What are good mods that nobody has heard of?

[Magic Spazm]

My modslist is full of small mods that are very good at keeping all the big mods working nicely, so my vote goes towards those patch mods.

[:bestgamerchina#1最好的中國]

just to split your thread..
Submissive Lola

[Trehek]

My top suggestion:

Shaydows Vampire Lord Overhaul:
Mainly because it's not a Nexus mod. This mod allows quite extensive modifications to the appearance of the vampire lord form, including for example replacing the form's body with your regular body, replacing the wings with the Animated Dragon Wings mod, giving the form any outfit you want and/or replacing the form's idle and movement animations. Want to just make it look cooler? Can do. Want to turn the form into a dragon or succubus? Can do.

Honorable mentions:

Quick Loot RE:
This adds a Fallout 4 style looting menu to each container, including chests, corpses, NPC pickpocketing etc. Just hover over the target to see the list of items.

Serana and Claire:
This has an ok amount of endorsements but I feel has gone fairly unnoticed in the shadow of the popular Seranaholic. Allows adding a vampire NPC called Claire or replacing Serana's appearance with what I feel is a more glamorous, classy version. Love it!

Cinematic Dragon Soul Absorption:
Also has an ok amount of endorsements but could also use way more attention IMHO. Replaces the sounds and animation of absorbing a dragon soul, with what I feel is something way more epic. Has several options, such as adding a shout for the dragonborn or causing the dragonborn to float up into the air and burst with blast of energy.

[Mephitic]

I'm sure some folks are aware of these but I don't see them mentioned often.
These are mostly immersion mods.

Animated Celtic Icons For SkyUI SE
Animated Colored SkyUI Widgets SE
Falling Gildergreen Petals - SE
Actually dented Dented Iron Shield
No BS AI Projectile Dodge
Sea Salt Deposits
Covered Carriage - SE
Illuminated Blue Palace Dome
College of Winterhold Light Pillars Fix
Bring Meeko To Lod
No Idle Fox Breathing Sounds
Luminescent Luna Moths SE

[Sabaithal]

I'm not sure patch mods are worth mentioning. Not saying they aren't useful, just that they are only useful for a very specific circumstance most of the time.

That being said I got a few niche mods that are quite nice.
PC Headtracking and Voice Type SE - Don't need to use the voice at all. But the headtracking options are certainly nice.
D13 faster get up stand up animation - Pretty much what it says. Not sure why it says it twice.
Enhanced Atronochs - Effectively de-level atronachs and makes them all properly balanced towards one another.
True armor - A framework that adds armor deflection and piercing mechanics into the game.

[every1hasnames]

Dont know as nobody has heard of them..........:)-

[Vyvyvn]

One with Nature - A must if you want to rp any sort of character that should have friendlier relations with certain creatures. (Werewolf char for instance having wild wolves be friendly or allied, A Druid/Forsworn char with an affinity for bears and Spriggans etc.)

Inigo - Not really a quality of life mod but probably one of the BEST examples for what an NPC can really be when done right. For Oldrim, Arissa the Thief would be my suggestion for a companion that's more than a quipping arrow sponge.

[jreese46]

No Furniture Activation While Sneaking
Better Container Controls
Sometimes Pickup Books
Enchantment Swapper

All by CDCooley on nexus. All four very nice, helpful mods, to make your experience better.

No more sitting down 120597129356 times, while you try to loot that table. No more having to read every. single. book. in the middle of a dungeon. No more having to enchant something just to be able to name it. Transfer all your junk, or just some of your junk, you decide, into a container with just a single click. Great mods. Small, lightweight. Well worth it.

[DragonMaster]

Originally posted by Mephitic:

I'm sure some folks are aware of these but I don't see them mentioned often.
These are mostly immersion mods.

Animated Celtic Icons For SkyUI SE
Animated Colored SkyUI Widgets SE
Falling Gildergreen Petals - SE
Actually dented Dented Iron Shield
No BS AI Projectile Dodge
Sea Salt Deposits
Covered Carriage - SE
Illuminated Blue Palace Dome
College of Winterhold Light Pillars Fix
Bring Meeko To Lod
No Idle Fox Breathing Sounds
Luminescent Luna Moths SE

Not sure who is worse you or Avrie at screwing up my play thoughs with you mod suggestions.

[DragonMaster]

Vilja and Inigo together two great companions to run through the game with you

[smr1957]

Garbage Loot - Barrels and Sacks - https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/18047
(though I did tweak the frequency levels a bit in xEdit to fit what I wanted)

I'm sure I could come up with several hundred others, but that was the last one I added in, and it really makes a major difference - at least to me

[FauxFurry]

Probably anything on Schaken-Mods since so few people are aware of that site's existence. 'Really Good' is also very subjective. For me, it would be SOS UNP. For someone else, it could be something from All The Fallen.

[FauxFurry]

Originally posted by DragonMaster:

Vilja and Inigo together two great companions to run through the game with you

I don't know if there are many Skyrim players on PC who are unaware of either of those followers or even Lucien Flavius. Even Interesting NPCs is getting a lot of attention now. So is M'Rissi.

They aren't as obscure these days as, say, the characters from Khajiit Will Follow or even more so, Alicia Painslut.

[FauxFurry]

I'll be curious to see what the thread title will mysteriously change to without notice.

[alexander_dougherty]

Good Mods that nobody has heard of?
New ones surely!

[Boboscus]

Yea exactly, how can anyone know if noone heard of them? This whole post is a stretch if you ask me.