September 1, 2014 12:04 AM EDT
We are currently looking for Modders, Scripters, & Writers if you are interested.
Introduction
Greetings Skyrim Bloggers! My Name is Chris and I would like to welcome you to the Dungeons & Draugr Role-playing Mod! What's Dungeons & Draugr you ask? Well I am glad you asked that question. My dear players, Dungeons & Draugr is a role-playing mod that will open Skyrim up in a whole new way.
Take "Vanilla Skyrim" for example: You create a Male Imperial, and you want to role-play him as a Paladin of Arkay. In-order to role-play that in the game you have to do a lot of pretending and imagining of what your character is saying doing etc etc, right? Well in Dungeons & Draugr in order to role-play him would be to create a male Imperial, select the paladin class, and then once you go through the intro find a shrine of Arkay, pray to his shrine, receive his blessing and do his quest to become his champion. After that you Deity will of course need you to continue to do quests for him as well as keep his favor by living his way of life. All the while doing good deeds to keep his favor you are also playing the actual main quest line to do what a Paladin would do SAVE THE WORLD!
OK... OK... another example; You want to role-play an evil character, how would you do that in "Vanilla Skyrim"? Well of course you would restart you game create another character who starts with the same stats as your Imperial Paladin except you get the racial power of the female Breton you chose. Right there its already kind of ruined because they are all the freaking same! Health is the same, magicka is the same, stamina is the same! Where is the Role-play in that my friends? In Dungeons & Draugr you would really have to think about which race fits the characteristics of an evil character. You would need to think about male or female, because health stamina and magicka are all different. Then you have to decide what do I see my character specializing in, because you will start at basic stats for everything else, and if you don't have a proficiency in two-handed using that weapon will be pointless and stamina will be empty with one swing. One major factor for Dungeons & Draugr is so no character is ever the same!! I HATE that about Vanilla.
Description
Dungeons & Draugr will add a new role-playing value to the game. It is a mod that will allow you the player to have way more in game fun than just imagining your character doing something. Dungeons & Draugr focuses on the quality of role-play, which means a complete Race Overhaul, New abilities that help immerse the player, more things to do in Skyrim, and overall more fun. More interactions with NPC's, perks that really affect game play, and don't just boost skills; races with both positive and negative traits. Basically it all starts with you, the PLAYER. Also keep in mind that this is not just a solo project, I am very open to suggestions and feedback to make this mod the Best role-playing mod for the players.
Inspiration
While playing a game of D&D, I decided to try and bring D&D to Skyrim. I started a game spent 45 minutes creating the perfect looking Wood Elf and started playing. about a few days later I was bored, and didn't feel like playing that character anymore. So I downloaded SkyRe, played it, loved it. Downloaded Requiem.. loved it, but there was no Role-play factors in there. You could go kill all of Whiterun except for essential NPC's and then go pray to Arkay and get the blessing?!? What the crap!? So I decided to take on this project and see how well I can do. Also to enhance the role-playing factor wiki is being created to help you with all the features of Dungeons & Draugr Role-playing Mod. Check out the Dungeons & Draugr Adventurer's Manual for more details.
Modifications
Character Creation(See Manual) - All Races need to be different from one another.
Skills (See Manual)- These are just a joke. Anyone can get any skill making character creation dull.
Abilities - Some of these make no sense, how can an Argonian know destruction magic?
Talents & Traits (See Manual) - Will have positive and negative effects on each race.
Magic Schools (See Manual)- Needs to be revamped. Example; if you don't know Destruction you cant turn our hand into a flame thrower.
Alchemy - You should not be able to OP any character, and health potions shouldn't just cure you automatically.
Dark Magic - Such as Necromancy, Vampirism, Lycanthropy, and yes.. even most Thu'um should be considered bad!
Suggestions
I've got plenty of ideas for this mod, i would love for the community to suggest more, help me make this a more expansive role-playing mod. If you're suggesting something, please try not to keep it lore-friendly;) Because The Elder Scrolls is vast and we should be able to work with the universe we are given.
Development
This mod is extremely a work in progress, and will take time to make, however when this mod reaches a milestone I will release a Play Test(Alpha Build) So that we can all check it out, and submit feedback, and request and change the mod to be more beneficial for who...? That's right the Player! We are looking for Modders, Scripters, Writers, and Testers. Send me a PM and let me know if you are interested.
Updates
To keep things nice and tidy you can check this section to find out where and what has been done or is being worked on for this project.
What are your thoughts on Dungeons & Draugr? What would you like to see in this project? Can you provide any help/support? Let us know in the comments.
Credits
Project Coach: Chris
Lead Writer: Sarus31
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Head Modder: Chris
You can check out some of it here: Dungeons & Draugr Thread on Nexus. and I am working on the manual here: Dungeons & Draugr Wiki Please let me know if you have any suggestions, feel free to let us know in the thread, and we can discuss it. I would love to make this mod project a community mod.
