Surefire

Surefire

Spells never fail. Attacks never miss. The dice roll doesn't disappear — it moves into your resources: magicka cost and damage scale with the success chance you would have had, preserving expected value while removing the frustration of whiffing. A 50% spell costs double its magicka. A 60% swing deals 60% of its post-armor damage. Skill still matters — it just stops feeling like a slot machine.

Pure Lua for OpenMW 0. 51+. No plugin, no .esp, no records touched. Everything is toggleable and takes effect immediately.

Features

Spells

• []Casts always succeed — Silence still blocks casting, and you still need the magicka.[/]

  []Each cast of a chance-based spell costs baseCost × 100 / chance, computed with the engine's own formula. Powers, abilities, and enchanted items are untouched.[/]

  []While a menu is open, the hidden bonus is lifted, so spell windows show your true cast chance — the exact number your cost derives from.[/]

  Attacks

  • []Melee, hand-to-hand, and marksman attacks always land; damage is rescaled to chance% of the post-armor damage you'd have dealt (armor inversion is done numerically against the engine's own formula, so heavy armor keeps its full meaning).[/]

    []Stagger by hit chance: one d100 roll per landed swing. "Lucky" swings still deal their damage, wear armor, and provoke — they just don't stunlock. Killing blows always resolve normally.[/]

    []Weapon enchantments by hit chance: the same roll. Suppressed procs are stripped from the target and the weapon's charge refunded using the engine's Enchant-skill cost formula (autocalc enchantments included).[/]

    HUD (optional, own settings page)

    • []A spell-cost readout ("Firebolt: 30 mp (base 12, 40%)") and a per-hit popup ("56% | 21. 2 dmg | 37. 8 full"). Swings that would have missed render in red.[/]

      []Everything is configurable: which parts show, positions (percent of screen, resolution-independent), text size, classic Morrowind colors, and an optional bordered menu box that follows your Menu Transparency setting. Gray styling inspired by Show Me Everything.[/]

      Install & load order

      Register the content directory and Surefire.omwscripts as usual. Load Surefire after skill-progression overhauls (MBSP-style mods, Skill Uses Scaled, …).

      Using OSSC — Oblivion-Style Spell Casting? Get the Surefire OSSC Patch download — without it, OSSC quickcasts become 100% at flat cost.

      Load Order with Patch

      Spell Framework Plus

      Surefire.omwscripts

      Surefire OSSC Patch.omwscripts

      OSSC (ossc.omwscripts)

      The patch must load after Spell Framework Plus and before OSS