herbert's literacy program

Requires MWSE and herbert lib (v1. 6. 1+)

Summary

I was underwhelmed with how skill books worked in the vanilla game: open a book and immediately get a free level. The free level is usually nice but it's not particularly noticeable, and it happens so fast that it doesn't really feel earned. Skill books also aren't marked in the UI, so unless you memorize the names/locations, you don't know if something is a skill book until it's already leveled you up.

This mod tries to address some of these shortcomings, by making skill books...

• []Easy to identify: Item tooltips will now tell you if something is a skill book, and they'll tell you which skill it's for.

  []Have a bigger gameplay impact: Skill books will now offer unique bonuses to their related skill, along with a boost to earned XP for that skill.

  []Multi-use: Skill books are no longer something you open once and forget about. You will have to revisit them multiple times as you level up your character.

  []A more active and engaging experience: You gain bonuses by "studying" skill books. You can always study a skill book if it's in your inventory. But in order to study a book that's lying out in the world, the owner of that book has to like you, and they can't be a book merchant. If you want to study those books, you'll have to buy/steal them.

  []Dependent on your character class/stats: In order to learn everything a book has to offer, the associated skill will need to be at a high level. (This ties in with the multi-use point: you can study a book at a low level to learn some of its content, and then revisit it later to learn more.)

  Description

  1. How studying skill books works

  Skill books now have "knowledge meters". They work as follows:

  • [] Each time you study a book, you fill up the knowledge meter a little bit.

    [] After studying a book, you won't be able to study it again until you level up the related skill.

    [] The limit on how much you can fill the meter depends on: your character class, skill/attribute levels, and how the amount of progress made in skill books that target the same skill.

    [] These limits are calculated based on the current values of all those things. So, if you max out a books knowledge meter at skill level 5, you'll be able to make additional progress if you revisit the book at skill level 20. (And so on.)

    2. What skill books do

    Skill books now offer permanent stat buffs that are unique to each skill. Here are some examples

    [] Alchemy books:  increase brewing chance and potion strength.

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