I have to use mods in morrowind. Thats how I test they work. You seriously have the wrong idea of what the game is. The game is the CS, the morrowind launcher is the test engine that came free with the CS. Silly person.

+1 Midgetalien. I've never looked at the TES series as complete games, i seem them more like a tiny little hint of what can be done. It's such waste to not play with mods, its just so much more of everything I'm still holding off FO:NV because i'm waiting for even more mods. I love fan made stuff, fan made movie shorts, mods etc etc.. just people doing stuff for free because they're dedicated to it and they love doing it, often it shows too..

^ This.

The game is plenty of fun on its own. It just happens to be more fun if tweaked to one's liking.

No. I have never used any mod such as better bodies or anything of the like. Morrowind is my favorite game in the world and I have been playin since 2005. Does that make me serious? I have tried some mods, such as Vurt's tree replacer, etc. but to me the original file and the game that Bethesda created is one of the most unique, beautiful and perfect games ever. There is no need to alter what they created.

I have unmoded Morrowind instalation
And modded Morrowind copy, and I play them both

I don't use any mods other than the official plugins. Half the time I don't even use TR. (Though I will when we are more done)

In 2003, I added my own house, and a multi-mark teleportation mod which I felt the original game *should* have contained.

In 2010, I've basically replaced 99% of the game's files with new textures, meshes, etc. It just looked like crap to me on my modern system compared to other games I've played over the last few years.

i try to keep the original colours and feeling. i think i did a good job with this running over 300 mods... and having replaced nearly every texture and every available mesh ingame.

so +1 to jaredh, MA and rattfink

The first time I played Morrowind I didn't use any mod. When I installed Tribunal and Bloodmoon, then I did. The first one was a known house, A Good Place to Stay. Then I thoght, why not to do my own modded house? In that moment my passion for mods began.
Morrowind came with a CS, the CS is for modding, right? And the CS was made by Bethesda, the original creators of the game, and giving us the CS had a purpose: play with all the content available in the game, experiment with it and enjoy :3 .

A modding community arised with the years, and modding has evolved into what is today. What we can do in mods is limited by technology and Morrowind core.
With time, many limitations are gone. Distant land for example, or bumpmapped textures. You can be purist loving 2002 graphics, but see what Bethesda does today in 2011. They use technology to achieve better results, don't they? Modders do the same with the game they love: use technology to improve Morrowind graphics and write better and more complex scripts.

Today I use more than 200 active mods. I don't consider all of them a must have, but I'm very used to all of them.
Graphic replacers, graphic enhancers, lots of clothes, alchemy mods, houses, landmasses, towns, dialogues, quests...
95% of all this is lore friendly, the remaining 5% it's for fun or experimenting

See the mentioned Less Generic NPC collection, that gives a lot of variety in dialog. See Book rotate or weapon rotate...

In the end, it's your game. Everyone thinks his or her game is the best because it's their game : )
If you ask about mods in the Morrowind Mods section, well, here is plenty of people using and loving mods

Purist - What's this? A Christmas tree? Christmas don't even exist in Vvardenfell!!
Nonpurist- Well, er... it's pretty nice in Solstheim, here with that funny man in colovian hat singing, don't you think so?
Purist - Sinner! Non lorefriendly mods are the demon!!
Nonpurist- Hey, the demon don't even exist in Vvardenfell...
Purist- Remove that Chrismas mod if you still are my friend (sobbing).
Nonpurist- Here, have this Christmas pudding, I've made it for you with all my love. Please install it : )
Purist- Oh, you did it for me? (emotioned) *sob* I suppose I can forget my purism for a moment : )

Sometimes a mod it's a friendship story!

For me personally, I use mods firstly to enrich the game and keep it up to date, visually and technically.

Later I use mods that tailor the game more to my liking!

I tend to be very strict in terms of heads meaning, no prettifaccation of orc woman, no anime style dumner, no semi humanish beast races or red argonians and certan;y no vampires (there dead people) just as close to vanilla (without being the emaciated models) as possible.

for this reasion I stick to don salus head pack better heads and the creator of vampire and necromancers.

content wise I stick very close the original feeling although there are exceptions deaths door, carnithus armitorium, illumanted order and the vampire trio ( I tend to play evil charecters).

I use a lot of mods, the only major ones are the LGNPC series, MCA and Creatures. Everything else is either cosmetic or small-scale gamplay tweaks. The core of the game is still basically the same as it is in vanilla.




Tastes aren't a matter of correctness or of intelligence.

I use a lot of mods, and I doubt I would still play Morrowind after all these years if it weren't for mods.
But people should play games the way they like them. :twirl:
My preference is to try & keep the game as close to the original feel of the game in spite of having plenty of mods active.

