Oblivion-Style Troll Health Regen Mod

QUICK DESCRIPTION

· In Oblivion, Trolls have a regen of 2% per second.

· In Skyrim, Trolls can only regen .5% per second.

· This mod increases the Troll Race's AbTroll (health regen) ability to 2% per second, making their health regen consistent with Oblivion.

· UPDATE: This mod increases the Frost Troll Race's health regen ability to 3% per second, making them slightly more resilient than their generic counterparts.

· Optional patch for Beyond Skyrim - Bruma to ensure that River Trolls and Savage trolls receive similar regenerative buffs. River Trolls: 2% per second. Savage Trolls: 2.5% per second.

· Highly compatible. Only two vanilla records edited (four records total if you use the Beyond Skyrim version).

DESCRIPTION

The Trolls in Skyrim look great, and you're first few encounters with them are harrowing experiences. However, I have always quickly found that they become low level enemies - which is odd, because they are often cited by the game as one of the region's most fearsome beasts.

Rebalancing Trolls across leveled lists is outside the scope of this mod, however. Besides that, I, personally, am looking to do a more vanilla-friendly playthrough - but I still thought that trolls deserved a buff. I did some tinkering in the CK to find a value I was happy with. Before uploading this mod, I popped up the old Oblivion CS to check the Troll's health regen in that game, and learned that it is the same value as the one I changed Skyrim's to.

Which is to say the following: in Oblivion, Trolls can regenerate 2% of their health per second. In Skyrim, they only regenerate .5% of their health per second. This mod simply raises the AbTroll (the health regen ability for their race) to 2% of their health per second up from .5%.

In the update, Frost Trolls are also now effected, and with a slight buff: they will regenerate 3% of their health instead of 2%. This is not a major change, of course, but it should help further distinguish them as the stronger class of Troll. The Dawnguard Armor Trolls should both be effected by these changes; this mod does not alter their unique Racial spells, but their Races are already listed as having the relevant spells in the CK.

There is also an optional file for Beyond Skyrim - Bruma. This will ensure that River Trolls and Savage Trolls receive similar buffs. River Trolls, being weaker, have the same 2% regen as the generic Skyrim Troll; Savage Trolls are stronger and will receive a 2.5% buff.

This shouldn't dramatically alter how you fight Trolls, and the vanilla balance (or, most likely, the balance of your modded setup) will be more-or-less intact, as this mod literally changes one record and doesn't even buff Trolls that much. But they should be able to hold their own a bit later into the game now, bring fire to fight them should be more of a consideration, and your battles should ultimately be more prolonged. That's the hope, anyways. It's a very minor change.

NOTE: The values above two may be altered in the future; I'm thinking it wouldn't be unfair for Frost Trolls to receive a 4% increase, and

Savages to rise up to 3%.

COMPATIBILITY

This mod only edits two records (four if you use the Beyond Skyrim patch), so it shouldn't conflict with mods that don't touch the AbTroll style spells. Also, if you use the mod GRAHL - The Ice Troll (Bloodmoon Creature Restoration Project) SE, the Grahl will inherent the Frost Troll regen ability (I may later make a patch to give them an even bigger increase).

INSTALLATION

It's a single .esl file, so it shouldn't take up a Load Order slot. Just use your favorite mod manager are drop the file into your Skyrim/Data folder.

If you use Beyond Skyrim, download Beyond Skyrim patch in the optional section. Note that this is the ONLY file you need - it will overwrite the non BS version.

CREDITS

Bethesda, for The Elder Scrolls in general and the CK

The TES5Edit team, for their amazing tool

Rayek, for his mod Rayek's End. It's not used in this mod, but the single screenshot I took is from his wonderful interior. You can find his mod here .