I got the idea from this mod:

http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/12766

And these chests:

http://static.skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/images/12766-5-1331586732.jpg

In order to make exploring more rewarding and to offer some, "Hell ya!" suprises, I suggest we:

1. Position 100+ golden chests throughout the land of Skyim in very unique and difficult to find locations.
2. Inside each chest will be a wonderful piece of loot that is derived from some other armor/weapon mod located on the Nexus
3. Some chests could be guarded by a high (non scalable) monster

In order to accomplish this mod, you would need to find the most popular armor/weapon mods on the nexus and get the permission from the authors to add them to this list. You would then need to make it so the armor could only be obtained from these golden chests and not from a smith.

Here are some armor and mod ideas:

All of the hentai armors
The Witcher 2 armors
Nico's weapon
Heroic Dwarven armor
and tons more


If someone can take up this mod, I can come up with a ton more armors/weapons for the chests. I will also help get permission from the author.


TL;DR
100+ golden chests located in unique and difficult to find locations throughout skyrim. Each chest containing legendary loot and some of them gaurded by elite monsters.

For the most part I think this is a good idea, it's just the execution that concerns me. More reasons to explore the overworld are always welcome in my game, and who can say no to some shiny treasures? That said, if this mod were to exist, I probably wouldn't actually use it for a handful of reasons. First off, placing golden chests in 100+ locations means there are that many places it will potentially conflict with the many other mods I have installed. Secondly, I find it hard to imagine anyone could secure the permissions to use 100+ WORTHWHILE custom items in your mod, and most likely you'd have to have users download the original mods first and use resources from them, which just make installation and updates a major hassle. Finally, even if you secure these 100+ items, I can't imagine you'll find a lot of mod-users with the same taste on what mish-mash of items by different creators to add to the game (personally I hate hentai style armors, and I hate adding armours from other games to the elder scrolls universe. I've got nothing against people doing this, but I would never add them to my game). By that point, it seems like the creator is the only person who'd really use it, and that would be ridiculous since whoever creates it will already know the location of all these "hidden" goodies

If you took, say, a unified set of items from a single author (like Armamentarium from Oblivion) and made a distribution like this for them, THEN I would download it (assuming the armours are armours I like to begin with), but otherwise I just don't see how this could occur practically. And I always think combining multiple people's mods will be potentially messy.

Sorry to be a downer; I just left work, and my normally sunny disposition hasn't returned yet