LE Mind / Body Swap (as spell or other)

[Knaxia]

I know there are a few "mind controlling" mods out here, but I've been thinking about something more interesting.

 

 

Implement a spell that allows you to totally swap body with another character in the game, swapping the base perks and racial abilities without changing anything else.

 

Let's say you're walking about as your Male Nord and suddently find a nice looking Female Orc you'd like to look like as. You could always pop in the racemenu and try to copy it and risk of losing all your stats, unless using a mod that fixes that or:

 

You could take out your spell (or shout / weapon?) and use it , you instantly take control of that body (maybe with a little delay / animation) while the orc becomes you, everything is swapped. The interesting part is, only you are aware of the switch, the other person keeps going as usual without noticing anything just like if it was normal.

 

 

What would be switched

-Race / Gender / Appearance

-Inventory (except of course quest items, so you would need to store your items somewhere before doing it when you have too much stuff on yourself)

-Racial Spells / Perks

 

What stays the same:

-Voice (for the NPC, maybe silly, but avoids problems with scripts and special voices / lines )

-Level

-Skills, Perks

-Spells

-Factions / relationships

 

 

Other Informations:

-Have a long Cooldown, to avoid just switching left and right at advantage

-Think before you swap, as you could swap with a random encounter bandit that could despawn with your original body, or someone that ends up killed in a quest (more challenging if you want your old body back)

-Cannot Swap with Dead people (think before changing to an enemy)

-Cannot change with non-playable races or beasts/critters

 

 

Optional:

-Automatically locks back homes door, needing the key to reopen (since you basically don't have the keys on you anymore if you forgot to store them somewhere safe out from your homes).

-Makes the swapped person a possible follower? (again, optional, but having "yourself" helping would be nice, except for key persons that just ain't possible like Jarls and such)

-Failing possibility? Making the spell have concequences sometimes, like making the target attack after the body swap, being aware of what happened, or makes you take a lot of damage as if you failed to cast it correctly, maybe even injure the target (just like if you attacked them).

 

 

 

That is all I could think of right now. Will add more if more ideas come to mind.

 

[Tehandyman]

What I think would be a cool start towards this mod is like an illusion spell that lets you swap appearances with someone. The difference from your idea would be that you don't switch bodies, your bodies just change to look like each other.

 

so essentially they would look like you and you would look like them, temporarily. This would be useful when you are surrounded by a ton of bandits or something or you just don't feel like fighting, you shoot the spell at one of the bandits and you turn into them and they turn into you. All the other bandits start attacking him because he looks like you, then you make your getaway and you change back to your original appearance when: (1) Your spell wears off. (2) you personally cancel the spell. or (3) the person who changed appearances with you gets killed and changes back to his original appearance.

 

A funny addition to this would be nearby bandits who discovered that they've actually killed their own comrade would be scripted to say things like "huh?!" or "what the?!" or something else thats already been voiced. That would just be a small but very entertaining detail. Watching bandits killing someone that appears to be you, and then *poof* they turn back into a bandit and all nearby bandits are confused as f*#@. that would be hilarioussss.

 

This could also work when you're running from guards or any other playable race hostiles.

Edited March 30, 2013 by Tehandyman

[Knaxia]

Something like that would work too, but I'd still like to be able to make that permanent.

 

Think about the mess it would create in some cities, like in Windhelm if you swapped Rolff Stone-Fist (the one that hates dark elves) with one of the Dark Elf from the city , or one of the docks argonian with Torbjorn Shatter-Shield?

 

This is also one of the reason I'd love to have a mod like this. Of course it might mess up a bit at the end when you played the whole game and maybe swapped body a lots of times and go back to a town and find someone that totally doesn't belong there then remember when you swapped with that person ;)

[ModernRenamon]

This might be about 4 years old but Knaxia have you tried Alternate Actors? Its basically what you are thinking of. You gain access to their inventory, spells and abilities.