No Dragon To Character Kill Moves.
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- 👍 4.1% endorsement rate — high engagement, a strong quality signal
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📋 About This Mod
This mod disables the bite-Grapple kill moves that dragons perform in the NPCs and the Player insta-killing them regardless of their performance in the fight. Perfect for Majestic Dragons, Fire and Blood, and Better and Realistic Dragon
The dragon bite grapple kill move is a somewhat unbalaced mechanic. It doesn't take into account how you or the NPCs perform against the dragon; and it can be only stopped with a high armor rating (and most people don't even know this because no one tells you) ; therefore, archers and mages are at a disadvantage.
And if you are playing a mod that intends to make dragon fights more challenging and fun (like Fire and Blood, Epic Dragon Combat, Better and Realistic Melee, or older and more popular mods like Dragon war, Deadly Dragons, etc) it is outright frustrating to perform well against the dragon just to die inmediately when you get at melee range, specially when dragons land at the end of the fight.
Also, the animation has aged horribly; the NPC teleports and looks in a frozen posture to the dragon, and when it dies, it doesn't respect accurate physics, and is just dropped directly oposite to the dragon's head. All is bad.
Plus; if you are using any of the larger-than-beauty Majestic Dragons skeletons (to make the dragons bigger and look better) or Dragon Races of Skyrim, you will also have the animation missaligned, with the characters being placed under the dragon's mouth instead of inside it during the animation.
This mod fixes all this nonsense.
How I did it and precautions I took:
It does it by adding conditions to the iddle animations. It disables the kill move animation by default, and only re-enables them for NPCs that are linked to important scenes that need the animation scene for they to work (like the vision of Alduin fighting the ancient nord heroes of the past; or the Ice Lake Dragons scenes in Dawnguard)
! REQUIREMENTS:
None. You only need Skyrim special edition or Anniversary Edition.
! How to install:
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[]OPTION 1: Download manually and drop the contents of the zip file into your game data folder.[/]
[]OPTION 2: Download and Install it with the mod manager of your choice. I personally use Mod Organizer 2, but Vortex or others will also work[/]
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[]It is an ESL plugin, meaning it won't count towards your plugin limitations. [/]
And you are set. Your game will be more fair and also look better.
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📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Skyrim Mods
- Author
- Lucaoys
- Version
- 1.1
- Downloads
- 3,676
- Endorsements
- 151
- Category
- Combat
- Created
- 9/24/2025
- Updated
- 7/30/2026
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