LE Multiple heroes

[dennisj]

I was hoping this would be a thing by the time I got skyrim but sadly I don't think anyone has come up with it yet. I would love a mod that lets you play more then one character on a save file. Lets say I have a main character a thief I go off start an adventure doing the thief's guild and level to 13 and get board I then start a second character on that same save with his own level skills equipment and switch to him/her any time and go off on an adventure. Later gathering all my heroes iv leveled up into on big adventuring party. Sort of like GTA5.

Features id like

-Each character is his/her own unique character. Starting a new character is like starting a new game.
-Only one character can be dragon born (choose at the start or who ever gets the first word of power)
-If you beat a guild quest as one character you can't take advantage of the guild restorers as another character (They wont treat you as the leader of that guild unless you are)
-You can meet up with your other characters in the world bump into them or go to their homes and recruit them as followers. They will have all the spells, weapons, stats as you left them
- If a character ends up in jail you can break them out as a different character
- The ability to set what your character dose when you're not playing as him/her. (Gather money, train skills, adventure around *aka when you return they will have random loot, or relax* And where they go in the world as npcs *go to their home, wonder around, stay in a set town, ect
- Switch on the fly not just by talking to someone. Switch half way across the map or right next to each other in combat

I don't know anything about modding but I think this mod (Alternate Actors) might help getting most of the features working. Please I know I will be hard work but id love to have all my characters in one save.

imagine
- When you get bored of one character switching but still having all progress in the world
- Characters effect on the world is more dynamic. One character might make a huge effect on the world that you can see from a different point of view instead of one guy killing all the dragons and running all the guilds
- All your characters come together to end the civil war or to kill Alduin or just to raid a bandit camp
- Your heroes enter a dark bandit camp you get your sneaking character to scope out the room and get behind the bandits for an ambush which over to your warrior and start attacking you start to go down switch to your healer and boost everyones health and give magic buffs then switch to your mage to finish everyone off.

[SnippyChris]

I think it would be a good idea, to build on this as well, kind of like a adventuring party system. So that you could switch between party members, and then if you leave the party they go off and do whatever, right?

[dennisj]

I think it would be a good idea, to build on this as well, kind of like a adventuring party system. So that you could switch between party members, and then if you leave the party they go off and do whatever, right?

Yes that's the perfect way to discribe it.

 

It turns out you can active most of this with a mod called alternate actors but its still missing a few key features.

 

1. unfortunately everyone will be dragon born or the guild leader even when they are not

2. The character switching is to slow for dynamic combat

3. You can't just make a new hero you have to possess an npc then customize him or use some type of out side mod

 

So if someone can use the frame work of AA it might be close

[SnippyChris]

This is true! I love that mod. Maybe you can make a request to the author of AA? I know he loves to take requests, plus he made a .esm so people can make plugins. I'm sure a talented scripter would be able to pick up this project.

[Sarus31]

A party system in Skyrim? That sounds fantastic!

[reyzark]

quite hard, if not impossible to do unfortunetly, id like to have a mod like that, lets just hope sameone can do it.

[SnippyChris]

Well a party system should be able to be done using AA and AFT.. You would have 3 companions, and then use AA framework to switch in between your party members, you would just want to make sure that the party members wouldn't be the Dovahkiin. I can pitch this to a few friends and see what they say. Hang tight dennis

[dennisj]

Well a party system should be able to be done using AA and AFT.. You would have 3 companions, and then use AA framework to switch in between your party members, you would just want to make sure that the party members wouldn't be the Dovahkiin. I can pitch this to a few friends and see what they say. Hang tight dennis

That would be amazing, thanks!

[SnippyChris]

Well dennis, I have some bad news. My friends say that it would be really hard and might even be next to impossible. But you could ask the mod author of AA if he could make it to where the NPC's arent dragonborn when you possess them per say, and then still use AFT to have 3 companions. And still get a few different characters. on my actual play file I have Interesting NPC's and I have gorr, serana, and I have Sven that i turned into a healer with AFT, and I am playing on master difficulty and it is fun! Plus a few immersive mods like IA IW and IC. Stuff gets mad crazy :ninja:

[dennisj]

Can you ask him which factor is impossible it? I was also thinking why one mod when you can just download a bunch of mods to get the effect.

 

-AA for the obvious character switching

-AFT for better follower control

 

All that is missing is

-A mod that lets you not be dragon born/guild leader

-Faster character switching for combat

-The ability to level npcs the way you want them (Choose the skills they learn and not do it automatically)

-Create an npc in game for you to posses and use as a character (This is just for convince you can still use FF or an outside program)

-Tell npcs what to do when you're not playing as them (Tho I think AFT has that feature already)

 

If I can get all the mods and ask permission if I can I will put it all in one pack. I mean looking at it AA pretty much dose most of the work Im no modder but I think the hardest thing to do might be the dragon born/guild leader thing. The second biggest issue is switching to characters even when they are in different towns but AA already dose this.