So I sitting here playing skyrim again and I looted a cool looking mace, it looked like a morning star but it didn't have so many spikes, it was the iron mace. Now I was currently using the steel mace but I prefer the look of the iron mace and that got me thinking. what if, when we created a weapon at the blacksmith shop, we could... customize it... maybe that's the wrong word. here, let me explain.

The weapons all have base stats like damage, speed, so on so forth. well you can modify (ahh lets use that word!) the weapon ONLY when you are making it at the forge. so lets say you are making a steel mace. You are given the option: add little spikes, increase speed by what ever but decrease damage by 1. add 4 big spikes, decrease speed by 2, increase damage by 3.

on swords you could add seraded blade that would increase damage but decrease speed. (decrease speed because the teeth may get caught in the armor or something.

what do you guys think? could this kind of system work? of course you could just leave the weapon as it's base is, but adding the modification would use more resources. I just think it would be cool to add something like that, kinda personalize each weapon..

I actually like this idea, I love finding unique weapons in the game, making your own would be cool! I find it annoying to have a "unique" weapon that may have a cool effect or enchantment, but looks like a normal weapon appropriate to your level.

But like you yourself said, this would take up resources and I can imagine this would be hard to implement in the game...

Maybe not aa dlc in this game, but nearly any idea is possible in the furture with the next gen consoles and whatnot coming out.

I too would like to see this feature as it would give us a reason to forge more for the truely unquie weaponariy.

I would like to extend this to armour though as there is more varients in game but we can only craft one version of each avialible armour.

Apart from steel

I have thought about this before, and would also like to add jewels to the hilts and change the colors without changing the design. It would be nice to personalize weapons. I'm in favor of this, changing blade, possibly color and maybe adding jewels.