The Governator

Yet another "Yet Another" kind of mod, joining the handful of other painfully simple and easy-to-make mods that I myself am guilty of searching for (and downloading) to "fix" the governing attributes of certain skills.

But - since I spent the time looking through Nexus for them and read all of the discussions within their comments section, I now consider myself somewhat of an expert on the subject. Since no one else has put up a version of these mods that reflected those conversations, naturally I've decided that I am the one to do it.

Attributes now make sense, according to me and the people whom I've agreed with. Which means that you should have a more meaningful and perhaps less tedious time in playing your role. You do roleplay... right? RIGHT? Right.

What's changed?

Security: Intelligence -> Agility

Alteration: Willpower -> Intelligence

Hand-to-Hand: Speed -> Strength

Light Armor: Agility -> Endurance

Short Blade: Speed -> Agility

Spear: Endurance -> Agility

Unarmored: Speed -> Endurance

Above this line _ you'll see changes that are more-or-less already featured in other mods or have been discussed (on the Nexus at least.)

Below this line _ you'll see changes I have made outside of the scope of the traditional arguments (as I have seen here) which means I actually contributed an original thought (2!) to this mod! Ayyy! Go me!

Illusion: Personality -> Intelligence

Conjuration: Intelligence -> Willpower

Will this break the game?

Quite possibly. But that's more your problem than mine now.

You can always just delete the .esp or simply not download this at all. But do. Do download this at all (costs.)

Ok, but why did you do this?

It all started way back when I first played Morrowind on the original Xbox. Having an affinity for sneaky thief types (before Bethesda pretty much cemented the fact that pretty much every casual gamer would decide to follow me down that less-than noble path) I was particularly disappointed that Security was governed by Intelligence. How did I respond? Well, when I found this out after a short trip from Seyda Neen to Balmora, I think I looked up the attribute/skill functions, how leveling worked, etc. and then I literally turned the game off and have not picked it up again until recently thanks to a combination of Skyrim opening my eyes to modding, Bethesda being owned by Microsoft and stupid low holiday deals.