Legacy - A Race Overhaul

[]Effects are meaningful for NPCs, changing how you engage them in combat

[]Conditional passives instead of powers

[]Players can choose whatever effects they want regardless of their race

[]Ludicrously compatible (even with other race overhauls!)

Legacy overhauls the racial effects of the playable races, taking them from boring, imbalanced and forgettable to diverse, challenging and meaningful. Here's a high level summary:

[]Racial effects impact NPCs too. Vanilla races and most race overhauls focus on the experience of playing as a race, as opposed to the experience of playing against a race. So races get daily powers only the player uses (e.g. Beserk), passives that mean nothing to NPCs (e.g. Imperial Luck), or effects that due to engine limitations only work on the player (e.g. Natural talent from Aetherius). In Legacy, racial effects affect player and NPC alike. This adds a new layer of strategy as tactics that work for or against a Nord might not work so well for or against an Argonian.

[]Racial effects come with costs as well as benefits. All race overhauls give unique benefits to each race, but past elder scrolls games traded these off against weaknesses. Legacy reinstates this tradition. Because these drawbacks are meaningful to NPCs too this allows you play to your enemy's weaknesses, further rewarding strategic play.

[]No powers, conditional passives instead. Daily powers have two problems: (1) NPCs don't use them, and (2) the player is tempted to save them indefinitely for imagined future fights. As a result they end up forgotten. Legacy fixes this by replacing powers with conditional passives. They activate whenever conditions are right, and apply to NPCs as well as the player. You'll now face off against Beserk orcs and dark elves consumed by Ancestral Wrath. These effects activate as often as the conditions are met so there's no need to save powers for the right moment. Legacy leaves the vanilla daily powers in place though, just in case players really like them.

[]Total freedom for the player. All racial effects reward certain playstyles. In the extreme this can force races to play a certain way, which harms replayability. To avoid this Legacy prompts the player to choose their racial effects through a pop-up menu, regardless of their actual race. You can change them at any time through the MCM, and even pick multiple racial effects. So, whether you want to be a "pure-blooded" Nord, an Imperial with High Elf ancestry, or a Wood Elf raised by Orcs, the choice is yours!

[]Balance. Racial effects can intuitively overpower the pla