Now that Fallout:NV is on it's way to seeing the light of day I thought I might try to reinstall Fallout 3 but with some mods which make it closer to what NV will call "hardcoe mode". Before I get started in asking for mods which make the game more difficult or realistic (ammo weight, need for water and sleep, etc) though, I'm hoping somebody has made a mod which has tweaked the S.P.E.C.I.A.L. system.

If you aren't quite sure what I mean by "fixed" or "tweaked" I'll point you to this thread wherein there are many, many great posts which discuss what or how things should be fixed. Hopefully there's something out there which satisfies my quest for this holy geck (mod)!

Here is that thread: http://www.gamesas.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=1076911

I suggest you look in the FWE thread and give the first post a good read.

And I suggest I thank you and everyone involved with that mod! It sounds brilliant! Is it a pain to install?

The hardest part is getting it in the right order with all your other mods, and even that is not that hard.

Ok, cool. I don't even have 3 installed on my computer right now, so that shouldn't be a problem. I just hope the guy who I lent it to brought it with him to his work today--gonna go there for lunch.

Yeah, links to all the tools you need are right there in the FWE readme. If you're just going to play FWE at first, it's a 10 minute job at the most.