Choose Your Starting Skills
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About this mod Machine translation
Neutralizes racial bonuses to starting skills and allows you to allocate points yourself. You can also divide your points between magic, health, and stamina.
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I don't want to limit the freedom Skyrim offers, but at the same time, I'm not happy that only race determines your starting skills (and it does).
This mod neutralizes the racial bonus to starting skills and allows you to allocate the points yourself. You can add 5 or 10 levels to any skill. Each skill is limited to 10 points, but there is no limit on the number of 10-point skills.
As of the v2.0 mod, there is also a menu where you can allocate points between magic, health and stamina. This menu provides similar functionality to the main menu, related to mods, which makes these three options different for all games.
Mods can be customized using global values. Each menu can also be disabled, see the Customization section. Basic options are provided in the installer.
Unfortunately, it's not a cool custom menu, but at least it's not the default message box. I'm using SkyUILib's ListMenu.
Start from
Technically, the menu should be opened after the character creation menu, as match changes will reset skill values.
The menu will open automatically and the mod will try to do so "when appropriate":
compatibility
This is an alternative to mods that add classes etc, so using it together is not a good idea (but you can try).
This should be compatible with race-changing mods.
This should be compatible with any mod that changes the base skill value at the start. You can also find a small standalone mod in the installer that changes the base skill value to 5/10 (I recommend 10). Place this plugin after the mod that changes this value.
This contains the SkyUILib files (the latest and only version), so it will override mods that also use SkyUILib (like Name Your Horse), which is good. You can override it.
Install
The menu only opens in new games.
This mod requires SkyUI.
Install with your mod manager.
Click "Track" at the top of the page to start tracking mod updates.
You can suggest a better text for the menu which will be more correct in English.
Install & use Install: follow the bundled instructions
- Unzip the archive from playbuff and read the bundled readme / instructions first.
- There is no universal mod manager for this game: some mods replace game files directly, some go into a game-specific Mods folder, and some need a game-specific community loader or tool first — follow the bundled readme.
- Place the files exactly as the readme says; mods with listed dependencies need those installed too.
- Launch the game to confirm it loaded; some games require enabling mods in settings or an in-game mod menu.
Install locations vary a lot between games and mods — the bundled readme is the most reliable guide.