Blademan's Better Birthsigns


Description:
This is the first part of my mod to redesign the birthsigns in Oblivion.


Here are the general ideas of the mod:

All birthsigns have some kind of constant effect, lesser power, and greater power.
All lesser powers cost 50 Magicka or less
All greater powers can be cast when silenced and ignore spell reflect and absorb.
No script effects will be used to prevent bad scripts and various problems.

Birthsigns are character-concept based, NOT lore based. When you pick the Atronach, for example, in the lore it doesn't say that people born with the Atronach resist elements. But when I pick the Atronach, I want my character to have an atronach's abilities, so I gave that birthsign a resist elements lesser power. I also used ideas from many different sources. I of course stuck with the basic idea of the standard birthsigns, but I used ideas from Morrowind and from other birthsign mods on the internet.

I have added a "Reduced" version in the file list. I weakened many of the powers and abilities or slightly increased cost or reduced duration. This is for those who think the original is too strong or unbalancing. However, I still recommend the original.

Installation:
Unzip the file into your Oblivion Data Directory. It should be here:

Program Files/Bethesda Softworks/Oblivion/Data

When you start the game, go to Data Files and activate the mod.
Note that Oblivion will not check to see if the Birthsigns have changed. If you use this on an existing character, you must hit the tilde ` button above the Tab button to open the console menu and enter "ShowBirthsignMenu" without quotes to change the sign.


Conflicts: This will conflict with any other mod that changes the original 13 birthsigns.


Use: I don't really care if you use this mod for your own projects. Just be sure to give me credit if you use my material for your own mods.

Credits: My brother for helping me out with this mod, Bethesda for making a great series, Tejon for ideas from his Birthsigns Expanded Mod, and BushWaccer for the Lord's Will and Elemental Wall ideas.
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Version Information:

1.1 - Atronach Greater power "Arcane Regeneration" removed.
Warrior Lesser Power "Steadfast" Fatigue restore reduced from 100 to 50.
warrior Greater Power "Battle Cry" Health and Fatigue fortification reduced from 200 to 100.
Mage Lesser Power "Meditate" Magicka restoration reduced from 5 points per second to 3 points per second.
Ritual Greater Power "Mara's Gift" restore health reduced from 500 point to 300 points.
Theif lesser power "Thief's Eye" Magicka cost increased from 20 to 30.
Shadow Ability "mooncalf" Agility bonus raised from 10 to 15.
Shadow Greater Power "Moonshadow" added Drain Speed 20 points for 60 seconds.
Lady Greater Power "Lady's Warden" added.

1.0- Original Release

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There is some terms you should know that I use:

1. For the duration, if I put "Duration 0", it means the effect is instant.
2. When I describe the target I will sometimes say "Wave". This is an area effect
touch spell that does not require a target to explode.


Changes to the 13 birthsigns are as follows:


WARRIOR

Ability: Warwyrd
Fortify Strength 15 points
Fortify Endurance 15 points

Lesser Power: Steadfast (Cost: 40)
Restore Fatigue 50 points on Self, Duration 0
Resist Paralysis 100% on Self, Duration 30

Greater Power: Battle Cry (Cost: 0)
Fortify Strength 30 points on self, Duration 60
Fortify Endurance 30 points on self, Duration 60
Fortify Health 100 on self, Duration 60
Fortify Fatigue 100 on self, Duration 60
Fortify Blade, Blunt, and Hand to Hand 25 points on self, Duration 60


THIEF

Ability: Hara
Fortify Agility 10 points
Fortify Speed 10 points
Fortify Luck 10 points

Lesser Power: Thief's Eye (Cost: 30)
Night Eye on self, duration 60

Greater Power: Silent Assassin (Cost: 0)
Absorb Health 50 points on touch, Duration 0
Absorb Magicka 50 points on touch, Duration 0
Absorb Fatigue 50 points on touch, Duration 0
Silence on Self, duration 30

Greater Power: Thievery (Cost: 0)
Fortify Agility 20 points on self, Duration 60
Fortify Speed 20 points on self, Duration 60
Fortify Luck 20 points on self, Duration 60
Fortify Sneak 25 points on self, Duration 60
Fortify Security 25 points on self, Duration 60


LADY

Ability: Lady's Grace
Fortify Willpower 10 points
Fortify Endurance 10 points
Fortify Personality 10 points

Lesser Power: Lady's Smile (Cost: 30)
Fortify Personality 20 points on self, Duration 30

