» Mon Aug 25, 2014 7:12 am This mod covers many aspects of being a Bard in Morrowind.
As a bard, you may do the following:
- Perform in inns to earn gold and based on your skill, food and lodging as well.
You can sing and play the lute, play the drums, dance, juggle or tell jokes. How successful you are is dependent on your skills and attributes. (Largely inspired from the official Bethesda plugin The Entertainers)
- Collect music sheets which in turn, teach you a spellsong.
Spellsongs are only available when you have the corresponding music sheet and a lute equipped.
They never fail and only cost half of the mana of their spell counterparts but will not improve you magic skills (Alteration, Restoration, etc)
Spellsongs will help your companions, cripple you enemies, some of them will also affect the player.
- Sing powerful songs. These cost no magicka at all and do not require a lute. They can however be used only once a day. NEW
- Compose your own songs: As you get experience, you make create new Spellsongs using blank music sheets, a quill and an inkwell.
- Meet your fans: as you gain popularity, Npcs will give you small gifts.
- Open you own inn and gradually add new features to see new customers flock.
- Collect playing lutes: Each Spellsong will become more efficient if played with better playing lutes.
- Collect and display instruments in your private quarters.
While all these features are open to any bards, spells, songs and performances vary depending on the bard package you choose:
- The Bard: Versatility at the cost of excellence
Spellsongs: All of them.
Songs: Songbook of the Bard, 4 useful powers
Performance: play and sing (based on personality, agility and speechcraft)
Playing lutes: All but the most complex one.
- The Skald: The support package. NEW
Spellsongs: all but the crippling songs
Songs: Songbook of the Bard, Songbook of the Shadowdancer (self battle buffs)
Performances: play and sing, play the drums (Speed, Agilty, bonus with more drums in your inventory)
Playing lutes: All of them
- The Diresinger: The master of debilitating songs NEW
Spellsongs: All but the support songs
Songs: Book of the Bard, Book of the Diresinger (more powerful crippling songs)
Performance: play the lute and sing, and even then, sad and depressing songs.
Playing lutes: All of them.
- The Shadowdancer: The loner bard. NEW
Spellsongs: All but the support songs
Songs: Book of the Bard, Book of the Shadowdancer
Performances: play the lute and sing, dance (acrobatics and athletics)
Playing lutes: All of them
- The Jester: the versatile performer. NEW
Spellsongs: All of them
Songs: Book of the Bard, Book of the Diresinger, Book of the Shadowdancer
Performances: Play the lute and sing, juggle (agility), tell jokes (personality, speechcraft)
Playing lutes: All but the most complex one.
Where to find Spellsongs
- Bards in inns will teach you a song (for a fee, for helping them, for free)
- Manors have music books, keep you eyes peeled for them
- Hostile bards: in caves, dungeons, stronghold. Kill them and get the spellsong.
- Leveled lists: small chance of finding a spellsong in crates and chests
Where to find Songbooks:
- You will receive them after completing your training.
Where to find playing lutes:
- They are displayed in various inns. If you fulfill the level requirement, the bard experience requirement and a small quest, the lutes will be yours.
Where to find other instruments:
- Traders and pawnbrokers sometimes sell them.
- Leveled list: sometimes found in crates and chests.
And the inn?
- The more features you build, the more customers will appear.
- The private quarters have ample storage, an alchemy lab, a scripted mannequin, a bathroom.
- The basemant has even more storage and hutches to display all glasses, cups and plates of the game.
Oh, and there is a companion, Irullan, who will be able to do more for the player as time goes by.
- She will naturally have the standard dialogue option to fight and follow
- She will set up camp (a scripted tent with bedrolls)
- She will have additional (NoM) camping gear and food
- She will give the player a pipe to smoke
- She will honestly tell the player about his bardic talents.
- She will scout the area (detect creatures) and draw a map of the region.
- She will pick up ingredients as you travel across regions.
What else?
- The bard class has been modified
Bards are loremasters and storytellers. They crave adventure for the wisdom and insight to be gained,
and must depend on spellsongs, potions, and enchantment to preserve themselves from the perils of their educational
experiences.The Bard travels the land with his companions. Well versed in music and lore, he makes a living
playing his lute in taverns. Even though he is lacking in combat skills, his music can strengthen companions
or weaken enemies.
-> Major skills: acrobatics, alchemy, sneak, speechcraft, unarmoured.
-> Minor skills: alteration, athletics, enchant, light armour, mysticism
Choosing this class will make gameplay more challenging, a couple of companions are highly recommended)
- A new star sign, The Wanderer
Those born under the sign of the Wanderer are gifted with greater endurance and a better understanding of the world thanks to their many travels.
- A gondola ride on Lake Amaya (courtesy of Abot)
- New quests from the Inn's patrons.
Phew!
You can see screenshots of version 1 over at http://www.fliggerty.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?style=11&f=114&t=4391
