More Dialogue Options

Version for XBOX (not by us) here or here bundled with Misc Dialogue Edits

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This mod improves and expands on a variety of small conversations you often end up engaging in during any playthrough, with the aim to make them more straightforward, sensible and immersive. All the new lines are voiced by carefully splicing the original sound files of the game, to make them feel as if they could have been in the game all along. Here are a few examples of what to expect.

• []Maul

The first conversation with Maul always felt a bit strange to me: he starts by intimidating you into staying out of the Black-Briars' business, but then, without prompt, he changes the subject into asking for work. It's easy to assume that this was done to add an easy way for the player to know that the Thieves Guild exists in Riften, but there are improvements to be made. The core of the problem is his response to your question, "Who are the Black-Briars?": he answers, but then he seems to suddenly answer another hidden question, "Who are you?". To fix this, I separated these two parts with their own dialogue options: after you ask about the Black-Briars, you have the choice to ask who he is and show interest in his business, which continues the vanilla conversation, or to agree to stay out of the Black-Briars' business and end the conversation. Here's what it looks like.

• []Delayed Burial

If you don't rush to meet Aventus Aretino in Windhelm, you can meet Cicero at Loreius Farm, northeast of Whiterun, alongside a cart with a broken wheel. He asks you to help him convince Loreius to fix it and you can use your Speech skill to pass a persuasion check. Problem is that check with Loreius can't be failed. What's worse is that your argument is quite different from his perspective on the matter, so it really shouldn't be that easy to convince him. So, I made a few improvements: I added the possibility to fail the vanilla persuasion check and increased its difficulty, then I added two more persuasion checks with different levels of difficulty, depending their affinity with his view of the situation, plus an intimidation check for those who'd rather go that route; finally I added a dialogue option before the checks, to provide a different way of approaching him, for immersion's sake, and an option to refuse Cicero's request entirely.

• Thieves Guild

When first talking to Tonilia to receive your Thieves Guild armor, you get only one path in the c