MODDING STUFF

• It satisfies the artist. If you don't like how something looks, break out the graphics imaging programs and go to town. You don't need any more knowledge beyond the graphic arts, you can even get someone else to install the image and write the mod for you. Now you finally have a use for all of those movie star photos that you pulled off the web. They must be full frontal faces, no smiling, no teeth, no sunglasses, no excessive shadows, and no facial expressions whatsoever. Just like passport or driver's license photos. (But don't send them to me. I don't do faces.)
  
• It satisfies the programmer. Most of the time when programmers work on something, all they have to show for their results is a report. Or some math gets solved. The lucky few who are paid to write web pages usually don't feel that the pages are anything to trumpet. What is code, anyways? You code, and white characters show up on a green screen. You run the code, and you get more white characters on a green screen. Unless it's programming for a hobby, it has very little to do with art. Morrowind provides a great outlet "world" for that hobby. You write some code, put it in a mod, and suddenly there are corpses that can jump up and attack the player, or dragons are now crisscrossing the skies.
  
• It satisfies the modeler. If you can master the 3D modeling programs, you can build models as you please...and people will play with them. Nobody cares exactly what you build, either. (Since, game-wise, the truly important part is the texture graphics, what it looks like in-game. One mesh can be retextured a million times over by a million different mods.) We will also challenge your 2D/3D animation skills.
  
• It satisfies EVERY gamer, even the hard-to-please ones. And this is precisely because of the mod = modifiable part of computer game mods. The sucky part about gaming with other people is that they will do things that you don't like. The sucky part about every other PC game out there is that you can't change the finished & boxed product. Modding gives you total creative control. (Well, up to the limits of the game engine, anyway.) Anything about it which you do not like, seek the means to make change happen. Some people have converted Morrowind into a science-fiction world, complete with battle suits, guns, robots, orbital labs, aliens, starships, force fields, and light sabers. Why didn't they just buy one of the science-fiction PC games? Because those other games cannot be altered. In this regard, modding is truly the better tool for fans of the Matrix, than even "Enter the Matrix" the MMORPG. Modding re-introduces something that was lost back when Windows became the standard: the player-written computer game.
  
• Consequently, the community of fans is thriving. It is both international and global. (A big challenge in adapting mods is getting dialogue translated.) Do not fear that you'll purchase a copy of a game, and be left high and dry by the game developer's customer service department, whenever you have a question about the game or modding the game. The community of modders will take care of you. Trust me on this one, I've been on both sides of that service desk. Whenever ONE person writes a mod, EVERYONE wins. The public databases number into the thousands of hosted mods, and more mods are being written every day. WIth each new moddable game that is released, the modding nation grows ever bigger.

NON-MODDING STUFF

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