INTRO

Having played through the main quest a few times I've been restarting Skyrim via Alternative Start: Live Another Life, generally choosing a 'you
start at a campsite' start.

I have found myself disappointed, however, that my nord hunter always starts with knowledge of the arcane arts that I KNOW my nord hunter does not have. While I like that magic is in the world, I do not like that in Skyrim magic skill is forced upon the player. While this batch file doesn't, on its own, totally rectify this problem of role-playing, it does do the following:

• Sets all magical skills to 0. Now you have the choice to develop magic skills or not have them at all.
• Sets Magicka to 0. (Can be raised, obviously, via leveling or enchanted items etc.)
• Sets other skills to normal levels, providing a little boost to marksman, one-handed, light armor and smithing.
• Sets the starting carry weight to 150 (down from 300) because bolting across the plains of Whiterun in search of a deer whilst carting around 300 units of shyte MUST require some form of necromancy (note: weight capacity will increase with stamina. And backpacks via other mods will increase carry weight more immersively).
  

I have also added the lowest level (ZUL) of the throw voice shout because I think that this is a skill a nord hunter certainly would have. Although shouts technically involve magic, I think this particular one mimics something one could very easily accomplish without magic (one could throw a stone to distract, or shoot an arrow).

Finally, for my own convenience, I have also set the Timescale to 5.


INSTRUCTIONS

• Download file manually
• Extract file into Steamapps\Common\Skyrim\    (Not into \Data\)
• Upon new game (after choosing race etc.) type ' to get into the console and type [bat nordhunter]  (without square brackets)
  

OTHER MOD RECOMMENDATIONS

Here is a list of mods that I use to allow for no magic character builds:

Starting Spell Choice (+ patch if using Alternative Start) - to start without flames + healing spells.
TOMES - to increase requirements for learning spells

And no hunter play-through is complete without these essential mods:

Campfire
FrostFall
Realistic Needs and Diseases
Hunterborn
Alternative Start: Live Another Life + New Beginnings addon
Warburgs 3d paper map (with no GPS patch)
iHud
Animallica (I use the deer variant edition)
Better Eagle Eye Redux
Wearable Lanterns
Realistic Nights
Fast Respawn
Take Notes
Alchemist Journal
Woodsman's Shack
Nature's Lure - Throw Voice Shouts