User blog:Capedestroyer/Mod Skyrim Without Cheating With over 4,000 mods on the Skyrim Workshop there's no shortage of ways to modify Skyrim. Here's how to make improvements without cheating.

With over 4,000 mods on the Skyrim Workshop there's no shortage of ways to modify Skyrim. You can summon spectral horses, add throwing knives, a mass lightning spell, vampire spell tomes, and give merchants a whole bunch of gold so you can more conveniently offload your gear. While these are certainly convenient, they also break the original design of the game. Merchants aren't supposed to have more gold unless you choose to increase your Speech skill and unlock its perk tree. Maybe you'd rather resist the temptation to bypass the game's deliberate limitations. What constitutes a deliberate limitation is of course relative, but below is a selection of mods that enhance the sound, visuals and interface functionality of Skyrim without fiddling with gameplay systems or outright cheating Bethesda's game. And in case you're unfamiliar with the Skyrim Workshop, it recently launched through Steam, providing a framework for users to share, rate and apply mods to customize the PC version of Skyrim. With the exception of Skyrim HD, all these mods are available on the Workshop, and you can find them through the Workshop's search function.

Ask Follower Skills Useful for when you simply want to know what a follower will do. This does not give your followers horses to ride or some kind of crazy, world obliterating superpower. Instead, it just lets you ask them a question and see their stats. It's simple and quite useful.

Oh that's what you're good at? Well this is awkward. Enhanced Blood Textures Why not? If you frequently use a sword to slice at things, this makes the grisly effects look a little bit more realistic. Seems appropriate for damage done by a demon hammer.

House Map Markers This simple mod doesn't do anything dramatic – it simply adds in a fast travel icon for your owned property. Then when you bring up your world map, you can go directly to your property instead of traveling to the city and then finding your house. It makes sense and, more importantly, saves time.

A minor improvement, but a convenient one. Killmove + Maybe you've killed a small city in Skyrim and have grown tired of seeing the same few kill animations over and over again. This mod gives you a few extra cinematic finishes to combat encounters, adding extra variety to the fighting system without fundamentally altering it.

Realistic Lighting / Improved Interior Lighting These mods work together to alter the style of lighting across Skyrim, making for a slightly more realistic look, both indoors and outside.

Reduced Distance NPC Greetings In many real-life cities, most people walking the streets try their best to avoid actually interacting with anyone else. In Skyrim, you'd think everyone was trying to be your best friend. With this mod NPC's tendency to shout greetings is reduced unless you decide to enter into uncomfortably close range.

Don't say it! Skyrim HD – 2K Textures This mod isn't actually on the Skyrim Workshop, but you can get it at Skyrim Nexus. It's a huge overhaul of Skyrim's textures, addressing everything from water to sky to NPC clothing to the alchemy table. Very pretty. Screenshot taken from the Skyrim Nexus profile.

SkyUI Perhaps the most easily recommended Skyrim mod of all. SkyUI reworks your inventory pane on PC so it's compact and easily manageable with a mouse. You can even search for specific items in the inventory's filter field, which makes sifting through ingredients and potions much more convenient.

Because item hunting is fun in dungeons, not in menus. Sounds of Skyrim, The Dungeons / The Wilds You may be perfectly happy with the sound work Bethesda did in The Elder Scrolls V, but you do no harm to the game by installing these mods. They add a huge number of sound effects to the game, right down to different "rain-impact sounds on tents and wooden structures." Considering how many mods are available on the Worshop, sure you have some favorites that weren't listed here. Which ones would you recommend? Do you care at all about breaking game systems when modding Skyrim?

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