual flume]

You won't believe it.

https://gitlab.com/gbtb/immersive-travel-openmw

[long marlin]

Weather applies small status effects to the player.

Rain lowers personality but slightly increases speed.

[thick jackal]

#1427867749870473287

(that and many more)

[spiral chasm]

Change charm to "Hey (with rizz)"

[teal salmon]

dark souls 2 effect, increased fire resist lowered lightning resist

:P

[long marlin]

Slaughterfish don't attack, they approach and force dialogue with random nautical trivia, and keep doing it every ten seconds until they can't follow you or they die.

[weary ravine]

Still of the opinion there should be a random chance for a slaughterfish to bodyblock you in the direction of your swimming while laughing
and upon inspection it will be named "laughterfish"

[long marlin]

Small slaughterfish do the same, but instead of trivia they ask nautical questions. Answering correctly makes them go away.

Dreugh do the same as slaughterfish BUT IN ALL CAPS and every five seconds.

Land Dreugh do the same as regular Dreugh but preface it by saying "AND ANOTHER THING:"

Once you've been hassled by a land Dreugh and not killed them, there's a 2% chance of waking up to a forcegreet dialogue from one saying "YOU'RE FINALLY AWAKE! DID YOU KNOW ..."

Oversharing: The Bounty of the Sea (v0.6b, discontinued by murder of the author)

Ooh oooh

Change ancestral ghosts to forcegreet with gossip about their descendants and complaints about how they never pray

If you're a dunmer you can dialogue with them to assuage their disappointment. If you don't, they apply a "Guilted" status effect that applies a minor but irritating penalty to all actions

Get A Life (0.74b, mod abandoned by author due to family commitments)

If you're a member of the Tribunal Temple the ghosts greet you by rank. If you're junior they force you to do a menial favour. If you're middling rank they force you to stay for tea, losing an hour of time. If you're senior they are very deferential to the point of gushing, and begin all subsequent dialogues with repurposed Father Ted quotes. "I hear you're a Telvanni now, Father!"

Scare in the Community (v1.0 author active in fixing bugs and quietly hates their life)

[willow ore]

Father Ted?!

[long marlin]

Dougal?!

[lone pagoda]

expand trebonius artorius's questline

[thick jackal]

||Trebonius is the agent lobotomized by the dragonbreak||

[nocturne birch]

Trebonius is just operating on a level that mere wizards can't comprehend, a sigma mage

[steep parrot]

thief the dark project light gem hud

[serene mulch]

#1387497661103345797

[fossil stone]

Kill cams/kill cams for ranged kills

ala Fallout

what a nightmare to make that would be

[misty geyser]

Easier to do it a la MK10, pre baked fmv of heads exploding etc. don't even bother doing race specific, it's just fargoth, bloody mess perk

[fossil stone]

Pause gametime, grab the NPC current skeleton position, then copy to a stand in actor with identical outfit/face/skin, spawn a black cube around it, move the camera, play the kill sequence, delete everything you spawned in, unpause the world

[steep sundial]

deep oceans and at least one giant kraken

[fossil stone]

yes

more sea creatures

[misty geyser]

Yes

[misty geyser]

I want to hunt sea monsters

An abyssal trench

[fervent frost]

There is an absurdly deep segment of ocean in PC

[misty geyser]

Plz

[steep sundial]

More ideas for my touch of madness mod. If you talk to Din (the guy who talks with slaughterfish) while high on skooma. He can teach you their language and then slaughterfish will be peaceful to you while high and maybe guide you to treasures.

Positive hallucinations at day, and negative hallucinations at night

sugar trees, with cane sugar as fruits

[long marlin]

I like the idea that he's unhappily retired and is just fucking with people.

Like he was this highly skilled blunt instrument of a battle mage, and he got so good at it they needed to do something to reward him to keep him appeased, and the best they could come up with was promotion to Arch-Mage somewhere it wouldn't do any harm. And he knows it, and he hates it, because he lived for battle and now he has an office job where he's expected to be mystical and wise.

So he keeps making odd requests and slowly upping the ante, trying to see what it'll take for someone to call bullshit. And that's why he's keen to duel when he finds someone he thinks wants his job and will be a good fight.

Also why he's willing to retire if you solve the mystery of the disappearance of the dwarves. "Oh shit, this guy actually did it? Oh no. Everyone taking me seriously is going to cause problems."

Sympathetic Trebonious (v0.9b, author retired)

[narrow niche]

I always liked the Skyrim mod that adds sea monsters but it was buggy as hell

[willow ore]

They had giant crabs that worked well.

