Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

[Kitsune]

Links people.  Links.

God, picky.

Empowered Magic

[Paelos]

Magic starts really slow though for me, although I will say that shock damage is great against mages because it drains mana.

[PalmTrees]

Dual casting stagger perk, chain stun anything to death. Paralyze from the alteration school, win. Those two vanilla abilities trivialize every encounter, no mods needed to kick ass as a mage.

[rk47]

NSFW I am so immature

[Ironwood]

 

Whut ?

[K9]

Whut ?

[taolurker]

So, what's next RK? You gonna install the **NSFW**Bestiality Mod**NSFW**?

[rk47]

Bestiality mod has no gameplay mod created yet.
It is simply an animation pack.

Current loaded mod list for this NSFW playthrough.

[Ironwood]

Sexlab.

Oh Dear God.

[Abelian75]

"Schlongs of Skyrim" is pretty good.  I want a calendar.

[rk47]

Here's a new mod I like, Amazing Follower Tweak (AFT).
What it lets you do is actually tweak your follower through a dialogue option.
Despite the dialogue navigation being somewhat clumsy, AFT clarifies the 'vagueness' of your follower's effectiveness.
Like basic statistics, for example.



Muiri is actually a fighter-specced NPC. With just a meager 50 magicka to conjure the Breton's starting Ghost Wolf.
You may also learn the AI behavior.



But the best part...



Yes, you can teach her spells. Unfortunately, having very little magicka reserves, she cannot conjure a Fire Atronach yet.
You can set her leveling to automatic or manual, meaning you can completely convert her into a mage if you wish, and even change her fighting style to dual wielding sword, bow & arrow, or spellsword, or two-handed preference. It's a beaut!

Final note, their spell tweak also allows basic triggers to be set like 'beginning of combat, cast protection' or at 50% health, cast 'heal'. Not bad at all.

[satael]

AFT is pretty good (I use it too) and another one worth looking into if you have compatibility issues with it is UFO which also allows you to teach companion spells (though only the vanilla ones).

[rk47]

Wish you can grant your Followers sign bonuses - cause giving them the Sign of the Mage can solve a lot of magicka problems.
Or even Atronach to tanks.

[ghost]

Follower tracking is just dismal in this game.  Seems much worse than in Fallout NV.

[rk47]

Yeah, I don't really like followers in this game too much. Beth dropped the ball when they didn't include the New Vegas follower wheel.
Here's a NSFW video involving a ghost and my character.

[Paelos]

Nothing like a little ghost buttsex to turn the thread around.

[Ironwood]

 

[HaemishM]

rk47... you are a very strange, very special individual. 

[Mrbloodworth]

Yeah, I don't really like followers in this game too much. Beth dropped the ball when they didn't include the New Vegas follower wheel.
Here's a NSFW video involving a ghost and my character.

I ain't got time for that during a dungeon crawl!

[ghost]

WTF was that?   

[Surlyboi]

Disturbing and wrong, but the Atronach in the foreground undulating randomly makes it art.

[rk47]

WTF was that?   

[Khaldun]

I don't...I mean, I didn't even ever know that people...ugh, wow. 

[Stormwaltz]

Please get this out of the thread, or retitle the thread as NSFW.

[Teleku]

Hey, I thought he did a good job of picking pictures that you wouldn't really understand what was going on unless somebody told you.   

[lamaros]

Please get this out of the thread, or retitle the thread as NSFW.

Never view a thread rk has been in at work, that's rule 1.

[Hoax]

Rule 47 actually.

[Rendakor]

That was hilarious. rk delivers yet again.

[Rasix]

Keep game threads SFW.  K?  I don't care who's doing it.

[rk47]

k love the CCBE models. Default skyrim models is just terribad.

