The Next Project Part 2

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Last Updated on Wednesday, 08 August 2012 12:57

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Thanks for all the comments from the last blog about this, from what I have seen the Hunting Lodge is the most popular idea so far and one that I think will make a good stand alone mod in its own right.

The idea Jonas put forward about having quests based around the player hunting down stories for the Bards College is a great idea and gives the voice actors guild a chance to really shine. Not sure how big this can be given the steam limits but I got quite a bit of dialogue in the Telvanni Hall mod so it should be interesting finding out.

The idea of going from tavern to tavern playing songs falls down when you consider every tavern already has a bard doing that and that the quests that play those songs are hard coded for those bards only. Just as the Dremora could not be a follower in the Telvanni hall mod for the same reason. So if I do that, I'll have to make another custom quest to handle custom bards.

Taking what Jonas said onboard, it might also be worth the player becoming a kind of an agent for the bards, getting gigs and stuff for them. Having performances played in cities with crowds of people near by. It might actually be more fun than disabling the players controls if he wanted to be a bard.

Thanks for the ideas Jonas, you got me thinking about it now, kick started the old grey matter :)

The Hunting lodge

Whilst not the most exciting idea, and exciting ideas get made first around here, the hunting lodge is perhaps a good mod for immersion and role play. Supporting a style of play that my youtube video shows has become very popular since I made a video about it shortly after Skyrim got released.

It has had 48,000 hits since it was made and continues to be one of my most popular videos. So there is no question that the demand exists for this mod.

Btw this is the video.

A hunting lodge mod should be much easier to make than most other mods too. But how to make it exciting... that is the question on my mind right now.

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0 #5 Morgan Mann 2012-08-09 05:34

Well, if you are going to do this, I would guess that there might be a hunting competition. Something that would attract legendary hunters, and of course, it's share of cheaters (, a murder might work as well).

 

 

0 #4 Jonathan 2012-08-08 19:12

back to the hunter guild being payied to kill the monsters thing. I know this would have somethigns in common with the dark brotherhood but they are payied to kill humans elves and the kind where as the hunters guild is a 'noble' traditions of being payied to hunt down trolls or daedra giants or even packs of wolves that are very large compared to normal ones. and i know the companions r payied to kill strong things so there may be some conflict with the organisations. tho the companions can be hired as guards and to hunt down bandits and stuff aswell. maybe even named dragons trying to conqure a area after the main quest and the hunters can go work towards killing it. this would also work for a companions expansion 2 i guess. maybe i have rattled on to long

 

 

0 #3 Jonathan 2012-08-08 19:07

Jonas has a good idea for that tbh. hunting quests would be fun if the foe has a fantastic range and you have to track with (even with quest marker). like the white stag quest in falkreath i think it was. I love that quest and the stag would get away or move and when i did kill it i was like woop! A moster hunter idea also falls into this bracket like with the braking down frost atronach, are things that have been waylaying travelers across skyrim and the hunters guild has been payed to track it down and kill it. there could even be more companions in this mod fellows hunters that you can hunt down them with as there is not menny bow spec'ed companions as far as i know.

 

 

0 #2 Jonas Belford 2012-08-08 18:34

Thanks for the shout out! =D

As for making a hunter lodge exciting, maybe add special creatures that have to be killed a certain way or that have unusual abilities? Like a teleporting troll! Or a special frost atronach that splits into tinier versions when killed and has to be whittled down.

 

 

0 #1 DOW 2012-08-08 16:03

Can't say I am into the Hunting Lodge idea, but I do not make many characters who do that.
It could be a simple stand alone mod, so something to do until the next patch hits.

 

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