Yippee! The Skyrim Creation Kit will be out next Tuesday. Expect to see tons of great mods taking advantage of it in the next few weeks.
What about the mods already out, you ask? Well, those mods are interesting but lacking in scope, not because of any shortsightedness by the designers but because there isn't much you can do without the mod tools. Modders have been able to replace textures with different ones or change models into other models but they can't get at the code that makes it all work.
With the Creation Kit, modders will be able to do things like design entirely new quests or make weapons that have interesting new properties. Take a look at the scope of some of the greatest Oblivion mods and you can see part of what's coming. The rest, I'm sure, will surprise all of us.
Bethesda is apparently teasing some kind of surprise when the Creation Kit does launch. Most people are guessing that it will be the mod browser that Bethesda talked about during development, a central place to find a bunch of neat mods. Could be interesting, if it manages to be easier to use or more convenient than the already-great Skyrim Nexus website.
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