Talk to him about ice cream gloves <| sep |> Seems like a case to case thing . I ' ve had good experiences so far . <| sep |> There are more mods available for basic Skyrim , currently , and most of the mods available on SE are actually old Skyrim ' s mods ported over not all have been ported . That said , I ' d actually advise playing without mods a bit regardless of whether you start off with Oldrim or SE , first . That ' s actually what I advise with most games , so that you get that as intended experience . As you ' ve already purchased original Skyrim and not SE , that ' s actually what I ' d go with for now . Contentwise , it ' s the same exact game and , as I said , not all the old mods have been ported over and some may never be ported over . Later , if you decide you want to , you can pick up SE once the price has dropped a bit . I repeat , mind . Old Skyrim and SE are the exact same game . Right now , the only differences you ' ll see is that SE is prettier without requiring graphics mods , and Old Skyrim has more mods available including graphics mods .