I just enjoyed a full run-through of good old Oblivion, and as a change of pace, I thought I'd not report problems, but rather express a profound sense of gratitude to the modding community. The tools are great, good advice abounds, and of course, the mods themselves do wonders. I had a great time!

I've been playing Oblivion on and off for years, and it is singularly responsible for any HW upgrades I've done. Not that I am on a powerful system, by any means, with a Core2 E7600 and a GTX 460, but then again, I started on a PIII with an FX5500 (boy, did that ever teach me to tweak!).

This time around it was a nice full FCOM, with some favorite mods added in. I particularly enjoyed KOTN Revelation, which I installed and played for the first time.

As a player who tends to collect armor and so on and set it up on dummies in the DLC Frostcrag main hall, I have yet to find a player home expansion that allows me to really work any more easily than I can with the standard bunch of chests found in the basemant there. A "Hero's Hall" is the mod I've always told myself I'll have to make to display all the goodies from OOO, Fran's, KOTN, etc. the way I'd like... someday.

I think of all the tools and tweaking, one item is somewhat under-reported, and that is keeping the OS, game install, and game save partitions all nicely defragmented (if not using SSDs). Though it's perhaps the least important of all the good practices for Oblivion, it truly does lessen CTDs and improve game play.

At any rate, I do not name names so that no one is left out, but many thanks to all the tool builders, tweakers, modders and contributors to this community.