Old Farts' Coffee House

[Avrie]

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If you're new to Skyrim, or just having problems, and not sure where to begin ... Just ask. All are welcome, If you can grow pubic hair you're already an old fart to someone.

This is just a place to hang, chat, ask questions, and get abused by forum regulars. Feel free to drop by ... We might not have all the answers, but we probably already know the people that do, and we will be happy to help.

Bashing, spamming, self promoting, advertising, and trolling will simply provide us with target practice and make you look really lame. Please leave politics and religion at the door as well.

Personal attacks against forum guests based on country, race, ethnicity, and lifestyle preferences will not be tollerated in any way ... Period, and we will be enforcing the moderators rules around here ... Period

Keep it clean (mostly) While the game is listed as mature, a lot of the people aren't
Keep it civil (always) arguing a little is fine, just keep it friendly

Move over young ones ... Gramps moved back in.

[Corinze]

You could try Simple Outfit System, I use it to get rid of hoods on certain NPC within towns.
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/48974?tab=posts

for IED, can't you manually select the NPC and make the changes, I do this with my followers. I don't remember if any random NPC can be selected, I need to get back to a town to test myself.

[Avrie]

Goooooooood Morning Tamriel!

Ah'vrie wishes you well. It is Sundas the 16th of Sun's Dawn and a lively predawn at the inn. A perfect day for sleeping in, catching up on chores, and spending time with the family... Who are we kidding? Turn off the phone, put out the cat, and draw the blinds. Thar-B-dragons to hunt! The blessed moons have set and it is once again time for this one to tend the inn. Excuse please while the fires are stoked, and fresh water is pout to the boil.

Our brew of the day is from India, and the old cat made plenty of apricot thumbprint biscuits yesterday. Enjoy. Checking the hot sheets we have 55 new mods, and some of them don't have a bra size. Who knew? Let's see what catches the eye over a fresh cuppa or two...

DagothUrmst released The Other Orcs - Iron and Wood Orc races for Skyrim
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/141972
"a race mod that intends to add the Wood Orcs of Valenwood and the Iron Orcs of the Valley of Scars into Skyrim as playable races." With nothing special, so new races in name only..?

Moving right along

anbeegod released Follower Dialogue Expansion - Aranea Ienith
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/141907
"Expands Aranea Ienith, the Priestess of Azura, with 170 immersive, lore-friendly, high quality voiced lines. Quest and location awareness." More AI generated dialog additions. He does a nice job, but the old cat would still prefer voice actors.

TheBone98 released Vanilla Plus Hjerim
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/141909
"A small yet lore-friendly overhaul of Hjerim, designed to stay in line with its original design." Another in the series, that makes very modest editions to basic clutter. The stormcloak banners put the old cat off, but the overall look is well done. Thanks

Striker6600 released Seasonal Kabu's Cathedral 3D Nightshade Redone
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/141915
"Seasonal variants for Kabu's Cathedral 3D Nightshade Redone. " Personally I think Autumn and spring should be reversed, but it does look nice. Thanks, have a cookie

Clofas released Whispers of the Daedric Princes
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/141931
"Adds lore-friendly, eerie whispering to 9 Daedric Shrines with an option to silence sounds after completing each respective quest. Requires Base Object Swapper."

Now this sounds interesting, unfortunately all the voices are noticeably his, even Meridia, Azura, and the other princes that choose to manifest as female. Malag sounds just like Clavicus... Nice concept, needs additional voice actors, or inventive splicing to pull it off.

Worth a look and a listen. Thanks

And finally, we'll give the top slot to Manny. It's been a while

Sa547's Gray Cowl of Nocturnal - Flora Overhaul by MannyGT and sa547
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/141997
"Updated version of sa547's flora overhaul for The Gray Cowl of Nocturnal - 10th anniversary mod."

"The main difference with the old one is the Dead Forest and Doomed Camp does no longer exists because of the new player home I added in the 10th anniversary version. Also I added few new plants."

Nice to see the additions getting fleshed out. The old cat is looking to playing this mod again. This will be added to the long game.

And that will do for today. The fires are stoked, the kettles scrubbed, and the floors are swept and mopped. Have a seat by the fires and warm your bones. We-B-Open!

[xybolt]

Originally posted by lupus_hegemonia:

Is this possible with "IED" mod, to have "different situations" with different visible outfits?

you can add conditions to not apply weapons. You can check for some IED stuff from GiraPomba, he has some good presets I intent to explore someday.

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/articles/4600

[Avrie]

Originally posted by gnewna:

I'm... Partway through the starter dungeon of Daggerfall,...

How are you liking it so far?

Originally posted by xybolt:

You can check for some IED stuff from GiraPomba, he has some good presets I intent to explore someday.

I saw those, I still can't convince myself to add IED. I don't have a problem with it, I would look utterly ridiculous with all the crap I carry.

(And I won't even get started on how much I really enjoy having cloud storage enabled. After a decade I'm finally done with the looter's walk. LOL, My game my way... Lean and mean ;-)

[gnewna]

Oh man, the GCON update is really making me lament the lack of ability to play Skyrim rn, not that I'd probably have the mental energy to set up a load order etc...

