Spoilers: Mod to prevent forced joining of winterhold?

[Asariphile]

Hey everyone,

 

Im doing the main quest again and remembered something that really REALLY irked me. I am on the part where your forced to join the college in order to learn about septemus, and once again I have zero interest in joining them. I am a Role Player, so before you say "just dont do the quests" I would have to say this is completely counter intuitive to my play style. When I play an RPG I play in character (This is a role playing game, and role playing games involved role play once upon a time.) I dont do things my character wouldn't. So joining the guild would be very out of character and just walking straight to septemus would be extremely metagame (tapping on PLAYER knowledge that the CHARACTER cant know) as my character has no idea he even exists.

 

My question is: Is there a mod that provides an alternate path for this that someone has found? I cant seem to find one on the nexus but they could have given it a strange name.

 

I thought this one was brilliant for the thieves guild issue:

 

http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/14157

 

I wonder if there isn't a similar mod for winter hold?

 

If not I might be willing to hop in the CK and make one.

[Ark of Truth]

Do the mission then after it is finished use the console to remove that faction from your character.

 

Or just use the console to bypass the quest.

[Asariphile]

Do the mission then after it is finished use the console to remove that faction from your character.

 

Or just use the console to bypass the quest.

 

 

True... that's still pretty metagame though. Anyone know where I could get a decent tutorial for modding quests and dialog?

[Ark of Truth]

If you know how it was done in Oblivion it's pretty much the same.

 

As for tutorials Google would be yout best bet. I could make a ESP whixhs edits it but I'm not near my computer to do it.

 

I can do it after sleep though.

[gaggedgirl123]

Well there's not really anyone that tells you to do it, but there's a door that leads to the midden. You actually have to search it manually as I'm pretty sure it's not on the map.

 

Thing is, just adding an NPC that tells you of this door should be enough

[Asariphile]

Thanks guys, I'm going to try adding some dialog to the winterhold innkeeper about a crazy man mumbling about the elder scrolls. Which will call the same scripts that talking to Urag does. Ill even have him give me a "copy" the same book that he left there.

 

 

EDIT:

 

I also found this:

 

http://www.theengineeringguild.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=642:skyrim-quest-making-tutorial&catid=20&Itemid=193

 

if anyone wants a better tutorial for quest modding.