Lexy's: Legacy of The Dragonborn Special Edition

[OCDCoder]

The Drogo actor also took a turn at Conan, and Conan is classical literature, so kudos on your high standards.

 

As far as going lite and cherry picking from the Guide, been there playing that (see link below).

 

& absolutely **** mudcrabs. With the combat overhaul I've got going they will cut a newb in two if you focus too much on boiling them in their shell (brute force & ignorance is not a good combo with the flames spell, but fresh steamed crab is too tempting).

Oh, yes, I know. I'm a huge Jason Momoa fangirl, can't WAIT for Aquaman! I've been trying to resist porting that follower to SE because honestly, unless I have a universal translator, he's not REALLY Khal Drogo. But the thing I really like about him aside from, well, Khal Drogo (Skyrim is so lacking in male eyecandy and I haven't gotten far enough into a game to even begin to think of going to track down Kaidan), is that I started him at Level 30 and gave him stats and perks that made sense. (Which worked really nicely with Followers Can Craft.) My usual follower before Inigo came along was always Stenvar (although I'd forgotten how whiny he is without the dialog overhaul - dude, you're a Nord, WHY ARE YOU ALWAYS SO COLD??!!) and it makes zero sense that he's at or near the same level as my weak low-level characters. Him or any of the followers.

 

And yeah, first time I played with a combat overhaul, I was also getting mauled by the mudcrabs. It's what reminded me of that mod. And reminded me of the time I was trying to show my husband that AD&D was an awesome fun game and not this thing just for nerds, so he spent half a day creating a character only to have him killed by rats in 5m of playing an online single-player adventure I found. (I switched to Call of Cthulhu and played loose with the rules there (as well as expanding a lot of the pre-made scenarios) and won him over, thankfully. Although I did once randomly attack him with rats just to mess with him. LOL)

 

 

There is an ITM that needs to be cleaned from the Moon and Star Immersion patch. If this ITM isn't cleaned and you load the Immersion patch AFTER the Legacy MaS patch, you will break the Legacy MaS compatibility.

If you load the Immersion patch BEFORE legacy's MaS patch however, you should be fine regardless if you clean it or not.

Either way, it's best you clean the ITM and load the immersion patch BEFORE Legacy's MaS patch (or in this case, the LOTD Patches Merged file).

I always clean anything that LOOT tells me to, so that wouldn't be a problem. But another reason I want to streamline is I'm tired of patching patches for patches' patches, especially when I don't want to use something that's in one of the CR patches. I need more compatibility in my life. Modding is only fun when you actually get to play the game. (No offense, Lexy, this is an AMAZING guide and you do AMAZING work trying to get it and keep it stable, but I know I don't have to tell you that keeping up with it and trying to figure out issues is exhausting. I can't imagine when you last had time to just sit down and play!)

Edited June 30, 2018 by OCDCoder

[redirishlord]

@ SirJesto: Good save re- that patch.

 

@OCDCoder: I hadn't noticed the lacking. I just downloaded my 1st male follower* , Hoth, that guy's a badass & a walking quest giver.

* I'm assuming Inigo counts as a pet (is that racist? )

 

& much respect to the old school pen & paper nerdery.  

[OCDCoder]

 

@OCDCoder: I hadn't noticed the lacking. I just downloaded my 1st male follower* , Hoth, that guy's a badass & a walking quest giver.

* I'm assuming Inigo counts as a pet (is that racist? )

 

& much respect to the old school pen & paper nerdery.  

LOL I doubt he'd appreciate it much. And actually before him I was using another Khajiit follower from Interesting NPCs. It's weird, they're my favorite race, though I've never wanted to play one, just hang out with them. (Given that I often play Bosmer, I was saddened to find out about their history with the Khajiit, but her issue was with man because she started out in Skyrim beaten and abandoned by bandits (by the Sea of Ghosts, with Frostfall - seriously hardcore survival challenge), and the Khajiit was fascinating, a lot of the things he said seemed rather Buddhist in nature. (Qa’Dojo - unfortunately often hard to find.))

 

Re: CoC, not just pen and paper, but props. Especially fun to make for CoC games! I did everything from book pages to matchboxes to having him take a date to a film that was playing during that exact timeperiod, giving him a printout of the actual playbill for it, and watching the film on Amazon. (I also made him banish a demon using a ritual involving a Latin chant that had to be chanted for 5m with no pauses and no mistakes, which he did while I was running around him screaming and cursing and throwing things at him. SO much fun! Ok, sorry, going way off-topic here. Well, not completely. Then we bought Skyrim. His character has been hanging around at Miskatonic University since 2011.)

[redirishlord]

...I also made him banish a demon using a ritual involving a Latin chant that had to be chanted for 5m with no pauses and no mistakes, which he did while I was running around him screaming and cursing and throwing things at him...

That's impressive, he puts up with a lot   I've been screamed at for 5 hours at a time, occasionally in Italian, and had freshly opened beers thrown at me. Latin probably classes it up quite a bit. Oh, wait, you're talking about gaming. Nevermind.

 

Circling back to topic, sorta, I've tried that Frostfall shipwrecked on the northern coast start - hardcore indeed. I've cut Frostfall to reduce script load and don't miss it. It seemed like I was stuck in Standar mode always looking for warmth instead of playing the game. I do like iNeed, seems more forgiving and less distracting. Paired with SAFO and health regen off I need to eat to heal so it just sorts itself, and sleeping to keep Pumping Iron doing it's thing.

