Articles tagged with: Elder Scrolls: Oblivion

Introduction

This is a (small) list of the plugins/mods for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered that I use. You can find many more, but I mostly want small tweaks and re-balances, so I haven't even looked at what else appeared since I began playing.

Installation Instructions

For standard mods, download the corresponding files and put them in the Content/Dev/ObvData/Data subfolder of where you installed the game. Then open the file Plugins.txt (in the same folder), and add the names of the new plugins to the list (often to the bottom).

Custom mods usually come with their step-by-step instructions.

My Mod Recommendations

• Ascension Remastered - Vanilla-Plus Loot and Balance: Fixes leveling and loot. I use the main Ascension Remastered plugin, and Vanilla Spell Effectiveness.
• Better HUD: Smaller and better organized HUD elements. I use the Default Size (16x9) version.
• NPCs Catch Fire: Adds a bit of realism.
• Permanent Doomstones: Makes Doomstones more useful. I use the vanilla version.
• No Pickpocket Chance Cap: Caps the ability at 100%, instead of to 85%.
• Richer Vendors: Makes vendors have way more gold, to purchase your items. This one becomes more useful as you progress in the game and find better items. I use the standard version.
• Shady Sam Buys Stolen Goods and More: Useful if you play a thief, but beware that selling items to Sam does not count towards your thieving rank. It is still good to simplify getting rid of stolen items. Move to the bottom of Plugins.txt if you enable the Richer Vendors mod too.
• Skip Intro: No explanations required. I use the basic "Skip Intro Screens" version.
• Weightless Alchemy and Misc. Items: I don't like having to travel home just to drop resources and other miscellaneous items, and this mod solves that. Important stuff like armour and weapons still has weight.

Posted on 2025-07-19

Tags: Elder Scrolls: Oblivion Tools Videogames

RPGs

Old-School Essentials

We continue with the first campaign. As all the party members recently had a spike of intense work (we're all in the same team), we lowered the frequency of sessions, but things should be back to normal now.

Videogames - Finished

None since the last update 😬. Although I played a lot of GTA-like titles: GTA 3, GTA: Vice City, GTA: San Andreas, Mafia and Mafia 2.

Videogames - Ongoing

The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion - Remastered

Oh boy, so many memories from the past, and yet I'm enjoying it as if it was my first playthrough.

Funnily, it contains the same issues and bugs as the original, but people already came up with updated mods and fixes for everything. Here you can find the list of mods that I use.

Diablo 4

In the end, I bought the expansion heavily discounted, and I admit that it adds a decent amount of end-game content. The story advances just a few steps, but it is pleasing to watch (the 3D engine is so good and detailed) and play once or twice.

I'm now playing from time to time some of the seasons, as they at time have decent story lines (e.g. as of May, Belial has returned). Creating a new seasonal character made me try the classes I had pending, so not bad. I'm currently levelling up a werewolf-druid that goes around with another 3 companion werewolves, and it feels more of a tank than the barbarian 🤔.

Dwarf Fortress, KeeperRL, Ancient Domains of Mystery

Grouped these three, as they are in the same status: Not fully postponed, but also not actively playing them.

Earthbound

A friend recommended me to play Earthbound on the SNES "if I like Final Fantasy like titles", so I picked it up and I'm slowly starting. Such a weird beginning, but it is best to not spoil anything.

Videogames - Postponed / Discarded

Zelda BOTW and TOTK

I'm almost 100% decided to get a Nintendo Switch 2, which means I'll replay both open-world Zeldas from the beginning. So, I'll wait to have the console.

Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom

The whole echoes idea is cool, but I got tired mid-way of the general gameplay. Companions have poor artificial intelligence, quite a few segments become repetitive, and while I applaud the initiative of not having Link as the main character, I got the feeling that this title is too experimental. Plus all those objects and entities you can spawn, and most of the times you'll just use over and over a tiny selection.

The Elder Scrolls: Morrowind

I bought the game and prepared my guide about how to upgrade it for modern times, but at the same time I also purchased The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion Remastered, so I've decided to play Oblivion first.

Miscellaneous

I'm doing some crafts, like this wooden flower:

Posted on 2025-05-18

Tags: Diablo Elder Scrolls: Morrowind Elder Scrolls: Oblivion Videogames Zelda

Word came to me that a strange portal had been opened near Bravil. I went to the city just to find a strange 3-headed statue with a shiny light on one of its mouths.

There was a soldier guarding it, who told me that everyone who enterd, came crazy, insane...

I entered through the portal, I had to investigate further.

Inside, a strange man told me that this was a... different world. Thay may be a crazy world, or just another point of view of the reality...

I accepted to go inside, and suddenly all around me transformed into butterflies and wend away.

It indeed was a strange place... full of unknown vegetation.

And too full of new monsters, who didn't think it twice before attacking me.

Shortly after following the main road, I found to the right some ruins, and explored them.

There were more monsters inside, and some strange glowing ¿plants?

I explored the interior of the ruins and found some fantastic water-walking boots!

After leaving the ruins, I found a small house near a lake. The man living inside appeared to be insane, talking all the time about bones under the flesh, getting bones and things like that.

But he left me thinking.. what about if he was trying to say something to me related with bones? So I went to investigate the surroundings.

And found "the bone garden", more ruins with undead inhabitants.

And a dead gatekeeper...

But that's a story for another day!

Posted on 2007-04-16

Tags: Elder Scrolls: Oblivion

As I can't do much this days, here you go some pretty captures from Oblivion I found somewhere. Now with the expansion out I'll probably replay the game, apart from probably migrating posts from the old blog to here.

Anyway, here's the image pack:

Posted on 2007-04-04

Tags: Elder Scrolls: Oblivion

My last mission was a dangerous one.

The Blades and I have found that tehre's a secret group called the Mythic Dawn that not only killed the emperor (as we already knew) but also has plans to bring to our plane a terrible demon, so they must be stopped.

I was given the task to infiltrate into their secret ritual place and steal a dark book.

I found where they were going to do the ritual, and stealthy went inside.

I arrived just when they were starting the ritual.

After a very hard fight with them, I got the dark book.

I had to break through their lines to escape from the lair.

And it was not easy... But I did it.

Now we're studying the book, searching for answers of how to stop this cultists.

Posted on 2006-06-10

Tags: Elder Scrolls: Oblivion