Look, if this post is too heavy for this community, feel free to remove it. Admittedly this is a very serious subject, and it occupies something of a grey area regarding suitable discourse that I'm uncertain of. But Gore is one of the more popular of the recent batch of follower mods to hit the Nexus, and it's because this situation is so serious that I feel there needs to be greater attention brought to it.

For those who aren't familiar, Gore was a follower written both as a way for the mod author to express deeply personal feelings about traumatic experiences that occurred in their own life and as a memorial to a transgender friend of theirs who passed away. In order to be welcoming to the greatest possible audience, Gore had dialog options in order to refer to players by non-binary pronouns, and in response to some backlash against the above, Gore's dev also uploaded optional textures that could be used to add top surgery scars to Gore, implying that Gore himself was transgender.

I imagine that these traits attracted a certain. . .audience of individuals who found the premise unpalatable.

Regardless of what one personally thinks about a follower being handled in the way Gore was, the fact that the situation ended in this manner concerns me deeply. Harassing not just the individual themselves, but someone's real life contacts over a follower mod being written in a divisive way is terrifying, and it sets a nightmarish precedent for how the Skyrim modding community might conduct itself in the future. I feel the need to discuss what happened here because not acknowledging issues like this just leads to them festering further.

The community here at Lemmy is small. But I think we should put our best foot forward in holding ourselves to a high standard. We should strive to maintain a civil, friendly demeanor not just on Lemmy, but in the Skyrim community as a whole. To that end, it's important to know what behavior is not civil and friendly, and what situations we should do our best to try to put a stop to if we see signs of it ramping up in the wild. Harassment of this nature is very much one of those situations. So I'd like to propose this. Let's do whatever little we can to ensure that a situation like this never happens again. If harassment is against the rules/TOS of a website, it should be reported. And if not, I strongly recommend pushing back against it. The Skyrim modding community deserves to be a place where people can feel safe. Let's make sure it is one.

EDIT It appears that development on Gore has resumed.

There is. . .a lot to unpack, but the TL;DR of it is that the people that Gore's mod author has accused of targeting his friends and family were a pair of women that he also claims had an unrequited crush on him and targeted him for that reason??? And in response, those two women have in turn accused him of being the one to have a creepy unrequited crush on them and that have threatened to doxx them and have posted on a now-deleted Reddit thread outlining their side of the story. This story seems highly plausible on its face, however one of the two accused individuals has been going back and making posts and edits after the thread has already closed that make her narrative increasingly shaky. Most notably, she claimed that another follower mod author named RabbittWinri was opposed to her repeatedly bringing up information about a third party because RabbittWinri was afraid said third party would be targeted by Gore's developer and his friends, which I personally decided to confront RabbitWinri about and received an incredibly blunt and noticeably confused response denying.

EDIT 2 SO IT TURNED OUT MY OWN RESEARCH FORESHADOWED A BIGGER REVELATION

The evidence posted against Gore's developer has been revealed to be highly manipulated. The Reddit moderator that previously trusted the women who pressed counter-allegations against him has confirmed the legitimacy of this. I'm posting in bold text because considering the misinformation we've been fed, this update is important.

New information can be found HERE: https://www.teddit.net/r/skyrimmods/comments/14qwcap/regarding_recent_allegations_about_me_and_my_mod/

Part of my speculative discussion in the comments below this post involved suspicions of malicious editing in an image. AS IT TURNS OUT, THIS IS OUTRIGHT CONFIRMED TO APPLY TO THE AUDIO FILES, THE MOST DAMNING PART OF THE INITIAL REDDIT THREAD

YOUTUBE LINK TO REFUTATION, WHICH IS ALSO PROVIDED IN THREAD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTSoLGBSask

The new Reddit thread also contains a full transcript of events compiled by a different moderator than the one involved in the post, for those hard of hearing.

In case it isn't clear, I would also like to point out that it's Alarycia's testimony that was refuted in the full footage which is now available. My own research turned up flaws in mookymilk's narrative. So it seems that both of them really were lying in tandem for some reason.

Trailer for Xelzaz's Sirenroot Patch can be found here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQV9VjrMOXA

I've been following the news on this particular patch for a while now on the official Xelzaz Discord server, so I'm pretty excited to see that it's finally come out! From a couple of the comments that Xelzaz's author BluePwnsU made during development, it seems like there was some specific coding implemented to make sure that Xelzaz doesn't fall behind while you complete all the parkour puzzles that Sirenroot uses, as well as some other more specific things implemented for more spoilery, plot-related purposes. All in all, it apparently came out to around 160 lines of dialog in total, which is quite a lot for one quest!

Sirenroot is already a quest mod with a lot of hype behind it, so Xelzaz getting a patch for it is going to add yet another layer to the experience.

I've gotten quite used to moving into Lakeview Manor from all of my various vanilla runs in the past, but I've now been modding for a while now and I still haven't settled on a new place to move into, so I figured I'd ask what everyone here is using!

