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Becoming a Lich

(originally posted by unknown)

I thought I'd put a slight new twist in the game and try to become a lich. This would be essentially similar to a vampire with a few differences. The first step is, of course, to become a vampire as one normally would. Once that has been accompished you'll need to edit several files.

• Change your face into that of a lich. Vampire faces are contained in the file VAMP00i0.CIF. I've created a skeleton like face which is available on the Daggerfall Graphics Page which will work fine. You will need to use Andypic and play with the X and Y position of the picture to get it right. Probably the easier way is to extract your vampire face and load it up into an editor. Copy the skeleton face into it and shift it until the eyes match up. Feel free to create your own 'lich' face, I'd love to see it.
• Change your body into that of a lich. I've created a semi-decent skeleton also available on the Daggerfall Graphics Page. Find your body image which can be found in the BODY0?i?.IMG files. You will probably need to change the size and position of the image a bit to match depending on your race. The skeleton was made for a male Redguard. It doesn't fit everthing 100% since everything is much skinnier than normal so you'll have to wear things to cover it up....of course you'll have to wear things anyways otherwise people would be fleeing in terror.
• Edit your savegame to make yourself immune to poison and disease. Your undead now and can't be affected by either. Also make yourself resistant to shock since this has a lesser effect on you.
• Give yourself a critical weakness to fire...very deadly to undead. Also give yourself low tolerance to cold (wouldn't want those bones to shatter now would we). Any previous weaknesses/resistances etc... other than those mentioned can be left as is.
• Give yourself a bonus to hit undead. Since you are one of the more powerful undead yourself, you have 'insight' or power over the other beings. Give yourself a phobia of humans since they generally want to kill you in nasty ways.
• In order for your reputation not to drop (you are a walking skeleton after all), you must do several things. First, ensure that you are covered as much as possible from head to toe at all times. Next, to futhur ensure people don't recognize you for who you really are, make a magical item to 'disguise' your looks. It can be any magical item really, just make it give it powerful enchantments including the soul of a lich. It probably should have a spell that is cast at all times although I find this annoying, I'll leave it up to you.

That is it really, not too much different than a vampire, but your character portrait is now real cool. Feel free to make comments or suggestions on this.

I don't know where to put this. It either should be deleted, or should be the seed for a "daggerfall mod ideas" page' --Uniblab 00:24, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

controls suck

is there a way to change the controls in the game the default controls are terible! pls help! — Unsigned comment by 70.115.61.54 (talk) at 17:20 on 9 July 2010

hex edit membership

anybody know either how to do this or where to start looking? I want to be able to edit whether I'm in a join able faction, I'll post if I find it, it seems like it should be simple but maybe it isn't... — Unsigned comment by 24.38.235.96 (talk) at 20:15 on 30 September 2012