Having an issue where the mod doesn't appear to be doing anything. I'm on a new game, have not gained any skill points yet, and I have Alternate Skill Books loaded last. I'm using the Alternate Life mod, and started as an apprentice at the College of Winterhold. When I read the book in Faralda's room for Destruction magic, I get a full skill point as per vanilla. It's literally the first skill point I end up getting. I've tried reloading the save, re-installing the mod, and picking it up and then dropping it before reading (I also have a mod to pick up books instead of reading them). The only thought at this point that I can think of is that I have the mod World Dawn, which does have features that affect skill experience gain (depending on attributes). I'd rather not delete that as I was looking forward to it for this run.
The name is "The Art of War Magic II". I found (so far) 4 other books that all give a skill point in the College. If that's not an original, perhaps the others aren't? Now that you mention it, I also have Immersive College of Winterhold. It's description doesn't mention new books, but it wouldn't surprise me if it had some.
Do you know an easy to find original book that I could test with?
Yah, that's not an original book, you can see the name of all the original in game skill books on the wiki: https://elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/Skill_Book_(Skyrim)
An easy way to test them is just to use console prid player additem 0001AFEE 1
0001AFEE is the formId of one of the original destruction skill book, you can find any others on the wiki too.
Before I saw your most recent message I found an original book in the College, and it worked as intended (I assume; I got the message that my skill would grow faster, but it doesn't appear in the list of magic effects). So thank you!
I guess it's not terrible to get extra magic skill points since I'm playing a mage.
I couldn't get this mod working but then I realized that I had to drop my skill books on the ground first and read them like that, apparently it doesn't work for books that are already in your inventory/storage. I had previously been using the "Improved Skill Books" mod that lets you pick up skill books without reading them. Might wanna add this to your description in case other people have the same problem as me?
Awesome idea! I am looking forward to it. The number of times I've accidentally picked up a book and gained my point when I could have done it by casting a spell twice is annoying!
I'll try this out immediately. It always felt a bit ridiculous, sending my sneak archer down into a dungeon, "oh hey, there's a book", and BOOM, skill increase in a skill she never uses. Messes up one's levelling, too. Fixing the problem in this way is a brilliant idea, so thanks for sharing this mod.
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Thanks
Any ideas? Thank you
What's the name of the book that you found in Faralda's room? It might be a new one added by another mod instead of the original ones.
Do you know an easy to find original book that I could test with?
https://elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/Skill_Book_(Skyrim)
An easy way to test them is just to use console
prid player
additem 0001AFEE 1
0001AFEE is the formId of one of the original destruction skill book, you can find any others on the wiki too.
I guess it's not terrible to get extra magic skill points since I'm playing a mage.
I know your time is as limited as everyone's.
So if you get a chance it would be super! :)
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/25887/
Is there a way to get this mod working in SSE?
Although tbh it's a bit op either way, but that's just me.