What type of character have you had most fun roleplaying?

Dark Master · Post by **Dark Master** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 5:01 am

This isn't another Stealth, Magic, Combat poll. I'm asking what type of character you enjoy roleplaying the most, actually its quite a specific question. I recently played as a Champion (custom class), who was very tough, and clouted Golden Saints on +100 difficult to the floor with one, maximum two hits from his enchanted ebony scimitar with 50 odd points of each type of elemental damage on strikes. If that didnt' work he used his ring of blizzard, 100pts frost damage in 50ft on target. I could level deadric shrines without breaking a sweat.

But it was no fun. I though I'd try playing a totally self-reliant character, start off with my money from the census building and the guy in Templar armour and buy my first weapons, and that would be that. This is what I came up with:

Class: Ranger

Major Attributes: Alchemy, Acrobatics, Marskman, Light Armour, Long Blade
Minor Attributes: Enchant, Athletics, Smithing (complete Morrowind), Short Blade, and Unarmoured.

Race: Dunmer
Sign: The Lady
Major Attributes: Endurance, Luck

My justification was with the boots of blinding speed and self-made resist magicka potions I didn't need speed.

I roleplayed this character by not buying anything except spells, and only getting gold from those he'd killed. I wandered around aimlessly for the first level or so, then stumbled on the cavern of Milk, went inside, cleared it out except for the guy in Ebony armour at the end, and made it my home.

I left a lot of my gear there, and went out exploring. I found to my delight that not only did my cavern have a loom for sewing (complete morrowind) but it had an anvil for forging my own armour (again, complete morrowind). I recently embarked on a massive quest, looking for Shalk Resin, since I wasn't allowed near town, this meant I had to find and kill shalk. I searched the ashlands, found nothing but a new bow from a tomb, searched the grazelands, found nothing but a better new bow from another tomb, and an ebony broadsword. Then in the Molag Amur region (Azura's coast included nothing of interest), I got a common disease, and my strength failed me. I had to abandon my precious ebony blade, and my dark brotherhood armour, as well as all my arrows and the axe I'd been chopping down wood with. I took five arrows with me for the journey back to Milk where my alchemy stuff was.

That's when I relised that this character is the most fun I've had. Running through the wilderness being chased by ashlands, nix-hounds and the like is great, espcially when you cant' kill them with one blow, the arrows were used up very quickly, and finding Milk again was very hard, but I managed it, rested made myself a potion of cure disease, and it worked. Now I intend to return to the enterance of the tomb where I left my Ebony sword, but first I'm sewing welcome rugs for my home.

Surfice to say, what is the best role-playing experaince you've ever had. I'm not asking for the time you were really cool because you used a deadric war-hammer to prove you were 'da-man'. Just what was the most fun, and what approach has been the most fun. For me its running helplessly across the West Gash in search of my cave, and a totally independant Ranger character.

What's yours?

DM

Wolf Howl · Post by **Wolf Howl** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 8:36 am

The character i had the most fun using was my warrior class Orc.That thing was a tough ass.I had tons of fun running round in the ashlands smashing all who got in my way!Mwa ha ha ha ha!

fable · Post by **fable** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 9:20 am

The one I'm currently playing: a sort of modified, personalized spellsword (that's the way it turned out, but I created my own class). Just got into enchanting, and made a glass wakizashi that delivers 53 points of frost damage. It's called Freeze Dried.

Soon, it will be joined by another that warms the heart.

I suppose this is the easiest profession to play--a fighting type with strong subsidiary mage skills--but it's my first run-through since I first played the game when it came out. So I'm just out for fun and roleplaying.

Maruchan · Post by **Maruchan** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 9:51 am

I dont know much yet

but I would say my favorite character was a Khajit (sp) because it was really difficult to make him work it was one of my first characters in the game and I really strugled to make him function properly

Monolith · Post by **Monolith** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 10:07 am

The character I had the most roleplaying fun with was my evil assassin. I realized that it was more fun playing Morrowind without using these powerful weapons and armors so I stayed with my steel wakizashi, silver dagger, a couple of throwing stars and a netch leather armor. He was too proud to steal everything so he took only what he needed. He enjoyed killing though...and being really really cold blooded and evil. Haha, he helped every encouter, only to kill them shortly before the quest got finished. Because of the lousy armor and the weak weaponry he used the only possibility he had to kill a mighty enemy was using his wit. A combination of magic, stealth and combat was a funny reasult. And he really started loving the paralyze on strike enchantment of his wakizashi...
But the best was surly me running out of a cave after realizing that the enemies in there would slaughter me easily...LOL

blake · Post by **blake** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 11:10 am

my favorite roleplaying was my monk... I had to go into the cs and change max unarmored to 100 and change the hand to hand damage a little to make it more threatening and not take 10 minutes to kill a scrib. Anyway... after my little personal mod was done i started playing the role of an honorable monk, which means: i couldnt take and sell anything i found, i had to use hand to hand, and the only thing i wore was a brown common robe...

This was the first and so far only character ive finished all 3 mainquests with and i have to say he was the most fun. The best part was when i was up near ald velothi and a travelling woman asked me to help her get her ring back, i did and then i was attacked by her friend. I ran straight for him and knocked him on the ground and killed him. With only 2 health left i used my scroll of divine intervention to teleport me to safety at the imperial cult shrine in Gnisis.

There i was greeted with a free restoration of my attributes because i was a high ranking member. And i found the Amulet of Shadows which became an invaluable tool for playing a sneaky monk with low hitpoints

Monolith · Post by **Monolith** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 11:50 am

[QUOTE=blake]The best part was when i was up near ald velothi and a travelling woman asked me to help her get her ring back, i did and then i was attacked by her friend. I ran straight for him and knocked him on the ground and killed him.
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Unfortunately that didn't work when I wanted to do that little quest. That guy simply didn't attack me. But I realized what was going on when I noticed that guy. I killed them both. I attacked them and ran down to that waterhole where the ring was supposed to be and slaughtered them there. They lay on the ground, close to each other. Then I threw an expensive ring on there rotton bodies. Stylish, huh? Yeah, that was my assassin...

I'm playing a monk right now, although without such modifications. There's a mod - fist of fire, but it destroys the enemy voices during a fight...but it adds a monk to the fighters guild in Balmora with whom you can have a sparring fight.

blake · Post by **blake** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 4:27 pm

My modifications were to the actual health damage hand to hand did... Opposed to .4 i changed it to .9 or some such... SO at level 100 it took me about 3 hits when someone was on the ground for me to kill them... I thought it was balanced