I have recently undergone a transformation in my gaming habits. In sum, I deleted all of my games except Fallout 3. It helped with an end of semester burst of productivity, but now I'm considering installing Morrowind sometime this summer, and I'm considering skipping any playing of a totally vanilla all together. Consequently, I'm asking for any suggestions on the best of all mods I might consider right from the get go.

In Oblvion, my main mods were OOO and MMM and a number of other smaller ones, most of which made the game harder, mor unforgiving and "realistic" and/or added more content (more villages etc.).

Any suggestions?

http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1060141-mod-recommendations-for-new-players/page__hl__recommendations - links and info on tools and patches. Info on how to find mods, and lots of links to modders suggested mod lists.

If you have a decent rig and care about graphics, please consider the mod pack Morrowind Sound & Graphic Overhaul by Kingpix. Its basically a giant mod collection that updates all visual aspects of the game immensely. Took me about an hour to get it up and running but it's so worth it and much better than trying to download single mods.

As far as gameplay goes, unfortunately people are just going to link you to massive mod lists or post plugs for their own specific mods.

I'm still trying to find a good balance of gameplay mods that don't completely screw the game up.

http://arcimaestroantares.webs.com/suggestedmods.htm

Follow the link in my signature to my website. I have a page for my suggested mods there.