The Official Morrowind Thread

[arjue]

I'm still playing this game. It's so damn addictive...


Green (or anyone interested): Here is a great way to kill people much stronger than you...

Firstly, if you are a fighter, stock up on as many sujamma's as you can. If you are a mage, make a spell that does lots of damage, like 100 to 100 fire damage on touch.

also, be sure to have healing potions or spells stocked up.

Inbetween Khull and Gnisis you'll come across a woman who has lost her ring in a pond. if you explore a little further down the road, you'll find that she is with someone who is partially invisible. Normally, if you get her the ring they ambush you, so I propose you do this:

If you are a fighter, drink all of your sujammas and kill them. If you are a mage, you're gonna have to fight them fairly, which can be fairly difficult when you're at a low level. Just be sure to keep an eye on your health.

The invisible person has an "amulet of shadows", which allows you to cast 80% chameleon on yourself. Basically, the majority of people can't see you, even if you attack them!

When you attack someone while using it, instead of fighting they usually run like a baby. This gives you the opportunity to kill people much tougher than you without taking any damage from them at all.

[frostwolf ex]

arj, did you ever find the crab?
green, check out the earlier thread, we did a lot of advice/faq typs stuff, and you will find out all you need to know there.

[frostwolf ex]

bumped for the 2 year anniversery of morrowind being released . here's to games still worth playing 2 years later.

[AaronChance]

You have three days after being contaminated with the disease (something hemophilya) to cure yourself before really becoming a vampire. Else you have to do a quest to become normal again. But there is some fun quests to do while being a vampire. And you look cool

http://www.enst.fr/~bagland/vampire.jpg

Also, the quest for curing it is incredibly easy and you can't catch any disease after passing a certain point in the main quest, making you completely immune.

Man, I haven't played this game in a long while. I bought the game of the year edition for xbox and have hardly touched it. It's still great, but there are just too many other games calling for my attention and it ends up eating up way too much of my time.

[Damian79]

I stopped playing this when one of my quest items disappeared and none of my save files has it. I didn't think that this kind of thing can happen in a game, but apparently it is a bug all the way back in the daggerfall games. And this is when I made my unarmed(100) and unarmored(~70) character with pimping "exquisite" clothes.

I am still pissed off about it.

[stormy]

i am trying to motivate myself to pick this back up and get more into the expansions. i beat the main game but haven't really touched bloodmoon or tribunal.

[frostwolf ex]

if i had just played it straight, i woudl be sick of it by now, but the modding community is insane! i have 80+mods and that turned the game into a whole new experience for me, some of them really are nearly professional quality, and they are available for free.

[Mode7]

What mods would you (or anyone else, for that matter) consider to be absolute musts? I figured I'd pick up the GOTY edition now that I've actually got a decent rig to run it on. I'll definitely be running Giants, Better Bodies/Faces and pacified Cliff Racers/Slaughterfish, but I'd love to hear some suggestions beyond those.

[frostwolf ex]

ok mode, here are some, all of which can be found on the official morrowind forum, in the mod section with some searching. First, better bodies is very good, but there also is another mod called smoother bodies, this mod works a little better with the in game clothes,as better bodies tends to have clipping issues with some armor and clothes. also, giants is known for having some great monsters, but also some ugly ones, check out "morrowind advanced" It was done by one of the original programmers "wormgod" and has some very cool looking dragons, but if you want, run em both, puma man's mod has some really cool monsters too, just a few really bad ones. Here is a numerical breakdown of some of my other faves, as you can tell from my av, i have a soft spot for aragonias, so there will be a bias.

1. Sea of destiny by clone- huge island with quite a few quests, not the best storytelling, but still compelling enough, also comes with some very cool assasin type weapons that i found in sadith mora's weapon shop.


2. The beauty pack- its a compiliation of a ton of player created heads, some are yuck, some are so much better than the defaults its kind of funny, having gotten this i will never use a bethesda made face again, 10-20 new faces and hairstyles for almost every race. If you are an aragonian nut, also check out the work by sliaria, she did a seperate head pack for the aragonians that is strikingly beautiful, reflective scales, imaginative hornsets, i changed frostwolf's appearence in a hurry, as the new horns looked far better.