[nsibley]

I've got the purple missing textures thing on a few of my paintings.  Any ideas what could be causing it?

[MonoAccipiter]

I made a patch that adds ELE imagespaces and lighting templates to Arthmoor's Villages if anyone's interested. It relies on the ELE Merged.esp you make in the merged section and includes Telengard, but that can easily be altered if you load it up with a dummy plugin and remove the Telengard cells. Might make one for JK's Skyrim at one point too.

[DarkladyLexy]

I made a patch that adds ELE imagespaces and lighting templates to Arthmoor's Villages if anyone's interested. It relies on the ELE Merged.esp you make in the merged section and includes Telengard, but that can easily be altered if you load it up with a dummy plugin and remove the Telengard cells. Might make one for JK's Skyrim at one point too.

Thanks I will take a look I might even be able fold this into the CR will test I am busy this weekend family stuff so no update will happen from me until Monday.

[redirishlord]

I made a patch that adds ELE imagespaces and lighting templates to Arthmoor's Villages if anyone's interested. It relies on the ELE Merged.esp you make in the merged section and includes Telengard, but that can easily be altered if you load it up with a dummy plugin and remove the Telengard cells. Might make one for JK's Skyrim at one point too.

Outstanding, many thanks!

[DarkladyLexy]

MonoAccipiter can i recommend one thing don't base your ELE Arthmoor patch on the Merge we create but on the orginal Enhanced Lighting for ENB (ELE) - Special Edition that way it can be folded into the ELE Merge.

[MonoAccipiter]

I did this at 4AM. I'd done about half of it when I realised it was based on the merge... 

[DarkladyLexy]

I did this at 4AM. I'd done about half of it when I realised it was based on the merge... 

fair enough thank you for creating it saves me the hassle.

[DarkladyLexy]

hey guys have decided the time is right to create a new server that will be come my new Offical Discord Server for the guide  please sign up here https://discord.gg/NjDrUv

[MonoAccipiter]

Moving it over to the normal ELE plugin might not be too difficult, just need to copy and paste the values in xEdit. I'll see if I can get to it before I leave on holiday in a couple of days.

[OCDCoder]

That's impressive, he puts up with a lot   I've been screamed at for 5 hours at a time, occasionally in Italian, and had freshly opened beers thrown at me. Latin probably classes it up quite a bit. Oh, wait, you're talking about gaming. Nevermind.

 

Circling back to topic, sorta, I've tried that Frostfall shipwrecked on the northern coast start - hardcore indeed. I've cut Frostfall to reduce script load and don't miss it. It seemed like I was stuck in Standar mode always looking for warmth instead of playing the game. I do like iNeed, seems more forgiving and less distracting. Paired with SAFO and health regen off I need to eat to heal so it just sorts itself, and sleeping to keep Pumping Iron doing it's thing.

Ha. :-p

 

I can't play a game without Frostfall (with all the most hardcore settings), it just doesn't feel right. That start was tough, though. At least there was a camp with a permanent bonfire, though I've actually been wondering if there's a mod to turn those off. Her story went a really interesting way, though. She was exploring the area and found... wow, I'm totally drawing a blank on which shrine that was. Anyway, there she found a book called "The Importance of Where." That night, she got attacked by, no lie, something like 15 wolves. Remembering that book, she scrambled up on a rock where only one of them could get near her at a time and killed all of them. That left her with enough pelts to make warm clothing, a cloak, tent, basically everything she needed. She carried that book with her the rest of the game, feeling that it had saved her life.

 

Thinking of her, though, it seems like the SSE version of Frostfall is a bit harsher. My Bosmer was dressed in nothing but rags, but could still leave the fire long enough to try to find supplies, or hunt for food. The night she killed all of those wolves, she made her clothing that night in near darkness and was able to sleep up on that rock away from the fire, but mostly safe from the wolves. In my recent SSE game, Faendal was trying to teach my Breton to like the outdoors (yeah, not so much) and took her camping, and even dressed in the warmest clothing, they could barely be away from the camp for a minute or two before she was freezing to death. She did better when they moved more north toward Whiterun, but still couldn't sleep without a fire. Although come to think of it, I wasn't seeing their breath like I am now. Something is seriously wonky in my game.

 

I'm liking iNeed, but I played SO many years with RNaD that I'm having a bit of a time getting used to it. And didn't that one give you empty bottles if you drank wine or ale or something? And you could get bottles of spring water in inns? After escaping Helgen and getting into Riverwood, she's practically dying of thirst, but has to go to the inn and purchase a waterskin before anyone will give the poor thing water. And does that well in Riverwood work for anyone else? The one in Whiterun does but that one doesn't for me. Also, assigning a hotkey doesn't let her drink from a stream, I have to click on an empty waterskin in her inventory.

 

That's what I get for ignoring Skyrim for a couple weeks, my entire install goes all wonky on me. *Sigh* Time to spend another Saturday redoing my mods.

[tyrindor]

Is there any mod that darkens "Steel Shin" bracers/boots? Seeing some NPCs that wear a mixture of steel armor and these, and the theme really doesn't clash well with amadianborn's steel textures.

 

https://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Steel_Shin_Boots

Edited June 30, 2018 by tyrindor