Best race mods?

[Skelly Man]

I'm looking for some race mods, but I'm looking for something unique, not just a reskinned humanoid race that looks pretty or has some slightly different stats.

[Nazenn]

If you mean custom races, be aware that custom races in Skyrim have never been stable and are usually prone to many bugs.
I can however recommend some overhauls for the abilities of the existing races if you would like

[Skelly Man]

Originally posted by Nazenn:

If you mean custom races, be aware that custom races in Skyrim have never been stable and are usually prone to many bugs.
I can however recommend some overhauls for the abilities of the existing races if you would like

Custom races are what I'm looking for, but feel free to suggest race overhauls too, I'll definitely look into it.

[Nazenn]

I wont recommend custom races because I have never found one that is actually stable, and I wont recommend unstable mods, however, for existing races :

Imperious Races of Skyrim - my favorite racial overhaul, lots of diversity and some really unique skills to use, and npcs use them as well
Disparity - Goes in the opposite direction to Imperious and makes all racial skills be passive, but also adds in a lot of other stuff you may not want
SkyRe Races - Very similar to the vanilla racial skills but more efficent and unique. Can be used independant of any of the other SkyRe modules

[gnewna]

I love Imperious Races, makes the vanilla races much more interesting and I like that NPCs get the abilities and such, too. There's also ESP Races http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/35979/? which is (with permission!) based on the SkyRe races module - it's not got a whole lot of attention, but I played with it for I think about 20 hours and it seemed to work very well, I had no noticeable issues with other mods etc. I'm less knowledgeable than Nazenn about what constitutes a good playtest/specific ways to test stability and such*, but I'd say it's a decent mod, and from what I remember of the SkyRe races, it enhances/builds on that module in ways I liked. That said, I prefer Imperious, but I think that's largely a matter of personal taste.


*so if Nazenn comes back and goes 'yikes, no, don't use that mod!' I'd listen!

[Nazenn]

ESP Races is fine to use and also really good quality.
I use the companion mod to it, ESP Classes, but id actually forgotten ESP Races existed XD

[gnewna]

I had a feeling you probably wouldn't (come back and go 'yikes') because I remember you recommending the 'sibling mod' to me, but wasn't completely sure :) ESP Classes is awesome.

[Superior]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=98465499

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/21458/?

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=148161169

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=95512423

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/42766/?

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=194474143

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/40726/?

Here are some I remember using.