Roleplaying in Skyrim - Loot Overhaul

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The loot system often feels predictable and unrewarding. Gear progression is tied almost entirely to level, so enemies and chests simply scale alongside the player. With only minor variance, one chest feels much like another, and clearing a bandit camp leaves you with piles of near-identical gear.

Loot is rarity-driven, not solely level-driven. Achieving a higher level will not immediately restock the world and everyone in it. Common items are abundant,

rare items feel like genuine discoveries, and exotic gear provides a true sense of reward.

Chest contents and enemy inventories are contextual, reflecting their locations, classes and activities. Bandits, due to their profession, tend to carry more gold and valuables, but have little use for the books, scrolls, and tomes coveted by warlocks. While hard to find amidst draugr who have little need them, the application of soul gems in the creation of automatons make them relatively abundant in dwemer ruins.

Combat loot is no longer an endless cache of gear. Enemies will not always drop a full set of pristine armor and at least one weapon - sometimes weapons break or armor is ruined, leaving only what survives the battle.

There is now only one version of artifacts, the strongest (deleveled) one. If you can take it, it’s yours.

The result is a loot experience that feels immersive, believable, and far more rewarding.

• []ESL-Flagged

  []MCM for equipment breakage configurability.

  []INI for configurability (and flexibility) on contextual loot.

  []Rarity-Driven: Restructured and reorganized leveled lists to implement rarity system taking precedence over character level.

  []Contextual-Driven: Containers/inventories redone to make contents match the locations and owner classes more realistically / accurately.

  []Combat-Driven: Enemy equipment has a configurable chance of "breaking" in an immersive way, rendering it unusable following the battle.

  []Deleveled artifacts: One version is available, the strongest one. No need to wait until a certain level to complete a quest.

  []Built-in patcher to eliminate the need for running a separate patcher or installing patches.

  Loot Rarity

  All loot (virtually anything you can find on defeated NPCs or in chests) has been categorized based on material, value, power and potency. Everything is then put into custom leveled lists and loot tables in order to simulate rarity instead of entirely being based on level. This process involved restructuring, adjusting, and adding nearly 2300 leveled lists and loot containers to provide a rough breakdown as