The Legacy of the Dragonborn Safehouse is a recommendation that I often see and that I've tried out, and it's nice, but I'm still poking around because there's a couple of details that are still misaligned with what I'm looking for. Firstly, the flavoring of the home is more that you're essentially borrowing it than that it's yours, and I'd prefer to occupy a place that feels more like a home than just a sparkling condominium. And secondly, the layout in some spots feels utilitarian to the point that it takes away from my immersion. The mage crafting stations and the blacksmithing stations being in the same room is practical, but I'd really rather have one room for blacksmith things and another room for magical wizard things. Perhaps even multiple different magical wizard rooms. With all of the interactive features and wonderful follower patches available for the Safehouse, I can still see it being a place I go back to frequently, but it feels more like a social hub to me than a proper home.

Tel Jerdein is another incredibly nice mod that I was made better aware of due to the follower Xelzaz getting a small interaction patch for it. It is incredibly pretty, and combined with the tree mod Aspens Ablaze, the atmosphere of the location is breathtaking. And in this case, the mage bits are separate from the smithy bits, which is a nice plus. In this case, however, I have a different reason why I haven't decided to settle down. It's small! I can't help but feel a little bit cramped in it, even with as beautiful as the place is. And similarly to the Safehouse, Tel Jerdein has its own lore which makes me feel, roleplay wise, as though the place will be missed eventually. I've become quite taken with the idea of it being a house for Xelzaz, but I'd rather find someplace a bit bigger and less called for to truly take as my own.

I also tried the Staff of Shalidor at one point, because despite being even smaller than Tel Jerdein, I figured that the mobile house aspect might be practical, and all the images that I saw of it were also quite pretty. The gimmick of flipping upside-down in order to access each half of the house was also incredibly clever. Sadly, I ended up uninstalling it due to one problem that I never could have foreseen: the spinning background inside of the house gave me motion sickness.

Personally, I'm quite picky, so I'm still looking for the exact place I want to set my roots down in, but in addition to still seeing two of the three I listed above as worth keeping in my load order, all of the things I see as drawbacks in these three homes are highly subjective to the point that they could just as easily either not matter or actively be positives to someone else, so I was very careful to provide links to each of them. I'm sure folks have tried plenty of other house mods that I haven't, however, and I'd be quite curious to hear about them as well!

Who knows, perhaps one of us in this thread will find our Skyrim dream home?

I've been seeing a lot of suggestions on Lemmy to bring over posts from Reddit in order to beef up engagement, and this was one of my last posts on Reddit before arriving here, so I figured maybe asking the question here as well might be useful. And hey, maybe some new answers will come out of asking the question again, too!

Anyway, to establish why I asked the question the first time, Children of the Pariah, an orc overhaul by the author of Project ja-Kha'jay, was moved off of Nexus and onto Tumblr a while back. This got me curious as to what other mods might be hiding on various other websites that aren't normally brought up, since as we all know, Nexus is essentially the central hub for mod downloads.

Of course, I have to assign a caveat that, much as the sidebar for this community states, NSFW mods are a thing. In this case, not only would NSFW mods be low hanging fruit in this specific conversation, since we all know that there are a lot of them off of Nexus, but I also have a strong personal preference towards not including that kind of content in my load order. So instead I want to narrow the playing field to mods that are specifically Safe For Work/family friendly.

Not that I'm literally taking my personal copy of Skyrim to an office building or handing it off to a five year old. Those terms are simply turns of phrase that I hope get across what I'm asking about decently well. I'm looking to. . .ace my Skyrim load order, so to speak.

As mentioned above, I myself am currently using Children of the Pariah. I'm also aware of at least a couple of hosting sites where one can find some, including AFK Mods (although considering Arthmoor's reputation, I can see why some people would forego downloading from that specific hub). But I'm very curious to hear what everyone else is using from places outside of Nexus! If we're lucky, maybe all of us can discover some new things.

Hello! I've been looking for mods that help beef up a playthrough centered around a Conjuration mage with an interest in studying the planes of Oblivion, but I've been struggling to think of the right way to search for them. If I look up "Conjuration," "Summoner," or "Sorcerer" I'll mostly just get spell mods, and often specifically for necromancers rather than anything related to Daedra. If I look up "Daedric" or "Daedra," I'll mostly find things related to either Daedric Armor, the destruction of Daedra, or the worship of Daedra, when the kind of character I want to run has a more scholarly interest in the subject.

Now, spell mods are perfectly fine, of course. I've naturally installed quite a few that I intend to try out. Apocalypse, Odin, Arcanum, Flames of Coldharbor, Necrom, Dead and Daedric Guardians, an absolute slew of different Mihail mods that add both world encounters and summon spells. But I can't help but feel like I might be missing something because all the keywords I can think of related to what I'm going for tend to be specialized in different directions.

So, I figured I'd go ahead and ask in order to try to see if there's anything hidden in that weird information gap I've been struggling with. What are some good quest mods to pair with a Daedric conjurer playthrough? Armor sets? World additions? Player homes? Basically anything that gives a Conjurer something to do with all those spells, or something else to roleplay with in addition to spells. What do you all use for these kinds of playthroughs, or what would you use if you decided to start one?