

If I think a mod is an important foundation to build on, I'll say so. If there's a core concept you need to understand in order to make decisions, I'll try to define it. I'd like to introduce you to the ways you can modify your game, to the major options available in each category, with some commentary about individual mods if I happen to have used them. I'm going to give you a tour of the possibilities. What I will do instead is tell you all the things I wish somebody had told me when I started modding Skyrim. I'll link to some guides, but I will not pretend to give you a step-by-step instruction list. A modding guide sets out to help you build a specific modlist that works well together, without bugs. So what would help you get started? Well, how about Ceejbot’s introduction to Skyrim modding? If you wanted to mod Skyrim so it looks and plays wonderfully, my modlist would not help you get started. Also, let’s be honest: this list of mods is bewildering to the newcomer. This list is names of plugin files, not mod names, so it can be super-confusing to read. Sometimes people on Twitter ask me for a modlist.

I am happily role-playing my way through my social distancing 2020 playthrough, posting ridiculous screenshots. They fix game bugs, add new features, and make the game look fresh.

They’re amazing and fantastic and disturbing and inspiring. “It offers an immersive open world, all for the player to explore, overhauled skill systems and gameplay mechanics, and a dark, psychological storyline with believable characters.Skyrim mods are why the game is alive eight years after it was launched. It’s a “game modification that is set in its own world with its own landscape, lore, and story,” as its description reads. The team behind a very popular Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion mod called Nehrim: At Fate’s Edge, SureAI, crafted the original mod, but now fans have made a “complete Enderal for Skyrim Special Edition” happen, which – in case you’re unfamiliar – is a total conversion mod for the RPG game. Head to where the previous option was on Nexus Mods and you’ll be greeted with an exciting message: there’s a “full release” elsewhere on Skyrim SE’s slice of the Nexus catalogue. But now, a complete, packaged, community-made Enderal port mod for SSE has landed. The option wasn’t quite plug-and-play, however, and involved a conversion script that would port a Steam install of Enderal to SSE (along with a patch to, well, patch up any resulting hiccups). Earlier this month, Enderal – one of the most popular and impressive Skyrim mods around – got (unofficially) ported to Skyrim Special Edition.
