Requiem - Skills of the Scoundrel

Requiem - Skills of the Scoundrel

This mod overhauls the Thief skills for Requiem - The Roleplaying Overhaul 5. 4. 0. The main idea is to make Thieves a viable playstyle throughout the game, by opening up new ways to deal with your problems, in combat and out, while at the same time slowing leveling to make becoming a Master Thief a real challenge, and fittingly rewarding.

In Requiem you have a limited number of perks, and this means you have to specialize to succeed. What this means in practice is that playing as a Thief, and spending about ten perks in Thief skills to do, so cripples your character. The usual way around this is to only take a single perk in each tree, then use enchantments to make up for it. To solve this, all non-combat Thief perks (Lockpicking/Pickpocketing and Speechcraft) are given for free once you have the correct skill level and have taken the first perk in the tree. This means you can play as a Thief without crippling your character. This can be toggled of in the MCM menu if you feel it is too powerful.

Sneak attacks have been reworked almost entirely, to make playing an assassin a more reasonable playstyle. Undead and Dwemer can be sneak attacked with the right perks and weapons, and the sneak attack multiplier is much more dynamic.

• []Now characters that haven't taken the first sneak perk cannot sneak attack at all, and their sneak exp won't rise until they take it. Taking the first perk gives you 2x sneak attacks.

  []The second perk gives the usual 50% AP on sneak attacks, but also causes your sneak attack multiplier to rise with your sneak skill (not with bows). 2. 5x at 25 and 5x at 50. This way you are always improving between perks.

  []The third perk allows sneak attacks against the Undead, as long as you are using a Silver or Daedric weapon. The sneak attack modifier now increase at a higher rate. 7. 5x at 50 and 15x at 100, or 4x with bows.

  []The forth perk allows sneak attacks against Dwemer, using any weapon. The sneak attack bonus is a flat 15x. With bows it scales up to 5x.

  Sneak perks (left hand tree), now all give a 15% stealth bonus. Sneak II has been removed, and its effects spread around other perks. Muffled movement now actually muffles your movement.

  Lockpicking

  A new perk, Expert Lockpicking has been added, meaning that your Lockpicking Expertise ends the game higher. Each perk has also been given a secondary effect.

  []Advanced Lockpicking gives you a 50% chance to avoid detection when lockpicking.

  []Sophisticated Lockpicking gives you a copy of the key for every lock you pick that has one.

  [*]Expert Lockpicking gives you a 100% ch