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Bromsy wrote: If you are playing Skyrim on PC there are mods that basically institute a class/racial bonus/birthsign system. You can still level all the skills, but your class skills level faster and your non class skills level slower. I started as a Briton, with a Magicka based class and birthsign, and I started with like 140 magicka, 60 hp, and 70 stamina - definitely more of the "squishy mage" archetype you seem to want.
Oooh that does sound interesting. Is there a mod that actually gives an ending as well, complete with slides? I like those.
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Westwood lives in death!
Peace through power!
A longbeard when it comes to Necrons and WHFB. Grumble Grumble
I think equating RPG with forced choices and restrictions is probably the wrong way to think about it.
A role-playing game is any game where you immerse yourself in a role and develop a character over time. Just because you enjoy one type of RPG (character class style) does not mean that other types (Open, skill-advancement style) are not also RPGs.
Part of the fun of Skyrim and other open games like it is self-restriction.
Want to play a rogue that would never help anyone? Do it. Is there a systemic way that the game prevents you from doing good? No.
Want to play a wizard who sucks at swinging a sword? Do it. Is there a systemic way that the game prevents you from getting better with a sword? No.
Want to play a lawful good paladin who believes in truth and justice and would never help the Daedra? Do it. Is there a systemic way that the game prevents you from doing the Daedra quests? No.
That's what ROLE playing is all about. Expecting the system to do it for you is more ROLL playing.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Addendum: I would actually say that Skyrim is one of the most successful role-playing games I have seen after tallying that up. Why? Because you can play and make almost any kind of character in the game based on what you want to do.
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Manchu wrote: My paladin's arc was the classic fall from grace, climaxing with Namira's quest and leading up to Dawn Guard ... which has yet to come out for PS3 ... so I guess I'll never know if he found redemption or what.
Not going to lie. That sounds cool as all get out. Consider it stolen for my next skyrim playthrough.
I got the Dragon priest mask that enhances all the crafting and lock picking professions and the Dragon priest mask that gives 200% mana regen.
Both completely on accident, ended up winning both encounters because they bugged out and died.
Well actually the first just fell of a cliff, yay me?
But yeah I had to become and Archer because stealth killing with arrows is awesome and it's a good way to open with out wasting Mana.
"The Imperium is nothing if not willing to go to any lengths necessary. So the Trekkies are zipping around at warp speed taking small chucks out of an nigh-on infinite amount of ships, with the Imperium being unable to strike back. feth it, says central command, and detonates every vortex warhead in the fleet, plunging the entire sector into the Warp. Enjoy tentacle-rape, Kirk, we know Sulu will." -Terminus
"This great fortress was a gift to the Blood Ravens from the legendary Imperial Fists. When asked about it Chapter Master Pugh was reported to say: "THEY TOOK WHAT!?""
Much prefer Skyrim to Oblivion as Oblivion was broken on so many levels.
Oblivion's level progress was based on increasing pre-determined 'class' skills, so if you told it you were a fighter, (class skills sword, heavy armour, block, etc.) then played as a mage and used destruction a lot your destruction skill was guaranteed to go up the maximum amount each level.
This meant it was easy to get OP for most encounters throughout the game as all random encounters etc. were levelled to your actual level.
Skyrim's levelling does not matter which skills you increase and takes into account the level of the skill too, so you cannot get a situation as you could in Oblivion.
"Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics, and you'll get ten different answers, but there's one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on. Whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand years or a million years, eventually our Sun will grow cold and go out. When that happens, it won't just take us. It'll take Marilyn Monroe, and Lao-Tzu, and Einstein, and Morobuto, and Buddy Holly, and Aristophanes…then all of this…all of this…was for nothing. Unless we go to the stars." Commander sinclair, Babylon 5.
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Manchu wrote: My paladin's arc was the classic fall from grace, climaxing with Namira's quest and leading up to Dawn Guard ... which has yet to come out for PS3 ... so I guess I'll never know if he found redemption or what.
Not going to lie. That sounds cool as all get out. Consider it stolen for my next skyrim playthrough.
By all means, please enjoy it! See how many worthy and noble deeds you can accomplish, and how little reward you can accept for them, until you realize the game was not really built for this ... If you know how to initiate Namira's quest, hold off on it for as long as possible.
