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It is notworthy that even female modders tend to create cute female followers...

By now, this old classic could really make use of an rewrite. Just sticking with with the default body and skeleton would fix a lot of these problems. Right now I say the "body wars" has ended in a tie with CBBE and the new UUNP, both compatible with Bodyslide so each one can get the body they really want and have plenty of outfits to easily convert for them.

Well not so much request as a suggestion for bored modders. Metallurgy, ever asked yourself why the Skyforge is so special? Skyforge steel but are there any background in reality that can be used as inspiration? A hint to what I am after lays with the legendary Ulfberts swords used but some of the most wealthy vikings, legedary high quality sword able to withstand a lot more punishment then other contemperary weapons. Modern resarch show that the Ulfberhts was made of crusible steel a steel a lot more pure then avalible in the region hinting at the ingots having been imported from central asia. The mod: Skyforge steel are unique not in that it can only be forged at the Skyforge, any forge will the do but only a very hot forge, like the Skyforge can manufacture the Skyforge steel ingots from regular steel or iron. The process of how to do this is a secret of the Greymane family. To learn to do this, save a missing son and the secret will be shared with you. To manufacture the ingots only a very hot forge can be used, there are three such forges in Skyrim. The Skyforge, the Riften forge after it been fuled with fire salts and the Eternium forge. I found a documentary named "Secrets of the Viking Sword" that show the real world process of recreating the process to create crucible steel (real world Skyforge steel) and the smithing of a new Ulfberht quality weapon. Next: It always annoyed me the ancient nords use what appear to be steel weapons, it is just not ancient enough for me. I suggest replacing their weapons and armor with bronze instead! Polish it up and it will look like gold. Weapons need to be given new models, suggestibly based on actual nordic bronze age weapons.

Congratulation and welcome. Did you have to have to duel to the death with the last contestants or have they gone soft recently? //silly of

This happens with followers I try to recruit, sometimes the first one. Sometimes I can fix this by changing load order about, cleaning mods etc but most times, nothing short of a new game works, if the modsetup is correct. What I am after is to once and for all find out what causes this and get it fixed. There got to be more than me that get this bug from time to time but so far, I haven't found anyone with this problem. I am tired of having to restart again over and over again considering how far one need to play to get ones first follower and then try to recruit a second one.

Sometimes, and with different mod setups I get this weird bug coming up that make followers either refuse to join or they pretend to join, that is they "accept" then do not join. The "set playerfollowercount to x" command is useless for this, the problem is that this command, regardless of number put in are utterly ignored, even to the point that a follower I DO have in party are NOT removed when the limit are set to 0. I have from time to time experienced this when running UFO and now when I tried the new "Follower Mod" in a new game it happened again. It appears to me that there is some underlying bug that have persisted for years that cause this and well, I would like to find a fix that actually solves this once and for all, even if it is in the form of a whole bug fix mod.

If you have not already, make sure to use the unofficial skyrim patch and it's DLC versions. Actually those "unofficial" patches are pretty much official thease days. They fix a lot of bugs and are frequently updated. I cannot swear that it will fix your persistent dragon problem but something I run does and I suspect those patches.

Maybe you need administrator rights?

What people can do to avoid the library's fines for late books...

I concurr that we need fiddles, and maybe even bagpipes. Both are at least medival instruments that would fit well in Skyrim. It would be nice with some stationary instruments as well. Anduniel above have an organ in her Anna's followers mod. In the new Solitude chatedral, reachable through a door in the temple. It would be nice if it was playable.

Would be fun and used potions should leave an empty bottle behind. The same should go for wine bottles. This could also open up quests from alchemists running low on bottles and sometimes offer to pay something extra for them. Further some volatile concoctions may react with a cheap bottle giving an incentive to have bottles of various qualities. There could be a certain risk of failure brewing potions in a simple bottle and the more advanced potions could face an higher risk. Maybe open up a new field of crafting for glass items. Not only potion and wine bottles but also sheet glass for construction and tableware and so on.

It wound not necessarily make her dragonborn, thou is is possible. An interesting thought, Barenziah's son Helshet was king of Morrowind during the Morrowind game (Elderscrolls III) so she does have an connection to the royal family there. And as an daughter of Tiber Septim she would be in the line of succession if this was known. Most likely documents exists somewhere and the empire seem to be in the need of a new emperor/empress. If such a person could peacefully haul in Morrowind as well, it would have an significant effect. Also, I doubt that Black Marsh are to eager to make an enemy of the Empire so this could be very useful.

