Mods!: Over 150 Photographs from the Early '60's of the Original Mods!

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Added all missing books (only Hammer Time available before due to oversight) to trader inventory and quest rewards. Skill Boost - Similar to activating a guardian stone, skills will level faster based on how many skill books for that particular skill have been read. How much faster is adjustable in the MCM. This bonus is not retroactive. Only skill books that you have read while this option is selected count toward the bonus. View your progress in the MCM. Replaces the JoyGiver for reading to avoid scanning every object on the map multiple times for each pawn to see if it's a book. Disabled - This disables this feature of the mod for a pure vanilla behavior and should allow the use of a different mod for spell tomes if you so wish. If you use this option you must also delete/hide the Don'tEatSpellTomes.dll file from the mod or else spell tomes will do absolutely nothing.

Eliminated need for optional SXP (Redone) patch. Mod now detects if SXP plugin is installed runs if needed. The first thing to say is Mod: A Very British Style is not directly about the Mod Scene, so the events, bands, people, politics and intricacies of what could be called the core Mod Scene are of little interest here and largely ignored. What Weight’s book is, is an exploration into how the original Mod movement drew their influences from American, European and Afro-American styles in music, art, fashion, architecture and design and how those strands have been absorbed into the British mainstream. It examines attitudes towards class, consumerism, race, sexuality and countless other topics. It is a story of how a cult became a culture. To install this modlet, unzip the folder and place it inside "/7 Days to Die/Mods". If "Mods" folder doesn't exist, just create one.

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The Mods were the baby boomers of an affluent post-war Britain; they had the money to spend and chose to spend it in the best Jazz clubs and on the finest Italian slim-fit suits. The term Modernist derives from Modern Jazz– the music of choice for the early mod. The new brands of music and clothing available was representative of a changing Britain, influenced by post war immigration, particularly from the Caribbean. Spells learned by studying spell tomes typically have a perk associated with them which is how I determine the spell level and school. Some mods add spells that don't have a perk attached. To determine the school I look at the skill associated with the first magic effect of the spell. This is a compromise as different magic effects may use different skills. The spell level, however, can not be determined this way so these spells will be treated as Novice level spells. If the spell school still can not be determined from either of these two methods, then the player will simply learn the spell after studying it. I thought the final selection should be an obscure one – and Generation X is certainly one you wlll have to search hard for. Deverson was commissioned by Woman’s Own to find out the thoughts of the youth of 1963/64. Sadly for the magazine, the thoughts of the teens (many of them mods – this was the scene’s peak) were a little too racy and anti-establishment. So instead, she compiled then in a book with the help of Charles Hamblett. Interesting (albeit serious) stuff, especially if you’re one of the many people doing a thesis on the era. And as the book becomes harder to find, it should prove a good investment too. Like the vanilla skill book behavior, I've never like that fact that it is so easy for mages to learn new spells. By 1963 Mods were no longer a cult group from Soho, it was a nationwide subculture. Mods met in all night cafés and danced in Jazz clubs – where the Mod style evolved further. Although slim fitting suits looked the part, they weren’t always practical.

Beginning with a chapter on British/Mod fashions, Anderson delves into the music that Mods craved, including a chapter on Ska (important to Mods). Also here are chapters on scooters (almost as important), dance styles, drugs ("purples" help you stay up all weekend), various important venues (the Flamingo, the Scene, the Coffee An,the Cellar Hall, etc.), TV ("Ready Steady Go!"), U.S. soul/r&b, and the English bands that forged their identities during that time. And all of these topics are dealt with in a great combination of personal accounts and many, many great period photos that cover the whole scene. Frankly it's a bit of a toss-up as to which is better--the personal accounts or all the great visuals. But combined, this book will be hard to beat on the subject of Mods. Disabled - This disables this feature of the mod for a pure vanilla behavior and should allow the use of a different mod for skill books if you so wish. If you use this option you must also delete/hide the ReadingIsGood.dll file from the mod or else skill books will provide no skill increase when reading them. I wasn't allowed to use commas ,,, due to it ending the tooltip box so full stops were used in their place.

Vanilla Plus - Identical to vanilla except you can use the animation feature and select whether to destroy spell tomes after reading. It is a useful addition to the body of knowledge. It is always good to hear first hand from people who were there and many of the pictures were new to me. It also recognises that Mod was eventually a nationwide movement and developed differently in different parts of the country. Eddie emphasized several important points. The influence of Jazz and advertising were linking to Americanization. In their attraction to both this music genre and American advertising, working-class kids found both figurative (the free-sounding rhythms of Jazz) and literal (better work) means of escape. Renamed the Difficulty slider to Magic Proficiency. Does the same thing but I like the wording better. Instant - Plays the animation and then jumps the game time ahead the appropriate number of hours. You may see a sudden change in lighting and shadow position.

Recovery time: This is how much time you will need to recover from a study session before you can study again. Each chapter focuses on a different aspect of the movement but the overall narrative is chronological, taking us from the east end of London in the late 1950s through the national mid-decade boom and on to end of the decade, charting the changing styles and pre-occupations of the participants from year to year. In words and pictures, this makes for an evocative national tour of 1960s mod Britain from the Birdcage in Portsmouth up through London and Birmingham to the Twisted Wheel in Manchester and across to the King Mojo in Sheffield. This is important because few, if any, books on the subject have been as geographically diverse Fixed a bug that Skull Crusher perk granting bonus finding to all of perk books but other relavant weapon perks give no bonus. As the new era begins we see Don taking his first real political stance. As the General Election of June 1970 approaches, Harold Wilson's Labour government wage war on pirate radio. Don finds himself working for none other than Radio Caroline owner Ronan O'Rahilly in a bid to get the Tories elected. Soon enough he sadly finds that Ted Heath is just another part of the establishment as his hopes of decent music stations being legalised disappear. The realisation that most politicians disappoint you eventually is a lesson that will remain with young Hughes forever. Changing the recovery time in the MCM now goes into effect immediately. You don't have to wait for an existing timer to expire.

Mod appealed to me precisely as a form of rejection and exclusion from the 1980s. Everything in the 1960s seemed infinitely cooler than the world around me so the more accurately that period could be recreated the better. I was a young kid out enjoying myself, I didn’t give a hoot whether I was doing anything new from a cultural perspective; it was fresh to me and it was bloody exciting. Fortify Skill - Added in version 2.10. Permanently fortify the skill by the specified amount. This bonus is not retroactive. Only skill books that you have read while this option is selected count toward the bonus. View your progress in the MCM. There’s no shortage of books on the market with a direct of indirect link to the world of mod. But which ones are actually worth buying? Here’s five mod books that are certainly worthy of your cash– and if you like these, there are plenty more to choose from in the Modculture books section. From there I've used the tooltip box to display what needs to be read, with you being able to make choices.