Greater Power: Lady's Caress (Cost: 0)
Calm level 50 in 20 ft Wave, Duration 60

Greater Power: Lady's Warden (Cost: 0)
Fire Shield 10% on self, duration 60
Frost Shield 10% on self, duration 60
Shock Shield 10% on self, duration 60

STEED

Ability: Charioteer
Fortify Speed 30 points

Lesser Power: Sprint (Cost: 30)
Fortify Speed 30 points on Self, duration 30
Water Walking on Self, duration 30
Damage Fatigue 50 points on Self, duration 0

Greater Power: Unburdened
Feather 1000 points on self, Duration 120
Fortify Speed 50 points on self, Duration 120


MAGE

Ability: Fay
Fortify Magicka 50 points

Lesser Power: Meditate (Cost: 0)
Restore Magicka 3 points on self, Duration 10
Silence on self, Duration 10

Greater Power: Magicka Barrier (Cost: 0)
Resist Magic 100% on self, duration 60


APPRENTICE

Ability: Elfborn
Fortify Magicka 100 points
Weakness to Magic 50%

Lesser Power: Magicka Drain (Cost: 10)
Damage Magicka 50 points on target, duration 0

Greater Power: Balance (Cost: 0)
Resist Magic 100% on self, duration 60
Weakness to Magicka on touch, duration 60

Greater Power: Magicka Overload
Fortify Intelligence 100 points on self, duration 60
Fortify Willpower 100 points on self, duration 60
Fortify Magicka 800 points on self, duration 60
Restore Magicka 10 points on self, duration 60
Weakness to Magicka 150% on self, duration 60


ATRONACH

Ability: Wombburn
Fortify Magicka 200 points
Spell Absorption 50%
Stunted Magicka

Lesser Power: Elemental Wall (Cost: 40)
Resist Fire 20% on self, duration 60
Resist Frost 20% on self, duration 60
Resist Shock 20% on self, duration 60

Greater Power: Magicka Assimilation (Cost: 0)
Spell Absorbtion 50% on self, duration 60


TOWER

Ability: Tower Rampart
Fortify Endurance 10 points
Reflect Damage 5%

Lesser Power: Beggar's Nose (Cost: 20)
Detect Life in 60 feet on self, duration 60

Greater Power: Tower Key (Cost: 0)
Open Lock level 99 (Very Hard) on target

Greater Power: Tower Warden (Cost: 0)
Reflect Damage 20% on self, duration 120


LOVER

Ability: Allure
Fortify Personality 20 points

Lesser Power: Lover's Charm (Cost: 10)
Charm 30 points on touch, duration 30

Greater Power: Lover's Kiss (Cost: 0)
Paralyze on touch, duration 10
Damage Fatigue 120 on self, duration 0


RITUAL

Ability: Mara's Blood
Resist Disease 100%

Lesser Power: Blessed Touch (Cost: 25)
Turn Undead level 25 on touch, duration 30

Greater Power: Mara's Gift (Cost: 0)
Restore Health 300 points on self, duration 0

Greater Power: Blessed Word (Cost: 0)
Turn Undead level 50 in 50 foot Wave, duration 60


SERPENT

Ability: Toxicity
Resist Poison 50%
Resist Paralysis 50%

Lesser Power: Hunter's Sense (Cost: 30)
Detect Life in 30 feet on self, duration 60
Night-Eye on selfm duration 60

Lesser Power: Serpent Strike (Cost: 50)
Damage Health 2 points on touch, duration 20
Damage Magicka 4 points on touch, duration 20
Damage Fatigue 6 points on touch, duration 20
Damage Fatigue 100 points on self, duration 0

Greater Power: Star Curse (Cost: 0)
Damage All Attributes (Except Luck) 30 points on touch, duration 0
Damage All Attributes (Except Luck) 10 points on self, duration 0


LORD

Ability: Trollkin
Weakness to Fire 50%
Restore Health 2 points

Lesser Power: Blood of the North (Cost: 50)
Restore Health 6 points on self, duration 15

Greater Power: Lord's Blessing (Cost: 0)
Restore Health 10 points on self, duration 30
Weakness to Fire 50% on self, duration 30

Greater Power: Lord's Will (Cost: 0)
Command Human level 25 on touch, duration 60


SHADOW

Ability: Mooncalf
Fortify Agility 15 points

Lesser Power: Vanish (Cost: 20)
Invisibility on self, duration 20
Damage Fatigue 50 points

Greater Power: Moonshadow (Cost: 0)
Chameleon 100% on self, duration 60
Drain Speed 20 points on self, duration 60