How Alternate Start makes things more interesting: Of course, for this to be a mod that enhances difficulty, you need to give your character a disadvantaged start, but it can definitely be used to increase difficulty nonetheless. If you’re tired of constantly starting out the same way, or just tired of the long cut scene at the start of the game, then this mod is perfect for you. The video I included for this mod is using Alternate Start along with the Beyond Skyrim - Bruma mod, but that’s only needed if you’d like to start off how they did. This is definitely a good mod for anyone who wants to add a survival element to Skyrim. You’ll have to go through life fighting off hypothermia all while trying to save the world from a ruthless dragon.
This mod adds hypothermia and realistic cold weather to Skyrim.
You jump in the river to swim across… aaaaand you re-emerge from the water completely fine, not hypothermic at all, not even blue fingertips. There’s no way across, but you HAVE to get to Dawnstar for a quest, so, you make the decision. Picture this: You’re going up from Whiterun to Dawnstar and you come across a wide river.