[Idea] Armor for Werewolf/Werebear

[Barchetta3223]

So I got to chatting with some people in Mihails discord group and realized something. This game lacks armor for werebear/werewolves but they give it to the far superior vampire lord. This actually bothers me quite a bit. This isnt a request as I feel like requests are often ignored. This is simply an idea/brainstorming summary for anyone who might want to tackle this:

 

1. Edit werebear/werewolf and vanilla armor models to work together. Dont bother with helmets. The following armors make sense and would be lore friendly:

Dragonbone, Skaal Armor, Nordic Plate, Hide, Forsworn

 

2. Make a quest that teaches said beast shaper how to use armor and each quest requires a certain level to trigger.

 

3. Instead of trying to fiddle with ways to equip armor to the beast forms via scripts/game code, simply use merged models and variant powers. Give the player the ability to delete older powers if they want to reduce clutter on their power menu

 

4. Require the user of the power to have the (correct item equipped) aka full set of said beast forms armor, minus the helmet.

 

5. Since mods like helmet toggle work, I would think that we could make the equipped armor prior to beast transformation can be set to vanish when transforming but maintain equip status. I assume this part would require skse for scripting but Im no Modder so maybe im wrong.

 

I always felt that beastforms deserve armor in Skyrim. Druids in almost every tabletop (pen and paper) game are given the ability to use specific armors in beast form.

 

Again, this is not a request and I by no means want someone to drop what theyre doing to make this. Just wanted to share my thoughts and perhaps one day Ill have a new and fascinating mod to install for a wereform playthrough :)

Edited May 13, 2018 by Barchetta3223