MTC: Morrowind Trading Cards

== This mod adds 73 cards to collect, each of them representing various creatures found in Morrowind, Tribunal and Bloodmoon.

== The cards can be found in various containers except for the rarest and unique ones.

== The rarest cards can only be traded: their current owners will let you know what they want in exchange for their card. You will need to ask around to find those cards collectors.

== Other card collectors are scattered around, speak to Magnus Stylus in Gnisis, Madrach trading house for tips and a list of these card collectors.

== You may also buy packs of cards from traders; you will discover what card is in the pack after you open it. Rare cards can be found this way.

== You may gather your cards in albums. There is a special container are behind Magnus Stylus. Once a set of cards is complete, you will receive the album
for this set. (your cards will still be in the container)

== There are 9 albums to make, and each of them will give you a special power (see spoiler section if you can't wait to find out.)

== Card albums for sale in bookshops: they are called 'guides', have the illustrations and descriptions but don't give any power.

== New icons for the cards (no screenshots, but really, they're nicer)

== A Children of Morrowind addon: about 40 kids now hold a (visible) card and will also trade them.


I have extensively tested the scripts and dialogues of this mod, I was however too lazy to play a game over long stretches of time to test how often cards are found. I did play up to level 15 and thought chances to find cards are quite balanced.
Please let me know if you feel the cards are too easy / difficult to get. Thanks!

SCREENS
http://i656.photobucket.com/albums/uu289/Danae123123/WIP%20MTC/ALLCARDSCS.jpg
http://i656.photobucket.com/albums/uu289/Danae123123/WIP%20MTC/CardDecks.jpg
http://i656.photobucket.com/albums/uu289/Danae123123/WIP%20MTC/BOOKIN.jpg
http://planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/fms/Image.php?id=86940 (CS view)

DOWNLOAD
http://planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/View.php?view=Mods.Detail&id=7696

Have fun collecting!

Sounds like a cool idea, I'll try it out

Congrats on the release. I've downloaded and it's working brilliantly so far really nice job and a cool addition to my game.

Downloading now. Will provide feedback.

Something you may want to consider tweaking is that if a shop owner has a pack of cards on display you can currently unwrap the card and take it without it counting as theft. BTW I love the way you have to put the pack on a surface and then activate it to see and get the card in my opinion it works really well and I like that my first view of a card is in all its glory out in the game world.

Good point, I didn't realise that opening the pack would remove the ownership... I placed the packs in very few shops, only those traders that said "I sold a pack to Whatever npc" to make sure they'd actually have at least one pack for sell.

So first thing to do: put the decks out of sight! :dance:

I love unwarping the cards too, reminds of the excitment when I bought Magic cards!
By the way, MTG (Magic the Gathering) should not be confused with MTC (Morrowing Tradind Cards) :angel:

Thanks for your feedback

Cool concept. I may just have to download . . . ; ]


It would be awesome if you could 1) make a mini-game were you could play against NPCs for gold/ cards, and 2) mute the colours a little bit. It's a pretty minor thing, but I don't download a lot of mods because they just stick out too much against the muted and rustic hues of Morrowind.

I won't lie to you, there's no way I can script an actual card game for Morrowind...

I think the packs of cards are the only items with really bright colours (it's a packaging thing to attract customers!) and they are not placed ingame apart from 1 at a few traders. But please, do download the mod, if only to confirm that the cards are indeed to colourful!

The album page link above shows a description of each card, along with its image. I was wondering if that image and description is actually in the game, and available to the player, without first completing an album?

No. If you're interested in the descriptions only, I more or less took yhem directly from the http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:Creatures. If you wanted the descriptions ingame, I can quickly make an esp that adds the albums (without the bonus spells) to a bookseller.

Sounds good. Thanks!

A small update:
-Card albums for sale in bookshops: they are called 'guides', have the illustrations and descriptions but don't give any power.
-New textures for the books (the old ones are still available in the download) and the new textures will work with the old esp if you don't want the guides.

http://planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/fms/Image.php?id=86940 (CS view)

Have fun collecting!!

looks very nice. I will upgrade when I'm back on my good laptop.

Thanks for this very creative Fun Mod! My character will definitely enjoy getting his set of trading cards. A simple idea, for a great mod!

I just HAVE to say this: You should make a version that is compatible with Children of Morrowind. I can SO see the kids collecting these cards. Maybe even using them for education like flash cards.

This sounds like a nice idea! Maybe I?ll try it out if I find some time

That's a very good idea. I originally made the cards for my nursery so it make perfect sense!
The main card collector already has a 'card-shield' just like the children are holding some teddy bear-shields so they could have the card as well
I suppose some kids (those holding a card) should have the 'trading cards' topic as well.

Anything else comes to mind?
I'll try and contact Emma for permission before I get started though.
In any case, thanks for the suggestion

Dude, that would be awesome!

Btw, Danae, this is one of the most unique and creative ideas I have seen in MW! :goodjob:

Thanks
I won't have much time for modding in the next month but I already have a few updates planned for this:

-PL's creatures set (album power:resist normal weapons?)
-town set (album power: some teleport spell?)
-armour set (album power: shield effect)
-weapon set (album power: repair skill buff?)
-class set (acrobat, etc...) (album power: +1 to all attributes?)

Also, I've already got a positive reply from Emma, so a COM addon is also on the menu!

EDIT: Darn, that's the second time I type COV instead of COM...

Sounds brilliant. Look forward to seeing what you come up with.

I love this mod. There's just one thing that is bugging me, but that counts for a lot of mods: The icons. They stand out a lot because unlike many vanilla icons, they are completely flat.

But I guess it would be hard to have some sort of rotated card icons, like the book icons... Flat ones are much easier to make.

edit: Actually maybe the reason I feel they stand out is because they fill up the entire icon square.

Anyway don't let that bother you, I'm looking forward to that update.

No worries, the icons do need an update. I've learnt to make the nicer ones when I made the new books. It's not hard, just tedious and 70+ of them is, ... really tedious but I'll get round to it

Thanks for your support everyone

I love the idea of this, and I'm so glad that you are intending to make an add-on for the Children of Morrowind, too

This isnt really my thing but good job anyways

I am having a problem talking to Hasphat Antabolis about cards: he keeps giving me the same response that others in Balmora give - "talk to Hasphat" etc.