So, after years of playing Morrowind and tweaking several companions to my liking, I'm finally learning how to really use the construction set. And for my first mod, I'm creating something I've been meaning to create for some time: a mod that allows you to donate money to the Tribunal Temple or the Imperial cult mission of the Nine Divines, via an archdeacon in the High Fane and a treasurer in the Ebonheart Chapel. Currently this mod is strictly roleplay, but I'm thinking of conferring a smile blessing similar to what happens when you give a coin to a beggar in Skyrim. I'm currently ironing out a couple bugs, but it should be ready in a couple days.

I do have a question. Is there a way for the game to keep track of donations and amounts, via scripts or variables or some such? Might be interesting if, for example, companions could comment on your contributions--I'm imagining Julan blowing a gasket right now.

FWIW, there is a less ambitious mod called Donations to the Gods created by Slanesh the Corruptor at my request. IIRC, it's available at MMH. Its purpose was to give the player a simple way to get rid of excess money. There were no reputation gains nor blessings.

Yeah, you could easily store a bunch of numbers in global vars, such as the sum of all player's donations, last donation amount and as such, and use those vars in dialog. You could likely get by manipulating the vars from dialog Results, no script required.

Similar concept, except my NPCs are new and I'm offering more denominations of donation (from 5 coins to 1,000,000). I haven't completely decided about blessings yet.

Nice. I'll check that out. Since this mod is basically my way of learning my way around the Construction Set in order to create a companion mod, it would be a shame to not make my own mods interact.

I feel like if you're donating 1,000,000 septims you should see a new IC shrine appear in each city on Vvardenfell... unless we just roleplay that they embezzle it all.

Actually made me think of the player donating money and a new http://mw.modhistory.com/download-48-2053 popping up once you reach certain thresholds. I'm sure that's well beyond your intended scope. But you just got me thinking.

The Tribunal Temple would probably just use it for the anti-Dagoth effort. More money to provide cure blight potions and scrolls and to the Office of the Watch to improve Ordinator capability.

I fully suspect the Imperial cult of either embezzling it or wasting their time with missions to the Ashlanders, but I freely admit to being a Tribunal partisan.

It's a wonderful idea, actually seeing your donations make a difference, albeit a little beyond my present know-how. I wouldn't mind incorporating the Tribunal Temple half of that into my companion mod, though, since she's tied strongly to the Temple.