Combat Proficiency

Combat Proficiency - A Morrowind mod

Axe fighters can use maces! Warriors used to chainmail can use leather armor!

WHY? (motivation)

situation 1: Your Orc Knight player character has been fighting with his axe in one hand and his shield in the other for all his life. On a dungeon crawl he finds a wonderous mace. Too bad, he can't use it at all and doesn't connect a single hit with it.

situation 2: As a loyal servant in the Imperial Legion you fight with Medium Armor (because that's the Legion's armor). While advancing in ranks, you're suddenly granted superior heavy armor. Too bad you can't use it at all. Another thing to stuff away in that chest in your home.

What does this do exactly? (explanation)

This mod adds skill bonuses to all armor and some weapon skills, depending on the difference between your good skills and your bad skills. So you don't have to worry about grinding your skills when finding a new piece of armor or a new weapon, you can just continue to play the game.

For example (according to the situations above): - With Axe 50 and Blunt Weapon 5, you get +20 Blunt Weapon for your proficiency in Axe. - With Medium Armor 40 and Heavy Armor 5, you get +6 Heavy Armor for your proficiency in Medium Armor.

This mod adds Abilities with "Fortify Skill" effects. Due to this, I suggest that you use the Morrowind Code Patch, to keep the bonuses when the skills are drained temporarily. (Or use OpenMW)

Bonuses range from 5 to 25 (skills are quite comparable) or from 2 to 10 (skills are a little comparable) or there is no bonus at all. The comparability can be set up in a configuration menu, the following values are just my personal setting and the default. You can open the configuration menu with the console command << startscript "CP_config" >>

You can check the numbers in the data sheet in the picture section. They were selected with playability and realism in mind. If you don't like them, you can change them of course via the ingame configuration menu. BUT: Not every connection has been included. So there is no way to set up a bonus Short Blade --> Spear for example. Everything marked red hasn't been implemented (exeption Long Blade <-> Axe exist and are configurable in the menu, but are set to 0 by default.)

Is this cool? (justification)

I don't like playing warriors in Morrowind. I did it in some time since the release, to check out the quest lines, but most of the time I play mages or thieves. The main reason for this is that I want to feel like achieving something when going on a dungeon crawl. But when I find a new weapon, it's mostly useless to me, because I just can't hit with it. There are some mods that give every character