Races RESPECted - A Race Skill and Attribute Rebalance Mod

Races RESPECted

Please run MWSE-update to update your MWSE to the latest version, it is necessary for the Lua portion of this mod to work!

Description

In Morrowind, racial stats are all over the place. Some races, like Redguard or Breton, are great at communicating to the player what the strengths of that race are in lore and providing a distinct playstyle from other races. Others, like Orc or Nord, fall into a general archetype fail to distinguish themselves. And some like Dark Elf fail to distinguish themselves at all, and have bonuses which do not reflect or even contradict their descriptions in lore. This mod aims to provide all races with a unique identity by rebalancing their stats to distinguish them from the other races and to align with their descriptions in lore.

Stats

As an example, let's look at the most extensively rebalanced race in this mod, the Dark Elf.

M | F           Skills

Str 45 | 40   Athletics: 5

Int 45 | 45  Destruction: 10

Wil 35 | 35   Medium Armor: 10

Agl 45 | 45   Long Sword: 10

Spd 40 | 40      Marksman: 5

End 40 | 40     Mysticism: 5

Per 30 | 35

Lck 30 | 30

In vanilla, Dark Elf is a race without much specialization. It has no real weaknesses, and few notable strengths. What strengths it have fall into the stealth and magic specializations, which is in blatant contradiction with the description in lore that Dark Elves produce "superior warriors and sorcerers." To fix this, I removed stealth skill specializations like short blade and light armor, spreading their bonuses across long blade and medium armor as a replacement armor skill. As for their attributes, I emphasize their "powerful intellect" and "strong and agile physiques" with otherwise average physical and mental attributes balanced out by poor personality and—unique to Dark Elves—poor luck, because Dark is among other things understood to mean "ill-favored by fate" while Dunmer may be translated as "cursed people." I class the Dark Elf as a hybrid archetype which I call The War Wizard, with above-average (though not superior) ability in both martial and magical skills and attributes. Their broad proficiencies, or at least lack of deficiencies, in physical and mental attributes is balanced by their tendency to mi