[Ceryse]

I'm actually playing this again. I find it interesting that I now have ~400 hours into this game and;

- I have not so much as picked a side in the Civil War quest line
- Never progressed further than attaining the Blades stronghold in the main quest line
- Never got further than getting the Wedding quest in the Dark Brotherhood quest line
- Have never even seen Jarl Eilisief or whatever her name is (and yet prefer her over Ulfric)
- Have never finished a quest picked up in Solitude
- Still haven't seen 3 -4  Daedric quest lines
- Never been made Thane of; Windhelm, Markath, Solitude, Winterhold

In any of that 400 hours. Hoping to finally "finish" this game, this time... and actually might since a lot of the game time I'd wagered on putting towards Rome 2 is now available.

Also, I generally went with CBBE bodies in the past. I've actually gone UNPB this time, though, on a whim and its not bad. Some things I like better than CBBE.. some worse.

Mods I really enjoy (or simply must have to enjoy Skyrim);

- SkyUI (original UI isn't horrible.. just annoying).
- Auto Unequip Ammo (removes arrows/bolts from the back of your PC and followers when not equipped with a bow).
- Facelight (spell that actually lets you see your face, and the face of anyone you cast the spell on regardless of area lighting).
- Armoured Circlets (because most helmets look horrendously bad).
- Localized Guild Jobs (lets you pick which city you want to take the Thieves Guild radiant quests in, rather than having to go randomly or save scum certain cities).
- When Dragons/Vampires attack (tells normal citizens, unless they are flagged as exceptions -- such as the Companions -- to run and hide when Dragons or Vampires attack a city/town, possibly preventing mass extinction of NPCs).
- Berenziah Quest Markers (to actually be able to find all 24 of the damn things -- something I've never done).
- Immersive Armours (even though most looks like ass, imo, there are a few that make the entire package worthwhile).
- Community Uncapper (lets you customize such things as; health/stamina/magicka gain on level choice, perks at level up, skill caps [I use 199], the rate at which various skills level and the rate at which the various skills affect leveling up).
- Amazing Follower Tweaks (the best follower mod, let's you customize everything from what they wear where, fighting styles, leveling and skills, to such things as whether they are essential, cowardly, morality, and so on).
- Unofficial patches and Brawl patch (for the obvious reason of the game has a lot of shit still broken).

I use a number of other mods, but those are my essentials beyond the body and face mods to make the NPCs look less like ass on a plate.

[rk47]

I was curious about the Stones quest.
24 mcguffins strewn all across Skyrim.
This shd be worth it!
I tried not to spoil myself, then one day I gave up and took a peek. 
Goddamn reward sucks so much cock.

[Ceryse]

Hah, yeah. As if by the time you've collected all 24 you will somehow need more money. My character isn't even level thirty (though, to be fair, I've slowed down the rate levels are gain -- especially from crafting skills), has only completed the Dawnguard quest line, the first few Thieves Guild quests, and a small handful of caves, dungeons and so forth and she's sitting on 30k+ gold, even with buying every Soul Gem and enchanted item with an enchant I need to learn (as well as the house in Whiterun). Haven't even leveled enchanting yet (I did max alchemy, though, and got a lot of gold from the potions I made). Game definitely needed more gold sinks, even when you don't loot everything that isn't nailed down (I haven't this run, actually.. which speeds everything up dramatically).

Also, some of the mods out there are pretty interesting. About to start the Helgen Reborn one to see how good it really is.. though I've heard a ton of good things about it.

That said... been playing with followers all set to non-essential and had two bite the dust today (twit elf from Riverwood and Jannasa) because I somehow managed to end up fighting two dragons and a dragon priest at the same time. Lydia survived, though.. so its all good.

No, I have no idea why Lydia is my favourite follower, but she is.

[Merusk]

Because Lydia is awesome. Even if she's a bit bumbling and loves to take those battering-ram traps to the face right before you have to kill 3 Drauger Death-Lords.

My 2nd favorite is the Dark Elf merc in Whiterun, though her voice is akin to a rack of nails on a chalkboard.

[Ingmar]

Jenaasa or whatever? I don't find her voice screechy or otherwise annoying at all.