[gnewna]

Originally posted by Avrie:

Originally posted by gnewna:

I'm... Partway through the starter dungeon of Daggerfall,...

How are you liking it so far?

Pretty good! I've finally escaped the starter dungeon and made it to Daggerfall itself (halfway across the current section of the map, thank goodness for fast travel). Currently waiting outside one of the several pawn brokers in the city to open so I can sell all the junk I picked up that I can't even equip (read a character creation guide that suggests having all weapons aside from your intended one as 'forbidden' (so you can't equip them) to get some easy 'disadvantage points' to balance out the advantages I picked) and contemplating mods. I found one general store that was open but I took a quest from him before trading and apparently he won't interact with me until I've finished the quest... (Which has a 30 day limit, so... Eh.)

[Avrie]

Ahhh, the old cat missed one this morning

Master Archmage's Robes SSE - Extension by ahseph. Their first SSE mod. Welcome
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/141995
"This mod is an extension of the Master Archmage's Robes SSE made by DryreL.
Replacer/Retexture for Archmage Robes."

Well, the vanilla Arch mage robes are a bit on the frilly side. I think Ron Weesley wore them to the Yule ball last. Thanks for the tweaks, we love choice.

[Avrie]

Well my game is progressing well. I have noticed a few things I'm going to have to look into for the next restart. The thing is... If a bug breaks something in a way you actually prefer, is it a bug, and do you need to fix it? Inquiring minds want to know. LOL

Specifically, I've noticed the game tends to not trigger quite a bit of the canned repeat dialog. Feels like it could be an RDO issue, but I honestly like the quiet, and I can walk up to any NPC and trigger the dialogs myself at any point. A minor bug that I'm beginning to enjoy LOL

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3428301206
I still love the hearthfires homes all dressed up. It's why I only add starter shacks

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3428553099
The rocks can stay, but the textures have to go looks like bad finger painting up close.

And Allie is not thrilled with the fact that I'm still carrying that 'lucky' fishing hat
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3428554828
We can't camp near water without drawing a storm. Sorry girl.

I'm quite happy with the build, this is a zen game after all. I still have a few things I want to address, but the build is stable and playable now.

[DragonMaster]

Corinze I remember that Grey Poupon commercial. Hard to believe that was 15 years ago. Time flies when your modding Skyrim.

[DragonMaster]

Originally posted by gnewna:

I'm... Partway through the starter dungeon of Daggerfall, just had my first death which I'm fairly proud of (I got to the big fancy chamber and didn't spot a doorway with an archer in it, booo) given how many times I've gotten quite hurt from having not got the hang of the controls yet...

Don't feel bad he killed me also the first time I went through there as I caught sight of the doorway just before his arrow took me out. Glad I had close save to fall back on.

@Akostic5 Good morning and no I've not tried it out yet but it has been in my L/O since It first released as I love that mod. Currently playing the game of modding Skyrim right now.<LOL>

@Ilja Just got in from work a little bit ago and doing great as I'm on vacation. As for the 2 12 hour shift I know from experience how rough pulling them can as I've done it a few times. You get some rest. Well be around when your ready to catch up.

@Avrie will have to admit that I like the outfits.

[gnewna]

Originally posted by DragonMaster:

Originally posted by gnewna:

I'm... Partway through the starter dungeon of Daggerfall, just had my first death which I'm fairly proud of (I got to the big fancy chamber and didn't spot a doorway with an archer in it, booo) given how many times I've gotten quite hurt from having not got the hang of the controls yet...

Don't feel bad he killed me also the first time I went through there as I caught sight of the doorway just before his arrow took me out. Glad I had close save to fall back on.

Oof, yeah - luckily my character is a lil bit clairvoyant so I treated it as a 'premonition' and next time round snuck up on him and STAB STAB STAB.

[DragonMaster]

@Ilja I almost installed immersive wenches into my game but didn't like that fact that your Boobs were so huge. Don't get me wrong I don't mind a big pair but some of them are just unreal.

[Corinze]

Originally posted by DragonMaster:

Corinze I remember that Grey Poupon commercial. Hard to believe that was 15 years ago. Time flies when your modding Skyrim.

Might want to add another 30 years, feeling the old yet

[Ilja]

Originally posted by DragonMaster:

@Ilja I almost installed immersive wenches into my game but didn't like that fact that your Boobs were so huge. Don't get me wrong I don't mind a big pair but some of them are just unreal.

My boobs are not huge!
They are very small and unmanly.
<Grumpy sulking>


I really do not remember how the version in Nexus works. It is very different from Patreon version, where buxom bodied females are kind of a faction blessed by Dibella. Nexus version might allow more normal bodies, but I really do not remember.

How they look and work of course depends a lot of player settings in 3BA and clothing weights.

[DragonMaster]

Originally posted by gnewna:

Originally posted by DragonMaster:

Don't feel bad he killed me also the first time I went through there as I caught sight of the doorway just before his arrow took me out. Glad I had close save to fall back on.

Oof, yeah - luckily my character is a lil bit clairvoyant so I treated it as a 'premonition' and next time round snuck up on him and STAB STAB STAB.

Well yes when I reloaded he ended up like Ragnor the Red. It would have been cool if I could have mounted his head on a spear outside.<LOL>