/tes/ - The Elder Scrolls Discussion

I can never do a "I'll only be a fighter/thief/mage/etc" playthrough in Skyrim because there is literally nothing else to do other than get good at everything.

>>9795

Have you tried a stealth archer build?

>>9795

i almost always get bored around level 10-20 and just give up and make a new character. its hard sometimes.

>>9857

The fucking skyrim blues. I know them well.

I installed 20-ish lovers lab mods and used them to seriously roleplay a worthless khajiit slut who often used sex to advance through questlines and went for bad boys, especially for khajiit men, nordic women and orc dick

The scarriest part of this was that I made it into a legit lore friendly playthrough.

I'm currently playing as a "Palpatine" type character in Morrowind. He was a Reachman from birth, specifically belonging to a sect of Reachmen who worshipped Peryite.

He's trying to use the blight diseases from Red Mountain to his advantage to conquer Vvardenfell. First he's trying to make his way to become a religious figure for both Imperial colonists and traditional Dunmer, combining the two cultures - thus watering them down. Through multiple planned events, he is going to set up propaganda to make the people of Vvardenfell more vulnerable to the idea of Daedra worship. He is also quite a Darwinist of sorts, as Peryite is as well. He shares other attributes of him as well, such as maintaining law and order, being responsible to his duties, and making himself stronger. His whole goal is to make all of Nirn stronger by spreading disease (triggering natural selection), and Vvardenfell is his first step

playing this character as an indoctrinated politician has actually made me think that Peryite is one of the better Daedra, even though he is not.

>>9859

personally its a miracle i'm even level 24 in fallout 4. i'd have been bored of it ages ago if i wasn't just trying to know what everyone's talking about.

>>10012

That's some hardcore RP, Anon.

>>10012

Malacath's erection bro, this is intense. Fargoth-tier role playing.

I need some of this shit in my bleak, otherwise completely uninteresting life.

>>10031

>>10020

Yeah, with Requiem I can't even leave the walls of Fort Hraggstad without bringing two or three other people with me in a small patrol (using one of the follow mods I downloaded months ago,) because the chances of being killed are bad enough with buddies.

My Nord goes out alone in the Rift sometimes, because he's a Nord. He's nearly died on almost every play through.

My Thalm waifu always travels with Justicars, so I barely give a fuck about the enemies. This bitch is getting back to Anui-El, and there's not nuttin' stupid fucking beasties and Storm-plebs can do about it.

My recommendation is to just play simple characters. It's better that way, because I don't have to lump 1000 expectations on a secretary, a woodsman, or some mediocre grunt.

>>10020

He's doing it right. Hardcore RP is what RPGs are meant for. Xbox casuals who treat Skyrim like gta are neurotypical fetchers

>>10033

>requiem

Do you use TRO basic needs or Frostfall? Those are also good difficulty mods.

I don't use requiem because its unstable and hogs memory (at least on my install), but it do use custom difficult sliders and a few combat mods

>>9788

>Skyrim

Redguard warrior. Completed the main quest, doing a bunch of side quests and kind of holding of on the DLCs because edgy vampires are uninteresting and the dragonborn DLC hasn't really called to me yet.

Running my own Militaires Sans Frontières here with 10 followers, though the "followers are invulnerable" bullshit kind of makes it hard for anything interesting to come of it since nobody dies unless it's a nameless mercenary that hit a pressure plate.

>Oblivion

Nord warrior. Finished the main quest, was exploring and doing dungeons, then weird graphical glitches appeared out of nowhere so I can't really play it. Every time a spell is cast some object is displayed where it hit in wireframe mode and everything around it shows the wireframe.

>Morrowind

Stuck in the main quest like a pleb because somehow a House Redoran guy died and now they won't name me hortator and I haven't felt like just putting in the console code because fuck you bethesda you never displayed the "threads of prophesy have been severed" message

>>10039

> the Morrowind situation

It looks like you're going to have to choose your own path on this one. If they aren't going to name you Hortator and Nerevarine, then it looks like you're about to get hermaphrodite blood on your hands.

