Does the game come with the Creation Kit? Seems odd not to include modding capabilities for a Beth game, and since Morrowind and Oblivion each come with their respective construction sets. Any chance of getting the CK @GOGdevs?

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Please don't bump threads, it's not considered kosher and makes you look like you're 8 years old.

As to the matter of the GOG edition having the Croatian Club, listen.

It's literally on the page in a big bold text.

UhuruNUru posted a guide here to make the Creation Kit DRM free and work with the GOG version.
https://www.gog.com/forum/elder_scrolls_series/skyrim_creation_kit/post16
You will need a Steam account to get the Creation Kit, but it's free.
You will also need steam_api64.dll which you can get from the free Steam VR Performance Test https://store.steampowered.com/app/323910/SteamVR_Performance_Test

Creation KIT, not club. Try reading the post next time.

Or maybe Bethesda could have chosen named of better aclarity. Point is, no. There is no workshop for the stuff to connect to in the first place.

Creation kit and creation club are totally different things:
the creation club is an online shop for some mods, which is not needed on gog, since the anniversary edition update installer is the complete creation club mods, without the now useless shop..
the creation KIT is a toolkit used to create or modify mods, notably the creation kit is usefull to port oldrim mods to skyrim se/ae (only the esp, for meshes, textures and animations, you need the cathedral assets optimizer).
So no matter what, even on gog, the creation kit is needed for mod creators.

So no, it's not the same thing.

Creation kit is not needed, and in fact many modders decided to make note that their mods did not use the creation kit when Beth changed their EULA to say they owned everything created with it.

You either need to download it on Steam or via Bethesda launcher (downloaded from Bethesda.net). But I agree with paladin181 that it's not necessary to create mods. Besides, you will need to apply CreationKit Fixes to make it somehow useful.

"Croation club"? Lol