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TDF Equipment Restrictions for Duelists and Assassins
AUTHOR: Lord Zapharos (www.lordzapharos.com)
DATE: 1 January 2020
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LICENSE AND CREDITS:
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

You are free to share and transform this work (commercially or otherwise) provided you give proper
credit to Lord Zapharos, provide a link to this license, and indicate if changes were made.

I claim no copyright or credit whatsoever for the following mod(s):
    TDF Equipment Restriction by BrotherBob (https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/50042/)


DESCRIPTION:
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In conjunction with Requiem, TDF Equipment Restriction is one of my favorite mods: you have to earn
your powerful weapons/armor with skill, rather than simply speedrunning to get them. However, the
vanilla experience of TDF Equipment Restriction doesn't allow you to be a proper duelist without
also gaining separate Block experience, or to be a dagger-based assassin without One-Handed skills.

This mod remedies the situation by doing the following:

 - All equipment level defaults are set to a more suitable threshold for Requiem leveling speed.
 - Bound weapons (basic) have no skill requirement at all, allowing you to use them from the start.
 - Blocking with a weapon does NOT require experience in Block (only your weapon skill matters).
 - The Sneak skill can be substituted for One-Handed when wielding daggers.
 - Bound weapons and the "unarmed" weapon can no longer be disarmed or unequipped.

There are many effects (both vanilla and mod-added) that can temporarily reduce your skill level.
As with the original TDF mod, these effects can prevent you from using weapons/armor that you would
normally be able to equip. For example, if you normally possess the skill to wield a daedric sword,
catching a disease (or a mod effect e.g. frostbite in Frostfall) may prevent you from wielding that
weapon. Until the effect subsides, you would need to use a weaker weapon type e.g. dwarven instead.

Unlike the original TDF mod, however, effects that reduce your skill level to negative values will
NOT prevent you from using zero-level weapons (e.g. iron, wood, bound weapons, and fists).

This mod synergizes very well with my Dragon Souls Experience System -- check it out!


REQUIREMENTS:
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Skyrim Legendary Edition
TDF Equipment Restriction 2.6.8
Requiem 1.9.4*

* optional (any version should be compatible)


INSTALLATION:
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1. Copy the "Data" folder from this directory to your main Skyrim directory (this is usually found
   in "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\Skyrim").
2. Activate "TDFEquipmentRestrictionsForDuelistsAssassins.esp" with your mod manager of choice.

To uninstall, just deactivate the ESP and remove all added files.


SKYRIM SPECIAL EDITION USERS:
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This mod was designed in Skyrim Legendary Edition and WILL NOT WORK with Skyrim Special Edition. If
you decide to convert this mod to work in Skyrim Special Edition, I would be happy to bundle your
converted version with this mod and give you due credit -- just send me your conversion.


MY OTHER MODS:
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Arrows to Ingots
Better Low-Level Illusion
Dragon Souls Experience System
Finders Keepers (Better Stones of Barenziah)
Guild Ranks and Progression
Inigo Avoid All Combat
Lord Zapharos Default Outfit Changer
Lord Zapharos IO Utilities
Lord Zapharos String Utilities
Necromancy is Hated
Save and Load Cells: Jaxonz Extension
Spriggans Fear Nettlebane
TDF Equipment Restrictions for Duelists and Assassins
The Legendary Red Eagle
Useful Requiem Beverages
Vilja Avoid All Combat
Wait I Know You Bug Fix
Weapon and Armor Etching
Whispering Fang Unarmed Combat
