After years of playing Morrowind and using mods, my friend and I decided to make our own. It is probably a little ambitious for a first mod, but no harm in that, right? The premise is this: take the canon racism toward Argonians and give it a face - The Argonian Hunters, a group dedicated to eradicating Argonians from Vvardenfell. The mod adds a faction to the game with 20 main missions comprising a quest starting from beginner-friendly missions and getting increasingly difficult. We know we still need some polish on this, and there are undoubtedly a few bugs that might pop up (we've tried our best to fix them over the past... 3 years), but the core of the mod is here. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

To begin the journey, seek out the Balanced Scales Pub in Hla Oad.

From the readme:
== ABOUT ==
Balanced Scales adds a faction (“Argonian Hunters”) whose sole mission is to rid Vvardenfell (and, in a large sense, all of Tamriel) of the plague that is the Argonian species. All those free of cursed Argonian blood are free to express their interest to Saren Andrethi in Hla Oad. Be warned: the path to ridding the land of the Argonians is fraught with danger, and the machinations of forces unseen will challenge all that you are.

New guildhalls are in Hla Oad, Gnaar Mok, Suran, and elsewhere

Various new caves have been added.

Scores of new NPCs

New ingredients


NOTE: This is a Beta release. While more-or-less feature-complete, there are definitely bugs which we don’t know about (and some that we do). We hope that these are all minor and don’t detract from your enjoyment of the game. However, if you do find bugs and/or think you are unable to progress in the missions, please let us know so we can help you and make the mod better for the final release.

We'll read everything you say, so anything helps.

The mod download:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RVGZJ8UN

Screenshots:
http://min.us/mvb0UV9

This seems like an interesting idea even if I wouldn't personally want to exterminate the Argonians. I can kind of see it as "revenge" for what the Argonians end up doing to Morrowind. How about making an option for the player to eliminate the members of this faction if he or she chooses? Well, I guess that will be an option either way but it would be nice if there were alternate ways to play the mod.

I would think it's neat if the name for the group of hunters was maybe something pulled out of lore rather than "Argonian Hunters", but I can see it being too late for that kind of a change at this stage.

Seems very interesting...what are the quests about? just kill argonians? or something more "brainy"?

This seems really cool! You're right, it seems ambitious for a first mod, but I'm glad you saw it through!

Can I recommend uploading it to http://planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/View.php?view=Mods.Submit? It'll get a lot more attention that way.

We have considered doing something along the lines of perhaps allowing an Argonian PC to join, but at least for this particular plugin, there are no plans to allow the player to side themselves against the Argonian Hunters. We may visit this idea in another plugin, as you are not the first to suggest this.



It's a wide variety. Without spoiling the storyline, some of the quests are very simple, others require a bit more work, and there is some degree of choice involved in what the player decides to do in some missions. With that being said, this is first and foremost about killing Argonians.



We actually have a small 3 quest demo released about 3 years ago on PES. We wanted to release the final version on PES and elsewhere, but since we're only in Beta, we wanted to try to release to a smaller audience. Should this prove to be a poor decision, we may revisit that idea.

Thank you all for your suggestions and support. We will continue to test this mod ourselves and encourage you all to play around with it, perhaps even try to break things so we can see how fragile our mission system really is.

I always play an Argonian, so I am officially offended. But this does have a lot of fun potential to it. And the name "Balanced Scales" works on so many levels, I wish I had thought of it.