LE Educating Children

[TAKoturtle22]

I've got an Idea for a mod but no skill in modding whatsoever, so I'm hoping someone out there who can mod will think it's a good Idea.

 

Basically I want to be able to train my kid in whatever skills I've leveled. Once I adopt a child, I should be able to make him/her my follower and level alongside me, at first he should be a really shitty follower with basically no skills and the need to be protected at all times, but over time he should become about as powerful as I am.

 

The training could be done by sparring with your kid, having him present while performing skills and giving him skill books and spell books as presents. Giving your kid a weapon will make him train with it and he will actually level it. I think it would be a great roleplaying mod for any parent characters.

Other things that could be added to it would be something akin to pumping iron for kids to make them age as they level. Most of the kids look like they're ten so making them taller and eventually bringing them to an adult build would be pretty cool as well although I feel that may need to be a separate mod or module.

 

Also add the option of letting your kid join a faction you are a part of, give skill buffs depending on the faction for ex college of winterhold will boost magic xp rates while the dark brotherhood or thieves guild will boost stealth xp rates, once he's strong enough to fend for himself he could even take on faction missions of his own. You could even end it off by giving your kid a test based on what faction you brought him into, this could work as a quest in which your sole duty is to follow him on his test to evaluate his skills at the end of it you can say to your kid "there's nothing left for me to teach you" (adult stage only) and he'll now train and go on faction missions all by himself, or you could say "you still have much to learn" to keep him as your student.

 

Training the kid would also train your own skills, because teaching is a very effective way of learning. Watching him train new techniques could involve new animations for example when he first tries the flame spell he could cause an explosion or have him barely be able to lift a greatsword if he has yet to even train with a wooden sword. as for criminal behaviour your kid could end up in prison with a courier show up and give you a letter saying "please control your child" and you'll have to go bail him out, if you're training your kid to be an assassin you might have to break him out of jail if he gets caught killing.

 

As for perks he'll put his perks the same as yours, as for teaching your kid a skill you don't know his leveling in that skill should be absolutely terrible. If you've never casted a spell it doesn't make sense that you could teach your kid to be a master wizard.

 

I think it's a great idea for a mod that really brings children to life, cuz right now even with the mods out there for kids they're basically useless. Call it the Student Overhaul or Educate, call it whatever but somebody make it please. I have a roleplay I wanna do but this mod would be required.