DEADLIEST WARRIOR
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by Dragatus


DESCRIPTION
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On the Bethseda Softworks Oblivion forum we have Deadliest Warrior tournaments. 16 people sign up their characters and

the host recreates these characters as NPCs. The host will then place these NPCs into the arena, record a series of

duels, then upload the videos to youtube where everyone can watch them.

It's lots of fun, but over time the imbalances between the vanilla skills, races and birthsigns really started to

show. Most prominetly overpowered were the Conjuration skill and the Atronach birthsign, closely followed by the Orc

and Breton races.

This plugin was created to counter that problem and make characters much more balanced. It was designed around level

26 NPC doing around 27 damage per hit (12 from weapon + 15 from enchantment), but it should greatly improve balance

for tournaments hosted at all except the lowest of levels.


INSTRUCTIONS
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The mod consists of a simple plugin that needs to be placed into ".../Oblivion/Data". Use either the launcher or a mod

managing tool like OBMM or Wrye Bash to enable it.

After hosting the 2nd tournament, I made a youtube video detailing how I recorded the fights.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1Ep-Ntf5wg

This is a different plugin, but the proceedure is much the same. Note that the default healing spell has been turned

into a lesser power that toggles a 100% chameleon effect.

Created NPCs are to be placed into the interior cell called dwarena.

I am assuming anyone trying to host a Deadliest Warrior tournament would know how to use the Construction Set and are

familiar with console commands such as tgm, tfc, tm, and coc.

This plugin is not suitable for regular play. The player gets an unbalanced super stealth mode and many summoned

creatures have completly different stats. It's only meant to balance the characters in the Deadliest Warrior

tournaments.


RACES
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Each race has a special ability and gets a +10 bonus to 4 skills.

Altmer
Special ability: 100 Fortify Magicka
Skills: Alchemy, Alteration, Destruction, Illusion

Argonian
Special ability: 100% Resist Poison
Skills: Blade, Illusion, Light Armor, Security

Bosmer
Special ability: Invisibility, Detect Life in 1000 feet
Skills: Blade, Light Armor, Marksman, Sneak

Breton
Special ability: 20% Resist Magic
Skills: Alteration, Conjuration, Illusion, Restoration

Dunmer
Special ability: 60% Resist Fire
Skills: Blade, Destruction, Light Armor, Mysticism

Imperial
Special ability: 60% Resist Shock
Skills: Blade, Blunt, Destruction, Heavy Armor

Khajiit
Special ability: 15% Reflect Damage
Skills: Blade, Hand-to-hand, Illusion, Light armor

Nord
Special ability: 60% Resist Frost
Skills: Blade, Blunt, Heavy Armor, Restoration

Orc
Special ability: 10% Resist Magic, 10% Shield, 50% Resist Paralysis
Skills: Block, Blunt, Hand-to-hand, Heavy Armor

Redguard
Special ability: 10% Reflect Damage, 10% Shield
Skills: Blade, Block, Heavy Armor, Light Armor



BIRTHSIGNS
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Note: The plugin doesn't actually modify existing birthsigns. Instead 9 new abilities and 4 new lesser powers have

been created for use with NPCs. You will find them under Spell/Ability and Spell/Lesser Power in the Construction Set.

All lesser powers cost 100 Magicka to cast.

Apprentice: 200 Fortify Magicka, 20% Weakness to Magic

Atronach: 20% Spell Absorption, 400 Fortify Magicka, Stunted Magicka

Lady: 20% Resist Magic

Lord: 10 Restore Health for 5 seconds on self (lesser power)

Lover: Paralyze for 2 seconds on touch (lesser power)

Mage: 100 Fortify Magicka

Ritual: 10% Reflect Spell

Serpent: 10 Damage Health for 5 seconds on touch (lesser power)

Shadow: 100% Chameleon for 4 seconds on self (lesser power)

Steed: 10% Resist Magic, 10% Shield, 50% Resist Paralysis

Thief: 20 Fortify Luck

Tower: 15% Reflect Damage

Warrior: 10% Reflect Damage, 10% Shield


SKILLS
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All skills except Athletics are governed by Personality. Athletics is governed by Speed.

Hand-to-hand phsycal damage is rebalanced to have the same damage output as a Daedric Dagger. Fatigue damage caused by

Hand-to-hand attacks has also been increased to 100% of physical damage.

Added skill abilities. If characters have the following skills as major skills they should be given their special

ability.

Acrobatics: 5% Reflect Damage (represents dodging and counter-attacking)
Armorer: +5 Blade, +5 Blunt, +5 Marksman, 5% Shield
Blade: +5 Blunt, +5 Hand-to-hand
Blunt: +5 Blade, +5 Hand-to-hand
Hand-to-hand: +5 Blade, +5 Blunt
Heavy Armor: +10 Light Armor
Light Armor: +10 Heavy Armor
Sneak: start the fight invisible


SPELLS
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The plugin contains 13 potions that represent conjuration spells. All summoned creatures have the statistics, the

difference between them is purely aesthetic. Their stats are:

5 damage
150 Health
50% Resist Magic
100% Weakness to Poison

The available summoning potions are:
- Bear
- Flame Atronach
- Frost Atronach
- Storm Atronach
- Clannfear
- Daedroth
- Scamp
- Spider Daedra
- Xivilai
- Skeleton
- Wraith
- Zombie (headless)
- Zombie (normal)


OTHER
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Added new combat style for archer. It's called 0DWArcherStyle. Characters that have it will never switch from a bow to

a melee weapon.



VERSION HISTORY
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1.1
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Changed back governing attribute of Athletics from Personality to Speed.

Added skill abilities.

Made all summoning spells equal.

Altmer Magicka bonus increased from +50 to +100.

Gave Bosmer a Bear companion instead of Invisibility.

Gave Bretons +10 Illusion instead of +10 Mysticism.

Orc racial ability changed from 30 Fortify Health to 10% Resist Magic, 10% Shield, and 10% Resist Paralysis.

Redguard racial ability changed from 25% Shield to 10% Shield and 10% Reflect Damage.

Doubled Magicka bonus from Apprentice, Atronach, and Mage birthsigns.

Lady birthsign bonus changed from 30 Fortify Health to 20% Resist Magic.

Ritual birthsign bonus changed from 20% Resist Magic to 10% Reflect Spell.

Steed birthsign Resist Paralysis has been reduced from 50% to 10%.

Warrior birthsign bonus changed from 25% Shield to 10% Shield and 10% Reflect Damage.

Added 0DWArcherStyle combat style.


1.0
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First release. Hopefully there are no errors.


NOTES
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Everything added by this plugin has the prefix "0DW" so all the potions and abilities should be at the top of their

respective lists.


CONTACT
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I keep my e-mail adress private because it contains my real name, but I come a lot to the official Elder Scrolls

forums where I use the nickname Dragatus. So if you need to contact me for whatever reason, the best way is to send me

a private message on the forums.

http://forums.bethsoft.com/index.php?/forum/13-the-elder-scrolls/