[narrow niche]

Mod that makes it so you have to go on a quest to achieve CHIM before you can save and load the game

Use of the console would also be locked until you achieve CHIM

[teal salmon]

Was gonna say if youre gonna make a deep sea mod you should make underwater vampire dens cause theres no sunlight down there and they dont have to breathe but i think vampires might need to breathe in morrowind. Mechanically anyway

[fickle crown]

and how would you learn this power?

not from a Jedi, I presume

[narrow niche]

Listen I'm just a half-assed ideas guy

[spiral chasm]

One night stand with Vivec

[narrow niche]

Maybe you have to talk to both Vivec and Wulf

[fickle crown]

Is Molag Bal invi---- nevermind

[narrow niche]

They'll teach you

[fickle crown]

then you would need to finish almost the entire MQ in one run, without ever exiting the game as it wouldn't be allowed to save 😅

[narrow niche]

The game would only let you save on exit. Otherwise it's essentially a permadeath run

[thick jackal]

Is there a permadeath mod out there already?

[narrow niche]

Yes but it doesn't let you reach CHIM

[feral obsidian]

I had an an idea for a tweak to the class/levelling system without completely rebuilding it. Rather than only your major+minor skills counting to level progression, it's only your top 10 skills count towards level progression. So a middle ground between the rigid classes of Morrowind/Oblivion and the unconstrained approach of Skyrim.

So the initial top 10 would be your major/minor skills picked at game start. After that, whenever a skill rises above one of those skills it replaces it in the list of your class skills.

[lone pagoda]

more ash-creatures

[teal salmon]

would be kind of annoying if athletics and acrobatics become one of your top 10

could idk, build an exception for that maybe

[steep parrot]

make the actual world distance resemble daggerfall so it's painfully lifelike and the continent actually feels like a continent

[nocturne birch]

It would probably be easier to just remake Morrowind in Daggerfall

[uneven stream]

Daggerfall inspired trial system, with speechcraft mini-games to reduce sentence or be innocented, with even possibilities to bribe or use relationship depending on reputation, status and disposition with certain npcs. At least for crime. Kinda logical that small misdemeanor (not English speaker so no ideas what are the correct term) are handle directly by guards. Some factions, like telvanni, could be outside this system and have their own.

[uneven stream]

The lack of visibility and the shortness of breath must be something lol

[uneven stream]

What do you mean by flatten? Shouldn't the enchant difficulty be exponential? Because it is very easy to make absurdly high fire damage enchantments. Enchant should have the whole difficulty calculation reworked. Alchemy should have a logarithmic approach to effects' magnitude, so it's easy to make very efficient healing potions but not absurd, etc. Some magical effects should have there cost and magnitude be different depending on if it is enchant or alchemy, i.e I get invisibility is a difficult spell to cast but it also makes impossible to have food invisibility potions...

Sorry I respond to some few days old messages but I like doing necromancy on fresh corpses

Speaking of which

A mod to reanimate fresh cadavers à la skyrim

[misty geyser]

Certain types of crime should exile you to other countries if you fail at your trial. Extradition based on race

[fossil stone]

Morrowind Visa system

filthy n'wah

go back to the empire

(i'm joking )

[vernal dome]

Trials would be great.

Imperial law is empire-wide, but you might be able to get different results via a change of venue

[uneven stream]

Altmer are gonna wait a goddamn long time because those Summerset Islands ain't released soon lol

[vernal dome]

For example necromancy would be harshly punished under ashlander or temple law but the imperials could heavily fine you and exile you from morrowind.

There's no way the empire is gonna let you be tried under sumerset law for a crime committed in morrowind lol

Hiding out in an embassy should be an option

[uneven stream]

Unless you're from the Temple.

[misty geyser]

Would need to be high up or you'd be scapegoated

Extra harsh to send a message

[vernal dome]

Well as an irl example there's a phenomenon where many aboriginals from limited contact tribes choose to be tried under australian law because the punishments are much more lenient (generally).

So someone from an ashlander or temple settlement may choose to be tried under imperial law

[misty geyser]

Yeah if the Telvanni catch you you'd better start playing your diplomat card pretty quick

[vernal dome]

Given the imperial law and house law topics in game this should be possible and it should be something that morrowind native power structures really hate.

[uneven stream]

Could definitely be something : trying to make the most lenient laws to apply to your case. Like slaver trying to be judge under Morrowind customs instead of Imperial ones

[vernal dome]

But also the empire might not want to deal with you, or might pull a pontius pilate

Thus your factions, your rep, and your barrister come into play.

[uneven stream]

In fact, this trial/sentence system could in part replace the expelled mechanics of factions

[vernal dome]

If you only deal with the temple and ashlanders, and then decide to raise the dead the imperials might lose your petition to be tried under imperial law.

Because you are taking the piss

Someone trying to evade charges for slavery related crimes could be interesting.

[uneven stream]

Reputation/Infamy (global and per faction) could determine how each faction/institution deals with you

[vernal dome]

Yes

It would also be good to have seperate bounties for factions/regions

[uneven stream]

Yes !

[vernal dome]

So a house law bounty, an imperial law bounty

If you murder someone under house law that's a few thousand gold.
If you murder someone under imperial law you're just a criminal. Reload a save or persist in this doomed world.

[uneven stream]

We have a mod for regions bounty, but factions bounty is a great idea

[vernal dome]

Oh nice

[uneven stream]

I wanted to put Trebonius emoji but there is none