Morrowind

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1 Topics
- 1.1 Skills
- 1.2 Mods
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Skills

Major skills start at +30pts and are trained faster.
Minor skills start at +15pts.
As soon as a total of 10 points have been gained among your major and minor skills (with respect to the scores of the previous level), you will gain a level.
More than 10 points can be accumulated without going up a level, allowing you to rest and gain a level several times in a row — but bonuses (see below) are calculated from the number of points gained since the previous level, making this generally a bad idea.
When you gain a level, you can increase the value of 3 chosen attributes (strength, willpower, intelligence, etc.).
An attribute is increased by at least 1 point and at most 5 points, called the attribute modifier.
Each skill has an associated governing attribute. The total amount of skill points gained for each governing attribute determine the attribute modifier. You take the total number of skill points gained with the same governing attribute and divide it by 2 (rounding down). This is the attribute modifier (with a minimum of 1).
There is one catch: each of your misc. skills can at most contribute 4 points (or at most 2 points to the attribute modifier). (Is this true? I seem to recall adding more than that.)
Luck never receives any modifiers. At most, you can increase it one point per level. This makes it a good idea to increase it every time you level up, and attempt to keep your modifiers to two skills.
If you do the math right, you will see that you need a total of 10 points increase with skills that are governed by a certain attribute, in order to get the +5 modifier. If you like to be a calculating adventurer, you need to write down all your scores when you leveled, to be able to get the highest modifiers.
The above means, that as a rule, you want to keep at least one skill that contributes to a certain attribute in your misc. skills, so you can adjust the skill points gained by at least 4 points when you level up, without having to increase one of your major/minor skills.
In order to level up naturally, you want to put skills that you use the most (or plan to use the most) in your major and minor skills.
Never put Athletics and/or Acrobatics in your major or minor skills or otherwise you gain levels too quickly.
For the same reason, I wouldn't recommend to make Sneak one of your major skills.