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.

[Renee]

I might not have all 10 right now, but I can definitely build a list.

1). Basic Primary Needs.

2). Witchcraft by SubRosa. I don't use it in all my games, but for Lady Saga (who is supposed to be a friend of a lot of Earth-like creatures by default) definitely essential.

3). MMM

4). Better / Open Cities.

5). Xena Warrior Princess (for Renee Gade III's game).

6). Coolsims Hair Pack and one other hair mod I'm forgetting at the moment.

7). A variety of alternate start mods. I've used at least three different ones over the years. TU Starting Options is probably my fave. Technically I should count all of these separately (and therefore, that would fill up the rest of the Top 10 for me).

8). Robert's Bodies (male and female)

9). Hmm.... still thinking about these final two selections.

10).

This post has been edited by Renee: Aug 13 2020, 04:37 PM

[TheCheshireKhajiit]

I might not have all 10 right now, but I can definitely build a list.

1). Basic Primary Needs. Food, water, sleep matter! My characters are living beings whose health must be maintained.

2). Witchcraft by SubRosa. I don't use it in all my games, but for Lady Saga (who is supposed to be a friend of a lot of Earth-like creatures by default) definitely essential.

3). MMM

4). Better / Open Cities.

5). Xena Warrior Princess (for Renee Gade III's game).

6). Coolsims Hair Pack and one other hair mod I'm forgetting at the moment.

7). A variety of alternate start mods. I've used at least three different ones over the years. TU Starting Options is probably my fave.

I finish this later! I have to catch up on Buffy's fic now. :wink:

Ooo thanks for this list. A few of these definitely have my interest!

I've tried Oblivion Character Overhaul, but hated that all Imperials looked the same. And I didn't like what it did to - was it Dark Elves? High Elves? I can't recall just now but I didn't like the faces on them. I'll have to revisit it though, when I get around to installing Oblivion and playing it. I'm not sure that it's improved much since I last played TESIV.

So do you use any face mods? This is a must for me because vanilla faces are awful, imo.

[Renee]

Ooo thanks for this list. A few of these definitely have my interest!

Awesome, and you are welcome. Any questions you have, surely let me know. For instance, I remember I had a heck of a time finding a workable version of Mart's Monster Mod (MMM) back in 2014. Turns out, I had to go to TES Alliance, and use MMM version 3.8. All the versions at Nexus at that time had issues.

I updated my list Here is what it looks like now...

1). Basic Primary Needs.

2). Witchcraft by SubRosa. I don't use it in all my games, but for Lady Saga (who is supposed to be a friend of a lot of Earth-like creatures by default) definitely essential.

3). MMM 3.8

4). Better / Open Cities. (I prefer an older version and can't find a link)

5a). Leveling / balancing mods: Brashers Oblivion Overhaul is my go-to. I've never used OOO, but I've heard it makes a slew of changes and I didn't need these. BOO is not nearly as comprehensive, but it targets a few specific things which bugged me as a console player. I use BOO to make sure glass-wearing bandits and Daedric-wearing marauders can show up, but they remain rare. BOO also keeps expensive loot rare. It has a few other functions but I don't use them.

5b). Fundament by tejon uses simple .ini files to set all kinds of stuff. I use this mod solely to balance the way skills level. Conjuration for instance, this levels upward in the vanilla game at a speed of 5.5. Restoration is 1.0. So that explains why it['s possible to become an Expert in one school a lot more quickly than in another. I set all of these to 1.0 in the Fundament.ini file.

6). Coolsims Hair Pack and one other hair mod I'm forgetting at the moment.

7). A variety of alternate start mods. I've used at least three different ones over the years. TU Starting Options is probably my fave. Technically I should count all of these separately (and therefore, that would fill up the rest of the Top 10 for me) so I'm jamming content here!

8). Robert's Bodies.OMOD (male and female)

9). Horse Commands (not sure which version I use, there are at least 3 at Nexus)

10). companion mods: Companion Share & Recruit and CM Partners.



IF I could go beyond ten, I will add Console Commands (try its tfc2 command to freeze all the game's action, just like we can do in Skyrim, great for screenshots).

4 gb Ram Patcher-- allows more-modern computers to better utilize RAM.

Maskar's Oblivion Overhaul-- This overhaul mod allows us to toggle a huge list of stuff on or off. I only consider one of its features a "must-have" and that is NPC Vampires get affected more by daylight.

Xena Warrior Princess (for Renee Gade III's game).

This post has been edited by Renee: Aug 16 2020, 02:07 PM