I have at times put guard armour on my followers and really taken my position as thane seriously. It is great fun taking down bandits that threaten my hold this way. A bit of cheating with blacksmithing will keep the outfit viable and cloaks of skyrim have hold specific cloaks to help other gear like plate and robes still feal like uniforms.

Oops, accidental double post. Cannot delete on my phone.

Be warned that it all but impossible to imitate a voice good enough to make it seamless. Usually an imitated voice, added to lines spoken by another actor mix badly. For the Isran example, once one have found an actor capable to sound similar, record ALL Israns lines, and totally remove the original voice actor for a better result.

Online games are also know to be unmoddable, taking a lot of the fun out of it, I prefer to have the power in my own hands. Neverwinter Nights at least was designed to have a whole bunch of widely differentiating private persistent servers that was modable, at least for the staff. Besides I was just out for a long vacation and then found that my Skyrim was just as I left it. I used to play WoW for years. That was stressful.

The description make me think of Sanguine rather then Dibella.

Maybe there could be a mod to outmanuver the Blackbriars and the Silverbloods and then let some other people take their place. Imagine running a campaign that sends Maven into exile and someone else take the jarlseat in an imperial riften, maybe even let Lawgiver keep her job but with an imperial officer at her side keep her in line.

Vilja also have this function btw, perhads some other followers can do this but I do not know what they are. It could be nice to have this as say an UFO command "follow Lydia!" for example.

It just to bad that the scale of Skyrim allow for little use of boats. Skyrim have no rivers, just small shallow streams and only a few lakes separated from each other. And the coastline really only allow for the east/west axis of travel. With wide deep rivers and some canals, much could be achived. Morrowind gave as a large main island that boats could circumvent and smaller islands in the north including Solhsteim. This is why I want the next game to be in the Summer set isles after the fall of the Thalmor.

Have you seen the way they treat the dark elves & argonians in Windhelm? Even non-nord humans suffer as a result (Adrienne Avenicci says afterwards that she loses business because nords will only trade with Eorlund Graymane). By contrast, Brunwulf Free-Winter (jarl of windhelm after Ulfric is killed) the first thing he does is improve the grey quarter. Like I said, the stormcloaks are a bunch of racists that need to be put down. Adrienne Avenicci looses business due to have supported the enemy, remember when you first enter Whiterun and she takes an order for the imperial legion? There are also non Nord's, non humans even in Windhelm that are doing well for them self. Crappy racism aside from some people, even the guards in Windhelm recommended the dunmer trader. Some Stormcloaks really are like Ralof, not all of them are raceist. If the scale of the game where larger and the developers had more time for it, more thought could be put into that.

The most jarring about these mods are that they really do not fit Skyrims climate but there are mods to fix that of course. Then we have the problem of realism, personally I would like rules for unarmored fighting to go with them rather then have outfits that cover only a fraction of the body and some how counts as full plate. So in the real world then? In ancient times empires where built with unarmored warriors carrying only a light shield for defense. Revealing clothing have existed for real all over the world, it is mostly a question of cultural imperialism that made most of it go away but it still exist in some places. One of the reasons the British was so pro the Islamic culture in India when they incorporated it in their empire was that the local Hindu one includes way to much skimpiness for their liking, especially with things like art in the temples. They also suppressed these things when relating to ancient Egypt culture. Just look at some ancient Egyptian murals and you will see some bare breasted women and naked dance girls and so on. These things existed in Europe as well, it was pretty much with the spread of Christianity that it was stomped out. And here in Sweden, topless women was a common sight at the beaches in the eighties, and that was the normal beaches, not just the nude beaches. I recently saw a TV series about how people dress and used makeup all over the world. One of the episodes was about a people in the amazonian jungle that pretty much just used a girdle for "clothing", (no it was not that kind of program, they used discretion shots) but yes, they wore a belt and no actual clothing, men and women alike. Going with just a skirt and no top are rather common in some other places. The really odd thing with skimpy mods is that they more often are "bottomless" then "topless" and only for the ladies. So, yes skimpy mods are popular but they actually have potential to be realistic, IN the right cultural environment and context. Why skimpy mods often over do it, the real world are rather prudish sometimes. Personally I would love a sort of "bronze age" world to go with a warm climate mod.

In the real world singing is cool but not everyone that can sing is a bard and not everyone that sings sings good. Mages exist aplenty I dunno how you missed them.

There is an third option, it isn't much but you can negotiate a ceasefire agreement between the two factions when you battle Alduin.

Actually many if not most are legion veterans. This is also true for Ulfric Stormcloak himself.