I know it's way late to announce it here, but I never bothered before.
This is a mod for users and modders alike. Hope you find it useful/fun. It's mainly targeted at weapon and armor modders, but anyone can make content plugins for it.





OVERVIEW

• You acquire books that teach you to craft your gear.
  
• You choose what to show on your crafting list
  
• Modders can add more books for weapons, armors and other craftables to the system via plugins
  
• Lorecraft handles all books from its plugins, sending them to its merchant, loot and barter systems

BENEFITS
FOR USERS

• No more cluttered crafting lists: faster and organized crafting
  
• Roleplaying and immersion
  
• Crafting is not about finding the uber sword in a list of trash anymore
  
• Gives you a reason to clear dungerons and hunt dragons
  
• You don't need to worry about incompatibilities or merging leveled lists because Lorecraft uses its own - and already compatible - loot/merchant system
  FOR MODDERS
  
• Your mod will be more fun because your items won't be delivered directly to the player's crafting list, which is pretty boring (and messy)
  
• You can control where the player acquires your books and how rare they are (to a degree)
  
• You can make your item more interesting by adding lore to its book or customizing it*
  
• Adding your item to the world is simple and compatible to other mods - and you don't have to fill boring leveled lists over and over
  
• I can create other interesting ways to reward your craftables in the future without touching your mod

Here's a short video showing how managing works:
[media]www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bigs2PtUDaM[/media]

Here's the mod's page:
http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=9959

And the plugins that have been made:
http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/search.php?name=lorecraft&scid=&author=&mname=&desc=&size1=&size2=&downloads1=&downloads2=&udate1_day=&udate1_month=&udate1_year=&udate2_day=&udate2_month=&udate2_year=&ldate1_day=&ldate1_month=&ldate1_year=&ldate2_day=&ldate2_month=&ldate2_year=&endorsemants=&images=&readme=&advltonly=&opensource=&page=1


Hope you find it interesting/useful and that more people make plugins for it.

Glad you decided to start a thread on the forums ArcaneSmith, this mod needs more exposure, and I believe it to be essential to my load order. I do have a question though:

Do you have any plans to fix not getting XP for items crafted at the tanning rack? Or maybe include an option to move them back to the forge?