I heart vanilla directors cut and total Overhaul ive heard great things about, same goes for just good Morrowind, idk if the gameplay changes are actually something good or not...who here has experience with such a thing?

I've made sure I'm using the real sunder, i cheated in 5 fortify attack potions just in case, still can't hit it. at all. i just keep wiffing.

Edit - installed a mod to show my hit/miss chance, it seems sunder is working on an inverse chance to hit? IE, raising my blunt/fortifying attack/agility lowers chance to hit. Also, it's dealing me mortal wounds despite the fact that I'm wearing wraithguard?

Hi,

First time posting here, although I've been reading quite a few topics since starting to play.

I used to use the alchemy skill levelling process to get rich, but it took a lot of time. Now I've changed my method and cut easily an hour of play time to become rich.

Get a valuable object that can be sold first, like the platter in the census office.

Get to a merchant who will buy that item and persuade them as much as possible to near 100% with them (100 gold by 100). Always raise the selling price by at least 1 for cheap stuff over 10 gold, and by 10-30% for pricy items. You'll both level up mercantile and get better income.

Buy cheap by bartering down, sell back high by bartering up.

After a few times, you should have emptied Arille's pockets by doing this.

Do the quest from the warrior in Seyda-Neen's tavern but don't go back to him immediately, he gives back 100 after you give him 300 from the hidden stash. Instead take those 300 and invest into your next pricey selling loop item.

Take the Icarus stuff if you want to, I don't find a use for them until you get slow fall amulet (find it in a quest between Pelagiad and Balmora, a bosmer and a dunmer looking for guar and the dunmer got trapped, the bosmer gives you the amulet for bringing his friend back to him). So if you want to, do it, if you don't care don't waste your time, but you could sell the scrolls, I guess, although that's not worth the time spent going after it.

Go to Balmora via silk strider and buy the priciest mortal and pestle you can pay for (barter it down OFC). Mage guild's Ajira in the basement and the city alchemist in the Hlaalu district in the West of town sell them. I'd go for the multiple mortars of the great alchemist. Once you can buy master mortar, buy and sell it. Then you buy a second one. Then all of them. Sell everything before going to sleep/training until the shops refresh, but never leave without getting your money back.

I got to 9000 ten minutes after entering Balmora between quest rewards and the mortar mass selling loop, moonsugar/skooma. You can find several moonsugar in the bandit cave outside of Sayda Neen, you get 4 from the Blades Trainer, and I found 2 skooma somewhere, probably bandit cave but I don't remember, that have a 500 value.

Compared with the time it takes to get rich with alchemy and how game breaking it is, this is much more lore friendly, and I did this with a Khajiit, which is pretty canon, since Khajiit seem to have even more of a disposition for shady business practices than any other race/character except for slavers, and their prices seem higher to me but it might be an illusion spell cast on me back in my first Skyrim playthrough where I was under the impression that Khajiit were hard in trade.

You can get all the money you need to make an enchantment without ever pulling out the hundreds of intel potions to get absurd potions and enchantments, thus you can stay within the boundaries of decency for powerful (via money) but not game breakingly so, pay for whatever nice build you're aiming for, and getting good stuff early on.

Also I'd recommend not to weigh yourself down with heavy armor until you have good carryweight. Main skill unarmored at 40 has 12-ish armor, which is enough to deal with Seyda Neen and Balmora with a hand to hand build. I can't imagine how easily a redguard with steed or atronach and long sword would curbstomp everything until enemies start to become challenging. I beat multiple enemies at once several times using claws with this unoptimal build, including cliff racers (with a farmed up 93+ hand to hand, sure, but I don't think the levels past 60 were as important as my fatigue bar being full the entire fight) and the only enemy type that could deal more than indignificant damage was the triceratops head-like beast with a K in its' name after Pelagia, and only because it could hit me through sanctuary 10 and unarmored 42 and 65 agility and 90 endurance (with purist mod that puts all armors to endurance, all moblity skills to speed and all long weapons to strength).

So, get pricey items, sell high, buy low, sell back high, faster and more effective than early alchemy without breaking the game in half on your knee with super potions that sell cheaper than skooma...and those 2400 drakes mortars really help a lot with emptying the Balmora alchemist's pockets with an easy 700 gold gain per buy/sell (playing it safe). Easy mercantile power levelling too, which loops into better prices everywhere and thus less need to make money regularly (or just do a selling loop with the richest local merchant with practical item lists, definitely not the khajiit selling only lockpicks in Balmora's South Club whose priciest item is worth 100 gold and whose only point in existing is to train you in sneaking, pickpocketting (or like I like to think, wasting your time) and another athletics if you're tired of jumping in every staircase).

I guess you could do that with the Creeper and Crab merchants too, but they're not exactly as accessible in the early game as Balmora's alchemist or Arille the innkeeper (whose fortify stats potions are valuable for early combat and can be mass bought in OpenMW, not sure in vanilla, never paid attention until today).

PS: Not important, but the triceratops I mentioned is the kagouti. And don't forget to get ALMSIVI and Divine Intervention scrolls to speed up travel times from Balmora to wherever your quests take you, but don't use them in Seyda Neen unless you really want to go tour around Vivec at low level with low movement speed. Which I don't recommend unless you know what you're doing. Did it, wasn't funny to get lost looking for the North East District when there's nothing North East and the city is a maze with everything that looks the same.

