Greetings Skyrim-moders,

please let me first introduce myself and give You some background info on my TES record before I express my request.

My first TES game was Oblivion. As I have grown with pen&paper rolegames I loved the open-world idea of TES and was overhelmed with the possibilities given in Oblivion.

I have started playing Skyrim on PS3 when the game was fresh released but stopped after having game breaking issues with the PS3 version.

Then I got a fine PC and decided to have a look into Morrowind before going back to Skyrim.

Surprisingly Morrowind got me so hooked that I'm stil playing it with countless MODs, additions and tweaks.

As years passed by and the comunity created countless bug-fixes and beautifull MODs for Skyrim I want to take a new chance on it.

I would like to ask You about some essential MODs for the bug-fixes, some nice graphic upgrades, roleplay overhauls etc.

Currently I look to http://www.skyrimgems.com/ to create a MOD list that fits my needs, maybe You can give me some suggestion on it later.

As I like the roleplay aspect over the action part of TES I wanted to base my MOD-list around a roleplay-overhaul like

1. http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/19281/?

I think

SkyUI and Immersive HUD

should be added.

I also should use all four Unofficial Patches.

Wanted to use some realism MODs like

Frostfall or Hypothermia

I like to use some basic needs MODS (like Thaddeus Necessities of Morrowind)

I would like to enhance the games graphics, add a lot of different creatures, armors, clothes and weapons, maybe a new follower.

What do You think?

Any hints or donots?

As I would like to start with a Nord character, ny quest/racial mod recommendations?

Thank You,

BUBISHI

For immersive type play you could try

Frostfall - offers great warm and cold type experience

Immersive Armor - adds a lot of armor to the game

Immersive weapons - adds a lot of weapons to the game

Realistic Needs and Diseases - you have to eat and sleep

Point the way - adds more sign posts

Alternate Life - Start another life - you can start out in several different places

Cloaks of Skyrim - even the guards will wear cloaks and different helmets

Winter is coming - goes with frostfall

SkyTest - realistic animals and predators - adds larger packs of wolves, baby mammonths, baby sabra cats, etc.

Hope that helps.

If you are interested in Requiem then you might want to try Skyrim Redone as well (you can only use one of them though). Both are overhaul mods and people tend to favor one over the other. Personally I think Skyrim Redone is fantastic and recreates the game to how it should have been released.

If you want to use Requiem, you probably won't need most of the GEMS list as it is so comprehensive and makes a lot of changes that other mods might overwrite. All of the mods ashleyclark has listed above work well with Requiem as skyrimnexus author azirok has created many patches to get them to work well together.

RND has a lot of features, and there are alternatives if you don't want all of them. I like kuertee's eat and sleep or isoku's iNeed best, which both add as much or as little as you want to use in the feature and include optional HUD elements to monitor your needs.

Requiem already has a weapons addition mod integrated (Weapons of the 3rd Era) but you may want some more on top of that. To enhance weapon graphics & add a few more to existing sets, the aMidianBorn series of mods by CaBaL120 are excellent, and http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/16072/? makes most remaining vanilla weapons look better in first-person view. You might also be interested in Brumbek's http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/8655 which makes models for statics more detailed and realistic.

For a follower, the gold standard is http://lovkullen.net/Emma/SkyrimVilja.htm by Emma who created many companions for Morrowind. Her and http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/40960/ have lots of dialogue, features, and have Requiem patches. I also rate the dozens of voiced NPCs who can be followers in http://3dnpc.com/.

+1 for these. I can't imagine playing Skyrim without them!