About this mod
A complete balance overhaul to the racial bonuses and powers.
- Requirements
- Permissions and credits
This mod was also balanced around my birthsigns overhaul mod. So whether it be vanilla bithsigns or my birthsign overhaul mod the balance should be fine! I will eventually look into balancing the attributes between the races but I wanted to focus on the powers/passives at the moment.
Manual Install:
Drop Raceoverhaul.esp into Steam\steamapps\common\Oblivion
Remastered\OblivionRemastered\Content\Dev\ObvData\Data and add
Raceoverhaul.esp to your plugins.txt (Or use a mod manager ez pz)
Bugs:
- Anyone getting the NL text error needs to download NL-Tag Remover.
- If you get an issue with missing powers on your current save try using the console command showracemenu and select/reselect your race. I have a save at the sewers and I personally have not had to completely restart the tutorial.
- Some people are having issues with Feather passive not working, Feather does not work as a passive ability and instead I had to make it a permanent disease. Some people are saying it works but only gives +4 feather. If this is the case I suggest trying the mod by itself because I have had no issue and could be a mod conflict.
Changes:
Attribute System:

Argonian:
Passive: Histkin.
- Water Breathing on Self.
- Resist Normal Weapon 15% on Self.
- Resist Poison 90% on Self.
- Resist Disease 75% on Self.
- Fortify Unarmed 10 points on Self.
- Regenerate 1 HP per second on Self.
Lesser Power: Focused Regeneration.
- Restore 10 HP for 30 seconds on self.
- Restore 10 Fatigue for 30 seconds on self.
- Inflicts 50% weakness to Normal Weapon on self for 30 seconds.
- Inflicts 50% weakness to Magic on self for 30 seconds.
Attributes-
+5 SPD
+5 END
+5 AGL
+10 WILL
Skills-
+5 Illusion
+5 Mysticism
+5 Alchemy
+5 Athletics
+5 Sneak
+5 Alteration
Breton:
Passive: Riftborn.
- Fortify Magicka 50 points on self.
- Resist Magic 25% on self.
Lesser Power: Rend Mana.
- Absorb Magicka 5 points per second on touch for 30 seconds.
- Damage HP 25 Points on Self.
Lesser Power: Dragonskin.
- Shield 50 points for 60 seconds on self.
- Absorb Magic 25% for 60 seconds on self.
- Drain Magicka 100 points for 60 seconds on self.
Attributes-
+5 PER
+10 INT
+10 WILL
Skills-
+5 Mercantile
+5 Alteration
+5 Mysticism
+5 Destruction
+5 Conjuration
+5 Restoration
Dark Elf:
Passive: Ashborn.
- Fortify Magicka 50 points on self.
- Resist Fire 75% on self.
- Resist Disease 75% on self.
- Weakness to Cold 25% on self.
Lesser Power: Ancestor Guardian.
- Summon Ancestor Guardian for 60 seconds.
Lesser Power: Ancestor's Retribution.
- Reflect Damage 25% on Self for 60 seconds.
- Reflect Spell 25% on Self for 60 seconds.
- Drain Magicka 100 Points on Self for 60 seconds.
Greater Power: Ancestor's Wrath.
- Inflict 50% Weakness to Fire on Target for 30 seconds.
- Inflict 5 Fire Damage per second on Target for 30 seconds.
Attributes-
+5 STR
+5 AGL
+5 END
+5 WILL
+5 INT
Skills-
+5 Blade
+5 Block
+5 Athletics
+5 Mysticism
+5 Destruction
+5 Conjuration
High Elf
Passive: Highborn.
- Fortify Magicka 150 points on self.
- Weakness to Magic 50% on self.
- Resist Disease 75% on self.
Lesser Power: Mana Strike. (Costs 50 Magicka)
- Inflicts 50% weakness to Magic for 30 seconds on touch.
- Drains 100 Fatigue on self for 30 seconds.
Lesser Power: Arcane Wellspring.
- Restore 10 Magicka per second for 15 seconds on self.
- Inflict 100% Weakness to Normal Weapons for 15 seconds on self.
- Inflict 100% Weakness to Magic for 60 seconds on self.
Attributes-
+15 INT
+10 WILL
Skills-
+5 Alteration
+5 Destruction
+5 Restoration
+5 Mysticism
+5 Conjuration
+5 Illusion
Imperial:
Passive: Legion Training.
- Fortify Blade 5 points on self.
- Fortify Blunt 5 points on self.
