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The Kaidan Workshop: Important Links

Have a question regarding the project in general? Start here at the Kaidan Workshop FAQ.

For questions regarding the mod itself, please check out our KRCE FAQ. Curious about our funding? Look over our 2023-2024 End of Year Budget Report, our 2024-2025 End of Year Budget Report, & our 2025-2026 End of Year Budget Report. Looking for the latest update? Check here.

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My wife and her friend do a game night every week-ish while I sit nearby and idly listen, and I’m sure you can imagine how SHOCKED I was to hear our dear Paul Warren voice acting in the game they’re currently playing!! The Séance of Blake Manor is a fantastic game with a wonderful art style, and Mr. Warren’s voice work is delightful as well (even if it was a little jarring to hear that voice coming from a not-Kaidan face! 😂)! Hearing his voice work in another game just reinforces my belief that getting him to revoice Kaidan was an A+ choice! 🙂‍↕️ Bravo KRCE Team!

Paul has his hands in several projects! He's an absolute pleasure to work with!

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Is the Kaidan mod compatible with any alternate start mods?

The newest update includes in-built compatibility for alternative start mods! Have fun!

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Will the new update be available on xbox? Or is that only for pc?

we'll be waiting a few weeks to ensure there aren't any extra bugs or errors we need to fix before we pivot to porting KRCE 2.0 to Xbox. keep an eye out for the announcement!

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Workshop Summer Update: KRCE 2.0 is LIVE!

Howdy our wonderful Workshop spectators! After many hours spent writing, debugging, and beta testing, we are proud to release Kaidan Revoiced - Community Expansion 2.0! You can read the full changelog here.

First, we would like to thank you, the spectators, for your continued support, patience, and kind words. It has meant a great deal to the staff of the Workshop as we continue to develop our vision for Kaidan. With your encouragement and inspiration, we have begun laying the creative groundwork for our future releases; you helped us determine that Kaidan's morality would be narrative-centric, and we are making strides to incorporate this into his commentary and overall story of redemption and self-identity. Our staff are humbled by your support for this endeavor.

This 2.0 update was a true labor of love, totaling to around 700 new lines and 14 major content features to Kaidan. For reference, KRCE 1.0 has 1,500 lines. We were driven to build on ways to make Kaidan feel more alive and interactive. Given these major changes, a fresh save is required!

First, we've changed how Kaidan is introduced. His introduction quest, A Bounty for Hunter, will no longer appear automatically in your quest journal. Instead, there will be a couple of ways for the player to start the quest naturally. Players will also notice various quality of life and other immersive changes sprinkled throughout his introduction.

Once you recruit Kaidan, players will notice Kaidan’s idle commentary has been expanded. From remarks on the weather, the player's skills, and various locations, Kaidan will have more to say about the world than ever before. This includes roleplay options for players with 14 new backgrounds, 11 new homelands, and over 30 new religious responses that Kaidan will respond to and helps ensure the character you present to Kaidan reflects who they are.

We have also expanded his commentary during Skyrim’s main quest where Kaidan now has reactions for alternative starts, idles, and conversations tied to major story moments. This includes a before and after conversation from Sovngarde.

Along with the main questline, we are thrilled to introduce unique commentary for Paarthurnax Quest Expansion by Jayserpa! This is a patch that focuses on Kaidan’s morality and his journey of redemption in which Kaidan will have set beliefs that he will hold to, no matter what you decide to do.

Kaidan also now has expanded dialogue for the Companions and College of Winterhold questlines. With these additions to Kaidan’s dialogue, we have also included three new unlockable titles: Thane, Harbinger, and Arch-Mage to Kaidan’s nickname system.

In addition to questline commentary, the Book Review Pack allows Kaidan to provide more commentary on the various books that you may encounter in your journeys across Skyrim. If the book is among those he can comment on, all his responses will be unique to the book given and you can ask him for his thoughts on those books. After completing the mini-quest of collecting the Eslaf Erol series for Kaidan this will unlock Kaidan’s training dialogue! Kaidan will be able to help train you in a handful of combat skills that he himself is proficient in: Archery, Block, Heavy Armor, One-handed, Two-handed, and Stamina! These scenes will also involve unique commentary and sound effects based on player skill.

We have also added new interactions between Kaidan and his horse, Kiai! She will now start her journey as “Horse” until Kaidan gives her the name “Kiai” as Kaidan definitely does not get attached.

