Skill Diary Redone

Skill Diary Redone

This mod adds a book that you can use to view information about your character's class, skills, and attributes. All the information is updated as appropriate and accessible through an intuitive series of menus. It is also capable of reflecting the changes made by other mods - e.g. mods which change which skills are governed by which attributes, or mods which change the requirements for attribute bonuses.

You will receive the skill diary shortly after starting the game (you must be in an exterior cell). It is not a quest item so you can drop it. If you lose it somehow you'll have to spawn yourself a new one.

In my opinion, the main use of the Skill Diary is to view your current attribute bonuses so you can maximise your attributes when leveling up. This makes it easier to gain +5/+5/+5(1) bonuses as you don't have to manually keep a record of what skills you've increased. If you don't know what I'm talking about, it might help to read the leveling pages on the UESP. I've also included other useful leveling information, such as:

• []A detailed description of how attribute bonuses are awarded, as well as how many skill increases are required for each bonus; []Information about how many major skill increases you have, and which skills are governed by which attribute (so you don't have to drop out of the diary to check your stats); []Progress tracking for each skill, allowing you to determine how quickly the skills level up from which actions; []Details about your class and specialisation.

My mod does not suffer from such limitations, as it uses OBSE functions to get information directly from the game when you request it (by reading the book). As such, this mod is much more lightweight, accurate, and powerful.

If you use a mod which drastically changes the vanilla system of attribute bonuses, then the information shown by the diary may not be accurate. Nothing catastrophic can happen, however.

There is one minor limitation (and it's a difficult one to describe). Usually the attribute bonuses shown by the diary are for the level you're currently working towards. By default settings it takes 10 major skill increases to gain a level. That means if you're level 1, and have increased major skills 15 times, you've already gained level 2 (though you might not