Finished making this mod! Give it a go and let me know what you think
Most information is found at the following link, video is currently uploading:
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/76904/?
About:
I made this mod because I wasn't happy with my stealth builds becoming pseudo assassins. I saw that most perk mods continued this trend and I can understand the reason behind it being quests and events require killing but I wanted to try and avoid combat as much as possible. I removed the perks based around sneak kills completely, you can still get the base sneak multipliers and enchantments but no more x30 stabs. The other problems with sneak was heavy armour and traps. It was too easy to become a tanky thief and traps were a void with the light foot perk, those had to be changed. Then I started to brainstorm and research thief related tools and skills and made them part of the skill tree. The last problem is quests and events require killing so I made some powerful mines for different situations and purposes. One can still use a bow or daggers but mines remove the 'combat' part, you need to place the mines and then try to get the enemies to walk into them. I did my best to make everything as intuitive as possible and left information within the game itself through a custom voiced vendor named Rak. Get the perk and then ask Rak for an explanation. I had to make some edits to sneaking in general to make it more realistic and harder. I have not altered the other stealth trees, I'm fairly happy with how other modders have made them.