Alright, let's raise our hands: how many of you have played about 30,000 copies of Skyrim with your sneak and archery maxed out and ready to not just end up annihilating your enemies from a distance? All of them." All of them.

Now, if every one of these attempts eventually ended up with you hunched over in a dank corner of a cave, cackling while unleashing dragon bone potshots to do triple damage to your enemies, put your hand down? All of us." all of us

Enough, my friends, the mod scene in Skyrim Special Edition has rescued us from temptation in the form of Stealth Archer Killer! Stealth Archer Killer is a mod by SpongeBobHentaiSimulator that offers a simple and permanent solution to the problem of stealth archer drifts. After installing this mod, it will detect that you have snuck in equipped with a bow or crossbow and instantly obliterate you.

It's like the cookie jar that's great for dieters (the one that asks you if you want an apple every time you open it) deciding that a gentle admonishment won't do the job and instead making you disappear with a tungsten rod fired from a satellite in orbit. Excellent. Five stars.

"If you are sneaking and if you think sneaking and shooting arrows is too easy and boring, this mod is for you," reads Stealth Archer Killer's description. mod adds a new feature to Skyrim: if you sneak and equip a bow or crossbow, you will die instantly," it explains. This mod is designed for players who want a more challenging and realistic experience," it explains. Mission accomplished!

There are no installation instructions, but the mod's files consist of a .esp and scripts folder. From my long history with mods, I guess I can just throw it into Skyrim's data files folder and activate it on startup. After that," well, why don't you just roll a mage?