I would say so. It makes for a much smoother experience and it also includes some optional minor bug fixes and features such as your cursor turning red when hovering over an item that will be counted as stolen if you pick it up or an option to stop merchants from equipping items that you sell them. Again these are all optional and even without them I would still say that OpenMW is better than standard Morrowind,
The only gotcha is that - because OpenMW handles birthsign bonuses differently - the Lady sign is next-to-useless.
The whole dream thing isn't something that originates from Zelda. There's tons of stories that used it that predate it by hundreds of years. Hell even Lovecraft used it.
Kirkbride did some, key word some, of the metaphysics for morrowind, it is just that his stuff has a large shadow in Oblivion and Skyrim plus the later spin offs. Lefay and Rolstone had vastly different approaches from Howard and Emil. Morrowind from the sounds of it was a hell development, where Howard basically took an Axe to a lot of the lore to fit what he thought was cool, this continues in Oblivion with the reduction of kings to counts and the dark brotherhood from a hitman guild to a death cult.
Absolutely, Kirkbride is too much of a schizo and can't write coherent stories without sperging out. His creativity, when heavily tardwrangled is what gives us the best TES lore.
He married LadyNerevar who just seems to be a fangirl for TES. She's a mod on two dead subreddits with TES-related names if that counts. That second one though, coming from the guy who wrote how Vivec's spear is really just Molag Bal's dick that he bit off and fashioned, it doesn't sound too surprising.
Pretty much any mod that uses SKSE plugins had to be completely rewritten, as far as I can tell, because Bethesda updated how DLLs were read. Most of the smaller plugins got updated within a few days, but RaceMenu only just got updated, and many popular mods that require SKSE still aren't updated.
She was a major dev for Tamriel Rebuilt, too. That's mainly how I knew about her
Unpopular opinion here, but I don't think the Altmer should be so alien given that every culture in Tamriel descends from Aldmeri culture. I think that spot is more or less occupied by the Dunmer and all their batshit customs, as they surely did their best to abandon all their old altmer ways.
Almost all historical cultures are to some degree. The Romans, Celts, Hellens, and Germanics did some pretty weird shit. I would like to see a version of Alinor that sees magic being used as a common resource. I have always liked the idea of the Mer being kind of alien to human sensibilities but I think that they will have to make the Alinor more simplistic due to gameplay and development limitations as well as Bethesda appealing to the wider market.
