Bardcraft (OpenMW)

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Requires: Skill Framework, Tamriel_Data

Overview

Bardcraft is a fully-featured bard experience for Morrowind, powered by OpenMW-Lua. Perform music, level up your skills, compose your own songs, and gather a troupe of unique performers as you make a living playing taverns and streets across Vvardenfell.

Key Features

[]Bardcraft: A new character skill that lies at the heart of the mod's gameplay loop. At level 1, you'll struggle through basic scales, and likely be thrown out (or assaulted) in any tavern you dare to test your mettle in. Keep at it. The more you play, the better you'll become.

[]Dynamic reactions: Great performances will earn you tips in real-time, and the crowd might even erupt into cheers. Truly awful performances, on the other hand, will get you pelted with food and drinks by rowdy taverngoers, or even get you banned from a venue for a while. The mod has plenty of variety -- over 1500 unique patron and publican comments and tip messages, depending on a mixture of performance quality, complexity, NPC race, weather, and region.

[]Song learning: Booksellers stock a few basic songbooks that'll teach simple songs to get you started. But any good bard is also an adventurer, and things are no different in Morrowind. Hundreds of potential music box locations have been hand-placed in dungeons across Vvardenfell, with a unique selection appearing in each playthrough. The more difficult the dungeon, the higher tier the music box. When activated, they'll play a rendition of a random song of their respective tier, teaching it to you and allowing you to play it yourself. They can be picked up, and make great home decorations :)

[]Assemble a troupe: You can perform solo, but it's more fun with a band! Bards-for-hire can be found throughout the taverns of Vvardenfell. For a price, they'll lend their talents and travel with you. Each performer has a distinct personality, backstory, instrument, and fee.

[]Instrument sheathing: Most instruments can be worn on your back by dragging them onto your character as you would a piece of armor.

[]MIDI-based performances: All of the mod's songs are pure MIDI, played in real time, note-by-note. This enables instrument animations that are truly synced to the notes being played, and audible flubs with low performer skill.

[*]Custom songwriting: Buy blank sheet music from a bookseller and write songs in-game, completely freeform, using a MIDI piano roll-style interface. The editor is simple