Blackwood Boss Remastered

The Fighter's Guild deserved better. Not only do the other guilds offer unique loot and abilities, they also have better finales. One of my main issues with the Fighters Guild questline is the lackluster final boss. Ri'Zakar, Blackwood Company's leader, is an interesting character. He's a battle hardened warrior that's traversed most of Tamriel. He's competent enough to build up a mercenary company to rival the Fighter's guild. He brought the beast races together in a town full of racial tensions. When we finally face him he's barely stronger than typical marauder. No more! Let's give this warrior gear and abilities befitting a faction leader!

Finally! A worthy opponent!

This mod is for players that enjoy challenging boss battles! Ri'Zakar's level has been slightly tweaked. He has now has a birthsign and a cunning doomstone ability fitting his character's underhanded approach to things. He still wears his classic Blackwood armor, helmet, and shield, but now wears 2 pieces of enchanted daedric gear and some enchanted jewelry fitting his abilities. His enchanted blunt weapon is still leveled and random, so it's possible he might spawn with a particularly annoying enchantment. Mages will have a particular challenging time against him. This is by design, to become the Fighter's Guild master you must prove yourself a warrior. I recommend bringing several potions.

This mod also slightly tweaks the Blackwood armor set. The defense ratings have been raised to Orcish levels (they were already very close) and the durability has been increased.

Recommendations:

I HIGHLY recommend trippycruise's beautiful Blackwood Armour Redesign mod! The daedric armor won't blend well with the Blackwood set without this modder's textures so check out the mod https://www.nexusmods.com/oblivionremastered/mods/2030?tab=description

I also recommend Maddensterror02's Responsive Combat AI mod. This generally gives NPCs better combat tactics by reducing the lag between their attacks and increasing their dodge and block chance. Find the mod here https://www.nexusmods.com/oblivionremastered/mods/2792

New:

I added an optional versions that increases Ri'Zakar's height to 1. 2 or 2. 0 times normal height. Version 1. 1 fixes a bug in the player character creation menu. This only affected the optional files, no need to update the main file.

Installation:

Place the Blackwood Boss Remastered.esp file in Oblivion Remastered\OblivionRemastered\Content\Dev\ObvData\Data

Open Plugins.txt and add "Blackwood Boss Remastered.esp" without the quotation marks to the bottom of the list.