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It's very good.  The DLCs are worth installing too.  I really enjoyed the Hearthfire add-on.  I've done everything now, so I'm just killing all mortal NPCs.  It's gradually becoming deathly quiet.

Yep, damn fun game. I've played through it a couple of times and got a good 100 hours out of it each time.

This seems to be a fair assessment. Stealth archers are where it's at.

All: Any mod recommendations? There seem to be tons of them out there, and it's all a bit bewildering. I've got SkyUI installed, which has made life much easier. I had a brief look at ENB, but it mainly served to slow everything down horribly and didn't look any different. I presume that's because I hadn't tweaked it properly, but life's too short for tweaking.

These are all tried & tested.  Wyrmstooth is reasonably good fun, too.

wyrms don't have teeth...


except in Dune...

Personally I don't think they have 'y's either, but you've got to let the fantasy writers have their silly spellings or they sulk.

*sylk.

 :-{)  LOL

Wyrms had a y before worms had an o, and teeth before either word existed.

Hence the spurious usage by fantasy authors to suggest antiquity.  Like Ye Olde Bubble Tea Shoppe.

Thanks! So far I've been focusing on making it look pretty. I've got the official HD textures, Seasons of Tamriel, and have just downloaded the Skyrim Flora Overhaul, Enhanced Lights and FX and Grass on Steroids but haven't played with them on yet.

"Unread books glow" looks to be a useful one.

Not felt the need to install the instant merchant one. In fact, I've not really bought much from merchants - there's so much to be scavenged!

It's not so much for the buying as for the selling.  When you're in the interminable Dwarven dungeons, it's useful to be able to offload swag for cash every now & then.

Hmmm? Poor artist renditions of a described future they do not understand.

Accepting that requires spurious understanding of the word spurious.

How would you call this:

Big Snake? Huge Worm?

It's bad enough being cursed with such beautifully poetic names as Giant Rat|Beetle|Spider|etc...

The 'voting up' thing has borked, otherwise I would have done it.

I've now got to a situation where I could do with the instant merchant, but I feel it's kind of like cheating...

I'd just emerged from Reachwater Rock, having reforged the Gauldur Amulet, when I was attacked by a frost dragon. I didn't have any frost resist potions or other suitable protection, so I jumped on my horse and fled. I ended up racing through a massive Forsworn camp with the dragon on my tail. At that point, everyone in the camp started twatting the dragon with magic and I headed up the hill and watched the fun. Eventually the dragon was weakened enough to land, and ended up quite near me. I went to finish it off, and in the process my horse rushed ahead of me to try to kick the dragon to death. I killed the dragon, but my horse died and now I'm stuck up a hill behind a camp-load of savage magic-users without a horse, and I'm over-encumbered because I've got a ton of dragon bones I'd quite like to take back to my house, and it's just started raining and wah wah wah I want to go home for some hot soup with Lydia.

Might try one of the horse mods.