Stealth Skills Rebalanced - Sneak - Lockpicking - Pickpocket

Sneak, lockpicking, and pickpocket should be specialized skills that take some effort and commitment to master, not simple tricks that any sword-swinging warrior stumbling out of Helgen can instantly achieve. Toward that end, I've created this mod to balance out three of the stealth skills that I felt weren't properly addressed elsewhere.

This mod re-balances Skyrim's stealth skills to add greater challenge and immersion to the game. If you play a stealth-based character, this mod will make your game more difficult but also much more rewarding.

PRIMARY FEATURES

• []Balances Sneak, Lockpicking, and Pickpocket skills, settings, enchantments, and perks

  []Provides more challenging and rewarding stealth gameplay

  []Attempts to remain true to the nature of the skills and the intentions of the vanilla game

  []You will want (and need) to invest in perks if you intend to pursue these skills

  []Corrects several vanilla bugs, including the fortify pickpocket bug

  []Animals will no longer serve as witnesses to crimes and will not report crimes.

  []Fixes several perks that overlapped and were made redundant by other abilities; the effects now stack and enhance one another.

  I play mostly stealth-based characters and was constantly disappointed at how easy these skills were to master in the vanilla game. Despite the type of character I was playing, most of my perks went toward other skills since there seemed to be very little need to waste the perk points on aspects of the game that were already much too easy. There seemed to be no challenge and very little reward to pursuing these specializations.

  My intention was not to completely remake these skills or fashion them into something entirely different. Rather, my goal was to fine-tune the settings and perks in order to compliment and enhance the original game, while providing a more balanced and rewarding experience for stealth gameplay and stealth character builds.

  VERSIONS & FILE OPTIONS

  There are two versions of this mod, a “basic” version and a “full” version. The BASIC version attempts to correct the issues with Skyrim's stealth gameplay while remaining as close as possible to the intentions of the vanilla game. In addition to the changes in the Basic version, the FULL version will include any extra features that, while I feel they may enhance these skills, may not be considered in line with the original game.

  The differences between the two versions are:

  [] The Full version includes the All Access perk.

  [] The Full version includes changes to the Sneak perk tree.

  [] The Full version adds the Camouflaged perk to the Sneak tree