Your Top 10 Must Have Mods, Post your favorites! Options

[TheCheshireKhajiit]

No doubt y’all have discussed this to death elsewhere, but I was just curious what are some of y’all’s favorite mods for Oblivion? Feel free to leave out things like the Unofficial Patch, and OBSE since those things are pretty much crucial to modding this game.

[TheCheshireKhajiit]

What about mods that enhance the game’s graphics or tweak the mechanics? Do y’all use any of those?

You bet I do! A ton of them. With my experimental build, almost everything gets a graphic makeover/alteration. This is a category I'll need to study before picking favorites, if that's even possible. (It doesn't help that my Experimental Build combo of Oblivion Reloaded & an ENB isn't configured properly so that in certain situations the world looks garishly ugly.)

Off the top of my head, I enjoy selected Unique Landscapes modules, mainly those that can be traveled during my avatar's road patrols. Roads of Cyrodiil is another nice addition, especially if you like to travel via roads. (Is it still called Roads of Cyrodiil? Or was it renamed during a major update?)

In any case, I need to study this more before formulating an informed, definitive response.

Ooo I’ve been thinking about trying an ENB. Which do you use or is it a custom thing you did yourself?

Well, after mine, I'd list

A body replacer/ head replacer. Lots of choices, all better than vanilla.
Toggle Quantity Prompt - makes selling items much easier/faster.
Dynamic Map - basis for adding the Elsweyr and Valenwood maps for those mods. It allows multiple maps to be added together, instead of having to be merged and saved as one. I probably also derived my own from Roads and Trails, which is decent on its own, as part of mine.
The Ayleid Steps - fun set of new quests in dungeons only accessible by teleport, plus some reuse of existing ones. If installed, my Gweden mod uses a step of its own.
Shezrie's Towns - mainly because I was a contributor, but I also liked her quests. This mod keeps disappearing, so may be hard to find.
Open Cities - a lot of folks used that, so I used it to ensure my mods were compatible. I liked the basic idea, too. I ran the version with Leyawiin as a port, with the Niben navigable though it. Some people prefer Better Cities, and the two are totally incompatible.

I can't really include Elsweyr Anequina and Valenwood Improved, as they werenever finished. I liked what was done so far, but the gaps were annoying, too. I had to patch a few places to make them fit together properly.

I found UL too incompatible with other mods to use it. But that was my choice of other mods, so yours may not be a problem.

But mostly I did just run my own, to avoid creating dependencies that I didn't want on other' mods

What is the “UL” that you mentioned?

Also, which head replacer have you found to be most to your liking? One of my biggest gripes about Oblivion is the character faces.

This post has been edited by TheCheshireKhajiit: Aug 8 2020, 03:39 PM

[ghastley]

What is the “UL” that you mentioned?

Also, which head replacer have you found to be most to your liking? One of my biggest gripes about Oblivion is the character faces.

UL = Unique Landscapes, as in Decrepit's reply.The only head replacer I'd found was Throttlekitty's Head6. I don't know if it's still available.

And I forgot to mention the Wobbly Goblet a.k.a the Lucky Mudcrab, by mALX. I don't think I had the latest, but I also ran some add-ons, that you can only get here at Chorrol, and then only once I finish re-installing my server.

This post has been edited by ghastley: Aug 8 2020, 05:09 PM