Manchu wrote: My paladin's arc was the classic fall from grace, climaxing with Namira's quest and leading up to Dawn Guard ... which has yet to come out for PS3 ... so I guess I'll never know if he found redemption or what.
Not going to lie. That sounds cool as all get out. Consider it stolen for my next skyrim playthrough.
By all means, please enjoy it! See how many worthy and noble deeds you can accomplish, and how little reward you can accept for them, until you realize the game was not really built for this ... If you know how to initiate Namira's quest, hold off on it for as long as possible.
Yes, and its a poor option. That's why Namira's quest works as a climax for the paladin roleplay: you have to do something utterly depraved but you get an interesting, RP-centric reward ... or you can do something totally boring for a paltry amount of gold.
Conrad Turner wrote: Much prefer Skyrim to Oblivion as Oblivion was broken on so many levels.
Oblivion's level progress was based on increasing pre-determined 'class' skills, so if you told it you were a fighter, (class skills sword, heavy armour, block, etc.) then played as a mage and used destruction a lot your destruction skill was guaranteed to go up the maximum amount each level.
This meant it was easy to get OP for most encounters throughout the game as all random encounters etc. were levelled to your actual level.
Skyrim's levelling does not matter which skills you increase and takes into account the level of the skill too, so you cannot get a situation as you could in Oblivion.
Oblivion also allowed the reverse. Poor leveling could leave a character horribly crippled stat wise.
The centre of a massive brood chamber, heaving and pulsating.
Oblivion was just...Terrible. Atrocious, ATROCIOUS graphics, with the map being one texture stretched to breaking point in places, the characters all looking freakishly ugly, the voice acting was terrible, the "persuasion" system was DREADFUL, the game was confusing and gave you no real idea where you were supposed to go, the lockpicking system was difficult and irritating, and let's not forget "STOP RIGHT THERE CRIMINAL SCUM! No-one commits a crime on my watch!". Ugh.
Squigsquasher, resident ban magnet, White Knight, and general fethwit.
buddha wrote: I've decided that these GW is dead/dying threads that pop up every-week must be followers and cultists of nurgle perpetuating the need for decay. I therefore declare that that such threads are heresy and subject to exterminatus. So says the Inquisition!
Squigsquasher wrote: "STOP RIGHT THERE CRIMINAL SCUM! No-one commits a crime on my watch!". Ugh.
Because that is totally worse than "I used to be an adventurer like you, but then I took an arrow in the knee." Or "Let me guess, someone stole your sweetroll."
Squigsquasher wrote: "STOP RIGHT THERE CRIMINAL SCUM! No-one commits a crime on my watch!". Ugh.
Because that is totally worse than "I used to be an adventurer like you, but then I took an arrow in the knee." Or "Let me guess, someone stole your sweetroll."
Yes..yes it is.
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I don't think Solstheim is a province. The coolest part of Dragonborn being set in Solstheim is that we get to re-visit it. Plus the storyline sounds VERY compelling to me.
I don't think Solstheim is a province. The coolest part of Dragonborn being set in Solstheim is that we get to re-visit it. Plus the storyline sounds VERY compelling to me.
Wait...I just realized that with this DLC I will become a dragon-riding vampire lord, clad in full daedric armor, wielding a life-stealing dragonbone great-sword.
That's pretty fething metal.
What I have
~4100
~1660
Westwood lives in death!
Peace through power!
A longbeard when it comes to Necrons and WHFB. Grumble Grumble
No mean how large was the actual in game area. I mean, on the map Cyrodiil is bigger than Vardenfell, but in game Morrowind has a larger game world than Oblivion.
I'm trying to get a sense how big the island was in the Morrowind expansion.
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This looks awesome. Right now I am running around slaughtering bandits and anything else I can find with dual ninja swords, and eating the dead bodies of my victims. I can't remember the last time I slept.
So I dont know much about the lore, but I used the console command TFC to go look at (I think) the Imperial City island when they released the latest patch. Is this where it is going to take place or is that something else?
Radiation wrote: This looks awesome. Right now I am running around slaughtering bandits and anything else I can find with dual ninja swords, and eating the dead bodies of my victims. I can't remember the last time I slept.
So I dont know much about the lore, but I used the console command TFC to go look at (I think) the Imperial City island when they released the latest patch. Is this where it is going to take place or is that something else?
That's something else. You need to go to the east.
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