Some nice resources here: https://modding-openmw.com/

OpenMW is definitely the way to go for a fresh game.

There’s a lot of random advice I could give but here’s my important ones:

- Replace the vanilla leveling system.

- If you are playing a modpack with relatively vanilla mechanics, you want a magic-based character. Being bad at magic is a huge disadvantage in the vanilla game, it’s heavily biased toward glass cannons.

- Make sure you have a teleportation (mark/recall) mod. Many of them are balanced so that they don’t feel like cheating, but the vanilla game makes fast travel and traversal too tedious.