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About this mod
In the vanilla game the player is given a fake speech check upon initial visit to Riften when attempting to enter through the west and south gates. This mod remedies that.
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Problem:
In the vanilla game the player is presented with 3 speech checks - Persuasion, Bribery, Intimidation - when approaching Riften for the first time through the west(docks) and south(travelling from Ivarstead) gates. None of these speech checks are actually passable, no matter how high your skills are, because a success dialogue and scene simply does not exist in the game files.
Solution:
This mod touches 1 quest(DialogueRiftenGateGuards) to add 3 success dialogues for Speech/Bribe/Intimidate provided your skill, money, and level is high enough, as well 2 basic scenes to show the western and southern guards unlocking their respective gates. Included is a fix for a vanilla bug where you can never fail the north gate speech check due to an incorrect condition.
The speech check is set to easy difficulty which means you need to have at least 25 points in speechcraft.
For Bribe amount and Intimidate chance formulas see: https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Speech
Installation:
Safe to install at any point but you won't see any changes if you have already visited Riften.
Note:
It was probably designed the way it is in the vanilla game so that the player is railroaded into witnessing the conversations between Mjoll/Aerin, Sapphire/Shadr, and encounter Maul upon entry to Riften. I think the city itself is small enough that players would cross their paths sooner or later anyway. That and it's not very RPG-like to have fake speech checks.