A Heartfelt Reflection on Modding, Community, and My Ongoing Legal Battle with a Sweetroll

Weekly Communication · Issue #002

Todd's Dispatch

Hi folks. Todd Howard. I am writing this from a courtroom. I cannot say more. The opposing counsel is a sweetroll. Our lawyers say it has standing.

I want to talk about the modding community, because you are the backbone of everything we do. When we release a broken game, you fix it. When we release a broken game again, you fix it again. When we re-release the broken game on a new platform with the fixes removed, you fix it a third time. The cycle is beautiful. It is, in a very real sense, our QA pipeline. You are unpaid Bethesda employees and we cherish you.

"The Creation Kit for TES7 will be released six months before the game. So modders can fix it before launch this time. We're learning."

Regarding the province: it is large. It has weather. There is at minimum one tavern. We are very proud of the tavern. The tavern has a name that we haven't decided yet but it rhymes with something Nordic and vaguely ominous.

Todd Howard

Defendant, Sweetroll Litigation Case #2026-ELDER