SirCadsimar Posted August 14 Share Posted August 14 (edited) There's a lot of books in The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim. Over 500 books. Apparently 533 total, not sure if that counts the books added by Creation Club content, but since there's the Creations thing now I wouldn't count on the information being updated and accurate, literally nobody is going to get every new post-Creation Club "Creations" content. Not to say that every single one adds ingame literature. But some people, like myself, have all of the Creation Club content, but that's neither here nor there and we're getting off track here. Anyways. About 91 of them are skill books (I manually counted them from the list on UESP, while kindof tired and having a bit of a migraine); might be off by one or two, a search result on Google said 90. They (skill books) all give 1 full skill point. Paying for Training gives 1 full skill point each purchase. Skill points as rewards from people like Amren after you retrieve his father's old sword, full skill point(s) for relevant skill(s). Combat, magic, bartering and etcetera all give a small amount of EXP, depending on various factors of course. My idea for a mod is for some (or many) of the vanilla ingame non-skill books to give like half the EXP (experience) of a full skill point. I think giving them a full point would be... too OP for lack of better terminology I can't think of at the moment, or something like that. And there's some mod or three that does that already (edits more books to be skill point giving books). I have nothing against those mods at all, in fact I'll probably get one next time my playthrough breaks and I reconfigure my Load Order. But I just think my idea is kindof interesting, and maybe other people would like this too. Disclaimer: I don't have a clue how this would be done though, I am not a modder myself, I was thinking about starting to learn to mod Skyrim but then the update happened in late 2023, and it caused me to became discouraged from learning to use the Creation Kit, also I lost access to Discord so unfortunately I can't learn from the wonderful folks with The Arcane University (a Discord server of really cool and creative people that teach how to mod, write stories and characters for mods, and etcetera). Edited August 14 by SirCadsimar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scorrp10 Posted August 14 Share Posted August 14 Definitely doable. If you look at the 'Unread books glow' mod, it puts a glow shader on any book that you have not yet read, and once you read, those book no longer have the glow. The script that controls that, could also give player some xp towards a particular skill. But the mod would essentially need a database indicating which skill and how much xp it gives... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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