Surprise, surprise, we have a lot of Elder Scrolls modding news to cover. However, not all of them centre around actual mods we’ve spotted this week. As we enter pride month, a Skyrim modder is calling upon Bethesda to end its homophobic naming restrictions, which limits what fans can call their LGBTQ+ mods.
Also in the news, Stardew Valley gets a huge fan update, and Sora gets a wild redesign. All of that and more features in our mod round-up this week.
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It’s pride month, something that Bethesda has marked on its social media. However, its homophobic naming policy doesn’t allow “lesbian” or “queer” to be included in the titles for Skyrim and Fallout mods. To right this wrong, modder XilaMonstrr has penned a letter to the company, calling on it to reverse this ban. “As marginalized people, the language that we use to identify ourselves and to find each other is extremely important”, writes XilaMonstrr. “To deny our usage of this language is to deny our very existence.” She continues: "I demand that this policy of suppression of queer identities be changed immediately—the words lesbian [and] queer should be allowed on all mod titles and descriptions."
No one ages in the world of Skyrim. If you have kids, you have kids forever. That all changes with a recent mod showcased by YouTuber Call Me Kevin, however. This mod makes the kids actually grow, but not in the way you’d expect. Rather than ageing with the passage of time, they’ll only grow if they defeat enemies. And if they get defeated instead, they shrink. As you can expect, it’s an absolute mess, and gives you the weirdest family dynamic in all of Skyrim.
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