Enhanced Familiars (Special Edition)

DESCRIPTION

I like the idea of a summonable familiars in Skyrim, but they very rapidly lose all usefulness. So this mod changes the way the "Conjure Familiar" spell is handled. The aim is to add a sense of progression to the mage's power.

When the caster summons the familiar the players level is checked and this determines what familiar is summoned, which will be randomly cast between 2 animals. At levels 1-6 the familiar is a goat/mudcrab, 7-12 summons the standard wolf (with buffed stats compaired to its vanilla version) or Dog. 13-18 the summon is a Sabre Cat/Frostbite Spider and 19 and above the familiar takes on the form of a bear/chaurus. All of these summons are leveled too, their level is the same as the players level. The bear's final level is 45, which puts it up to the Dremora Lord's level (although without the enchanted weapon and Daedric armour). If you don't like bugs I have a "No Creepy Crawlies (NCC)" version that makes sure the spider and chaurus do not randomly spawn and can only be forced as a familiar through the use of their amulets.

Amulets can be crafted at any forge using to force a particular familiar (the ingredients are relevantto each animal) to compinsate for the precious loss of an amulet slot (or you can just favourite it for hotkeys if you don't use all of those). If your character is blessed by Kyne (ie you own the "Kyne's Token" (a reward for a vanilla quest)) you can upgrade the the amulets to have an enchantment at the forge, you just need the original amulet, for the blessing to be active equip Kyne's Token.

The base cost of the spell and spell level has been changed also, Conjure Familiar is now an Adept spell with a base cost of 100 (Vanillia = 107), this was done to make it harder to make the spell ultra cheap when casting level 45 bears without needing any higher end perks.

The familiar is now summoned via a level list, so upon spawning the form (and stats) are determined. The only things that are changed are, the familiar staff's effect (not the staff itself), the conjure familiar scroll, the conjure familiar magic effect and NPC/player versions of the spell. The original familiar is still in the leveled list of Fellglow Keep (to maximize compatibility).

COMPATIBILITY AND KNOWN BUGS

Compatibility

  + Works with all official DLCs.

- Essentially any mod that alters the magic effect to conjure the familiar, if you want to use this and a mod that does that load this  after that mod.

- Although if this is loaded after a gameplay overhaul mod (like Requeim, SkyRe) it should load fine, however, this may cause b