One of the best things to happen to games is the ability to create mods. Now I'm almost ready to say that Oblivion on the PC is much better than Oblivion on the Xbox for this very reason, however I realize to really enjoy Oblivion you need a bit of cash to buy those wonderful electric toys. That's another discussion for another time.
After playing Neverwinter Nights 1 and 2, Morrowind, Oblivion, and a few other games that allow you to "tweak" the game, I suddenly found myself not playing at all. Sure I have fun saving golden haired children from a horde of demons or zombies (take your pick) and I generally enjoy being a thief character. On a side note, if I had to point out what I think my characters look like, it'd be something like on the blog of Rellington (this website). There's a rather HAHA! looking fellow who looks like he's about to give it to someone good and proper with a knife. Thumbs up to Rellington for such a positive picture of things about to go awry for the forces of evil.
I'm finding myself instead drawn to the toolsets. In NWN 1 and 2 I created a island with a few quests, some beer drinking skeletons for comic relief and then I go back from time to time to add something I've figured out how to do or delete the mod and start over. I suppose I should upload them but I've noticed that for good mods, you get showers of adoration and for the lukewarm to bad mods you get a clump of mud in the face. I couldn't live down mud in the face, it makes for bad PR. I've made some hum dingers though and I think I might finally post my lastest mod. The ICBM arrows for Oblivion.
Its not a serious mod. The arrows are overpowered. I noticed that fire damage to a target or group of targets can send them flying. So I made some arrows that explode on impact and so far I've sent about 100 horribly mangled bears to their doom as they shoot towards the sky. Overpowered, but I can't get over how funny it is to watch those rag dolls fly. Even more funny is when they smack something on the way down.
I would post it on www.tessource.net which is a good website if you want to see what there is in the mod community. I've always found fairly well done mods there. To end this and start fiddling again with my NWN 2 mods, I merely state that my next task is learning how to script. I can do basic things, but as I told my boss, "It's my secret sorrow as an engineer, but I can't program my way out of a paper bag."
