#Become a bard mod mod#
#Become a bard mod mods#

Inspired by Song and Silence a Baldur's Gate mod, I decided that choosing a type of bard would influence the songs you play and the performances you give. There was only one thing missing from my mod, it was class packages. Wait, I gain fame and I still have to reply on tips to make a living? No way, I should have my own establishment.ДЇor the inn, I wanted from the start to have quests to embellish it (much like TheWayfarer's Rest.ДЄs you can imagine this took quite a while and I juggled quite a bit with scripts and dialogues -> make many mistakes that took forever to hunt and fix. Speaking of progression, surely a bard's song would grow more powerful as she gains experience? Ok, let's have 4 different lutes, each of them making the existing songs more powerful! Number of script per song? 3. The first thing I did was to make her keep track of how often I had played music, then I decided she should have a few camping tools and I really wanted her to have some sort of progression (much like Constance. Now I cannot write fancy scripts so I had to make a her a companion especially good if you are a bard. Irullan (yes, a Dune reference) was born. I thought, quite logically I might add, that if my bard was to be anything like in D&D, I would need companions. Still not that easy! For each song, I soon discovered I would need a couple of scripts to add/remove the spells.ДЄnd this is where I should have stopped. I decided then that having the music sheet in your inventory would add the song/spell to your repertoire, allowing to switch them like a would a normal spell. Not that easy actually, I soon realised that equipping a music sheet to play a song and 'cast'a spell was very, very tedious.

#Become a bard mod mod#

I could do that if I modified IllTempered's mod to add a spell effect. Play music in battle to strike fear in your enemies hearts?.

Play music in taverns to make a living, reasonably easy to do: I'd have to expand The Entertainers ( I found the money you got was decidedly not enough to make a living and a drink on the house is the least the publican can do.) However, there is a lot more to being a bard: music should be your way of life, so I started brainstorming on what is a bard's life.

#Become a bard mod mods#

I didn't decide to make a mod right away, I looked at existing mods on PES and found a couple of things, IllTempered's complete lute mod was very promising: I could hold a lute and play songs and Bethesda's official plugin as also a good start. Yes, there is a bard class in Morrowind but gameplay-wise, it's nothing like being a bard: you can't even hold a lute for crying out loud!

I had been playing a lot of Baldur's Gate 2 and the bard is one of my favourite class, naturally, I wished I could BE a bard in Morrowind as well. Where do I even begin? I started this mod at least 10 years ago!