Coffee with an old Khajiit

[Avrie]

Gooooooood Morning Tamriel!

Ah'vrie wishes you well. It is Morndas the 16th of Sun's Dawn and a quiet predawn on warm sands. The blessed moons have set and it is time once again for this one to tend the inn. Excuse please while the fires are stoked, and fresh water is put to the flame...

Our brew of the day is from Indonesia, and the fresh biscuits will have to wait on the old cat returning from the markets a little later. Oatmeal cranberry sounds yummy, it's been a while. Checking the hot sheets we have 42 new, lets have a look over a fresh cuppa.

TammoTaco released Armor Resists Magic as a second mod.
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecial ... ods/172634
"Since physical barriers can protect you from the effects of spells, why cant a full layer of metal on your body protect you even a little? This mod adds an amount of magical resistance according to armor value, to you and NPCs. (optional player-only version exists)"

Well they have a point, A wall will stop a flame spell, but it would cook you in armor, so I don't think this mod is advanced enough, or nuanced enough, but thanks. Pass

StraightWhiteMen released SkyPatcher - Animals and Insects Don't Drop Valuables
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecial ... ods/172619
Another for the pile, but this one is skypatched... thanks

Lysril released 3 today.
https://www.nexusmods.com/profile/Lysri ... ameId=1704
Removed solstheim, heat blur from fires, and directional movement while crawling

I wonder if they'll keep the dragons LOL

Khagiit released 2 today
https://www.nexusmods.com/profile/Khagi ... ameId=1704
randomizes the spell book in the cell at Helgen, and the Dawnguard runeshield now drains magicka instead of stamina. Your game your way, thanks

Squall released Fortify Spell Magnitude
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecial ... ods/172629
"By default when you use any of fortify spells enchantment, you just reduce the spell cost. With this mod the enchantment will reduce the spell cost and increase spell magnitude, that is, increase damage dealt by damaging spells, increase healing power, increase level cap for NPC affecting spells."

This one would need testing. At the old cat's enchanting and alchemy levels those changes would be obscenely over powered. Thanks, but probably not for old cats.

noextrac released Fine Fall Shrubs - Base Object Swapper
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecial ... ods/172632
"Swaps the ugly vanilla FallForestShrub models with TreeVineMaple models through Base Object Swapper"

And they do look much better. tracking for now, this one already has several shrub replacers installed. Thanks, nice swap, have a cookie

Lucaoys released Next Gen Dragons - Parallax support
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecial ... ods/168815
"Brings new dragon models with 200k polygons,8k textures, parallax textures, height maps, painted with substance painter imitating PBR format"

OMG... You can see what they were attempting, but these textures look worse than vanilla. Ah'vrie gets it, the vanilla dragons are 14+ years old and look dated, but this makes some of them look worse not better. Poor cube maps, scales that look like either wet mud or burlap... Definitely not for this old cat, but thanks

And for our final mod... Scent of Sex SE by g7755725
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecial ... ods/172671
"Scent of Sex is a neat utility that allow players to create rules for NPCs to ask for consent before they engage in sexual acts with the player!"

Does not work with Ostim, requires SL framework, and SLAL. You'll have to read the mod page. It's a clean looking UI, but the old cat does not understand the purpose and suspects machine generated/translated text. The old cat is unfamiliar with a situation where random NPCs can trigger an adult scene automatically, so is unaware of why a mod would be needed to make them request permission from the player... ?

And that will do for today. The fires are stoked, the kettles scrubbed, and the floors are swept. Have a seat by the fires and warm your bones. We-B-Open!