Alternatively, if you don't want to back-path, I'm fairly certain that you can get a certain degree of reputation (50 I think?) you can talk to the Dissident Priests and they'll shuttle you quick-like to see the bastard.

>>10036

"Hardcore RP" is what PnP is meant for. That's why videogames that emulate it the closest are considered some of the best RPG's ever made.

>>10012

>>10033

Holy shit brah, that`s tenouttaten RPing right there and I commend you for your anal autism and devotion to DAT IMMERSION.

I don't know if I could pull something like that off, the setting in skyrim doesn't really borrow itself to such in depth role playing as far as I'm concerned. Skyrim is and always will be in my eyes a glorified action-adventure dungeon crawler with RPG elements. My dragonborn always feels so bland and mary-sue like that no matter what I do or play like, he or shit or it is always sort of flat, specially because guild questing is so absolutely shit tier and useless as far as the world is concerned.

At least in morrowind you could use an alternate start/not the nerevarine mod and live life as some random guy trying to make a living or becoming a prominent powerplayer in provincial politics.

If I were to try something like that, I'm afraid it'd had to be in Oblivion or even morrowind. In oblivion I got this sense that no matter what I did, I was just an adventurer doing some adventuring. Cities in Oblivion felt nice and comfy and you always wanted to get back to them to just chill and gather your thoughts, whereas in skyrim, cities are just places to dump loot and finish quests, and it's not even THAT important, the dragonborn is so goddamn mighty he don't need no cities for no services, he can just loot everything he needs and that's that.

>>10053

>"Hardcore RP" is what PnP is meant for. That's why videogames that emulate it the closest are considered some of the best RPG's ever made.

Any good recommendations on other Hardcore RPG vidya?

>inB4 Baldur's gate, already playing it and lovin' it.

>>10059

>>>/v/

>>10059

Old Bioware is great.

And no, I don't expect most vidya to emulate PnP perfectly. PnP has detail, vidya has theater and visual effects. It's whatever you enjoy the most really, but in either case I think a vivid imagination is the key to an immersive RP experience.

>>10059

Gothic 2.

It just hurts you and doesn't let up. Combat is difficult and dangerous and takes timing and rhythm.

If you play long enough to see a skeleton: Run.

Just run, don't wonder, just run. They are the deadliest skeletons in any RPG you've likely played. Even goblin skeletons.

You also have to acquire 1k gold and sheep to join the mages guild, and this is the only way to learn how to cast spells instead of using scrolls.

My only tip, is to not trust that annoying fuck Bosper the Bowmaker, he will fuck you out of good money.

Also, commit to your build- either magic, dexterity, or strength. This game doesn't allow you to be the Jack of all trades.

>>10059

>Loving Bioware anything, old or new

>Hardcore RPG

Embarrassing.

I'm having a great time now playing a Nord, for the second time. He's pretty "traditional" in the regard that he's very martial, heavy-armor and patriotic, "Skyrim for the Nords" type. But he's also pretty mystical, into magic and enchanting, communes with daedra and magic and such, kind of a "guru" personality.

I have him as a bald nord with a shap nose and a big red beard, wearing the Hamerfell gettup the assasins wear since he grew up in Hammerfell. If the name Alhazred means anything to you, that's one of the inspirations for the build.

I have a hard time maintaining prejudices though, which I think are an important part of role playing since a character who is ok with everyone and everything is odd, and if something doesn't manifest itself in gameplay it doesn't mean much. He started out as not a big fan of non-human races but as I near level 30 and he's interacted with most races, it seems odd to maintain it, especially since he's so into magic and stiff so he can't just be all "fuck these elven witches" as in the beginning.

Do you find that you actually have to hate a race in order to make your role play character hate them as well?

>>10035

I was like you once, a consolefag with naught but vanilla Skyrim to play.

Then I invested in a PC, and pumped another five hundred hours into the game.

It's totally worth it.

