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Challenging Spell Learning

October 18, 2018, 4:29 am

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Learn spells by completing a short ritual that drains your magicka
If you run out of magicka during the ritual you do not learn the spell
The magicka cost of the ritual is proportional to the magicka cost of the spell, and can be adjusted in the MCM
Keep the book after the ritual and re-read it to try again or to forget a learned spell
Includes auto-patching xEdit script for 100% compatibility with everything

[size=5][center][color=#93c47d]Summary[/color][/center][/size]Challenging Spell Learning changes the bland vanilla spell learning system to increase the challenge, risk and satisfaction of spell learning. Instead of instantaneously "consuming" spell tomes to learn the spell, reading a spell tome will now start a learning ritual that tests your magical abilities. During the ritual your magicka will steadily drain, and to learn the spell you must complete the ritual without running out of magicka. Because the rate at which the ritual drains your magicka is proportional to the cost of the spell, all but the most basic spells are effectively off limits to characters with no investment in magicka or magical skills. However, as your character improves, more and more spells will become within their reach, resulting in a natural progression from novice to master. Nonetheless, learning master spells will remain a real challenge for even high level mages, requiring thought and preparation.

Here's a video showing the mod in action. First a low level warrior fails to learn a novice destruction spell, then a low mage tries the same but succeeds because of their perks and gear. Finally, the same mage tries to learn an apprentice alteration spell but fails.

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[youtube]1fHd5XhPikw[/youtube][/center]

[color=#6fa8dc][size=3]How it works[/size][/color]
When you read a spell book for the first time, a menu opens asking you if you want to try to learn the spell. If you select "yes" your inventory will close and your character will start the learning ritual (complete with pretty animations and visual effects). During the ritual you are unable to control your character and their magicka will drain at a rate proportional to the cost of the spell. After 10 seconds, if your character has any magicka remaining they will acquire the spell and regain their lost magicka. However, if they have run out of magicka they will be struck down and suffer mental exhaustion, a disease that reduces total magicka and greatly reduces magicka regeneration rate.

The rate at which magicka is lost during the ritual is given by the square root of the cost of the spell multiplied by a value that can be adjusted in the MCM (by default it is 2.5). The square root is used because spell costs increase dramatically and I wanted to ensure that basic spells are just about learnable for new characters, while master spells remain possible to learn, but only for highly skilled mages.

Magicka loss during the ritual is proportional to the amount of magicka it would cost your character to cast the spell, not the spell's base cost. So if you have perks that reduce the cost of the spell you are trying to learn, they will similarly reduce the rate of magicka loss during the ritual. The magicka drain can also be resisted by resist magic potions or enchantments. Accordingly, to learn a master spell you will want to have taken any perks that reduce the cost of the spell, wear special gear to further reduce the cost or increase your character's magic resistance, drink a restore magicka potion prior to starting the ritual and have invested in your total magicka pool when leveling up.

After the ritual you keep the spell tome. So if you failed you can try again when your character is better prepared. If you succeeded, reading the spell tome again will cause you to forget the spell, which is useful for de-cluttering you spell inventory (this doesn't work for flames or healing which are baked into your character).

[color=#6fa8dc][size=3]Configuration[/size][/color]
The MCM allows you to change the rate at which your character loses magicka while performing the spell learning ritual. By default it is 2.5. Higher values will make spell learning harder, lower values will make it easier.

[color=#93c47d][size=5][center]Installation[/center][/size][/color][color=#6fa8dc][size=3]Requirements[/size][/color]
[b]SKSE [/b]- the ability to set the rate of magicka loss during the ritual as a function of the cost of the spell you are trying to learn relies on new functions added by SKSE.
[b]SkyUI[/b] - only needed if you want to change the rate of magicka loss during the spell learning ritual.

[color=#6fa8dc][size=3]Installation[/size][/color]
This mod comes with an xEdit script to automatically patch it for any other mods in your load order. This means that spell tomes added by other mods will automatically be affected by Challenging Spell Learning. It also automatically resolves conflicts between Challenging Spell Learning and other mods that edit spell tomes, like Book Covers Skyrim. To install Challenging Spell Learning and make the patch follow these instructions:

1. Install any other mods you want to use and resolve any conflicts between them.
2. Install CSL - install both the main esp and the xedit script. Make sure the esp is placed at the bottom of your load order.
3. Install [url=https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/25859]TES5Edit[/url].
4. Move the file "CSL_Patch_Update.pas" from wherever you installed CSL to the Edit Scripts directory inside wherever you installed TES5Edit.
5. Run TES5Edit, and make sure to load all esps in your load order.
6. Once TES5Edit is loaded, right click on "challenging_spell_learning.esp" (it should be at the very bottom) and select "apply script".
7. From the drop down menu choose "CSL_Patch_Update.pas" and then click OK
8. It will take a few seconds and a lot of stuff might be printed out, once its finished exit TES5Edit remembering to save changes to the Challenging Spell Learning esp when prompted.

Notes:
- I suggest placing CSL at the bottom of your load order, but strictly speaking it only needs to be below any mods that add or edit spell tomes.
- Installing on an existing save can cause stability issues, and so new games are recommended. To minimize these problems on existing saves, I suggest removing all spell tomes from your inventory prior to installing, you may also want to wait for merchant inventories to reset before trading with them again.

[color=#6fa8dc][size=3]Performance impact[/size][/color]
None

[color=#93c47d][center][size=5]Compatibility[/size][/center][/color]
Thanks to the patcher, I believe that Challenging Spell Learning is compatible with everything.

[color=#93c47d][size=5][center]Synergistic Mods[/center][/size][/color]Challenging Spell Learning is basically a standalone mod. However, mods that change restore magicka potions to act over time (e.g. CACO) will help you pass the spell learning trials. Vanilla potions cannot help you because they act instantaneously and once you start the ritual you are locked out of your inventory.

[color=#93c47d][size=5][center]Future Plans[/center][/size][/color]Adding a zedit patcher (thanks to IriFlina); improving the xEdit script's ability to auto add spell descriptions to book contents; adding new features and animations to the ritual.

[color=#93c47d][center][size=5]Acknowledgements[/size][/center][/color]
A huge thank you to cdcooley who provided me with the xedit script. Thanks also to several users who provided patches before the script was available: agentw, Rokendov, FetorMortem, and Nyrhi. Finally, thanks to everyone who contributes to the creation kit wiki and nexus forums. It took a lot of googling to get the animations working the way I wanted.

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