Sane Magic Overhaul (OpenMW)

Overpowered Magic Fix. Illegal and realistic Necromancy. Restricted Levitation. Nerfed summoning. Capped casting that drains Fatigue. SlowFall Fix. All is optional. OpenMW

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Let's introduce a little thing called "common sense" to Vvardenfell.

General

Sane Magic Cap

Your magical skill now dictates what you can cast. If you try to unleash a 100-point fire damage nuke with a Destruction skill of 50, you'll just wave your hands dramatically and fail. Because that's how magic should work — competence matters.

You can’t cast spells if their power or duration exceeds your skill level in the relevant magic school.

Two options for scrolls and enchanted items:

• []Magnitude and duration check Intelligence instead of Magic school[/]

  []Magnitude checks Intelligence, duration checks Willpower. But spells without a magnitude now require Intelligence 40[/]

Example: Fire Damage 5–50 --> (5 + 50) ÷ 2 = 28 required skill/stat.

Exceptions:

o  powers, abilities, spells with Always Successful flag

o  weaklings: Disintegrate, Burden

o  radius: Detect, Telekinesis

o  advanced healing: Cure Common Disease (50), Cure Blight Disease (75)

There's a menu option that lifts the cap upon hitting 100.

Spellcasting Drains Fatigue

In vanilla Morrowind, a warrior swings a sword: loses Fatigue, misses if tired, chugs potions like an alcoholic at a wedding. A mage stands perfectly still, fires a spell that does twice the damage of any weapon, never misses, and loses zero Fatigue. How is that fair?

Now casting drains your stamina. The formula uses Agility — that stat pure mages never touch, while every other build levels it to at least 50 to hit stuff and gain physical protection. What happens to a mage who dumped Agility? Now they gas out after a couple of fireballs.

Clumsy: FatigueCost % = (50 - Agility) * your multiplier

Destro: Only Destruction spells drain Fatigue--based on their Magicka cost and your Destruction skill.

If your multiplier is 1, then:

| Destruction Skill | Mana Cost ≤30 | Mana Cost 31–75 | Mana Cost 76+ |

| ≤30                       | 20%                   | 50%                        | 95%  |

| 31–59                   | 15%                   | 40%                        | 85%  |