>>10228

>Do you find that you actually have to hate a race in order to make your role play character hate them as well?

it's not a "have to", it just happens. whoever's team I'm on, I hate the other team's guts.

>>10230

>it's not a "have to", it just happens. whoever's team I'm on, I hate the other team's guts.

Pretty much this, just let it happen bro

>>10230

>>10232

Its not like that. I don't mean that say, if I'm a stormcloak I'll hate the imperials, that's a given. Its a little more nuanced.

Example, I played a character from Morrowind who loved dunmer, was OK with other races and hated beast races. This manifested in me giving preferential treatment when trading to dunmer and avoidinb beasts at all, even when it would have been expedient to just sell shit to the khajiit caravans. Needless to say I didn't take their quests or have them as followers either.

Idk, it felt more organic then. Maybe the character I set out to make and the character I actually made are just different and that's OK. I haven't written a bio or anything, just had a basic back story and trait list and let it developed from there.

My current Morrowind run is as a Imperial Knight fighting for what's right for every man and mer, but is split on what to go for the Great Houses. hlaalu or redoran

>inb4 playing as knight

fuck you and fuck your stealth archers

>>10236

I don't want to be that guy, but it seems like a Knight would make a terrible stealth archer. Have you considered playing a stealth archer? What about a battle mage stealth archer? Morrowind is pretty unique in that Thalmor stealth archers are top fucking tier, so you're kind of screwing yourself by not playing as one.

>>10239

Damn, that was a good cringe. The likes of which I haven't felt in a while. Good job anon.

>>10241

T-thanks, you f-fucking dog of the Empire. G-get out of Resdayn.

>>10060

Eh, /v/ is a bit too cynical for my tastes

>>10227

What's wrong with early bioware? I understand why people don't care for their newer franchises, but their old stuff is quite fun

>>10067

So what type of psychoactives do you do with PnP? Weed and beer are obligatory, but I find some psychedelics will make stilt striders real. Whenever I trip and fall into delusions, I always end up in TES universe.

My first time i did DXM I became my skyrim character and my apartment became proudspire manor. It felt pretty real

>>10229

i became a pcfag after fallout 3 came out, and went back and played all the bethesda shit modded. looking back, I can't figure out how I stomached playing vanilla. I'd kill myself if I had to go back to consoles.

>>10225

Using a bow in gothic 2 is a huge mistake anyways, just make a melee character and stunlock everything.

I thought the game was pretty tame up until you go back to the mining colony. The areas just filled to the tits with those river lurker fucks and butt feasting orcs that stomp about all over the place you need to go. The only way I got past was to exploit a glitch that let you jump up the far wall of the castle.

Great game, I highly recommend it.

>>10288

>very black and white approach to morality

this goes back to Baldur's Gate 2, which is considered the pinnacle of RPGs. on paper you have all sorts of alignments to go with, but in the main quest you still get pigeonholed into either a selfless hero or a power-hungry psychopath. neutral alignments always get screwed.

>>10305

I appreciated Jade Empire for letting you go full edgelord in the main quest. when I betrayed the dragon and my companions, I felt like a piece of shit; then when I killed my has-been master, and threw his lifeless corpse in front of his soldiers, whilst wearing that cocky look on my face, I felt like it was all worth it. it's one of those games that leave you with a feeling of satisfaction.

>>10288

>It's not that their old shit is bad, it's just really not as good as people used to claim it was. They're rather poorly designed and each of their games/characters are written with a template that I can lay out right now

Fair enough. I guess the bar for RPGs has dropped so low that old Bioware is a gem compared to the cat shit that gets passed of as "RPGs" nowadays.

I enjoyed old bioware more for mechanics than story; Forgotten Realms has always had TV-Tropes tier plotlines.

Anyhow, here's another character of mine, an Argonian dope dealer camping in the woods near Riverwood waiting for his plants to bud so he can start selling. He doesn't care about the civil war or Alduin, since he's basically a Trailer Park Boys character.

His story is a lighthearted comedy about growing dope and stealing shit