Athletics Enhanced (OpenMW)

Description

Vanilla Athletics is one of the most thankless skills in Morrowind. It levels itself whether you want it to or not, and gives you almost nothing in return for the investment. Most mods that touch Athletics only punish you — no running or jumping when your fatigue is low. Athletics Enhanced! takes the opposite approach: it makes a high Athletics skill genuinely worth having, rewarding investment with tangible benefits to sprinting, carrying, and swimming. It's built as four independent, individually-toggleable modules, so you can run all of them or just the ones you want.

Installation instructions

• []Download and extract the archive.[/]

  []Copy the AthleticsEnhanced

  folder into your OpenMW data directory (or add its location as a data path in OpenMW Launcher → Data Files, or in your openmw.cfg.[/]

  []In OpenMW Launcher, no ESP needs enabling — this is a pure-Lua mod. Make sure the AthleticsEnhanced.omwscripts content file is enabled in the Data Files tab.[/]

  []If you use RUN!, place Athletics Enhanced! after it in your load order.[/]

  []Launch the game. Configure everything in-game under Options → Scripts → Athletics Enhanced![/]

• []Sprinting Grace Period — When sprinting with the RUN! or Simple Sprint mod, your Athletics buys a window of free sprinting before fatigue begins to drain. Higher skill means a longer free sprint, and the window refills while you're not sprinting. (Requires RUN!; this module stays inert without it.)  [/]

  []Encumbrance Softening — High Athletics reduces how much your carried weight slows you down, so a fit, heavily-loaded character moves closer to their unladen speed. Applied as a penalty reduction rather than a flat speed boost, so it coexists cleanly with other speed effects.[/]

  []Swim Breath Scaling — After your normal breath runs out underwater, Athletics (with a smaller Endurance contribution) grants a bonus window during which you take no drowning damage, then hands off to normal drowning. Pure reward — you never have less air than vanilla, only a bonus on top.[/]

  []Stats Window readout (optional) — If you run Stats Window Extender, an "Athletics Enhanced" panel shows your current sprint window, carry relief, and breath bonus as live values, so you can actually see what your skill is buying you.[/]

Requirements

[]OpenMW — developed and tested on 0. 51. It should work on 0. 49+, but that hasn't been verified, so 0. 49/0. 50 users should consider themselves early testers.[/]

[]RUN! — optional. Required only for the Grace Period module; every other module works without it.[/]

[*]Stats Window Extender — optional. Required only