the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim
I've played many hours and developed a character and saves with a regular Skyrim disk on XP PC. I have just received The Elder Scrolls Anthology for Christmas! How do I install Skyrim Legendary without losing my character saves / progress in the "regular" game. I am using a handful of mods as well.
Can anyone point me to a step by step guide to upgrading to Legendary without loss of my previous effort or provide directions?
Since you can't use the developer console it might very well be unsolvable, but they might correct it in a new patch.
Few ideas I've got:
Try to become a vampire, when you are standing in sunlight, all your attributes get permanently (until it is night or you are indoors) decreased, the magnitude depends on which stage you are.
There is an effect, accessible only by using alchemy, that permanently lowers health. It is not the damage one, but Ravage should do it (if I understand it correctly). Although I don't really know whether the potions you create with both positive and negative effects are classified as potions or poisons.
Both of these effects are reversible and might very well not be of any good, but you can at least try.
I am sorry I couldn't provide anything better.
Note: The images link to their respective character's UESP wiki articles.
Night Mother — Oblivion
Source and higher resolution version of the images: Reddit /r/Skyrim post, "A list I made of all the characters that appeared in an Elder Scrolls game before.", by OccupyTamriel; except 'Night Mother' - images are from UESP wiki.
Best Answer
Skyrim stores savegames inside
My Documents\My Games\Skyrim, so you don't have to worry about losing saves. You will need to configure your mod manager to use the new directory and reinstall your mods if you want to keep using them, though.