LE Tome Of Knowledge (essentially a magical kindle or ipad)

[mikeloeven]

I am thinking of a magical book called the Tome Of Knowledge that acts like a magical version of a modern eBook reader and is capable of storing the text of all books the player has ever read and allowing them to re read the text at any time without having to fill their inventory up with multiple books.

 

I kinda know how the mod should work but i really suck at using Bethesda tool-sets.

 

I am thinking the best way to do what i am thinking is to have the Tome link to a scripted chest in a test cell

 

the kind you use for sorters and other item manipulation to store items without allowing the player to access the physical inventory.

 

when the player reads a book the maintenance script will check to see if there is a copy of that specific book in the scripted chest and if it is a new book the player hasn't read before a copy will be spawned into the scripted chest.

 

when the player reads the Tome of Knowledge it will display the list of all the books currently in the scripted chest and allow you to read them without placing the book in your inventory.

 

 

considering the extremely powerful magic in the world of elder scrolls making a book act as a eReader should be lore friendly.

 

opening the tome should consume a small amount of mana and prevent mana regeneration while the book is open

Edited December 4, 2014 by mikeloeven