Morrowind Balance Overhaul

Created for the May Modathon 2019.

Morrowind Balance Overhaul is designed to be a highly modular, lightweight set of balance tweaks, made to encourage playstyle diversity -and character growth- while neutering options that would otherwise make the player's power steamroll (or undermine interactivity). The philosophy throughtout all these changes is that for the game to hold player decisions as valuable, every decision must first be viable; that is to say, for the player to get meaningful interactions in gameplay, the player's options must not only be powerful, but plentiful. The mod is balanced around the vanilla game - it may be a little harder late in the game as you can't make game-breaking setups as easily.

The mod is split into many modules, so if you have an issue with balance, look through them! Or, if you trust me very much, go for a full install.

As it stands, MBO has the following modules (more details on these, as well as changelogs, are included in the readme):

WRAR (Weapon Range Adjustments and Rebalance): Changes up the range of melee weapons to encourage player skill and weapon knowledge, while simultaneously balancing tons of weapons (and correcting some clear developer mistakes) to ensure each and every option is viable.

MBO core: Covers both magic effects and armor -according to the guidelines at the very top- as to not only balance endgame armors, but try and smooth out the curve of armor acquisition so you aren't, for example, stuck with a 15 AR or so set for most of the game before jumping straight to a 50 AR one later down the line, as was the case with light armor. Magic and armor is included here in one module because, with the amount of enchanted armor and clothing items, I feel like changing any one of these necessitates changing the other. Additionally, due to the scope of this module, I've included all random tweaks that otherwise wouldn't merit their own module, here, thus making this the "core", though it is not required to install the other modules.

MBO Races: Changes up the races to be, quite simply, unique and balanced. Most race mods get the "unique" part down perfectly, and provide great, fun gameplay for the changed races. However, all race mods I've seen don't address the balance issues between races, meaning what uniqueness may be provided usually dies off in favor of the existing (and skewed) power balance between the vanilla races and spell effects. MBO Races boasts gameplay balance over other mods, but also holds its own vision of each race's strengths and weakness