- Fortify Block 5 points on self.
- +25 Fatigue on self.
Lesser Power: Voice of the Emperor.
- Charm 100 Points on touch for 60 seconds.
- Calm 100 Points on touch for 60 seconds.
- Drain Fatigue 100 points on self for 60 seconds.
Lesser Power: Star of the West.
- Absorb 100 Fatigue on touch.
- Damage Personality 5 points on self.
Attributes-
+5 STR
+5 END
+5 WILL
+10 PER
Skills-
+5 Block
+5 Athletics
+5 Light Armour
+5 Heavy Armour
+5 Speechcraft
+5 Mercantile
Khajiit:
Passive: Feline Ferocity.
- Resist Poison 25% on Self.
- Resist Disease 50% on Self.
- Fortify Unarmed 15 points on Self.
Lesser Power: Feline Agility.
- Fortify Speed 50 points for 30 seconds on self.
- Fortify Athletics 25 points for 30 seconds on self.
- Fortify Acrobatics 25 points for 30 seconds on self.
- Drain Fatigue 100 points for 30 seconds on self.
Lesser Power: Eye of Night
- Night-Eye for 60 seconds on self.
Attributes-
+5 AGL
+5 STR
+5 END
+10 SPD
Skills-
+5 Athletics
+5 Security
+5 Sneak
+5 Speechcraft
+5 Mercantile
+5 Acrobatics
Nord:
Passive: Northman
- Resist Frost 75% on Self.
- Weakness to Fire 25% on Self.
- Shield 10 points on Self.
Lesser Power: Nordic Frost (Costs 30 Magicka)
- Frost Damage 100 points on touch.
- Drain 100 Fatigue on Self for 15 seconds.
Lesser Power: Battlecry.
- Demoralize 100 Points on target for 5 seconds.
- Damage Fatigue 100 points on self.
Lesser Power: Woad
- Shield 50 points for 60 seconds on self.
- Magic Resist 50% for 60 seconds on self.
- Drain Fatigue 200 points for 60 seconds on self.
Attributes-
+5 WILL
+10 STR
+10 END
Skills-
+5 Athletics
+5 Armorer
+10 Heavy Armour
+10 Light Armour
+10 Blunt
+10 Blade
Orc:
Passive: Orsimer
- Resist magic 25% on Self.
- Shield 20 points on Self.
Lesser Power: Berserker's Rage
- Fortify Strength 50 Points for 30 seconds.
- Fortify Endurance 50 Points for 30 seconds.
- Fortify Speed 50 Points for 30 seconds.
- Restore Fatigue 30 Points for 30 seconds.
- Damage HP 3 Points for 30 seconds.
- Damage Fatigue 3 Points for 180 seconds.
- Damage Magicka 3 Points for 180 seconds.
Attributes-
+15 STR
+15 END
Skills-
+5 Block
+10 Blade
+10 Blunt
+10 Armorer
+10 Heavy Armour
Redguard:
Passive: Yokudan Blood
- Resist Poison 75% on Self.
- Resist Disease 75% on Self.
- Resist Magic 25% on Self.
Lesser Power: Adrenaline Rush
- Fortify Strength 50 Points for 15 seconds.
- Fortify Agility 50 Points for 15 seconds.
- Fortify Speed 50 Points for 15 seconds.
- Restore Fatigue 30 Points for 15 seconds.
- Damage Fatigue 5 Points for 30 seconds.
- Damage Endurance 5 Points.
Attributes-
+5 AGL
+5 STR
+15 END
Skills-
+5 Blunt
+5 Block
+5 Light Armour
+5 Heavy Armour
+10 Athletics
+10 Blade
Wood Elf:
Passive: Bosmer
- Fortify Magicka 50 Points on Self.
- Resist Poison 50% on Self.
- Resist Disease 75% on Self.
- Restore Fatigue 3 Points on Self.
Lesser Power: Beast Tongue. (Costs 50 Magicka)
- Command Creature 100 Points on Target for 300 seconds.
Lesser Power: Focus.
- Fortify Marksman 25 points on self for 30 seconds.
- Drain Fatigue 100 points on self for 30 seconds.
Lesser Power: Evasion.
- Fortify Athletics and Acrobatics 25 points on self for 30 seconds.
- Drain Fatigue 100 points on self for 30 seconds.
Attributes-
+10 AGL
+10 SPD
+10 WILL
Skills-
+5 Athletics
+5 Acrobatics
+5 Light Armour
+5 Sneak
+10 Markman