Along with this, we now have patchless compatibility with the mod I’m Glad You’re Here with full nickname and title support and responses based on location, progression, and friendship/romance level with Kaidan! When the mod is enabled, the vanilla romantic hugs will be replaced with a custom hug animation— no more vampire hugs! DAR or OAR are required to ensure the custom hug animation works.

Lucien fans rejoice! By popular demand, a patch for Kaidan and Lucien’s banter is now available! All existing banter between them has been fully revoiced with Kaidan’s new voice actor, Paul Warren.

Along with these new expansions, patches, and additions to Kaidan’s integration into Skyrim, we have also included general changes and bug fixes to improve overall quality of life.

We look forward to everyone experiencing Kaidan Revoiced- Community Expansion 2.0 and hope you love what we have created as much as we loved creating it. None of it would have been possible without your support, so we thank you all once again for your ongoing support as we continue to bring Kaidan to life.

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Workshop Update: KRCE 2.0 Open Beta is concluded!

Howdy everyone! Our KRCE 2.0 Open Beta is now finished. We'll be finishing up a few things behind the scenes before we launch the update on Nexus. Links to our beta files on Discord have been removed accordingly.

Thank you to all our Spectators who participated & helped us chase down mod incompatibilities & bugs!

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Workshop Update: KRCE 2.0 Open Beta is LIVE!

It's finally here Spectators! Our Open Beta is officially live! You can find out all the details (as well as the download links) on our Discord server. We can't thank all of you enough for believing in our vision for Kaidan and helping us see it through. With your help, we can chase down any last minute bugs before we release on Nexus!

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Workshop Update: KRCE 2.0 Open Beta Announcement

Salutations Workshop Spectators! We are incredibly pleased to finally announce the beginning of our Open Beta for Kaidan Revoiced: Community Expansion 2.0! Our original 1.X version of KRCE will remain up for those who prefer it, while Workshop original content will be implemented in KRCE 2.0. Open to members of our Discord server, we will be shadow dropping a link to the beta version of KR:CE 2.0 sometime in the next two weeks. We are seeking the help of the community to track down any mod incompatibilities or bugs, so we can get them ironed out before our release on Nexus! You can look over the official KR:CE 2.0 Open Beta Changelog to view the full list of content additions and changes. For best results during beta testing, please don't use collections or modpacks that already include an old version of our mod (eg. Gate to Sovngarde) due to the existence of custom patches that will conflict with our latest update. The curators of those collections will need to fix their patches after our official release.

We are incredibly proud of the work we've put into this release, and we hope that our vision for what new Kaidan content looks like is something that you all enjoy as well. Thank you again so much for your patience and support! Keep an eye out for the link drop!

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The Brink of Open Beta: Workshop End of Year Update

Salud Spectators! As we wrap up voting for audio implementation, we are very pleased to present our annual End of Year Budget Report for 2025-2026! We're metaphorically crossing our t's and dotting our i's for our upcoming Open Beta release, as well as beginning preliminary work on our final five scripts from the original Community Poll way back in 2024. Here's the list of updates for this past year, as well as our EOY report here; there's an additional page discussing changes to our design scope that we highly recommend checking out! February 2025: Workshop Budget: A Breakdown, 2025 Edition March 2025: Workshop Progress: March Update April 2025: KRCE V1.2.0 Update July 2025: Workshop Progress: Summer Update September 2025: Workshop Progress: Fall Update December 2025: Workshop Progress: December Mini-Update

We can also finally reveal what the [REDACTED] Pack is… drumroll please...

It's the original Lucien-Kaidan interactions! We were finally able to get permissions from the creator of Lucien, Joseph Russell, to rerecord the original interactions from Kaidan 2 for implementation in KRCE. We know that you've been waiting with baited breath for this update, and we promise it will be worth it. As always, we thank you for your continued patience, kindness, ideas and support!

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Kaidan Skyrim, man that you are...

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Workshop Event: KRCE 2.0 Beta Stream

First off, Happy Holidays to you and yours from the Workshop Staff! As end of the year festivities kick off across the globe, we sincerely hope you are all safe, comfortable, and loved wherever you find yourself today.

Besides that, it totally slipped our mind that the one year anniversary of Kaidan Revoiced: Community Expansion was on the 22nd!

