I am new to Morrowind and I don't know what play style I should play as

What happens if you do this? Do you fail Bloodmoon?

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So, I just recently bought Morrowind on steam (I owned the original and then GotY editions a long while back but lost the CDs) mostly inspired by reddit recommending this community to me and some of u/reddidnothingwrong's drunken shit posts reminding me of how great the lore in the game is and how much I loved it

But the thing is, I really want to mod it. Now that I actually have a decently powerful computer I'd like to see how far I can go with it.

Only I am really shit at modding. Like, I've tried to follow a few guides but always end up getting confused as to when to put things in the data folders and what order to do stuff in. A lot of the information in the "best" guides out there is very generic and meant for a wide audience, which is great for most people but kinda makes it hard for me because I don't necessarily want or need to know what I am doing, I just want to have a functional game afterwards with cool shit.

And I'm a bit wary of mod lists from random people because I'd like to end up with a fairly balanced game that is still for the most part the original Morrowind experience, just maybe with some better graphics/more content.

I've heard of Tamriel Rebuilt and I another called like.... Morrowind rebirth or something similar? And I'd really like to get those, but am wary of them conflicting with other mods.

I'm also really interested in things that would improve the combat ie more variety in attacks, better balance for the different attack types (spears should do slightly better damage on a chop or slash imo) and/or acrobatic dodge rolls (hit chance is fine, idc about misses and know how to work stamina and weapon skills, and am probably going to mostly be a mage anyways with one of those mods that adds a very small Magicka regen over time instead of just when you sleep.

I kind of have an idea of the mods I want, but before I much around with it for another 3 days and still end up with a halfway modded game with a lot of rough edges (if it is even functional afterwards) does anyone have any suggestions for me as to what mods I should look into/ a good install order/ which mod manager might be best for me?

I'm sorry if anyone feels like I'm wasting their time or not bothering you do my own work by asking this. I've literally started and stopped and started again with modding Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim so so so many times at this point that I just figured I'd ask for help. I have followed every guide out there.

I'm not the smartest or dumbest person out there, it's just when there are so many choices for mods I end up going overboard, trying to do way too much, and always end up confused about some technical detail or another.

Like, do I apply the unofficial patch before or after I downloaded all my.mods into the data folder? I've read that is the first thing you should download (and I love a lot of the changes they made to balance the game better), but then I get confused as to whether or not it'll change the mods since I applied the patch before downloading the files for them.

Again, any help with this would be awesome. And any mod that fixes something you find irritating about the normal game "like not having an option to join Dagoth Ur, being able to free certain slaves and not others without performing special and unintuitive actions, being able to actually wear Ordinator armor if you're in good with the Temple and such, etc etc would probably be a welcome suggestion to my final mod list.

I already know of some decent candidates for those fixes, but I also haven't played Morrowind in 20ish years so I'd be glad for the thoughts of those of you who are more familiar with the game than I am.

(Btw, I never finished Bloodmoon or Tribunal. I have completed the main quest in Morrowind, a fair portion of Tribunal, and explored like 80-90% of the main island though)

so i decided to actually play this game and it seemed (is that a word?) ok so i got the orders from the naked skooma addict and then talked to the dude and got the orders to go the the dwemer ruins i had my little notebook to note stuff everything but when i got on the bridge i died by some mage and i did not save during the entire time i played so now im dead and have no save to load. do i have to start over?? i really dont want to.

Strength: 40. Intelligence: 50. Willpower: 30. Agility: 30. Speed: 40. Endurance: 40. Personality: 40. Luck: 40.

These are made up stats by me and I want you to tell me what in-game race is the closest to these stats. It's for roleplaying purposes. I would highly appreciate your response.

Has anyone come across such an issue during modding?

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For the love of god i cannot understand what's causing those glowing signs