Skyrim Education

"Did you really think that if you made 100 iron daggers, you would learn how to forge Daedric armor? Ha ha ha"

Eorlund Gray-Mane

"Ha ha ha. You're funny"

Balimund

"Ha ha ha. Hermir, did you hear that?"

Oengul War-Anvil

"This is a beta test. Use at your own risk"

fahkeetman

Description

The Dragonborn can learn to shout at dragons simply by standing near ancient walls and breathing in the scents of the old men on the mountain. But what about the other skills? How do you become a powerful wizard or make a girl laugh if you're just a village idiot caught at the border? The answer is MONEY. With MONEY you can become the PhD in magic, sword swinging, smithing and more.

Skyrim (Paid) Education changes the skill leveling system. No more perk points. Now you'll learn perks from trainers for MONEY. But that's not all. Skill leveling is limited by your skill rank. How do you increase your rank? You know the answer.

Each skill has 5 ranks:

Novice 0... 29

Apprentice 30... 49

Adept 50... 69

Expert 70... 89

Master 90... 100

You will stop receiving skill experience once you reach the maximum rank limit. To remove the limit, you must unlock the next rank.

Each skill and rank has its own trainer. A Novice trainer can teach you perks up to level 29. Then, you need to move on to an Apprentice trainer, who can unlock skill progression and teach perks up to level 49. And so on.

The list of trainers is determined by skill and rank factions, which are distributed with SPID. You can change and add trainers yourself if you know how to work with SPID. But there are limitations: a single NPC can't be a trainer for multiple ranks of one or more skills. This would break the script logic. Also, be careful when distribute trainer factions to an entire game faction. For example:

Delvin Mallory is a Master of Pickpocket and Master of Lockpicking - OK.

Delvin Mallory and Vex are Masters of Pickpocket - OK.

Each member of the Thieves Guild Faction is Novice of Lockpicking - OK. (if you exclude trainers of other ranks)

Delvin Mallory is a Master of Pickpocket and Expert of Lockpicking - NOT OK.

Delvin Mallory is a Master and Expert of Lockpicking - NOT OK.

The trainer may give you a discount or a markup on perk learning depending on your relationship level, faction, and race, but the maximum discount cannot exceed 50%. You can view current ranks and adjust base prices in the MCM menu.

Installation instructions

Install with your mod manager.

Recommend to install on new game. All your perk points will be removed!

Compatibility

This mod should work with any mod that changes the perk trees of the 18 vanilla skills.

There is a version for Hand to Hand - An Adamant Addon. Any other mod that change skill names will need a patch.

Should not be compatible with mods that dynamically change skill experience gained multipliers.

You can try Experience but disable skill caps if possible. Write in Post section if it works or not.

Requirements

Skyrim Script Extender (SKSE64)

powerofthree's Papyrus Extender

UIExtensions

Spell Perk Item Distributor (SPID)

SkyUI

Recommendations

Disable Training Dialogue

Spell Learning Restriction

To be honest, I haven't checked this mods myself. Hehe.

My other Quality of Life mods