We had a wonderfully smooth launch thanks to all your help in the 2024 Open Beta, and a year later we're just shy of 1000 endorsements & 200,000 downloads on Nexus

As a belated treat, your friendly neighborhood project manager will be streaming our internal beta build on Twitch this Friday, January 2nd, at 2:00pm CST! You can also drop into our Discord and catch them while they're preparing their save file to bombard calmly ask any questions about the upcoming open beta, or whatever else you're curious about!

It's not an empty platitude when we say none of this would be possible without your support -- we're humbled every day by your belief in us and our goals. Once again, be safe, be kind, and happy holidays! We'll see y'all on Friday!

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Hi! I know this is absolutely insane. But if Mr. Paul would ever be down to voicing a Kaidan asmr youtube video (black screen would be more than okay) I would happily donate-😭

I know this is genuinely not at all a priority and super silly. But I think it would be so fun and silly and I totally wouldn’t fall asleep to it every night-😔 just let me know the cost-

Well it's not quite what you asked for, but maybe this will tickle your fancy for free :)

The Pokearth series is narrated by Paul!

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Workshop Budget: A Breakdown, 2025 Edition

As we begin to focus on the next leg of our project - new content - it's time for a new budget proposal! Our previous proposal, made to cover the expenses for revoicing the Kaidan 2 base mod, was a slam dunk as far budgeting goes; we were able to successfully achieve our original goals all while staying under budget. You can look over the budget report covering those expenditures here. For this new proposal, we are focused on creating the new content outlined in our Future Plans section here, plus a few extra surprises to bolster them even further. For the sake of transparency regarding script pricing, you can find the Indie Rate Guide for voice actor pricing that we are referencing for our budget here (specifically, the 'suggested' per hour payment of $250). After reviewing the scripts in production and estimating how many lines we feel we need to realize each of them, we have set our budget goal at $2600; this covers the costs for approximately 800-1000 lines, plus the associated fees assessed by Paypal. The remaining money from our previous budget proposal has been rolled into the new funds accordingly. Please note that our project is strictly non-profit; all funds raised are to commission Mr. Warren and other artists for their services. You can donate to the Workshop via our Ko-Fi & Paypal. We will update the below image every few days to reflect the current progress of our donations.

Updated December 14th

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Salud Spectators! We've overshot our fundraiser goal by $187! As a staff, we are humbled by your support -- without it, KRCE just simply wouldn't be possible! Our second and final VA session with Paul for this update will be this Tuesday; after we have all the lines in and process them a bit more, we'll schedule a public Workshop meeting so we can talk shop, dig into what y'all can expect in the next update, and set expectations for Open Beta.

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Hi there! Very big fan and just wanted to say thank you so much for everyone’s hard work<3 as soon I am able to I will donate to the project. Was curious if there was any time/resources to progress on the dawnguaurd dlc portion yet? Or if it was at a standstill until more donations came in? Was just really curious! I am looking forward to it and truly thank you all for your hard work😭🌟🥹💕

Besides some preliminary ideas and themes we've discussed as a staff, we haven't begun any work on either of the DLC's. We had a whole grocery list of content we promised to the community, so we decided to focus on the smaller scripts first, and defer the DLCs for later. That being said, the first major update for KRCE is fairly monstrous in scope (12 scripts in total!), so moving into next year, our priority list will primarily be focused on the four final scripts we promised to our users; the Thieves' Guild, the Dark Brotherhood, Dawnguard and Dragonborn.

Thanks for the ask!

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Hi! Is the mod compatible with Serana Dialouge Add-on, or planning to be?

It should be already! The lines from the original interactions are present in KRCE; SDA would just need to write new conditions to detect KRCE.

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does the no nsfw rule apply to kaidan as a character or just nsfw mod support? (i.e. fanfiction, art, etc) i want to be respectful towards the VA ofc

Just NSFW mod support -- our VA Paul Warren is a member of a UK Voice Actors guild, and his voice/likeness being used in NSFW content is a violation of his contract with them. Kaidan as a fictional, separate character is fair game. Have fun!

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Workshop Progress: December Mini-Update

We are very pleased to announce that we've scheduled the final recording sessions for the KRCE 2.0 update with our VA, Paul Warren! The final line total for this first update is massive -- just over 700 lines! -- and touches on a wide variety of quests and features.

We even have a new [REDACTED] surprise for you all, something the community has been begging us for since we announced the project…

We'll be hosting a public Workshop event in the weeks after our final VA session to present the new material and set expectations for our second Open Beta event!

Other than that, as always, we thank you for your continued support!