Standing Stones - Greater Power Replacement and Tweaks
🟡 Updated this year⚠️ Install Order · 6 steps
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🔍 Analysis
- 👍 0.6% endorsement rate
- 🏆 #27 of 33 Overhauls mods in this game by downloads
📋 About This Mod
An overhaul for Standing stones with less focus on usable abilities and more focus on passive abilities that you can acquire and then forget about.
This mod replaces Skyrim's standing stone active spells with passive abilities, rebalancing each stone to provide stat boosts like +50 Health or +50% Magicka Regeneration. It also includes an overhaul for the Apprentice mod, removing class-based skill adjustments and allowing free selection of novice spells and birthsigns. Requires Apprentice - A Class Overhaul.
✨ Key Features
📊 Pros & Cons
✅ Pros
- Makes standing stones actually useful by turning them into passive buffs you don't have to remember to cast.
- Smart tweaks like Steed's carry weight adapting to Survival mode show real attention to gameplay.
- The Apprentice overhaul opens up character creation flexibility, letting you pick any novice spell or birthsign.
⚠️ Cons
- Requires Apprentice - A Class Overhaul as a dependency, so it's not standalone.
- Only 86 endorsements, so it's a niche mod with a smaller community behind it.
- Potential conflicts with other mods that alter standing stone effects or starting spells.
For Skyrim players who want standing stones to feel like meaningful passive choices rather than one-off active powers. Also for those using Apprentice who want to ditch class skill adjustments and customize their starting spells and birthsigns. Skip if you prefer the vanilla active stone effects or don't use Apprentice.
💡 Beginner Tips
- Make sure Apprentice is installed first, and in its installer only tick the required file on the first page, leaving other pages unticked.
- If you use a mod manager like Vortex or MO2, let it handle the file placement to avoid overwriting issues.
- Check your load order to ensure this mod loads after Apprentice and any race overhauls for best compatibility.
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Skyrim Mods
- Author
- Jelidity
- Version
- 1.0.1
- Downloads
- 14,070
- Endorsements
- 86
- Category
- Overhauls
- Created
- 9/5/2024
- Updated
- 7/10/2026
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