A war-guar. This is grrreat!

Yes that is true about horses and their ability to turn. Especially while at full gallop, it's like I have to plan their exact trajectories through all those trees and boulders in this game, especially while being chased. Some of my characters used to actually prefer Paint Horses back when I gamed on PS3, because I could maneuver them properly through rough areas without constantly running into things!

So yeah, I'd imagine a guar would be easier to "drive". How fast are guars in comparison to bays, blacks, and paints?

Guars come in different grades. I started with a "beginner's guar" which is supposed to be slow. I'd say it's about the speed of a Paint horse. There's an "Expert" and a "Master" model as well, and I read that when someone got a "Master" guar, their PC couldn't cope with the speed - couldn't load cells quickly enough. I think that makes that guar pretty fast!

Pseron Wyrd's first character. Found her in the archived Bethesda forums. Here's to you, Wyrd. Wherever you are.

The Wyrdster! That is really good. Making faces in Oblivion is a nightmare.

Graziana Altobassi, the Imperial battlemage

Invisible but efficient

Creeping on customers

Sercen

Welcome to Grazi!

Hmm, vegetable gardening with magic - how novel.

No doors on the darn inn rooms!

Dead orc still tingling with shock magic.

Welcome to Cyrodil Graz!

Pink invisibility.

Why are there never doors in those inns? Skyrim is even worse.

A shocking final picture.

Awww, what a cutie. Moar pics moar pics!!!

Thank you all for a warm welcome.

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Weynon Priory at night

The grey mare (in the background)

Somewhere northwest of Chorrol

One from below

Animated Lighting, so wonderful. Did you go through and make all the different choices? I've got green or blue lights for the insides of chapels, for instance.

Love the view from that rickety bridge. And look at Graziana. Her eyes contain no darkness within, unlike some. Ow!

Nice lighting at the Priory.

Grazi is a very nice looking character!

Neat how you can see the White Gold Tower beyond that bridge.

Oh c'mon, Grazi, stop showing off your thigh gap.

It is winter in Tamriel!

The white towers of the Imperial City

The frosted trees

The roads covered in snow

But waters are still flowing

Yes, we still need bridges

With Betty's Seasons.

Very nice, Lena. Yes, Betty's mods are really great. Just wait'll you see the Spring and Fall versions as well, if you haven't already. I actually turn the .esps on and off depending what month of the year it was, back when I played OB more often.

I'm really looking forward to winter now. ❄

Very cool to see Cyrodiil in the winter.

This is so cool! Kudos to Betty for this one! Although I'm too set in my ways to use it, I just wish that mod had been the vanilla game

Also, according to Renee, there are other season mods. I fully expect you to showcase them in due course, Lena!

Just try it, Crow. You've been the one to complain about lack of snow (even in Bruma's county) over the years, now here's the chance to rectify. Betty always does a great job. She goes out of her way to make sure her projects don't clash with anything else, and your game is still pretty light after all these years. Nothing special is needed; you don't need Wrye Bash or anything like that. Just throw the mod into the Data folder. Activate the .esp. Voila. ⛄🏔❄🌨

I know I've complained about the lack of snow in the past, but I'm over that now. As I've been playing over the years I have more and more come to appreciate the vanilla game which is why the mods I do use are minor ones that do their job but are basically invisible/unnoticeable.

I no longer want a wintery Cyrodiil because I associate the various parts of it with different parts of the year, and Lothran's rotation, and I only want Bruma and the Jeralls to have it now. It does look really good though.

I agree, although I might just keep Winter. (Snow, we need more snow!). I wasn't so keen on Autumn or Spring, sorry. It's strange because Autumn is my favourite season in real life, but not in Cyrodiil. I think we might have a short winter here and then things will get back to normal.

I found it important to rebuild the LOD though. Because otherwise it's really weird: everything around you is white, while everything a little further away is lush green... And winter follows you wherever you go... like some sort of a Winter Witch...

The winter looks very nice and would be great for seasonal weather in certain areas of Cyrodiil north of the IC. That must be a once in twenty year snow storm.
My preference, for various reasons (I can think of seven), is the warm steamy Amazon-like jungle of the Black Wood along the Niben, south of Bravil. But, I wouldn’t want that everywhere either.

Ah I am the opposite, Lena. I use the Autumn and Spring versions, but don't use Winter because I can't conceive of snow getting too far south of Bruma.

I gotta say the Spring version really puts a LOT of flowers into the game. Every time I game during the months Rain's Hand and First Seed I feel like I'm about to sneeze!

*Example*

I fully intend to use these seasons for the year 4E203 which is just about to start in Lena's game (it's Evening Star 4E202). I'll try to use them for the whole year, and we'll see. May be they'll grow on me.

As for winter going South... I was caught in a bad blizzard in South Texas once (to give you a local example), and it is the same place where I was also baking at 110F a few months before... So yeah, I believe it!

Oh Lena, that's beautiful! Just the thing for playing OB in the winter time.

Snow or flowers? i like the snow on a cold winter's day but um, I'll take the flowers.

Don't forget your Benadryl then. Or Dayquil or whatever you prefer for allergies. Lots of pollen with that Betty's mod installed.