Skyrim Bookstores

[Arron Dominion]

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Adds Book Stores to the major towns. Something I missed seeing from Oblivion and Morrowind was finding bookstores in the various towns. Each bookstore sells the Cheap and Common book set, so do not expect skill books or anything potentially borked, only for roleplay value. The owners are highly paranoid of thieves, so very few books are on display

This mod also adds skill magazines similar to the ones you would see from Fallout.

Hope you enjoy.

What is added:
-5 bookstores, one in each of the major towns
-Skill magazine for each of the skills, duration 5 hours.

Known bugs:
None at this time

Known incompatibilities:
-Thievery Overhaul - Download the Shenk Overhaul version and use this instead of the normal version.

Additional credit:
Adventure Time Journyman of Ooo - skill magazines idea
karrakaz - bug fixes and suggestions
Shadow_Dragyn - Whiterun Owner name change suggestion

Revision History:
v5(current):
-Fixed Markarth Book Store navigation errors and store behavior.
-Added gold to each of the owners, now you can actually sell to them.
-Fixed Solitude Book Store navigation errors and store behavior.

v4:
-Added skill magazines:
Insights into The Best Defense - Heavy Armor
The Potent Editions - Alchemy
Daily Manipulation - Alteration
Tips on Daedric Creations - Conjuration
Snippets on Tricking The Eye - Illusion
Poke-and-Prod Weekly - One-Handed
Healer's Digest - Restoration
The Daily Block - Block
Shadows Hide You Chronicles - Sneak
The Morning Berserker - Two-Handed
Horse Salesman Pitch Daily - Barter (Speechcraft)
Methods of Brute Magicka - Destruction
Practice on Embedding Magicka - Enchanting
Security Edge Daily - Lockpicking
The Hunting Enthusiast - Marksman
The Apprentice Journey - Smithing
Smooth Moves Practice - Pickpocket
Talking Weekly - Persuasion (Speechcraft)
Swift Dodging Chronicles - Light Armor


v3:
- Interiors have Navmeshes
- Stores will now lock
- Solitude location is different, more believable
- Whiterun owner's last name is now more realistic
- Riften owner has a husband now
- Solitude/Markarth owners have daughters now
- Each interior was redone to look more like a bookstore

v2:
-Fixed face bugs

v1:
-The initial release

Notes:
If you want to make your own variation, you are free to do so. It would be nice to credit me in your variation if you use this as your base.

 

Special Edition Note:

This mod hasn't been ported over yet.  I want to overhaul the mod before releasing it over on Special Edition.

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• Submitter
  Arron Dominion
• Submitted
  03/10/2018
• Category
  Other
• Requires
• Special Edition Compatible
  No

 

[SmedleyDButler]

Exterior screenshots of all five shops will be useful for people to see if there are any conflicts with the many, MANY city overhauls.

[karlpaws]

or a list of which ones  you've tested yourself.

 

I think the Solitude shop should work with Dawn of Solitude (I use) but without seeing the others.... going to wait.

[Arron Dominion]

I apologize for the missing exterior images.  I have updated the file to include those images. 

 

The only known conflict is with Shenks Thievery Overhaul in Markarth.  I honestly don't use too many mods, and I have no idea about which ones might be affected with the placements.  This was made really early in original Skyrim's life when the Open Cities mods were just popping up.

[karlpaws]

I'll have to give it a look later.  I think the Markarth one will conflict with Dawn of... it adds two merchants near that stairway.

[karlpaws]

I can upload some pictures if you want, but they don't look to conflict too much.

 

The Markarth one is usable but the doorway is 1/3 covered by a street vendor stall from Dawn of Markarth. The Riften shop brickwork around the door doesn't match the area, but I don't know if that's the tilesets being used or if  you picked that on purpose to look different. I don't think it works, but that might just be taste. Solitude clips some but looks as your screen shot shows, and it completely functional. Whiterun does overlap Ysolda's house but that also fits thematically, for me.

 

EDIT

 

One other thing I noticed was that the Simply Knock mod wasn't recognizing the doors properly and I only got the lock pick option, not Simply's Knock/Leave/Pick options. You might want to check out that and see if there is a location property or something missing in yours.  I don't know if whatever is missing will matter at all game wise or not

[snarfies]

Are the skill mags specific to these stores only, or will they show up in other vendor lists?  Like, could I use the mod and get skill mags from the bookstores added by ETAC?

[Arron Dominion]

I don't believe I added the skill magazines to the vending lists.  I can look into making that change if it is something people would like to see.