This is a rather simple mod that put a "Silence" effect on your character, removing their ability to cast spells. The Silence effect will be applied to your character the first time you enter the game after applying the mod, and even works for characters who are well into the game. If you are starting a new game the mod will also remove your starting spells (thanks to "No Starting Spells" by Toren/TheDCProject for showing me how to do this). Your character will still be able to quaff potions (and indeed, partake in Alchemy in general) as well as cast spells from any scrolls you happen upon in the course of your travels.


But, why would you want to do this?
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Well, this mod is for people like me who would like to try to play a low-magic style character but do not have the discipline to stop themselves from casting a spell every now and then. I know that this mod is almost entirely un-needed if you have enough discipline to stop yourself from resorting to magic, but I am hoping that this is helpful to a few people.



Are there any problems caused by this mod?
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Well, that depends on what you mean by "problems". One thing that this mod does is to place a non-removeable "Silence" ability onto a character. Once applied it cannot be dispelled, which means that in save games after the effect has been applied the Silence will remain on your character even if you turn the mod off in the Data files section. If you are testing this mod out I would advise not saving, or at least not saving over the top of a save game you could use to revert to the un-silenced condition.

*** DISCLAIMER: please don't send me abusive PM's if you've used this mod & then saved over the top of your only save file and now can't revert back to a character with magical ability. I'll repeat myself: The silence effect is permanent in any savegames created with the mod active. If you find that you would rather have your magical ability you will need to turn off the mod, then revert to a savegame created before you applied this mod.

Another thing that may be a problem for some players is that in order to allow the player's Racial powers and those given by their Birthsign I had to set them so that they are not impeded by Silence. Most of them were already marked in this fashion and I don't really feel that this unbalances the gameplay all that much, but if you have a problem with this then perhaps this mod is not for you. I see the Racial powers and the Birthsign powers as inherent abilities rather than magical ones, so I didn't feel that they needed to be stripped out.



Installing the mod:
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This mod is remarkably easy to install.

1. Place Ungifted.esp into your Oblivion Data directory
2. Enable Ungifted.esp in the "Data Files" section of the Oblivion Launcher

and voila! You're off and running.