Replacement Actor SE

This allows you to play as any actor or creature

Alternate actors allow you to play as anyone, as well as change the appearance of NPCs! Cast one of two spells to control an animal or person. The control people spell allows you to take almost complete control of that character, and the control animal spell lets you travel wherever you want and gives you 3 unique attacks.

Skyrim Script Extension is required!

Need a better Messagebox control!

Requires SkyUI!

Without these mods, AA will never give you spells or leave the loading screen!

Control any creature and:

Control almost any animal and take them as far away as you want

Most animals have left, right and special attacks (activate button)

Some animals (think Atronachs) can cast spells!

Restore animals at any time by pressing the shout button

Take control of any humanoid and gain access to them:

appearance

Skill

Health/Stamina/Mana

in stock

fighting

Making/Object Interaction

Basic Factions (Rub elbows with gangsters or vampires!)

The original player can act as a follower, grind or disappear

Return to original player at any time

Death as new actor results in death/load, or reverts to original player

Save/load while another actor is playing, then return to playing the original player

Literally translated as that actor!

Controlling NPCs allows you to influence them in the following ways:

adjust their skills

change their equipment

Change their face, hair and hair color (10 NPCs can be remembered)

and more!

Many MCM configurable options

360 controller compatibility

With the ghost option, when the main character dies, you become a ghost and must find a new protagonist before they attack again!

Friendly version with new spells and spell slam

The development thread allows authors to easily create AA task models

Most facial changes to NPCs can be remembered, permanently altering their appearance!

For more features, see Changes tab, Sort by version. (It's to the left of the Description, Files and Images tabs).

My 1.2 walkthrough is coming soon.

My walkthrough for v1.1:

Mod comments:

I can find other versions of the walkthrough on the video tab.

This week’s gem:

You are a god! I've been wanting to do this for over a year! This completely changes the way the game is played. "Alternative Actor" is now shown on GEMS in Category 410 - Role Playing. -Ka3m0n, owner of Skyrim Gems Site

Thanks! Waiting for something like this to give you the experience of rpgs where you can switch between characters. -Maymay1588, author of popular document: Lilium Follower

Is there anyway we can save the edits we make to the character we control? ...been looking for a mod that can do this. (Probably in 1.1 now) - Phenderix, author of the hit file: Phendrix Magic Evolved

ha! A new mod from you...another one as usual - Psychosteve, creator of the icons used in SkyUI

Few imitators can be as ambitious as this mod. Less is back, fixes almost every issue, and adds many requested features to an already excellent mod. Hello Sir, has become one of my favorite modders. Well done my friend. -Themusicman

The Lore Friendly version makes me a happy panda! -Nudedragon

Did anyone say that a "since forever" voting document is needed? -Agunsthemagi

Model of the Year - Mclericp

Tasks using the Alternate Actor function

Stability/Compatibility - Check out custom race support, and racemenu/character editor mod compatibility

If you want to make a mod that uses Alternate Actors as the main file, please check out the development topic to discuss the mod and how we can work together.

While this mod is fully playable, you may encounter limitations and bugs! Please report these to me in the bug/troubleshooting thread here! Also, if you have ideas, suggestions or want to help me implement features/contribute to the project, please join the discussion! Thanks!

Make sure you update to 1.2 and have all requirements installed (and up to date). If you updated from an earlier version, revert to protagonist, save, close modal, …