LE Dungeons and Dragons style magic

[l337ar15]

Hello this is my first post on the Nexus forums. First let me start by saying thank you to all of the amazing modders out there. I must have over 100 mods installed on Skyrim and have to take a break and actually play the game or I would spend all day searching and downloading mods instead of playing! Now let me get to my mod request.

 

I was hoping someone skilled in Skyrim modding could convert the magic system in Skyrim to one of a more Dungeons and Dragons (paper and pen) style magic system. One where spells actually require spell components to be cast instead of a mana pool. Say to cast a flames spell for 30 seconds you had to use/consume a Red Mountain Flower in your hand and have different mats for different spells. Make magic more powerful so that hitting a monster with a fireball might require a valuable mat/regent but do a large amount of damage. Or to cast a lightning bolt it required a powerful soulgem as a mat and it was consumed on the spells use. Make more complex spells require additional mats and some that did not get used up by the spell but could be re-used like a precious gem etc.

 

Make spells have to be memorized each day (every 24/hours) out of your spell book. Once you used up all your spells you would have to sleep to be able to re-memorize spells. You pick the spells that you will memorize for the day after you awaken from sleeping. Going into a dangerous mission? Load up on destruction spells. Infiltration? Memorize illusion spells. Being higher level allows more spells to be memorized.

 

Make spells level dependent so that a low level mage could not even learn a spell they had found that was powerful and required a high level to learn let alone to be able to cast.

 

Make spells RARE so that the Riverwood trader wasn't selling spells for gold. Make a spell found off a high level boss be an incredible rare very valuable reward for the player. Have the most valuable rewards be to find or recover another mages spell book with several spells inside of it. Remove all spell vendors for anything but low level spells like Clairvoyance. Imagine what one of the Spellbooks of Vanus Galerion might contain within it's pages? I dare not imagine what horrible incredible spells are held within the flesh bound spell book of the great Mannimarco!

 

Make scrolls able to be attempted to be converted into the mages own spellbook with a percentage chance. Maybe a skill tree that handled a % chance to learn a scroll but if failed the scroll would be destroyed. It would make the risk of keeping the scroll to use versus learning it a good tradeoff.

 

I know this is all probably not possible but a mage can dream can't they?

 

If anyone thinks this can be done and knows anything about modding then i would be extremly interested to see it accomplished. Given the incredible variety of spells i have seen through mods I would love to be able to have a new way to use and cast them. Make casting a spell more rare but far more powerful.

 

Perhaps a spell could be lost by being interrupted in the middle of casting it and have it fizzle out if you were attacked while casting. Perhaps spell concentration could be a new addition?

 

It might give a good reason to use magical staffs and magical artifacts and save your spells for when you really need them. Maybe have some magical weapons and items be unable to be recharged and more powerful magical items only have a few charges but to be able to be recharged.

 

Thanks for your time. -Josh

[fleetminiatures]

amazing idea