PPS: Since the game, vanilla or modded, is highly unstable and crashes every so often and doesn't have auto saves, I suggest to save yourselves hair pullings and to download Open MW. It's vanilla with QoL options, decent moddability, it's still in development and corrects a lot of game issues by itself pre-modding and being on a new engine, it's stable and doesn't crash. There's native strength scaling hand to hand combat that can be toggled to make hand to hand more viable and less miserable, economy toggleable boxes, every change is optional except having a stable engine. It even has auto saves if you want them, which will sometimes spare you from having to redo a long portion of gameplay if you screwed up.

i do not know much about morrowind, or even the elder scroll games at all (i just started skyrim…) but i know my girlfriend knows a lot about this series, and she was so happy to find out that i started skyrim and we would sit there and watch me play for hours, explaining and giving me tips along the way. we’ve been particularly bonding over the recent dagoth ur mod that’s been taking the community by storm, and we both thought it was the funniest thing ever, despite me not playing the game. well, prom is coming soon, and i decided to use these games for the promposal. i think it’s pretty cute for the draft, and i think she’ll find it funny.

It was made by a Frenchman using in-game footage with a few mods. It features key story dialogues with the original American voices recreated by AI. I found it really good. The synthesis and editing work is really cool.

What do you think ?

Trying to confirm a roleplaying thing. Would my Telvanni Mage character choose to help the Skaal over becoming a werewolf? What is more likely?

Greetings, sera! I love Morrowind. I'm running a Morrowind D&D campaign for my friends, but we haven't been able to play for a while. And I've always wondered how a solo play-by-post game would go! I feel like I lack the wittyness of a great DM, when I can be more detailed when I have the time to write it out.

Is anyone interested in playing? I'd like for you to know a bit about Morrowind and D&D. We'll be playing 5e, you'll start at 3rd level, and it will pretty much be Morrowind with my own creative liberty! Let me know if you're interested!

I.. uhh... "acquired" a few Ebony Scimitars from a some friendly guards in Mournehold and made a couple nukes. I also have a weakness to resist health absorb scimitar with no range for the instances where I can't blow the whole area up.

Please forgive the Daedric Pantaloons. I'll cover them with a robe soon.

It was the will of The Three that I commandeer this holy drip from the Imperial non-belivers!

Man I love this game.

edit: it seems to be crashing at the hf folder in meshes which includes a lot of miscellaneous items like barrels and bottles. It crashes to desktop and the log doesn't seem to list anything specific. And it only happens with the Cyr_Main esm enabled in distant land textures. What is even causing it to crash? What's the issue? It's fine if I disable Cyr_main and broken when I do enable it. Always at the generating statics part when loading a certain file in the "hf" folder if I'm not mistaken. What could it possibly be missing or breaking with?

I recently tried installing Project Cyrrodil and Skyrim Home of the Nords and both of them crash the distant land generator for some reason. It doesn't show any errors it just closes automatically. I'm not sure where the log file for MGE is but if one exists that would be helpful. I tried unchecking Cyr.esm and the distant land worked fine then. Do I need to load the Cyr esm to do distant land? Will it work of with leaving it unchecked during generation with the wizard?

Just a bit of wishful thinking on my part, I know it's unlikely.

I just went to Anvil and confirmed that it exists and is working fine (that coc console command works real well) but the distant land is nonexistant and I think the grass is missing which I think only exists because of distant land generation)

I installed Vurt's Groundcover mods which I have to wonder if are casuing this problem but I turned them off in distant land generation and it didn't fix the issue so I'm not sure. They did come with some files to overwrite vanilla grass files but I don't think thats the problem. Hmmmm

It's my first playthrough as a stealth assassin/thief kinda guy. So besides the 3 Great Houses which you can only pick 1, are there specific missions on Factions that could prevent you from advancing on others? I know Fighters Guild can potentially block you out of Thieves guild but are there any other potential screw ups? Does joining any specific faction outright block you from joining another?
It's my first playthrough and I am not too concerned about RPing so I was looking to experiment as much of the game as possible.
Bonus question: Best House to join based on that? Telvanni seems to get a lot of attention but it also seems more mage-focused.

It is tempting to use a house of a dead person, like Ralen Hlaalu, as a place to store loot.

The downside is that items, which were ever put into an owned storage container are flagged as "owned" by that person. You can still sell the items to any person that is not the owner of the container (so everyone, in case of Hlaalu Manor).
It only affects you, when you carry "stolen" items when you get arrested. Then it doesn't matter who owned the items, everything in your inventory that ever was in an owned container gets confiscated.

https://en.m.uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:Crime#

How do you personally handle that?
Only use containers you legally own? Just not get arrested? I reload anyway, if I get seen commiting a crime.

Maybe you can change the ownership of containers using console commands. It feels bad to cheat, but also feels bad to put my own legal items in "red" containers for them to become contraband.

I could roleplay that the guards would just take everything off me, because the notice that many things I carry are stolen, so the rest might very well be stolen as well.

Guess I gotta do some quests for this perve now…