Hey,

Speaking of gameplay overhaul mods, what would you consider your favourite overhaul mod and why? The three main ones I've come across are SkyRe, ASIS and ACE. I use SkyRe and ASIS together but haven't tried ACE yet.

I really want to play through Skyrim for once and for all, but with SkyRe it has great many features but the perk trees have been overhauled to such an extent that it is very difficult to make a viable and fun build. My builds tend to be

• too weak - can't dish out enough damage or dies in 2 hits.
  
• abilities spread too thin to cover every eventuality
  
• Too many ranks of skills each not doing very much requiring lots of game time and grinding to be semi-decent at anything.
  
• Covering everything leads to 10+ skills in Favourites which is fun-breaking having to constantly switching between spells, swords and shields
  
• The power-levelling 'requirement' to survive forces you to take schools of magick you don't want to.

I've tried so many builds and they fall prey to the above. I just want to have fun with a challenge but Vanilla is a snoozefest, the only other good game-play mods I've found is Deadly/Mighty Dragons and Real Unleveled Skyrim. I can't say a bad word about ASIS.

So I ask again, what overhaul mods do you enjoy and why?

Personally, I don't use overhaul mods. I don't think Skyrim needs them. I use a collection of small mods to change very specific aspects of the game.

I went with ACE. It's more modular than SkyRe, and doesn't cover quite as many things as SkyRe does so it's easier to insert stuff around the margins. SkyRe covers a ton of stuff under it's core module so it's an either you like what it does entirely or you drop it completely.

ASIS, Deadly Combat, Deadly Dragons and a bunch of smaller mods are in the mix too.