3. Herdy gurdy's robes- dramatic change in how some of the robes look on human and elf characters, a bit of fanservice, but nothing too bad, very cool looking and feminine robes.


4. Shironeko-ok, this mod is a bit weird, as the mod itsself is kind of forgetable, it makes a humanoid race with cat ears, but it also applies a really cool resource pack by french modder lord yig, who made a beautiful asian art mod, so you get things like wearable kimonos, some of which look really cool on casters. The only funny downside is that the mod is entirely in french, so if you need any translation help, there si a thread in the mod forum that will help.


5. leia's dual wield mod- a neat workaround of the weapons only in your right hand thing, it adds a second weapon that you can carry in your defending hand, giving you the look of a dual weilding fighter, unfortunatly the weapon only functions as a blocking weapon,and you still can only attack with the right handed weapon, but the quility of the weapons looks beautiful, there are dual welds for both beginners and for end-gamers, and come on, what looks cooler than an aragonian wearing a kendo type kimono with a daedric katana in each hand? nothing, thats what


6. brash's mods, brash is this mom who loved morrowind, but wanted it to have a more kid friendly feel too, so she is making a total conversion that turns morrowind into this bizarre, rainbow colored fantasy area thats far less gritty, but amazingly imaginative, she also did some other funny mods that you can find at her site, including one that allows you to find teddy bears...that you can actually hold in your shield arm, its so funny you have to get it, i actually finally beat the main morrowind monday, and it was with sunder in my right hand and a teddy bear in my left, it was surreal on many levels the funny thing is the bears actually give limited time buffs, so before a major fight, its good to hug every teddy bear you have...surreal


7 the claws- just a cool little mod that makes these vega type hand blades that you can equip. they look silly in first person mode, but in third person they look very cool,particularly for a kajiit.


8. Jeremy's knights of tamriel- not sure if it will ever be compleated, but adds these cool little mini quests that allow you to get some very good looking armors themed after paladins of the 9 divines of the imperial cult religion, so far there are 6 out. high level stuff, but worth it, very professional looking heavy armors. some of the architecture of the paladin's churches is really realy fucking amazing, this guy needs to turn pro.


9. Canadianice's metal queen boutique- new armors for sale for female human and elf(and orc) characters, also sells wigs and some cool outfits, she also has a cool female robe replacer that replaces all the robes in the game for females with better looking, more feminine ones, really looks better than the bulky look they used to have. I'd also add that she has the second best modders links page in existence, the best is undoubtedly clone's he has a links page that will take you to just about "EVERY" good modding page out there, including the lys and euro morowind, 2 great modding sites. if you like mods, bookmark clone's links page.



10. if you liked legend of zelda, check out snakebitten's legend of zelda mod, great mod that adds an area where you can actually fight gannon(who has too many hp, fix that in theconstruction set:P) some kick ass armor,and faithful recreations of almost all of links stuff from oot, including all the tunics, the power gloves, a kick ass master-sword, the mirror shield, and the regular hylian shield, and even a cool link hat that gives the impression of having the main sword strapped to your back(when you draw the illusion is broken, but hey, it looks fucking badass.). woodelves should definitly have this mod.



11. the firstguard armor- if you play a beast race,and are tired of not having any good boot armor, check it out, the guys who did better bodies made this mod, that makes really cool beast race specific armor. It also has a cool book story attached to it too, worth a dl for that alone if you are a h/e/o and must have for beast races. eventually they are releasing more aragonian stuff too in a mod called beastly features.
12. Swords of morrowind really cool mod that adds many swords from other sources, like the gunblade from ff8, the soul reaver, and rambo's combat knife, worth a checkout. but currently its giving me some hassles because 2 swords seem bugged.


thats it for me for now, my fingers are tired and my typo quota has been reached, there are other good mods out there, just look around. ill add more later once my fingers heal.

[Mode7]

Thanks a ton for the recommendations. Have you gone through Suran Underworld? I'm stuck on the second quest trying to find incriminating evidence against Avon Oran. No doubt the solution is something completely obvious, since that's what I generally miss out on.