u/Pale_Loan_2810

Okay, I've posted here for a while. I've tried making multiple playthroughs, with tens of different load orders, and every single time I get bored, and I think I know why: I love vanilla too much. Graphics overhauls, gameplay mechanics, perks, they all just don't click for me, but I really want to play with mods. So I'm coming to you people. What would be a few good mods for a vanilla plus playthrough? I'm thinking of using LushAMP, Real Roads, Dense Grass - Full and Trees in Cities to give the game a more "remastered" feel rather than an utter remake. What other mods would you recommend to enhance a vanilla experience?

Seriously, are there ANY mods on PS that let me craft just fur armor? I don't want to be able to craft uniques, I don't want to craft faction armor, I don't want the fur armor to have sixty base armor rating, I just want to be able to craft. Some. Fucking. Furs. That's it. Is that too much to ask for?

Most of us already know about the countless videos on Youtube about Skyrim "Iron Man" challenges. I wanted to try the same thing, except there was one problem: All of them are just straight masochism. Always on legendary, permadeath, etc. This may be fun for some people, but not for me. But I really wanted to do something similar, so I made this ruleset. You can flame me for "not understanding the point" or "not doing a true iron man run," I really don't care. The rules in this run proved to be more fun than exhausting, and it's designed for people like me who aren't straight-up masochists or big content creators. It consists of four main rules that weren't too overbearing but provided a nice challenge and a change of pace from every other "big hammer go bonk" or "stealth archer is OP" build I've played.

RULE ONE - You must craft anything you use with materials you've gathered yourself. Armor and weapons must be made with leather you've personally created and ingots you've personally smelted. Potions must be made with ingredients you yourself have gathered off the side of the road. You can't just buy 30 steel ingots from Adrianne Avenicci and make a full suit of steel plate off rip. If you want it, you've gotta earn it.

RULE TWO - You must play on Survival Mode. Your difficulty is up to you, some may want a lower difficulty while some of you may be sheer masochists that love the damage sponges legendary makes. I found master difficulty to be a great balance between difficulty and enjoyability. Enemies don't turn into walking tanks that one-shot you, but you can't rush into combat either. Survival mode and master difficulty combined forced me to take a second to think about my strategy for certain dungeons.

RULE THREE - Buying and looting is off limits unless it's salt. Unfortunately there is no vanilla way to harvest salt outside of bartering and looting, and salt is required for pretty much every single food in the game, so I allowed myself to loot & buy salt piles. Gems, jewelry, other gear, potions, food, etc. are all off-limits. However, you can sell whatever you please (I found that making money is stupidly easy even with these restrictions - you get gems from mining ore, and the geodes on Solstheim contain literally only gems, so you might be tighter on cash in the beginning than usual, but it's mitigated quite easily). And yes, this does mean pretty much every spell in the game becomes off limits, since they require you to loot the spell tomes or purchase the spell itself. If you feel like playing a mage that bad (I don't know why, they're extremely boring IMO) then feel free to add tomes to the list of lootable objects.

RULE FOUR - No humanoid followers are allowed unless they're forced onto you (COUGH COUGH the Dawnguard questline COUGH COUGH). If you play with Anniversary Edition I found the pets (specifically the goat) to be extremely useful, and since the pets don't actually engage in combat, I found it fair to use them. The main reason this rule exists is to prevent you from using followers to deal most of the damage or tank most of the hits.

Let me know if you guys end up using this ruleset and what you think about it! It made Skyrim fun for me again which is something hard to do after over a decade of playing almost exclusively this game, and I hope it does the same for some of you who aren't masochistic.

I'm currently doing an Altmer who was exiled from the Summerset Isles and now travels as a wandering mercenary (aka a ronin-type of build, i know it would probably work better with a Dunmer but it's fun to try and make unconventional stories work in Skyrim). That being said, I play with Wintersun, so I want to utilize it. What kind of deity would they likely worship? I almost went with Trinimac, but I want to hear your guys' opinions, since some of you probably know the lore better than I do.

Hi all, I'm hoping someone much more skilled than I would be able to port this mod from Nexus:

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/24704

Permissions tab states free use as long as the original author is given credit. Sorry if this is a popular request, I found it looking for other robe mods for PS and specifically the Kensei robes fit so well for my current build it's insane

I'm currently trying to run a ronin-necromancer-type build using Ordinator, Apocalypse & Triumvirate. I've been using Southbound Scouts, which is pretty decent, but doesn't give off the shady vibes that a necromancer would have. I'm looking for something similar to the kensei or ronin robes from Ghost of Tsushima, and preferably something that doesn't require CBBE (I play male characters exclusively). If anyone can find something like this it would be much appreciated