annathepiper | Initial Commentary on Tuxborn (Reply)

I hadn’t intended to start my playthrough of the Tuxborn modpack quite yet; I’d been thinking I’d finish Kendeshel’s playthrough first.

But well, hell, it’s been a bad week, and I wanted to do something to lift my spirits a bit. So I got started running my latest Skyrim playthrough, starring Nona the Imperial!

I’m going to put up two posts about this–one to cover the actual played action, and another to cover a bunch of thoughts about all the changes Tuxborn makes to the game. Doing this to cut down on length for each post!

This post will be the one with general commentary about the modpack, so consider this to be the first wave of commentary in what’s likely to be a lot of thoughts to come. Commentary here isn’t in any particular order; it’s just thoughts as they came to me, reviewing the session’s screenshots. But the post is arranged roughly in order of how I encountered things as I played my first session.

And just about all of this commentary is spoiler-free, unless you consider discussion of character appearances, game behavior, and game mechanics spoilers.

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