Classed Beginnings

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Author: DarkRider

Version: 1.1

Release Date:
20.November.2010

Updated:
21.December.2010

Requirements:
Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion v.1.2


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----Description------
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Classed Beginnings is a role playing starter kit plugin for new characters in Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. The mod adds a free player home called Rumare Lodge, just a stone’s throw from the Imperial Sewer exit where your character will emerge from the tutorial dungeon at the start of a new game. The house includes lots of player safe storage, a player owned horse (a different horse appears for each class), a starter chest of class specific goods, and a bit of gold to get you started on your questing. Stop starting your game as a nobody; go home, get your horse and some gear before heading into the world that awaits you!

This mod is to assist NEW characters with a jumpstart. When used with existing characters, the house will still be playable, but the class goods and steed will not be enabled.


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------Bugs/Conflicts------
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-Alternate Start Mods: This mod will conflict with any mod that offers an alternate start location to the game. If you do not leave the tutorial dungeon as in the vanilla game you will not trigger the class specific goods and steed. The house will still be playable though.

-UL Imperial Isle: Loading Classed Beginnings after UL Imperial Isle will create a significant land tear. Moving Classed Beginnings ahead of UL Imperial Isle will resolve the issue.

-New Roads and Bridges: These two mods played together create a number of aesthetic issues, Arthmoor has provided a patch for users using both mods together. To patch, the mods need to be loaded in this order: Classed Beginnings, NBR4, and then the Patch.

- Region Revive: Lake Rumare: This mod is incompatible with Classed Beginnings, they crowd into the same space and this one is not patchable. Users will have to make a choice unfortunately.


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----Credits/Resources-----
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AlienSlof- Beautiful Variety of Horses
Echonite- Model Editing
WillieSea- Scripting
Arthmoor- Cleaning/Patching

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------Rights and Privileges------
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Bethesda Softworks retains all rights to any original content, concepts, and ideas taken and altered from Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. All original textures and assets belong to me and may be used in your mod freely without permission being asked beforehand but credit must be given for my work; it’s just polite. As with all DarkRider projects, I ask that this resource not be used in mods of a pormographic nature. This mod may not be rehosted anywhere without permission. Period.

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------Contact------
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DarkRider @ http://www.tesalliance.org


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Fantastic idea! :celebration: Oh how I wish my girl could start over and take advantage! LOL Time to start a new character!

:foodndrink:

Edit: The grotto under the player home is stunning! I'm in love. Thank you!

how does this mod handle custom classes?

The custom class receives a steed as well and a generally broad starter kit for custom adventurers. :nod:

I will definitely give this a try.

I found one exception to that. If you use the prison start from Alternate Start revamped, you will get the chest. :foodndrink:

Now Mirrored on Planet Elder Scrolls: http://planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/View.php?view=OblivionMods.Detail&id=6480

This is a great mod, I'm glad you are making it easy for people to find.

Great idea. Thanks for sharing this Darkrder. :celebration:

This little gem needs a nudge up. :hugs: I adore this mod! As it happens, my character was still new enough that she was able to claim all the goodies! :celebration: Even the horse, which she loves! Thank you Rider!!

:bowdown:

It makes for a nice home even if you don't qualify for the extra goodies. I love the cellar grotto too.

Thanks folks, nice to see others enjoying something I've enjoyed in my own game for years (with some sprucing up of course! ) :lmao:

I like the idea that experienced players can put the mod on and it doesn't give you all those free goods.

Sorry Darkrider but I've just found the first issue with my character. It seems the Blackwood Greaves on the 2nd floor isn't tested with the http://www.elderscrolls.com/redirect.php?site=http://tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=15802, because my female character has missing meshes on the legs and hips. I think the rest of that steel armor is okay.

I haven't tested Robert's male and female body mod just yet, but I will keep you posted with the test results. See you soon.

The armor in this mod is all vanilla armor. So any issues you find with your body mod are incompatibilities to be reported to that mod's author. There's nothing I can do to make your body mod more compatible with the vanilla armors in Classed Beginnings.

You could mention this body mod conflict in the readme and a solution to fix it.

If you have an issue of missing body parts just install this http://tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=24078 mod (BAIN or OMOD).
Just get the patch for your mod that's related to HGEC body mod.

That was I did once long ago when I first discover this issue, but now I must have forgot that fix.
I've already installed it and I'm quite sure that's all you need to do.

You are misunderstanding. There are no armor or clothing meshes included in this mod. The added armor and clothing from the mod use the meshes already included with the game. If you have a stock replacer, then it will use those instead, but it doesn't use any other meshes. So if you are having trouble with armor or clothing meshes, it is because of a bug in your stock replacer or erroneous installation of your stock replacer.

This looks interesting for a new character indeed! Any other known conflicts besides alternate start mods (such as UL's, overhauls) that have been discovered?

It MAY conflict with UL Imperial Isle, but it hasn't been tested and Classed Beginnings makes subtle changes so it may be easily patchable if it does conflict. This has not been tested with any of the overhauls, but any conflicts should be minimal if present. :foodndrink:

Alright, will give it a go with OOO/MMM/UL Imperial Isle loaded and see if everything works fine.

Brilliant, please send me a PM with any issues you may encounter so I can note them for a future update! :goodjob:

PM sent with as much detail as I could provide from my quick test.

Don't want to spam your inbox when I don't need to, so posting here instead that you can ignore what I've sent you since some loadorder shuffling fixed *most* issues. I'll send another report later since there's still some issues of which one is quite major, but I need to do more testing to figure out if it's a conflict with NRB or UL: IL and I'm just about to leave the apartment now. Said issue is posted in image below. Other than that there was grass growing in weird places, such as inside the well and at the door to the house and finally the gate to the stable-area seemed to be partly below ground (slightly). Will come back with details on wether the issue was with NRB or UL (or both) when I'm back home.

http://img.ihack.se/images/10129291076412.jpg
(For anyone else interested: This is with Classed Beginnings loading before New Roads and Bridges Revised and UL: Imperial Isle. If loaded after mentioned mods the issues are much worse so avoid that)

I had no issues loaded before UL:II. I'm not using NRB so that is probably the culprit. Other than a slight typo ('Loadge' on basemant door) I didn't notice anything amiss. This is a lovely house and a nice leg-up for a new character.

Cheers, just got back home so that's it then - no need for further testing from me I suppose.