That's about it. I keep three installs of Morrowind. A completely clean copy, a test copy and a modded out of it's mind copy. I play them all. I love them all. I do occasionally download a mod just because I heard that it was getting guff from the lore-hounds. Sometimes I download a mod because it fits into the game world perfectly. Sometimes I wander around in a completely unadorned world and have my mind blown by how awesome it is, still, without a single dab of 'makeup'.

Either and all ways, it is my choice, my fun and my complete control. At the end of the day I get to have it my way and that is the most awesome thing about Morrowind.

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interesting, tell me more about it?
please :bowdown:

I can appreciate the really devoted fan-esk attitude of playing games the way they were intended: but unlike many other games the mods for Morrowind (well the good ones atleast) really do make it better.

Its funny how often the smallest mods make the greatest difference. Eg: Plain Paper Fix. Probably one of the best and most effective mods ever made.

Cant blame you in theory for not wanting mods, but they do enhance gameplay quite a bit.

Well I play Morrowind modded and un-modded.... Because I have it for the computer and the Xbox, and play both quite often.... So I would say no, you are not weird.

If you were playing this game for the first time, personaly I would hope you would play it without mods. But for me anyway, eventualy you get to the well I have done everything, well sorta anyway and I want to do more.... Which leads you to Mods. Mods do most deffently add to further experience of the game, be it in a minor or significant way. I probaly did not use any mods till maby a year after purchase. (Admiterly I am not certain of that, but certainly was sometime time before did.)

Most of the people I have spoken to that have played morrowind for a long time or are still playing morrowind today on PC anyway have certainly got mods. But there are plenty of xbox players I belive that dont use mods.


I cant belive its been what 8 years? lol.

I did play the game on the Xbox unmodded and beat it(and I mean went in every tomb, experienced every easter egg type of beat it) twice, then I bought the game of the year addition and beat that an additional 3 times(again, as thorough as anyone could)...now I have it on the PC, and I mod the crap out of it so that I can experience the game again, but different than before, I have probably spent more of my life playing morrowind than every other game I've ever played combined, including the two times I beat Oblivion, and unless tesV just blows me away(screens and previews predict it might just do that), Morrowind will forever be my favorite game unmodded, and most definitely even better modded.

Absolutely agreed. In fact I was a bit of a late-comer to Morrowind - it was GOTY already, and there were already a ton of mods out when I first played it but I decided to play it without mods first just to see the game in all its vanilla glory. I didn't want to miss out on any of the original charm. However, about 6 hours into the game I downloaded Better Bodies & Better Heads. I just couldn't see any reason not too, and it was nice to give my character a nice-looking face. I did play the rest of the game unmodded, loved every second and then as soon as Azura awarded me her special prize ring I went & downloaded quests, houses & companions & never looked back.

I love vanilla Morrowind, but I use mods because I love the game. The mods keep me playing it.

You know, I use to think that I would never play without mods again a few days ago. But then, something happened. I was loading up my secondary installation of Morrowind in order to test a mod. As soon as I arrived in Seyda Neen, I had this incredible feeling. It reminded me of how it was the first time I ever played it and didn't know a thing about it. That was awesome for me, and I might just play vanilla soon again.

There are two things I find I cannot play without. I mean, I wouldn't even enjoy it enough to play and this is a perfect example of how different people enjoy different things. I could not enjoy MW without the water from MGE and the head/hair replacers. As I become more and more farsighted (with age) I greatly appreciate not wondering if the faces are blurry because that's how they're made or because my eyeglasses prescription has changed again. Yesterday I installed Hrchamd's dialog/journal font retex and it is quickly climbing the list of must-have-to-play mods. I suppose I could narrow it down to three things that are game-breakers for me: fuzzy water, fuzzy faces, and fuzzy letters. If every other mod fell off the face of the earth, I could still enjoy MW, but without those, I would put the game away for good.

The only reason I got back into the game was because of the mods. While I feel that Bethesda did a good job building the place, they dropped the ball on the faces and bodies. Some can live with them, but I can't. To me, they look worse than anything else that came out at that time. As for the world itself, the textures are dull and could use some replacing. Most of my texture replacers are the same textures, but at higher resolutions and detail. My game doesn't look all that much different from the default: I just have realistic water, realistic people with realistic fantasy bodies, and I can see more than ten feet in front of me. As others have said: it's your game and you can mod or not as you wish.

I am capable of enjoying vanilla Morrowind. I really enjoy vanilla combat, something that is a sore point for a lot of people.

But graphics enhancers don't take away from the game and they look nice, so I use them. Also, I would hate to miss out on the awesome stuff by Tamriel Rebuilt.

Tastes really differ, because I thought the vanilla heads had some of the best faces with real character I've seen in games, even if they look aged by now. Especially dunmer males and females - those have just the right amount of over-the-topness and in my opinion represent the race's characteristics perfectly.

But please don't take this the wrong way, I don't mean to argue I just thought it was interesting that players' views differ so much on points like that.